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4 November 1918 : Gnr Cecil French

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Son of Arthur (a successful grocery and provision merchant) and Edith French. They lived above the shop at 159 Forest Row, Walthamstow N.E.  Cecil French joined Blackhorse Road Boys’ School on 11 June 1906. He left school in April 1913 and transferred to the Technical School. Cecil enlisted in January 1917 and served as a Gunner in the 1st/16...


Ep.353 – Edgar Loveland and the QWR – Steve Hammond

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This episode of Mentioned in Dispatches features Steve Hammond, editor and compiler of Quarter Bloke, with the Westminsters at War, a book that provides a compelling account of Edgar Percy Loveland’s experiences in the Queen’s Westminster Rifles during the Great War. Through Loveland’s diaries, letters, and photographs, as well as Hammond’s exte...