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025: Spring 1989

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1 February 1915: 2nd Lieut. Harold Norton Clifton

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Harold was born on 7 May 1894 in Ashley Gardens, Westminster. He was the son of William Edward Clifton (architect and surveyor and Isabel Clifton (née Nelson) from Carlisle, living at 7, East India Avenue, London. In 1901, aged 6, he can be found on the census records living with his parents, a 1 year old sister and four domestic servants in Cam...


The Men who sailed on the Australind

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Michael Orr - The Men who sailed on the Australind On 26 October 1914 728 men of the 1st Battalion 28th London Regiment (the Artists Rifles) sailed for France. More than half of them had joined the Army after 4th August.  The battalion did not see front-line service until June 1917, but nearly a third of all ranks would die before the end of the...