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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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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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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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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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Figure 1. The Outpost, 1 March, 1918, p.175, British Library This is the first entry in an ongoing series documenting soldier-cartoonists of the First World War, including those who had contributions published in the magazine Blighty, those who contributed to Trench Journals and Unit magazines, and those who kept …
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