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Help us document last resting places in Essex and Suffolk. If you can point a phone and take a photo, the project needs ...
20/04/2024

Help us document last resting places in Essex and Suffolk. If you can point a phone and take a photo, the project needs YOU! Please message for more details.

Seeing this written on an embarkation return from series IOR-L-MIL-15 I thought I'd check out the relevany paragraph. Fr...
28/03/2024

Seeing this written on an embarkation return from series IOR-L-MIL-15 I thought I'd check out the relevany paragraph. From my 1873 edition of Queen's Regs, it reads:

44. Nominal rolls of drafts.
Officers in charge of drafts embarking for India are to be furnished from their depots with nominal rolls showing the date of enlistment and present age of all non-commissioned officers and men composing their respective detachments. These rolls are to be handed to the officer superintending the embarkation of the troops, who will be held responsible that all changes that may have occurred since the drafts quitted the depot are duly inserted therein, and that they are then delivered to the embarking officer for the purpose of being forwarded to the Adjutant-General. These nominal rolls, which must exactly correspond with the numbers shown in the embarkation returns, are to be in addition to and independent of all other reports and returns prescribed by existing regulations.

Spotting this headstone at the Borough cemetery and crematorium in Chelmsford, Essex, I wondered whether George William ...
27/03/2024

Spotting this headstone at the Borough cemetery and crematorium in Chelmsford, Essex, I wondered whether George William Long was a later casualty of the Great War. The Essex Newsman, published on the 20th December 1919, confirms otherwise.

The Bay Horse is still one of several pubs in Moulsham Street, albeit it is now closed and awaiting either a new tenant or redevelopment; probably the latter.

This from inside Greyfriars' church, Edinburgh. One of at least two plaques commemorating the dead of the First World Wa...
24/03/2024

This from inside Greyfriars' church, Edinburgh. One of at least two plaques commemorating the dead of the First World War.

Shots from the famous Greyfriars' cemetery in Edinburgh. I'll spare you photos of Greyfriars' Bobby.
24/03/2024

Shots from the famous Greyfriars' cemetery in Edinburgh. I'll spare you photos of Greyfriars' Bobby.

There are some super graves at St Cuthbert's Kirkyard in the shadow of Edinburgh Castle. Some of them are a little weath...
23/03/2024

There are some super graves at St Cuthbert's Kirkyard in the shadow of Edinburgh Castle. Some of them are a little weatherworn, unsurprisingly, whilst some of the larger constructions serve a more practical purpose today, providing shelter for the homeless.

I was lucky with the weather: a sharp downpour followed by brilliant sunshine which really picked out some of the detail; shadows and moss contrasting nicely. I also like the quotation and the representation of that text from Revelations Ch2, verse 10: "Be thou faithful [until] death and I will give thee a crown of Life."

The thrill on being told that your never-before-seen distant ancestor appears in a Naval group photograph... followed by...
21/03/2024

The thrill on being told that your never-before-seen distant ancestor appears in a Naval group photograph... followed by the disappointment on being told he's in the back row, fifth from left.

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission archive must be awash with these completed forms, but I had never seen one of the...
19/03/2024

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission archive must be awash with these completed forms, but I had never seen one of these before until it turned up in a book commemorating this particular officer, 2nd Lt F W McLean. His father, William McLean presumably submitted a second, identical form to the Imperial War Graves Commission as the personal inscription recorded here made it onto his headstone.

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission's carefully tended cemeteries and indivdual graves across the world, have been en...
18/03/2024

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission's carefully tended cemeteries and indivdual graves across the world, have been enduring sights for many of us for as long as we can remember. We're familiar with the mostly identical headstones, and here in this letter from the Imperial War Graves Commission from 1919, is the rationale behind that decision. The letter is dated June 1919, but the footnote at the bottom of page 1 indicates that this particular letter was printed in July 1919.

This photo from Nurse Betty Howard's St Dunstan's photo album is too good not to share in its entirety. From other detai...
17/03/2024

This photo from Nurse Betty Howard's St Dunstan's photo album is too good not to share in its entirety. From other detail posted in Miss Howard's album, and as a result of wider research, I am able to expand on the detail here.

Miss Gordon and Miss Zoe Stein were both nurses at St Dunstan's. Miss Gordon was also the Cox for the Oars Pairs from Berks Bungalow Annexe whilst Zoe Stein was the Cox for the Fours from Berks Bungalow Annexe. They are pictured here with their teams.

Fours:
16350 Pte John Corrigan, 6th Ox & Bucks Light Infantry
Joseph (Joe) Doubler, Merchant Navy
C F Thompson, RFA
15250 Pte Frederick William Shelton, 8th KOSB

Pairs
202699 Pte Albert Pettipher, 5th Royal Berkshire Regiment
F Hackett, Royal Fusiliers

A year later in 1919, Zoe Stein would make headlines when her boat capsized. Thanks to her interventions she managed to save her blinded crew - which included one non-swimmer - and guide them all to safety.

Learning to be blind.1894 Pte Percy Cashmore of the 2nd Royal Warwickshire Regiment was blinded in 1917 and discharged f...
16/03/2024

Learning to be blind.

1894 Pte Percy Cashmore of the 2nd Royal Warwickshire Regiment was blinded in 1917 and discharged from the army in November of that year. Here, he is being taught a new trade in the boots workshop at St Dunstan's, probably in 1918. Helpfully, the original owner of this album, Nurse Betty Howard, wrote the names of some of the men under her copy of this fairly well known photo.

Later that year, Percy strapped on a pair of ice skates and ventured out onto the ice at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Regent's Park, along with other blinded ex-servicemen and St Dunstan's nurses, an event which was also photographed and published in the newspapers.

16350 Pte John Corrigan of the 6th Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry was blinded on the 6th October 1916. Eve...
16/03/2024

16350 Pte John Corrigan of the 6th Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry was blinded on the 6th October 1916. Eventually finding his way to St Dunstan's, this photo probably dates to September 1918 when as part of a four-man crew, he won the fours race at a regatta held at Marlow, Buckinghamshire.

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