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Sunday, 30 November 2014

29241 Pte Leonard Watts, Suffolk Regiment

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I met and interviewed Leonard Watts on the 19th October 1981. He was born in Little Waltham, Essex on the 17th May 1897 and was working a...
Wednesday, 12 November 2014

98530 Pte Ernest Needham, 7th Sherwood Foresters

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I interviewed Ernest Needham in Loughborough in 1984; a period of fond memories for me where days were spent fine-tuning my darts and sno...
Sunday, 2 November 2014

22859 Sapper William George Pink, 26th Field Coy, Royal Engineers

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I met William Pink on 1st October 1981. At the time, he was one of a dwindling band of Chelmsford Old Contemptibles although he was origi...
Saturday, 25 October 2014

27443 Pte Henry George Boldero, 1st Wiltshire Regiment

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  It was September 1981 and there was a knock at the door. My dad answered it and in stepped Henry Boldero. He'd seen an article in...
Sunday, 12 October 2014

370395 A/Sgt Francis G Seddon, 8th London Regt

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  When I interviewed Frank Seddon it was 1986 and he was aged 89 and living on his own in Portslade, Sussex. No service record survives...
Monday, 22 September 2014

101204 Dvr Daniel O'Sullivan, RFA

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Daniel O'Sullivan was one of the first Great War veterans that I interviewed and I see from my notes that I met him, at his home in R...
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Sunday, 7 September 2014

1615 Pte Horace Ham, 16th (Public Schools') Battalion, Middlesex Regiment

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My notes tell me that I interviewed Horace Ham at the Royal Star & Garter Home in Richmond on 5th November 1988 when Horace was aged ...