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Saturday, 31 January 2015

Christopher Eric Pleydell Wilton - Essex Regt and Indian Army

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  I met and interviewed Christopher Wilton in Great Dunmow, Essex in April 1984. He was born on the Isle of Wight on the 12th December ...
Thursday, 1 January 2015

222179 A/Cpl Jack Edward Rose, Royal Engineers

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I met and interviewed Jack Rose at his home in Chelmsford on the 9th December 1981. Born in July 1897 at Ryde on the Isle of Wight, by th...
Wednesday, 24 December 2014

Stan Brown's Christmas Truce

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I've featured Stan Brown before and you can read some about  Stan's Great War  and Chelmsford's Old Contemptibles by follow...
Wednesday, 17 December 2014

Veterans re-live life in the trenches

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I thought it might be an idea to start integrating surviving video and audio of Great War Veterans and so here's the first such lin...
Sunday, 14 December 2014

Lieutenant Arthur Edward Slater, Machine Gun Corps

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  I met Arthur Slater on 5th October 1981 after he responded to an appeal for First World War veterans to come forward and tell their s...
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...