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Monday, 18 January 2010

31769 Pte Harry Leeks, 9th Essex Regt

Synopsis I met Harry Leeks in September 1981. He was one of four WW1 veterans living in a retirement complex in Chelmsford. I conducted a br...

Sunday, 3 January 2010

G/62175 James Townsend Simpson, 6th Middx Regt

Synopsis I interviewed James Townsend Simpson in Chelmsford on the 27th October 1981. He was born in Chelmsford on 1st June 1900 and was wor...

Sunday, 13 December 2009

R/23703 L/Cpl Arnold Marshall, 8th KRRC

Synopsis Arnold Fitz George Marshall was born at Sowerby Bridge, Yorkshire, on the 16th August 1893. He was working in a cotton mill when Br...

Sunday, 22 November 2009

263011 Pte Harold Shephard, 5th Leicestershire Regiment.

Synposis I met Harold Shephard whilst I was a student in Loughborough, and interviewed him on 19th June 1984 when he was 88 years old. Ha...

Friday, 13 November 2009

Z/1658 OS Alan McCartney Castle, Hawke Bn, RND

Synopsis I was introduced to Alan Castle in Chelmsford on 16th September 1981. I see by the date that I had just turned 19 and Alan Castl...

Sunday, 1 November 2009

820437 Gunner Alfred Willis, Royal Field Artillery

Synopsis I met Alfred Willis at his home in Station Street when I was studying at Loughborough in the early nineteen eighties. He was a fasc...

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