A few more people from Great-Aunt Joy’s photo albums. I’d be very grateful for any information on the people in these photos as I am only able to identify a few of them myself. Eric ? East Africa 1943 Frank ? Cairo 1942 George ? 1943 George ? and Frank ? Cyprus 1944 Kingy Leslie ? Nov. 1940 Mr. Grice. Royal Observer … Continue reading Wordless Wednesday – People
Some time ago I heard about a project to research and preserve the WW1 Roll of Honour at St Stephen’s church in Hyson Green, Nottingham. As my Great-great Uncle Harold Richardson is mentioned on it I contacted the church and was invited to the first meeting. St Stephen’s Bobbers Mill Road I was able to provide some information about Harold and was keen to … Continue reading Military Monday – Harold Richardson Remembered
Part I Part II Part III Following on from my last post I wanted to see if I could find out exactly what Uncle Percy had been doing when he was wounded on the 22nd of April 1918. His service record didn’t help with this & neither did my attempts at tracking the movements of 97th Field Company RE using online resources. The National Archives have … Continue reading Military Monday – Percival Richardson. Royal Engineers Part IV
Military Monday – Percival Richardson. Royal Engineers Part I Part 1 The end of March 1917 found Percy and the 97th Field Company Royal Engineers stationed on the Hindenburg Line. The German army was staging a strategic withdrawal to the Hindenburg Line. As they withdrew they destroyed bridges, railways, buildings and roads to hinder the Anglo-French advance. So there was an urgent need for the Royal … Continue reading Military Monday – Percival Richardson. Royal Engineers Part II
Military Monday – Percival Richardson. Royal Engineers Part II I’ve recently added my 2xGreat Uncle Percival Richardson to Lives of the First World War. I’ve already posted a few posts about Percy, but hadn’t got round to adding his details to the site. Luckily Percy’s service records are extant unlike many others so I have been able to find out much more about his time … Continue reading Military Monday – Percival Richardson. Royal Engineers Part I
I’ve added another relative to Lives of the First World War. Horace Thomas Bourne is only very distantly related to me, I included him in my tree when I was looking at the Bourne/Bourn/Burn family and trying to sort out the variants as they change so frequently. According to Ancestry he is the grand nephew of the wife of my 1st cousin 4x removed – … Continue reading Military Monday .. Horace Thomas Bourne
I inherited a box of photographs following my grandparent’s death and have since spent a good while trying to identify and sort them all. I’ve been relatively successful at this – apart from the two people in the pictures below. I think it is the same man in both photos, the one on the right being an earlier photo than the wedding one, because he … Continue reading Friday Faces – Who Do You Think They Are?
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