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Nobody of any importance: a Foot Soldier’s Memoir of World War I
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Reviewed by Michael Lucas. Nobody of any Importance is a lengthy and detailed account, written from memory, in the 1970s, from early childhood to age 21, with 50 pages of editorial notes. Sam Sutcliffe enlisted at 16 in September 1914, trained as a signaller, went to Gallipoli and fought at Suvla, with 2/1st Londons (Royal Fusiliers -29th Divisi...
7 June 1917 : L Cpl Fred Latham MM
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Fred Latham was born on 27 April 1898 at Olive House in Upholland, Lancashire. At the 1901 Census, 2 year old Fred was living at Knowles Farm, Roby Mill along with his 32 year old father Frederick, his 67 year old uncle Abraham, a 25 year old cousin Sarah Cliff (a housemaid) and his 72 year old grandmother Alice. His mother Ellen had died in Nov...
14 February 1916 : Lieut. Richard Gavin Brown
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Richard was born in Aberdeen in 8 April 1882, he was the eldest of three children by Richard Brown MG Deputy Inspector-General RN (Ret) and Jessie (née McPherson). He was educated at Aberdeen University from where he graduated in 1903. He was subsequently in practice at Portsmouth. Richard married at St Philips, Buckingham Palace Road, London...
Gallipoli Association Zoom Talk. 'An officer’s account of a one way trip to Suvla' with Wilfrid Dimsdale
This will be a talk based on Captain Wilfrid Chapman’s letters home written while on the Aquitania on her voyage out and the disembarkation at Lemnos. The speaker, Wilfrid Dimsdale, is a grandson of Wilfrid Chapman. He's a farmer living on the Herts/Essex/Cambridge borders. He has done extensive research on the letters of his grandfather. All Zo...
The 1/5th Battalion Norfolk Regiment at Gallipoli 12th August 1915: Truth & Myth
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A talk by Steve Smith Tuesday 26th November, 1930 hours UK time On 12th August 1915 the 1/5th Battalion Norfolk Regiment advanced on Kuchuk Anafarta Ova on the Suvla Plain at Gallipoli and were reported to have disappeared from 'sight and sound'. Steve Smith has separated the truth from myth surrounding the stories that they all came from the Sa...