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Category Archives: Soldiers of the Great War
Captain Charles La Coste MC
Captain Charles La Coste MC General List att. 1/8th West Yorkshire Regiment Killed in action at Poelcappelle, 9 October 1917 Captain La Coste is commemorated on the Tyne Cot memorial. There is also a La Coste listed on the Great … Continue reading
Dame Judi Dench supports campaign to remember VC winner
Dame Judi Dench is supporting a plan to erect a statue in memory of a World War I Victoria Cross recipient. Private Herbert Columbine, 24, was a private in the Machine Gun Corps and was awarded the decoration posthumously for … Continue reading
Joining ‘The Mutton Lancers’ in 1914
‘I see from my discharge papers that I enlisted on 27 August 1914. As I was born on 26 January 1898, it follows that I was sixteen years and seven months old. ‘The Battle of Mons had just been fought, … Continue reading
Lieutenant Herman Sim
Lieutenant Herman Alexander Coysgarne Sim Lieutenant 2nd Battalion, The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) Killed in action, 9 May 1915 Age 27. Buried at Rye-Petillon Cemetery, Fleurbaix, France Herman Sim was born in Middlesex in 1888. According to the 1911 census he … Continue reading
Major MBH Morgan
Major MBH Morgan South Lancashire Regiment Died on 22 November 1917 Major Morgan is buried in the cemetery of Llandaff Cathedral in Cardiff next to his father, Sir Morgan Morgan, who was mayor of Cardiff in 1886.
An American in France
‘What I have a vivid memory of is the French soldiers – being in a small village and going into a local wine shop in the evening. ‘They had very, very little money. But they were having wine and singing … Continue reading
Posted in Soldiers of the Great War, World War I memoirs
Tagged France, Frank Buckles, French, french soldiers, US Army, wine shop
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Hidden dangers of war
‘In the shallow ditch outside that Le Touret farm, among the black mud now nearly dry, were to be seen a variety of old grenades brown with rust, tumbled in with tin cans and broken harness. ‘I looked at them … Continue reading
Posted in Soldiers of the Great War, World War I memoirs
Tagged books, dangers, Edmund Blunden, memoirs, risks, Royal Sussex regiment, war poets
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World War I New Zealand soldiers shown of Flickr
Te Papa (Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa) is using photsite Flickr in a bid to find out more about the country’s World War I soldiers. The museum has added a large number of photographs that were taken in … Continue reading
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Tagged colonial, flickr, identification, museums, New Zealand, photography, Wellington
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First World War Centenary, 1914-1918 