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How to contribute your First World War artefacts to the Lest We Forget Archive
The Commonwealth War Graves Foundation is working in collaboration with the University of Oxford to create a digital archive of the First World War artefacts stored in bedrooms and attics across the UK. Funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund we will be staging events across the UK, encouraging people to bring along their family heirlooms to be in...
Died one day, buried two days later by his father
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On 8 November 1915 a young officer, 2/Lt Kenneth Theodore Dunbar Wilcox, was killed whilst serving in the 8th Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment).Two days later he was buried by his father the chaplain to the forces. Kenneth Wilcox was the only son of Rev. G.A. Wilcox and Mrs H.L. Wilcox. Rev. Wilcox was the vicar of St George’s Battersea Park...
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...