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Friday, 21 August 2009

O/242 Rifleman Albert Edward Foot, 7th Rifle Brigade

Synopsis Albert Edward Foot was born in Bethnal Green, London on 18th December 1898 and I interviewed him a couple of days after his 85th bi...

Friday, 14 August 2009

835102 Gunner Albert William Burton, RFA

Synopsis I first met Bert Burton in September 1981 after an article about my search for First World War veterans appeared in the Chelmsford ...

Sunday, 26 July 2009

R/5882 L/Cpl Reginald John Lang, King's Royal Rifle Corps

Synopsis I interviewed Reginald Lang in Duke's Orchard, Writtle, Essex in October 1981. Harry Bardsley lived in the same sheltered hous...

Monday, 13 July 2009

Donald Banks - war diary, France 1915

Last Friday I published the war diary kept by 16 year old 3546 Private Donald Banks when he enlisted with the 2/4th Lincolnshire Regiment i...

Friday, 10 July 2009

3546 Pte Donald Banks, 4th Lincolnshire Regiment

Synopsis I met Donald Banks in Great Dunmow, Essex in 1986. Of all the men I met, Mr Banks gave me the most information. The interviews I co...

Wednesday, 8 July 2009

240102 L/Sgt Charles Wilfred Wortley, 5th Leicestershire Regiment

Synopsis All of the First World War men I met had been scarred in some way, and Wilf Wortley was one of four men I met who had lost a leg du...

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