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![Memories of the child of an Imperial War Graves Gardener](/media/13128/gardenerchild5.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=360&height=240&rnd=132506011045300000)
Memories of the child of an Imperial War Graves Gardener
In November 1999, a WFA member called Frank Burns of Scruton, Yorkshire, was invited to address a...
Read More![Commercialism the new enemy of the Salient (The Times 1919)](/media/13122/cityofsalient3.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=360&height=240&rnd=132506011033730000)
Commercialism the new enemy of the Salient (The Times 1919)
How many of us have paused to ponder the incongruity of our comfort break in the Grand Place at Y...
Read More![Captain Prideaux and his Box Brownie at Ploegsteert](/media/13149/ploegsteert7.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=360&height=240&rnd=132506012071370000)
Captain Prideaux and his Box Brownie at Ploegsteert
Photography had already established itself as a popular hobby by the time of the Great War, and ‘...
Read More![Luke Leadbeater - remembered by the fiancée he never married 100 years on](/media/13104/capture-lcl.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=360&height=240&rnd=132505361489400000)
Luke Leadbeater - remembered by the fiancée he never married 100 years on
On 22 November 1917, there occurred in Belgium the death of Private Luke Leadbeater. A single man...
Read More![Kanturk - the Great War Pension Records of a small town](/media/13063/photo.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=360&height=240&rnd=132501845917670000)
Kanturk - the Great War Pension Records of a small town
Thanks to the efforts of the Western Front Association, the pension records of over six million s...
Read More![Capt The Hon Neil Primrose: son of a Prime Minister](/media/12982/palestine-campaign.png?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=360&height=240&rnd=132496739527100000)
Capt The Hon Neil Primrose: son of a Prime Minister
When asked if the sacrifice in the First World War was shared equally between the highest in soci...
Read More![Death of a Spy: Charles Simon : 7 June 1915](/media/13013/captureblock-1.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=360&height=240&rnd=132498338347070000)
Death of a Spy: Charles Simon : 7 June 1915
‘Project Hometown’ has brought to light many fascinating, tragic and sometimes uncomfortable stor...
Read More![SS Laurentic: A story of Gold Bullion, Crime and Intrigue and loss of life that helped change the course of WW1.](/media/12996/damant.png?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=360&height=240&rnd=132498321665330000)
SS Laurentic: A story of Gold Bullion, Crime and Intrigue and loss of li...
This story begins with an ordinary Pension Card that relates to a 20 year old Royal Marine named...
Read More![Lieutenant-Commander Frederick 'Sep' Kelly - Olympic Gold 1908, Performer and Composer](/media/12985/septimus-kelly-kia-13-nov-1916.png?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=360&height=240&rnd=132497266686630000)
Lieutenant-Commander Frederick 'Sep' Kelly - Olympic Gold 1908, Performe...
Frederick 'Sep' ‘Cleg’ Kelly, the Olympic gold medal rower, pianist and officer in the Royal Nav...
Read More![The Battle of Mughar Ridge: One soldier's story](/media/12974/hong_kong_mountain_gun_battery_in_action_-november_1917.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=360&height=240&rnd=132496725519330000)
The Battle of Mughar Ridge: One soldier's story
By the autumn of 1917, the allied forces had advanced from Egypt and were on the verge of advanci...
Read More![Letters to the Unknown Warrior](/media/12957/screenshot-2020-11-11-at-151205.png?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=360&height=240&rnd=132495811778030000)
Letters to the Unknown Warrior
Letters from students to the Unknown Warrior. On the centenary of the burial of the Unknown Warr...
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