Search
- Home
- Search
Search results for Ford Park Cemetery.
8 February 1917 : 2nd Lieut. William Farthing
/on-this-day/8-february-1917-2nd-lieut-william-farthing/
Parents Frederick Farthing and Maud (née Gidley) Williams was educated at Plymouth Grammar School. Age 18 William he had a job as a railway clerk where his father was an Inspector. He was the younger of four, with two older sisters, Winnifred and Ethel, in their early twenties, each in turn a teacher and a telephonist and Frederick, living away…
The 2nd Northants at Neuve Chapelle
/world-war-i-articles/the-2nd-northants-at-neuve-chapelle/
The initial impetus behind this article was research on Lieutenant George Duff Gordon, who hailed from Elgin. During the course of this it became apparent that 2 Northamptonshire Regiment had suffered heavy losses over the period between 10 and 13 March 1915, with the war diary identifying that of 20 officers, 10 were killed, 7 wounded, with one mi…