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15 May 1918: L.Sgt John Gregson
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John Gregson was born in Wellington, Shropshire in 1880. At the 1901 Census John, age 21 was living with his 21 year old wife Gertrude at 1 Hughes Street, Wrexham A decade later he has two children and is living at 1 Mount Street, Wrexham with his wife, son, daughter and father in law. John enlisted into his local territorial battalion in the ea...
Tanks at 3rd Ypres with Chris Copson
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When the Third Battle of Ypres commenced on 31 July 1917 the ground was heavily churned up from weeks of shellfire. Conditions were made even worse by the torrential rain that began falling that afternoon, this resulted in a sea of mud. The ground over which the infantry attacked became almost impassable, and tank after tank sank in and had to b...
ONLINE: The New Zealand Division in the Third Battle of Ypres
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The year 1917 had been a year of growing professionalism for the New Zealand Division under its New Zealand commander Major-General Andrew Russell. It, and Major-General John Monash's 3rd Australian Division, formed two of the four divisions in Lieutenant-General Sir Alexander Godley's II ANZAC Corps. They had fought together for the first time...