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Ep. 122 – The Welsh Walter Mitty – Marietta Crichton Stuart
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Marietta Crichton Stuart talks about Percy Shuttlewood who served in her grandfather’s battalion during the Great War and she describes as the ‘Welsh Walter Mitty’.
The Welsh Walter Mitty
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty’ was a short story by James Thurber about a very ordinary person who in his daydreams has the most amazing fantasies. Marietta Crichton Stuart’s grandfather was killed in the First World war whilst commanding the Welch Regiment. While researching his history she came across the character of Percy Shuttlewood, who se…
'For the King, the country, the Queen's and Kennington' a talk by Marietta Crichton Stuart
The story of a South London territorial battalion, the 24th (County of London), the London Regiment, (The Queen's) in the Great War including their VC winner, Lance Corporal Leonard Keyworth, how its soldiers were commemorated and how the battalion is still remembered locally. Marietta has long been passionate about history, reading it at universi…