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    Help with uniform

    He's in the Army Service Corps and would have served overseas from about mid -1915. Best candidate would be T3/030560 Driver Arthur Griffin, ASC,...
    Post by: Hill 40, Jun 17, 2010 in forum: Looking for someone
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    what do all this mean?

    Try 'Officer in Charge of Mechanised and Tank Corps Records returns....etc' Its for the issue,re-issue or return of a BWM/Victory medal pair,...
    Post by: Hill 40, Apr 29, 2010 in forum: World War 1
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    Vimy Ridge

    Re: Canadian Artillery Memorial For a possible future talk, I'm currently researching a man who 'captured Vimy Ridge twice' (first time (for a few...
    Post by: Hill 40, Mar 16, 2010 in forum: World War 1
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    Hello

    Just stumbled onto this site (after being nosey about what yellow user names meant on WW1talk!). I'm a member of quite a few WW1 & 2 forums so it's...
    Thread by: Hill 40, Apr 24, 2009, 13 replies, in forum: Introductions
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    Trench Explosion Question

    It was reported that the mines fired under the Messines Ridge on 7th june 1917 could be heard in London. Maybe this is what you refer to?
    Post by: Hill 40, Apr 24, 2009 in forum: World War 1
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    Did you know ... ?

    I didn't know that (so thanks for that), but , thinking about it, I can't say that I'm surprised. What did surprise me though, is the country of...
    Post by: Hill 40, Apr 23, 2009 in forum: Barracks
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    Bayonet Trench

    i believe the legend was born in 1919 when a senior officer of the 137th IR (Col.Collet?) visited the site and noticed rifles sticking out of the...
    Post by: Hill 40, Apr 23, 2009 in forum: Todays Battlegrounds
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    French Army and the First World War

    ...and a couple of sample pages (verdun)...
    Post by: Hill 40, Apr 23, 2009 in forum: World War 1
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    French Army and the First World War

    A couple...:D Anyway, here's the listing of necropoles nationale...
    Post by: Hill 40, Apr 23, 2009 in forum: World War 1
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    French Army and the First World War

    There's nothing really (online) that gives a complete listing, but the Ministere des Anciens combattants et Victimes de Guerre produce an Atlas des...
    Post by: Hill 40, Apr 21, 2009 in forum: World War 1
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    Bayonet Trench

    You know that it's just a myth/legend don't you, Annie? The story appealed to an American visitor in the 1920's and the myth (and memorial) was born....
    Post by: Hill 40, Apr 21, 2009 in forum: Todays Battlegrounds
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    Breakthrough as DNA identifies WW1 soldier

    I take it that the Telegraph hasn't heard of the US Army Central Identification Laboratory, Hawaii (CILHI) and the Armed Forces DNA Identification...
    Post by: Hill 40, Mar 29, 2009 in forum: World War 1
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    Accrington WW1 Prisoners of War

    Here're the instructions from an actual Representation of the people act card that was required to be filled in by a soldier who was to appear on the...
    Post by: Hill 40, Mar 29, 2009 in forum: Prisoners of War
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    Accrington WW1 Prisoners of War

    They actually had to be 19 by the 15th April 1918 to be eligable, not 21. Information could (and often was) be supplied by persons other than the...
    Post by: Hill 40, Mar 27, 2009 in forum: Prisoners of War