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Based on what my grandma told me, i think i've found the war records of my great grandfather. According to this website he joined up in 1916. I knew he was at the Somme but wasn't sent to the front because he could drive. However, i didn't know he was...
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at allempires):
It was advertised in one of the links on Allempires:
http://www.forces-war-records.co.uk/default... .
This one.
But I haven't found anything yet.
He served in the 1st MEF and was at Belleu wood .
What site did you use? I've been researching my step- grandfather .
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On Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:19:36 +0200, Earl Evleth <evleth@wanadoo.fr
Amazing, and on British food.
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British WWI veteran becomes world's oldest man
AFP/File World War I veteran Henry Allingham, seen here celebrating his
113th birthday...
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at omgili):
On Jun 19, 8:19 am, Earl Evleth <evl...@wanadoo.fr
Well done mate! On Fri, 19 Jun 2009 20:34:41 +0200, "Runge16" <philsa@bigfoot.com
"Earl Evleth" <evleth@wanadoo.frnews:C6617928.170085%evleth@wanadoo.fr... .
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What would the Treaty of looked like if the Central powers won WWI .
would Germany Demand the RN to be interned in Germany ?
Would the Treaty been as harsh to the Allies as the Treaty was to the Central powers .
How would France react to have her army...
Started by Ward on
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by 13 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at alternatehistory):
It was practicably impossible for the British and French to enforce the limitations against Germany to do with the Bolsheviks in ....
The British Empire.
Be occupying Britain and can't do anything overseas without British permission.
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Http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...-aged-110.html
Quote: : Last surviving veteran of First World War dies aged 110
Florence Green, the world's last surviving First World War veteran has died, marking the end of an era in British history.
Mrs Green...
Started by Order2Chaos on
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by 7 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at wordforge):
That last WW1 combat vet died in 2006 or 2007 .
My understanding is this guy served during the war but wasn't a combat vet .
And World War I disappears from living memory (at least for those who were participants) .
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The last WWI combatant dies Last WW1 combatant dies aged 110 - Yahoo! News
SYDNEY (AFP) Briton Claude Choules, the last World War I combat veteran, has died aged 110 in Australia, ending the living connection with a conflict that saw 70 million military...
Started by Thorlifter on
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by 11 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at ww2aircraft):
"Success is not Final, Failure is not Fatal, it is the Courage to Continue that Counts"
Sir Winston Churchill
"To him the People of the World Largely owe the Freedom and Liberties they Enjoy Today"
Enscription on Hugh Dowding... .
Then end of another era.
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Now I am not a world war I vet, but I am a historian and hopefully a vivid writer. Earlier I described what a WWI battlefield might look like in places like the Somme or Verdun. But sight is only one of the sensations. Imagine, after a time in the rear...
Started by zraver on
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by 2 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at worldaffairsboard):
Attached Images The mud of 3rd Ypres ....
Muse-ings attack.
MY writing was based in part on historical examples like the First Newfoundland Regiment- veterans on day 1, what WWI German barbed wire really looked like, a field of dead tommies.
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On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 10:17:53 -0800, Mark Reinhold <markr@mbrnet.com
Happy Veterans Day.
It is looks like we need more Vets since the world has not decided to
play nice in the Big Sanbox yet.
I sure wish people would learn to relax and have fun...
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by 14 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at omgili):
My next one is in their
honor is in honor of the families of veterans....
Mark Reinhold <markr@mbrnet.com
Thank you to all the Veterans!
And no worries about the rest
Happy Veterans Day!
Hats off to all those brave men and women.
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On Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:58:53 -0800 (PST), Kurt <kurtwheeling1965@hotmail.com
Politics aside for the day...
Thank you to our fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, grandparents,
cousins, uncles, aunts, friends and complete strangers who served and...
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by 7 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at omgili):
I also remember it's original and NZ soldiers that....
: Kurt
+1
As my father was a veteran of WWI and my husband a veteran of WW!!, I
think aboaut our vets on this day.
And
: sacrificed for the betterment and freedom of us all .
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On Sat, 25 Jul 2009 04:42:06 -0700 (PDT), aadavid <aadavid@gmail.com
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8168691.stm
The last British survivor of the World War I trenches, Harry Patch,
has died at the age of 111.
Mr Patch was conscripted into the...
Started by aadavid on
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by 3 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at omgili):
There is also one WWI era veteran (Józef Kowalski of Poland) and one
unverified veterans -- one....
To Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I_veterans
there are three remaining living WWI Woodruff Buckles).
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On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:42:42 -0500, "John Dupre'" <jdupre5762@aol.com
I know that fair numbers of Germans joined the French Foriegn Legion
after WW2 as they had after WW1 but were there any appreciable numbers
of German mercenaries or volunteers...
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by 12 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at omgili):
He said...@bellsouth.net
I can support that with an interview I saw with a Korean War veteran
on the ....
I knew a British mercenary who fought in the Congo circa 1960.
D9688c1-0eae-4912-9bc0-bff2b10621a8@u13g2000yqg.googlegroups.com...
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