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Sunday, 18 December 2016

L/16761 Pte Charles Edwin Painter, Middlesex Regiment

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I met Charles Painter in January 1982. Then aged 81, he was an in-patient at The Royal Hospital, Chelsea. Born on the 13th July 1900 he h...
Sunday, 13 November 2016

Reginald Llewellyn Crane, 4th Royal Berkshire Regiment

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Reg Crane was one of four Great War veterans I met who lived in the Keene Memorial Homes in Broomfield Road, Chelmsford. I see from my no...
Saturday, 5 November 2016

L/16490 Pte Henry Tomkins, 2nd Royal Fusiliers

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I never met Henry Tomkins but I did write to him in July 1987 and received a long and interesting reply from him many months later in Jan...
Saturday, 7 May 2016

376664 Pte Robert J B Nosworthy - 8th London Regt

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I wrote to Robert James Branscombe Nosworthy in 1986, when I was trying - much too late in the day - to find men who might have served wi...
Monday, 7 March 2016

371858 Pte Francis P Ball, 8th (City of London) Battalion (Post Office Rifles), London Regiment

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Replying to my quest for information about my great uncle, Jack Nixon, Frank Ball, writing to me in 1986 from his home in Polegate, wrot...
Monday, 15 February 2016

1606 Pte Reginald Gordon Prew, 1/8th London Regiment

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I never met Reginald Prew but I did write to him in 1986 when I was attempting to contact men who'd served with the Post Office R...
Monday, 28 December 2015

55182 Pte Ernest W Springett, 1st North Staffordshire Regiment

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I never met Ernest Springett, but we corresponded in 1986 and he sent me a typed manuscript detailing his service during the First World ...