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4 August 1916 Lieutenant Noel Alexander Target MC
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Noel Target was born 23 November 1895 in London, the son of Felix Alexander Target MICE, Civil Engineer, Indian Public Works Department, of Donnington, Pinner, and his wife Nita, daughter of Harrison Chilton. He was educated at Haileybury College and then became a Civil Engineer, Indian Public Works Department Noel intended to join the Indian P...
5 August 1916 Lt George Sainton Kaye Butterworth MC
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Lt George Sainton Kaye Butterworth M.C. 13th Bn Durham Light Infantry George was born on 12 July 1885 to parents Julia Marguerite (nee Wigan) and Sir Alexander Kaye Butterworth, Kt., LL.B, a solicitor and manager of the North-Eastern Railway. He was christened on 30 August in Deerhurst, Gloucestershire by his grandfather the Reverend George But...
11 October 1916 : 2nd Lt William Robert McCann
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William Robert McCann was born June 1897, Antrim, Ireland, the son of James and Jane McCann of ‘Fernagh', Whiteabbey, County Antrim. At the 1901 Census, William aged 4, was with his parents, siblings and a lodger at 11 Lawterh Street, Duncairn War, Antrim. By the 1911 Census, he had another sister. He went to the Western Front with the 1/7th...
5 November 1916 : Pte Charles Wilton Illingworth
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Charles Illingworth was born 10 November 1891 in South Ossett, Yorkshire, the son of Andrew, a fine cloth drawer and Sarah. He was christened on Christmas Day at South Ossett, Christ Church. At the 1911 Census, Charles, aged 19, was living at home at No.6 Grove Street, Ossett with his parents, sister Mary and widowed Aunt Emma. He was by this...
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The Thing Called 'Armistice' by A S Taylor
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(This article first appears in Stand To! No. 74 September 2005 pp 51-52) Stand To! 72 had just arrived, and as I sat in my office I eagerly ripped open the package to scan it, before putting it away to read in detail when I got home. At that moment a work colleague came in just as the journal was open at the article on the 15 (Service) Battalion...
16 May 1917 : Pte Tom Spencer
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Tom Spencer was born at Low Close, nr Keighley, Yorkshire in 1893. He was part of a large family, the sixth child of his father James (a farm bailiff) and his mother Kezia. According to the English Census returns for 1881 to 1911 the family lived at Low Close (farm), Steeton with Eastburn, nr Keighley, Yorkshire. The couple had ten children in a...
21 October 1917 : Pte Friend Whitwam
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Friend Whitwam was born in Mirfield 19 May 1876 to parents Zachariah and Mary Whitwam of Snake Hill, Mirfield. Zachariah Friend was a card dealer at a woollen mill. Friend was baptised 25 April 1877. Friend had two sisters, Clara and Sarah. At the time of the 1901 Census, Friend lived with his parents and younger sister Sarah at 126 George Str...
20 September 1914 : 2nd Lieut. Roger Marshall
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Roger Marshall was born 25 January 1891 at Annstead, Chathill, Northumberland, the youngest son of five children of parents Anthony and Jessie Marshall of Anstead Farm, Chathill, Northumberland. At the 1891 Census the household included his parents, the five children aged 13 to two months, a governess and six domestic servants. Roger was educa...
13 June 1917 : Major Alfred Osborn Wraith
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Alfred Wraith was born Moor House, Spennymoor, County Durham 17 July 1883, the second son of George (Colliery Director, Weardale Steel, Coal and Coke Co. Ltd) and Fanny (née Osborn) He was educated at the North Eastern County School and Barnard Castle School. He served 10 years with the Durham Light Infantry Territorials. He was a keen athlete...
‘Wisht Lads: Washington in the Great War by Peter Welsh
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Pen & Sword, 2014, £12.99, 172pp ISBN: 9–781–783–463–855 [This review by Peter Hart first appears in Issue 103 of Stand To! The Journal of The Western Front Association which is published three times a year. Members receive this and Bulletin, as well as gaining access to the entire archive of Stand To!, Gun Fire and Free access to our digit...
Durham Men in the Great War by John Davison
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School of Education Durham University 2001, card covers 129pp. ISBN 1 870268 26 1. Obtainable from the University School of Education, Leazes Road, Durham DH1 1TA at £8.50 plus 70p postage. The small mining village of Bowbum, near Durham, consisted of only five streets alongside the pit in 1914. There was no war memorial in Bowburn until the 19...
Piecing together the past: The men of Wadham College, 1915
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Officers Training Corps, Wadham College. (Image: Adrian Maasz) A sepia-toned photograph, purchased from a charity shop for £1 by Adrian Maasz, has become the centrepiece of a five-year research effort, recently featured in a BBC News article. Taken in late 1915 at Wadham College, Oxford, the image captures 48 men from the military officer cl...
Sir Thomas Bradford's Medals Return to Durham
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BBC News, North East and Cumbria reports that the medals of Sir Thomas Bradford, the only survivor of the remarkable 'Fighting Bradfords' family, have been reunited with his brothers' awards at the Durham Light Infantry (DLI) archive in The Story, Durham. Sir Thomas served with the DLI and his medals – including a Distinguished Service Order – w...