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Reference: Memoirs of an Army Meteorologist

Sep 4, 2024 · 129 min read · 1917 1918 Meteor Meteorological Office Meteorological Field Service Royal Engineers 4th Army 3rd Army 15th Division Headquarters GHQ OTC ASC WAAC Harry Cotton chlorine gas Phosgene gas Gas Artist Rifles Meteor Met Office Meteorological Officer Meteorological Section Kite Balloon Demobilisation Albert Amiens Beauquesne Bray Dunes Chatham Estrées Helfant Hesdin Montreuil Passchendaele Pont Noyelle Senlecques Somme St Omer Terramesnil Flanders Ypres Villers Carbonnel Spring offensive ·
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Originally published in The Meteorological Magazine between 1979 and 1980. © Crown Copyright. Figure 1. WW1 Era Kite Ballon, similar to what Harry Cotton would have made his observations from, Author's Collection Sourced and provided by the National Meteorological Library and Archive — Met Office, UK. Reproduced here …

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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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