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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 3rd Brigade 1st Division Wrexham Ernest Ronald Shuttleworth Doris Edith May Orridge Royal Warwickshire Regiment 143rd Brigade 4th Division 48th Division Sheffield Somme Heidenkopf Redoubt First day of the Somme George Meborn Hubbard Football at the Front Sergeants Dinner Bayencourt Western Front London Regiment Givenchy Neuve Chappelle ·
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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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Weekly Return of Recruits for Regular Army and the Territorial Force From 4th August,1914.

Jan 28, 2022 · 14 min read · CAB 37/134/22 1914 rush-to-the-colours FWW recruitment Cardiff Scotland August 1914 BEF Statistics of the Military Effort Peter Simkins Regular Army Territorial Army Derek R Young Welsh Regiment Patrick Watt Ian Beckett Kitchener Keith Simpson Adrian Gregory Catriona Pennell ·
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I am currently teaching myself R and R Studio and, as someone who has spent many an hour typing up tables from old documents, I am planning to put my datasets into a GitHub repository along with the code for anyone who might find them useful. I am not quite at that stage yet but wanted to post this example as it came …

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Are YOU in this ? Part 1: An Introduction

Nov 7, 2021 · 6 min read · NSPCC 1914 1889 1888 Home Front CHARLIE CHAPLIN T.E.Lawrence Gladys Cooper Paul Nash Verena Holmes Growing Up David Sibley NSPCC ·
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Figure 1. 1915 Recruitment Poster designed by Sir Baden-Powell. © IWM (Art. IWM PST 2712). Introduction In 1914, on the eve of the war, the population of the United Kingdom was approximately forty-five million with just under fifty percent aged twenty-five and under.1 This series of articles is going to investigate …

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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)

Weekly Return of Recruits for Regular Army and the Territorial Force From 4th August,1914.

Are YOU in this ? Part 1: An Introduction