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018: Winter 1986

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038: Summer 1993

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25 May 1917 : Pte Charles Henry Gill

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His parents were Amos (a warp dresser) and Annie. At the 1911 Census the family were living at 49 St John St, Silsden, nr Keighley, Yorkshire.  Older brother and Victor, ages 16 and 14, were 'clog iron makers'.  Charles enlisted on 2nd March 1916 and called up for service on 1 February 1917. He spent two months in the Home Reserve. According…


21 October 1917 : Pte Friend Whitwam

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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 Street. Both Friend and Sarah worked in a woollen mill, Friend as a cloth finisher. Later that year, on 2 Novem…


9 December 1917: Pte James George Churchill

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James was the son of William and Rosetta Ann Churchill and they lived at . His mother died in 1901 when he was six.  He married 17 year old Mabel Tomson (born on Christmas Day 1895) in October 1913 - their daughter Mabel Florence was born the following month on 12 Nov 1913. They had a second child, George James, born 1 Feb 1915. They lived in Ho…


20 May 1917 : Pte James Ewart

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His parents were John Ewes of 6 Romilly Road, Cardiff, a jeweller’s manager and Charlotte (née Ireland). James was one of four children. He was educated in Manchester and Wakefield. In 1901 the family lived at 92 Llanfair Road, Cardiff. In 1911, the family lived at 102 Llanfair Road and all three grown up children were working as clerks for …


George Horey's Parents’ Pilgrimage to the Somme 1923

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Some of the most moving photographs in the 40-year archive of The Western Front Association are those featuring the bereaved – the people forced to pick up the pieces and continue with their lives having lost a loved one in the war. Their pain all too often appears visceral. That is very much the case with these pictures of London tram conductor G…


From ceremonial duties to First Ypres and beyond: The 1st Life Guards and their single worst day of the war

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This is a brief account of one cavalry regiment's war which reached its nadir in unlikely circumstances whilst they were in a supposedly safe location on the French coast re-training for a new role. The story starts and ends at Etaples Military Cemetery. The cemetery is – as those who have visited it – a vast and (for its size) relatively rarely v…


Betty Stevenson – ‘the Happy Warrior’

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Within days of the war being declared the YMCA established recreation centres in the United Kingdom – largely near railway stations and other places where large numbers of troops were likely to be gathering. By the end of 1914, similar centres had been established at Le Havre in France and later in other areas of France. Above: The first YMCA H…