Learnt today the publishers have plenty to sell at £12. The summary starts with:This latest CBA Practical Handbook forms part of the CBA-led...
Hi everyone I am struggling to read this part of a WW1 RA Gunners service record where, after multiple bouts of dysentry, he was invalided to the...
Nice little story on the BBC website. Soldier possibly the first to be demobbed from service in WW1: PC's family 'gobsmacked' by WW1 past
Remembered on Kew Botanical Gardens War Memorial. Private HAYHURST, J Service Number G/31695 Died 07/09/1918 6th Bn. Queen's Own (Royal West...
Heads you win!! The coins that saved a soldier's life
Perhaps another topic on another forum but the 100th anniversary of the end of WW1 is fast approaching. Private George Price: Paying homage to a...
Some very poignant stories today on an Antiques Roadshow WW1 special. Even the presenters were becoming quite emotional. Made me take a look at...
This section of the Long, Long Trail originally developed from a discussion some years ago at the Great War Forum. This concerned the question of...
Just a little post and while not WW-2 related I thought it might be of interest none-the-less. Another Saturday and another afternoon at the...
After being taken to Hospital in Capetown 6th April 1918. All 7 survivors had amputations on their legs. From both feet being removed to having...
Funny what you find when looking for something else!...
Uttoxeter remembers forgotten war heroes
Hallo! It's another war, but hope you can help me. I have found this picture on FB. [IMG] Original text says: "A raiding party of the 1/8th...
Was watching a documentary earlier on this absorbing and interesting subject and thought I would post something here for others, as after a search...
Hi everyone I will remove post if I am breaking the rules, I am trying to research a gentleman by the name of Percy Charles Thompson of the 2nd...
[ATTACH] Recently I was fortunate to tick off a long held "bucket list" ambition. To visit the mighty USS Texas which is a museum ship at the...
I note on Ancestry that they have increased their database for WW1 files: UK, WWI War Diaries (Gallipoli and Dardanelles), 1914-1916 Source...
Can you search for Canadian WW1 service records ? I have done it before for a couple of casualty's but now I can't find where to search, I see...
In my collection i have some 52 original negatives of the East Surrey Regiment [ 2/5th Battalion at first ] in training in Kent, they were taken...
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