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| "The Soldier" by Rupert Brooke War poet, Rupert Brooke's famous poem about a foreign field which will be forever England. |
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| 15 Old Park Avenue, Battersea The house where William and Elizabeth lived for about the last 40 years of their lives. |
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| 1914 STAR The 1914 Star (colloquially known as the Mons Star) was a British Empire campaign medal for service in World War I. |
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| 1914-15 STAR The 1914–15 Star was a campaign medal of the British Empire, for service in World War I. |
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| 1914-19 VICTORY MEDAL The Victory Medal (also called the Inter-Allied Victory Medal) is a United Kingdom campaign medal. |
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| 38 Bensham Manor Road, Thornton Heath Where Percy Bird and his mother were living in 1891 with George Wareham. |
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| A postcard to Jessie Williams 1902 A postcard to Jessie in Little Petherick. |
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| A depiction of a public hanging A depiction of a public hanging at Newgate, London, circa 1797. Photograph: Hulton Archive/Getty Images |
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| A fire at the tannery 1912 In 1912 it was reported that there was a fire at the tannery where John McTear and his sons worked. |
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| A glorious sunset Wow ! |
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| A Poem for Rememberance |
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| A poem to Jessie The postcard sent to Jessie Harris from an admirer. |
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| A quiet evening An evening down by the lake |
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| Adam Rushworth Murgatroyd His wife inherited an undertakers business from her father and we speculate over the expression "Heavens to Murgatroyd". |
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| Alick Cole Benson (1879 - 1931) Alick Benson was born into an upper class family, went to St Paul's School and worked in a lunatic asylum before dying, aged just 51, on a golf course. |
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| All aboard ! The guests are piped on board the Rocky Mountaineer |
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| An execution at Newgate Prison |
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| Andy Murray wins Wimbledon The moment of victory |
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| Aron and Sarah Shaw (1808 to 1841 & 1807 to 1891 respectively) Were this couple the last of the Shaw gypsies ? |
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| Arrival in Regina We are in Saskatchewan ! |
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| Banff Springs Hotel The unusually designed hotel |
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| Baseball One of the exciting moments |
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| Battle of Broodseinde (1917) The most successful attack during the Battle of Passchendaele took place in Flanders, October 1917 and it was during this battle that Frank Musgrove died. |
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| Benson - Alick, Marjorie and Hugh as children A photo of William and Marion's surviving children, Alick, Marjorie and Hugh. |
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| Benson - Corporal Hugh Benson On the CWGC Memorial outside Berlin |
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| Benson - Hugh "Pops" Benson funeral Hugh "Pops" Benson military funeral at Stalag 1VB in June 1944. |
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| Benson - Marion Eliza Benson (nee Johnson) Marion Eliza Johnson who married William Cole Benson in 1874 |
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| Benson - Moth Garden of Remembrance, Underberg Memorial for World War II soldiers 1939-1945
BENSON H.
HAYES J.P.
McKENZIE E.C.
NICHOLSON J.
SOLOMON S.O.
TAYLOR G.K.
TRELEAVEN T.
ATWELL C.L.
MALCOLM G.
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| Benson - Private Hugh Benson ? Service record sheet provided by Pretoria of Private Hugh Benson ... not even Corporal ! |
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| Benson - Stalag IV B Stalag IV B where Hugh Benson was POW between about June 1942 and his death in July 1944 |
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| Benson - Survival at Stalag IV B An excellent book "Survival at Stalag IV B" by Tony Vercoe |
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| Benson - The Mount The Mount, Sparepenny Lane, Farningham, Kent |
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| Benson - The Mount in 2000 The Mount in about 2000 |
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| Benson - the official records from WW2 The official war records for Hugh "Pops" BENSON as supplied by Pretoria and his death certificate. |
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| Benson - Worplesdon Golf Course Worplesdon Golf Course, Woking |
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| BENSON LINE – setting the scene The Benson branch of my tree starts around 1750 in Passenham, Northamptonshire with the birth of Thomas Benson. In 1771 he probably married Mary Littleford before going on to have six children. |
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| Berlin 1939-45 War Cemetery The Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Berlin 1939-45 War Cemetery |
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| Bill Anderson One of the two photo's of my birth father which my birth mother had. |
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| Bill Anderson The only photo of my birth parents together. |
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| Bill Anderson - his childhood The story of William Anderson's unsettled early years where he began life as a bastard ...... and died a hero. |
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| Bill Anderson - the Great War Continuing his story and finding out about his service during WW1. |
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| Bill Anderson - the incredible story Having found him commemorated on the CWGC memorial at Alamein and his death certificate confirming him dying a POW in North Africa, it looked pretty well cut and dried. |
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| Bill Anderson - unbelievable but true How a memo from Churchill to Roosevelt about a bridge in Orvietto, connected to my grandfather who was being transported to Germany. |
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| Bill Anderson - with the original ending The photo of the Anderson Clan was taken in about 1930 and includes (centre) Bill Anderson. |
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| Bird - a birth is announced Young Florence Mary Bird (1880 - 1881) who died aged just four and a half months. |
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