This is a long involved story :rolleyes: .... but in a nutshell - I was looking for information about Abraham Acton VC .... and I came across this...
Driver Frederick Luke 37th Battery, Royal Field Artillery (Jointly with Driver Job Henry Charles Drain) He was 18 years old, and a driver in the...
In Memory of Lieutenant WILLIAM DAVID KENNY V C 4th Bn., 39th Garhwal Rifles who died age 20 on 02 January 1920 Native of Saintfield, Co. Down....
Bernard Francis Smyth b. 11 February 1891 in Boatmans d. 1 July 1972 in Christchurch Bernard Smyth's feat in making the All Blacks has...
In Memory of Captain ERIC NORMAN FRANKLAND BELL V C 9th Bn., Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers attd. 109th Light T.M. Bty. who died age 20 on 01...
James (Buster) Barrett was a lightly framed loose forward in the old 2-3-2 scrum and one of the first All Blacks to be produced from Auckland’s...
Arthur Bliss was born in London 2/8/91 and died 27/3/75. He carried a pocket score of Elgar’s Cockaigne Overture on active service, in which...
In Memory of Gunner VERNON SAMUEL DICKINSON 348804, 3rd Bde., Canadian Field Artillery who died age 21 on 27 April 1918 Son of Samuel S. and...
BIRDWOOD, WILLIAM RIDDELL (1865-1951), 1st Baron Birdwood of Anzac and Totnes, Field Marshal, was born on 13 September 1865 at Kirkee, India, second...
I know he didn't go to war ... but he is an enigma and therefore fascinating !!! :) Name - Peina Taituha Born - 30 April 1901 in Wanganui Died...
FULL NAME - Francis Beresford Young BORN - 10 October 1871 in Glenorchy DIED - 2 November 1946 in Wellington Frank Young, born in Glenorchy,...
What a treasure this is ....... !! .... wonder if anybody will recognise their Dad or Granddad on there ?...
Looking for the photo that went with this caption ... I came across a mother lode of other wonderful pictures !! ( though I'm sorry to say I didn't...
A tragedy indeed ! .... RIP - For all of those people who died at Fort Hood US President Barack Obama has said the "entire nation" is grieving...
For all "my boys" on my Honour Rolls and for all my "special" Soldiers Flyers and Sailors that I have researched through the years .... Remembered...
I love looking at images of some of the regimental badges carved on the headstones in C.W.G.C cemeteries ! ...... but here's the VC headstone .......
I just love this picture ..... you can tell by his body language - he's just so excited and proud !! :D Battle of Passchendaele - Investiture of...
Frank Linke-Crawford, ranked fourth on the list of Austro-Hungarian aces, was born on 18 August 1893 at Krakau, and was the son of Major Adalbert...
In 1914 a WWI Winnipeg Captain, Harry Colebourn, took a black bear cub to England as his Regiment's mascot. When Colebourn shipped out for France, he...
THOMPSON, DUNCAN FULTON (1895-1980), footballer, was born on 14 March 1895 at Warwick, Queensland, fourth of nine children of Charles Thompson,...
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