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28 August 1917 The Life and Death of Edward Revere Osler
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A Featured Article from Stand To! No 93 by Peter Starling In today's military medical environment interoperability is a regular occurrence. During the Great War a small group of eminent medical men from England and America combined their skills to endeavour to save the life of the son of another eminent physician. Edward Revere Osler was born on...
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...
26 August 1914 : Lt Sir Robert Cornwallis Maude, 6th Viscount Hawarden
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Robert Maude was born 6 September 1890, London, the first son of Robert Henry Maude, 5th Viscount Hawarden and Caroline Anna Mary (née Ogle). At the time of the 1901 Census the family of three - parents and 7 month old Robert, lived at White Hill Chase, Hants with their four domestic servants: cook, parlour maid, house maid and nurse. At the 1...
'Captain Professor - a life in war and peace' by Michael Howard
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You will rarely find an autobiography that is this detailed and self-effacing. We learn 2/3rds into ‘Captain Professor - a life in war and peace’ that he kept a diary while teaching at Yale, you rather suspect that he kept a diary through-out his life. Howard remarks with the demise of his mother, that between them, father and mother, lived thr...
3 June 1917: Lieutenant Leonard Davies
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Leonard Davis was born in Forest Hill, London 7 July 1882, the son of the Reverend Owen Davies of Newly and Alice (née Hollingdrake). He was one of ten children. At the 1891 Census, his parents, ten children, a general servant and nursemaid were living at the Wesleyan Parsonage, Lewisham. A decade later at the 1901 Census, the family were livin...
4 July 1917 : Lord Ian Basil Gawaine Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood
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Ian Basil Gawaine Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood was born at Clandeboye Estate, County Down on 4 November 1870, the fifth child and third son of Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood the 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, Governor General of Canada, Viceroy of India, Ambassador to Russia, Turkey, Italy and France and his mother Hariet Georgina (née Rowa...
Lieutenant-Commander Frederick 'Sep' Kelly - Olympic Gold 1908, Performer and Composer
Frederick 'Sep' ‘Cleg’ Kelly, the Olympic gold medal rower, pianist and officer in the Royal Naval Division Frederick 'Sep' ‘Cleg’ Kelly, the Olympic gold medal rower, pianist and officer in the Royal Naval Division, was killed on 13 November 1916 on the opening day of the Battle of the Ancre. His death was a profound loss to the community and...
The Flying Sikh The Story of a WW1 Fighter Pilot – Flying Officer Hardit Singh Malik by Stephen Barker
Pen & Sword, 2022 £25.00hb, 224pp, including b&w images ISBN: 9781399083294. Flying Ace, first–class cricketer, golfer, civil servant, diplomat. Hardit Singh Malik was a man of many talents who lived an extraordinarily eventful and interesting life filled with adventure and camaraderie, nicely captured by Stephen Barker. Not unusually f...
MK WFA Branch trip to Soldiers of Oxford Museum
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The WFA MK Branch will be visiting The soldiers of Oxford museum, followed by a Christmas Meal and drink in Woodstock Oxford. All are welcome to attend and enjoy the festive spirit.
February Frontline 2024
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February edition of Milton Keynes WFA Branch newsletter. Containing articles: Mentioned in Dispatches, AGM Information, Visit to Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum.