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Who was Ronald Johnson ? 29 May 1917
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Prologue With the Glazer family takeover of Manchester United Football Club between 2003 and 2005 a group of Manchester United supporters, who were disillusioned at the way that ‘modern' football was being run (and organised in general), decided to form their own, totally democratic, supporter-owned, breakaway club. After much discussion, this n...
29 January 1915: 2/Lt Sidney Barthropp
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Sidney Barthrop was born at Kensington Court 25 March 1892 the only son of Major Alfred Barthropp (a stockbroker) of Newport House and Ellen Barthropp (née Wentworth). At the 1901 Census, Sidney - along with his parents and domestic servants including a governess - were living at Newport House (an extensive property with 14 rooms), in Newport,...
4 March 1915 : Corporal Noble Dewey
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Noble Dewey was born in Cambridge on 28 September 1885, the fifth son of Thomas Henry Dewey and his wife, Elizabeth (née Rayner) of 6 Searle St, Cambridge. He was educated at St. Luke’s School, Chesterton. At the 1901 Census, Noble was living at home in Chesterton with his parents and five older siblings and working as a laboratory assistant....
Ep. 52 – Cambridge Communities in the Great War – Joanna Costin
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PhD candidate Joanna Costin talks about her research into the Cambridgeshire communities in the Great War. Joanna was one of six doctoral students who were recipients of the WFA PhD scholarship grant scheme that is designed to further academic research and understanding into the First World War....
Ep.219 – The Wartime Career of Prison Reformer Alexander Paterson – Harry Potter
The Wartime Career of Prison Reformer Sir Alexander Paterson M.C. Your browser does not support the audio element. For a brief biography > Sir Alexander Paterson The barrister/priest/author/broadcaster/after dinner speaker, Harry...
‘Missing-Died-Survived’ with Guy Senior
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‘Missing-Died-Survived’ is the story of three brothers who fought on the Western Front: Joseph, Walter and George Senior. Born in the Yorkshire town of Wakefield, all three were educated at Wakefield Grammar School. Joseph, the eldest, was one of the most academically gifted boys of his generation. In the 1911 Oxford Senior Examinations, he was...
'War Lists of Gonville and Caius College Cambridge' by Dale Hjort
Our March meeting will see a welcome return of local member Dale Hjort who will talk on the 'War Lists of Gonville and Caius College Cambridge'. It is thought that over 1,400 members and former members of the college served in the Great War or undertook war work of some kind. Dale will explore this remarkable story of just one Cambridge college....
Hear the Boat Sing: Oxford and Cambridge Rowers Killed in World War I by Nigel McCrery
The History Press, 2017 £20.00, 255pp, 6 appendices and index. ISBN: 978–075–096–771–6 [This review by Martin Cross first appeared in the June/July 2017 edition of Stand To!] Hear the Boat Sing is a worthy, if formulaic, addition to the series of books that Nigel McCrery has produced chronicling the lives of sportsmen who died as a result of th...