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6 November 1914 Carl Hans Lody
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Carl Hans Lody was born in Berlin on 20 January 1877. Following the death of both of his parents before he was eight, he entered an orphanage and later became an apprentice in a shop in Halle. In 1893, aged 16, he joined a sailing ship as a cabin boy and later studied at the German maritime academy, before joining the Imperial German Navy. Lody...
Captain Thorold A. Stewart-Jones at Aubers Ridge 9 May 1915
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Son of Edward and Emily Pauline Stewart-Jones. (Born 10 July 1873 in Liverpool) A barrister of the Inner Temple, Thorold moved to Lewes in 1908 when his mother had bought Southover Grange. At the 1911 Census, the widowed matriarch Mrs Emily-Pauline Stewart-Jones lived at Southover Grange with son’s family, her daughter-in-law Mrs Eva-Joan Stew...
John Laurie : Shakespearean actor and Private Fraser in the BBC's Dads Army
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John Laurie was born 25 March 1897 in Dumfries and was destined to be an architect before the Great War intervened. He admitted that he never expected to survive the conflict; in fact, he was invalided out of the service and became a sergeant-of-arms at the Tower of London. In 1919 John Laurie’s passion for Shakespeare inspired him to become an...
'German spies held in the Tower of London during the First World War' with Barry Kitchener
We welcome Barry Kitchener to our branch talk. Barry is based in London and has a passion for remembering the Railway men of the Great War. He works for Network Rail. The talk today will be about a subject that is unknown and sometimes not mentioned in the history of the Great Wa 'The Forgotten Germans'. Their Capture. Their Imprisonment. Th...
The Forgotten Germans of the First World War
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Barry Kitchener's talk, ' The Forgotten Germans,' throws a spotlight on a little known and rarely mentioned aspect of the Great War. The British Government wanted to utilise the symbolic power that The Tower of London had become by executing eleven German spies convicted of espionage. A thought provoking story, not to be missed.