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Great grand father was in WWI looking after horses, returned home and was diagnosed as having TB, spent 5 years in a caravan at the end of the garden so as not to infect anyone else and then they found out it was a severe case of asthma (which was nicely passed down the family).
Anyone watch Wipers Times?
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« Reply #16 on: Friday, September 20, 2013, 16:35:29 » |
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Some interesting stories, a good read.
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Coming back to an old topic, and for anyone who's interested in this sort of stuff, I've just posted a summary of the research I found into the death of my great-uncle in WW1 on the British Legion's brilliant Every Man Remembered site, just in time for the centenary of his death in March. http://www.everymanremembered.org/profiles/soldier/3033657/I was frankly amazed by how much I could piece together from the internet, so I now know more than his family did. Would encourage anyone with a story of a relative lost in WW1 to publish it on the Legion's site for posterity. |
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« Reply #20 on: Thursday, February 12, 2015, 07:25:17 » |
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Horrible thing to happen, but good that you found out.
Can't imagine what a different world it was to be an 18 year old going to war.
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« Reply #21 on: Thursday, February 12, 2015, 08:25:57 » |
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Coming back to an old topic, and for anyone who's interested in this sort of stuff, I've just posted a summary of the research I found into the death of my great-uncle in WW1 on the British Legion's brilliant Every Man Remembered site, just in time for the centenary of his death in March. http://www.everymanremembered.org/profiles/soldier/3033657/I was frankly amazed by how much I could piece together from the internet, so I now know more than his family did. Would encourage anyone with a story of a relative lost in WW1 to publish it on the Legion's site for posterity. As posted on here before I too lost my Great Uncle in WW1, the centenary of his death was back on November 13th and his body never found so is commemorated on the Menin Gate. http://www.everymanremembered.org/profiles/soldier/1611175/But after doing a lot of searching we cannot find any more details than this.  We do in the family still have his dead mans penny which is about 5 inches in diameter.  |
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To the cells of Warrington
From the services at Leicester
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And one day Europe too
Cos we all follow the Swindon
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« Reply #22 on: Thursday, February 12, 2015, 12:44:20 » |
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No disrespect meant JJ, but the first thing that caught my eye was the address. Benny Hill!??
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« Reply #23 on: Thursday, February 12, 2015, 12:47:47 » |
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No disrespect meant JJ, but the first thing that caught my eye was the address. Benny Hill!??
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we've been to Aberdeen, we hate the Hibs, they make us spew up, so make some noise,
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« Reply #24 on: Thursday, February 12, 2015, 12:51:14 » |
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No disrespect meant JJ, but the first thing that caught my eye was the address. Benny Hill!??
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From the station at Colchester
To the cells of Warrington
From the services at Leicester
To the slums of Northampton
We travel over England
And one day Europe too
Cos we all follow the Swindon
We're the famous Town End crew.
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