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15 May 1918: L.Sgt John Gregson
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John Gregson was born in Wellington, Shropshire in 1880. At the 1901 Census John, age 21 was living with his 21 year old wife Gertrude at 1 Hughes Street, Wrexham A decade later he has two children and is living at 1 Mount Street, Wrexham with his wife, son, daughter and father in law. John enlisted into his local territorial battalion in the ea...
'Captain Professor - a life in war and peace' by Michael Howard
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You will rarely find an autobiography that is this detailed and self-effacing. We learn 2/3rds into ‘Captain Professor - a life in war and peace’ that he kept a diary while teaching at Yale, you rather suspect that he kept a diary through-out his life. Howard remarks with the demise of his mother, that between them, father and mother, lived thr...