March 1, 2016
Harry Cogswell was born in Box, Wiltshire, the second of four children. He suffered from poor health throughout his childhood, but he loved singing and was a chorister at his local church.
March 1, 2016
Australian Sapper Carl Eliasson enlisted on the 20th June 1916. His enlistment papers tell us hat he was a telegraphist from Fremantle Australia
March 1, 2016
George Pine was a Bristol boy who fought with the Gloucesters from 1915 to 1918. He left for France in March 1915 aged 23.
January 31, 2016
Arthur Wilson, a railway porter, was born in Wellington, New Zealand. He enlisted in The New Zealand Expeditionary Force on the 11th August 1914, aged 20.
January 31, 2016
Carleton Blakeney was a school teacher born in New Brunswick, Western Canada, in 1895. He enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force at the end of 1915.
January 27, 2016
Fabian Sperry enlisted in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force on the 12th August 1914, just seven days after war was declared.
January 27, 2016
Ernest Salmon, aged 38, enlisted on the 29th December 1915 in New South Wales, Australia.
January 27, 2016
Royal Edward Penna’s family were from Cornwall. His grandfather emigrated to Australia in about 1860. Penna was a shoesmith by trade, and he joined The Australian Imperial Force (AIF) on 5th August 1915, at the age of 21.
January 15, 2016
