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Brothers In War by Michael Walsh
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ISBN: 978 0 09 190884 3 SB426pp £7.99 Published by Elbury Press. Edited by Michael WalshThis book follows the lives of the eight Beechey brothers, sons of a Lincolnshire vicar and his wife. The boys were part of a family of 14 children. The book is based around letters sent to their widowed mother by the boys, the letters having been preserve...
8 December 1917: Pte John William Sugden
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John Sugden was born in Silsden, Yorkshire in 1885, the son of William Sugden (linen draper) and Eleanor (née Booth) The five children, two boys and three girls grew up together and were still living at home well into their twenties. With a successful business they moved from a terraced house on Bolton Road, Silsden, to a larger detached house...
27 March 1915 : Sgt John Robert Bannister
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John Bannister was born in Burnley in 1880, the son of John Bannister, a nut and bolt maker and his wife Mary Ellen, a cotton weaver. At the 1891 there were a family of six, parents and four children and four lodgers (a mother and her three children) in the same dwelling (11 Gresham Place, Burnley). John had three younger brothers James, Harry,...
28 May 1917 : Robert Hilary Lockhart Whitelaw
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Robert Whitelaw was born at Tibbermore, Perthshire in 1895, the son of William and Gertrude Whitelaw. Their home in 1901 was in Kensington. The Census that April reveals that his mother, then 33 years old, was at home with her four children William, Audrey, Robert and Geoffrey (then 9, 7, 6, 2). They had living with them no fewer than 11 servan...