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Private Alfred Edmeades Bestall, Army Service Corps Service Number: DM2/112832 Born: 14 December 1892, Mandalay, Burma Died: 15 January 1986, Porthmadog, Wales (Aged 93) I am the type of person, who when visiting an art gallery, bowls past the information desk, brushes off the tour guide, and boots the audio-headset …
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The Wipers Times Exposé: The Printer and the Presses
Sep 2, 2023 · 12 min read · The Wipers Times Wipers Staff Wipers Printers Sherwood Foresters Sergeant George Turner Sergeants Dinner Lieutenant Colonel Morgan Dr Alfred Caenepeel Flanders Museum Last Post Ypres Railway Wood Hooge John Ivelaw-Chapman Riddle of Wipers Turner & Caepeneel map Sint-Jacobsstraat Ypres Ramparts Dickebusch Dr Katheryn White ·In my post on the Wipers Times Staff, Suspects, and Witnesses, I mentioned that there was ambiguity around who the printer on the paper was. One of the names associated with the role was that of Sergeant Leslie Tyler — found in a letter he sent in 1916 to his local paper. However, research has uncovered that these were …
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Ephemera: Doris Edith May Orridge’s Autograph Book, Essex School Chums, and a Christmas Football Game at the Front (no, not that one)
Aug 20, 2023 · 13 min read · Autograph Book Essex Leigh-on-Sea School-chums 1912 1914 Cartoons Arthur Morland Thomas Oswell Bury Royal Welch Fusiliers Wrexham Ernest Ronald Shuttleworth Doris Edith May Orridge Royal Warwickshire Regiment Sheffield Somme First day of the Somme George Meborn Hubbard Football at the Front Sergeants Dinner Bayencourt Western Front London Regiment Givenchy Neuve Chappelle ·For the third entry in the series, a very battered, missing its front cover — as well perhaps half of its original contents — autograph book which once belonged to a Doris Edith May Orridge (1896 -1988), who attended St Margaret School, a mixed aged and sex, boarding school in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex. She attended with her …
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Blighty Mystery File No.1
This is the first 'Mystery File' relating to the soldier-cartoonists who had their contributions published in Blighty but, at this moment in time, the trail has gone cold as I have been unable to find any further information about them — though I am not ready to give up. First, getting published in Blighty brought more …
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The Wipers Times Exposé: Staff, Suspects, and Witnesses
Jul 29, 2023 · 44 min read · Wipers Staff Violet's Chronicles of Fashion Sapper E. J. Couzens Gilbert Frankau Stanley Melborne Mohr C.J. Lodge Patch Jack Pearson J.O. Twiss Frederick Roberts Richard Donald Bell Woods Sherwood Foresters Dorothy Violet Hall Henry Cecil Hall Annie Selena Hall Nottingham Nottingham Evening Post Table Tennis Dan Todman Thomas Emmanuel Ward Sergeant Tyler Sergeant Turner T.S. Leslie Allen BBC Chris Rainbow 1964 The Wipers Times The Wipers Times Film The Wipers Times Play Ypres Times Balkan News Ian Hislop Nick Newman Nottingham Archives Nottingham Local Studies Library Nottingham Guardian Captain E.J. Neale Major Harry Shirwell Wipers Printers Mi7a Official Press Buereau Herbert Jenkins Captain Muller SS Emden ·In tracking down details on Dorothy Violet Hall, the writer behind the 'Chronicles of Fashion' feature of the Wipers Times, I am at somewhat of an impasse. In my initial article, I mentioned that I believed, given his prominence in the Nottingham art scene, that her brother, Henry Cecil Hall, may be the key to …
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Ephemera: Mary Ann Murray – a Housemaid from Dunkeld @ Hampton Hall, Malpas
Jun 26, 2023 · 16 min read · 1917 1921 1899 AIF Autograph Book Malpas Dunkeld Scotland Cheshire Hampton Hall Wilding Jones Landed Gentry Tenanted farms Dairy farms Convalescent home Wilding Jones Red Cross Mary Ann Murray Murray Duff Seatons Upper Hatton Birkenburn Royal Highlanders Black Watch The Buffs East Kent Regiment 37th Machine Gun Corp Dunkeld Royal Hiher Grade School Port Askaig Isle of Islay PoW Labour Land Army Trench Culture Trench Journal Command Gazette Maple Leaf RStudio Mapbox Mapdeck Leaflet ·The Book For the second entry in this series, I have chosen to add an autograph book which, in some regards, is a very typical example — containing poems, memes, toasts, and quite a few pictures of Union Jack flags. On closer inspection, however, it becomes a mystery starting with a distinct lack of personification. …
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Soldier-cartoonist: Corporal Bertie Inward, 2/19th London Regiment
Jun 20, 2023 · 7 min read · Blighty A Budget Humour from Home Soldier Cartoons London Regiment 2/19th (St Pancras) Battalion Fred Karno Charlie Chaplin Stan Laurel Fred Karno's Army Southwark London Western Front Middle-East Salonika Macedonia Palestine Second Battle of Jordan Es Salt Raid Shunet Nimrin Hills 60th London Division 180th Brigade Ghoraniyeh Jordan Memories The Magazine of the 19th London Old Comrades Association ·Corporal Bertie Inward, 2/19th (St Pancras) Battalion, London Regiment Service Number: 613219 Born: 22 April 1887, Medway, Kent Died: 27 October 1922, Romford, Essex (aged 35) Fred Karno (1886-1941) was a music hall impresario, known for nurturing the careers of a young Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel — as well as …
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The Wipers Times Exposé Addendum: Conclusive Proof, the Letters of Thomas Moore Emmanuel Ward, and Other Contributors Identified
Jun 1, 2023 · 18 min read · The Wipers Times The Red Feather Cockles Tumley Wipers Times Contributors Bruce Bairnsfather Beach Thomas Daily Mail Tatler Sabretache Dorothy Violet Hall Thomas Moore Emmanuel Ward Fred Roberts Stanley Melbourne Mohr Captain W.J. Asher Richard Donald Bell Woods FWW Publications Nottingham Nottinghamshire Archives Nottingham Electrical City Department Nottingham Freemasons Sherwood Foresters Shipstones Brewery Soldier Poets H. Smalley Samson Trench Journals Violet's Chronicle of Fashion Ypres ·Following on from the previous article, I got my first lead regarding tracking down the identity of Violet, of 'Violets Chronicle of Fashion', in the form of letters written by Thomas Moore Emmanuel Ward (1895-1947). Ward was a Lieutenant in the 12th Battalion (Pioneers) Sherwood Foresters as well as a contributor to …
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AYIT Part 4: An overview of Infant Mortality in England and Wales: 1870-1910
May 22, 2023 · 25 min read · infant mortality rate England and Wales 1870-1910 1800s 1900s Jay Winter Chris Galley MoH Local Medical Officers for Health Respiratory Diseases Bronchitis Artificial Food Breast Feeding Health of Towns gastronomical diseases Climate Change Still Births Robert Koch Robert Woods William Budd Tuberculosis Liverpool Sheffield Victorian Era Edwardian Era epidemiology public policy stillbirths Maternal Health IMR Factors ·With thanks to Chris Galley for taking the time to answer my questions. Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) — the number of infant deaths under the age of one per thousand births — is a useful indicator of both the health of a population and of its supporting health infrastructure and welfare (discussed in brief in parts 2 and …
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Soldier-cartoonist: Private Richard Collins, 12th Battalion East Surrey
May 10, 2023 · 4 min read · Blighty A Budget Humour from Home Soldier Cartoons 12th Battalion (Bermondsey) 41st Division 122nd Brigade Easy Surrey Regiment Western Front Signaller Battle of Flers-Courcelette Pheasant Wood Dammestrasse St. Eloi Battle of Messines Ridge 1917 Military Medal Denys Wood ·Private Richard Collins, 12th (Bermondsey) Battalion East Surrey Regiment Service Number: 12906 (Later 12234, 1st Irish Guards) Born: 9 August 1899, Brentford, Middlesex Died: Unknown Enlisted, at the age of 19, in August 1915 with the 12th (Bermondsey) Battalion East Surrey Regiment, earning the qualification of 1st …
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