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I have an almost-16 year old son. I can’t imagine him being at the First Day of the Somme. Yet my great grandmother was in that situation, on the 1st July, 1916. In fact, it’s likely both her sons were there – her eldest, barely 18, was in The King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. My […]
Sometimes, even very official looking historical sources get it wrong. This slightly limb-challenged gentleman is my ‘Uncle Walt’, the miller at South Duffield; born the son of a miller in Braithwaite, Yorkshire. I have this very photo but don’t appear to have scanned my version, so will link to it, here. Do click […]
I’m always compelled by genealogy when it put stories and faces to names. And it being 100 years since WWI, I wanted to write something in memory of my two great-uncles who died in that War. One of them was the reason I got into genealogy in the first place. I was going to keep […]
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