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025: Spring 1989
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026: Summer 1989
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028: Spring 1990
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033: Winter 1991
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039: Winter 1993
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071: September 2004
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Hooge Tunnel, Essex Farm and other drawings by Tony Spagnoly
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Tony Spagnoly sent the following drawings. They were made in 1917 by a member of the 69th Field Ambulance and have to do with the Ypres area in 1917. The first has some notes on it which might be difficult to decipher, so here they are The School Mennin [sic] Gate This School has been the dumping ground for German shells for over three years. Sit…
Hooge tunnel, Essex farm (and other) drawings (1)
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[This article first appeared in the Yorkshire Branch journal ‘Gun Fire’ Book 53 pp 14 - 23. The entire series of 59 editions published between 1985 and 2004 has been digitised by The Western Front Association and is available to members via their Member Login. A list of all articles across the 59 editions is available by clicking on the icon be…
Tragedy and Heroism in the Davidson Family in March 1916
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On 28 March 1916, a pharmacist in Montrose, Scotland, dropped dead. The man’s wife duly wrote to the War Office to ask if her eldest son, Ronald, could be granted a short compassionate leave to come home from the Western Front and sort out his father’s business affairs as her two other sons were still of school age. Tragically, the widow’s appeal m…
Battlefield Clearance and a Chinese revolt
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“Private Smith, one of the ordnance men in our team, was killed tampering with a 106 fuse. Chinese now totally frightened of job and there is every possibility of their refusing to carry on until an inquiry is carried out.” The above is a diary entry dated November 21, 1919, from Lt Frank Coxon (formerly of the 7th Royal Fusiliers) who was spendin…