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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 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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