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Ephemera: Winnie Mary Knight’s Autograph Book: A Glimpse of Bromley in the First World War
Jul 1, 2024 · 16 min read · VAD Red Cross KENT COUNTY TERRITORIAL ASSOCIATION The 7th London Regiment Honourable Artillery Company Welsh Guards Auxiliary Hospitals Ontario Military Hospital ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY COUNTY OF LONDON TERRITORIALS ARMY SERVICE CORPS QUEENS OWN (ROYAL WEST KENT REGIMENT) WEST KENT YEOMANRY LONDON AIR DEFENCES SCOUTS BBC IVOR NOVELLO AYLESBURY ROAD SCHOOL MOSS BROS ADVERTS SCRAPBOOKING ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART LAMBETH SCHOOL OF ART BROMLEY BOROUGH LOCAL HISTORY SOCIETY Royal Scots Fusiliers Sunday School Shortlands Bromley Parish Church BROMLEY KENT LONDON LONDON REGIMENT HOME FRONT AUTOGRAPH BOOK ·For the fifth entry in this series, while this autograph book is a modest affair, with just 26 entries, it is one of the more interesting and insightful, books I have come across and was beneficial during my Master's research. The book belonged to a Winifred Mary Knight (1899-1981), a 1914 Christmas present from her …
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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 ·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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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 60th London Division 180th Brigade 5th London Brigade 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 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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