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The Five Baldock-Apps brothers from Hurst Green

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Some people will know of the sacrifice of the Souls family from Great Rissington in the Cotswolds. The family's tragedy was recounted by Ian Hislop in the TV series 'Not Forgotten' on First World War memorials in 2005 and told again in a book that supported the series of the same name by Neil Oliver. Annie and William Souls of Hurst Green, East...


18 December 1915 : Sergeant Horace Coe

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His parents were William (a bricklayer's labourer) and Clara (née Bosworth). Horace was the youngest of four children (all boys). Their mother Cara died aged 43 in 1891. By 1901, age 15, Horace was no longer living with his father and brothers. In 1909 he married Elsie and in October that year they were living at 79 Paddock Lane, Desborough....