No idea where it started really. My direct descendants were all either too young or too old to have taken any real part (Gt grandad was in the Boer...
Odd one this... something doesn't seem quite right. It appears that incorrect details are on one or more of his records and recordings!!!...(either...
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he ended up in 66 Coy in the Labour Corps with the regimental number 39006. (and he was 65832 in the RWF , not the King's)
Mine's a photograph of the grave of Oberst.Lt Friedrich "Fritz" Bayer of the 82nd Infanterie Regt. Killed in action on the Ypres-Comines canal on...
Andy...you probably already know but ,just in case,.... enlisted 27th November 1911
A perennial hawkweed. ...only joking (though it is!)...it's one of the nicknames for a Maxim MG.
all that the US "Soldiers of the Great War" listing has to offer is... RAITHEL, Hattie M., Denver., Colorado, Nurse, DIED OF DISEASE
Plot B Row 3 Grave 9, Brookwood American Cemetery The ABMC have her down as 39th base hospital
they're only hard if you don't know the answer! Anyway - I can't think of anything (apart from asking what Baldrick's first name actually was), so...
Pte.S.Baldrick
Not at that particular stretch of banking ("the green ("Army") line"). They were a good 2000 yds to the north of this position (with the 6/Gordons...
That's what I mean about the internet of being only limited use.:p :D What's referred to there is in the wrong place and, that besides, is far...
I'm offering look ups (within reason) from the following 1914-18 regimental/battalion/brigade/divisional histories. This list of units will be added...
Come on Annie - I thought you knew me betterthan that!:D I never like to theorise in public without facts to back up the theory. A closer look at...
Thanks for that Michel. The info you've just given helps my theory quite a lot. It mainly involves the date of death (which, in turn, could indicate...
...3. French/Belgian...
...2. German...
Though far from a complete listing, here're some conventional signs tables from some trench maps of the 1916-18 period for reference... 1. British
Thinking about it, as there's a high probability that trenchmap extracts will be seen in future posts on this forum, this webpage showing various...
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