Originally posted on Promises of Home:
William Blay (Barnardo photo) William Blay, my great-great uncle, was a Home Child. William’s father had died when he was a baby and his mother, who had sold all her furniture to pay the rent, could no longer afford to keep him. In September of…
Valentine Hitchcock Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 5 | Part 6 On arrival in England the 67th Battalion (The Western Scots) were stationed at Camp Borden in Hampshire where on May 15th they learned […]
Earlier today Library and Archives Canada announced that they will digitize the service records of all 640,000 members of the Canadian Expeditionary Force. These digital copies will be available online free of charge. The project begins in March when servicemen whose surnames begin with ‘A’ through ‘D’ are digitized. Those […]
The recent passing of my uncle has led to the discovery of a 1920’s photograph album that once belonged to my grandmother, Jean Paulin. Much to my surprise it contained […]
Originally posted on Operation War Diary:
We have gathered together the statistics for the first week of Operation War Diary – Tues 14th Jan – Mon 20 Jan. Citizen Historians…
Valentine Hitchcock Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 Note: Valentine’s service file contains no specific details on his early days with the 67th Battalion and so in Part 3 […]
This 4″ x 3″ Carte Postale is a puzzler but one that I suspect someone out there will be able to solve. Written on the front are the words “Sole […]
Vol. 1 No. 9 of “Bristol & the War”, the third issue which I’ve scanned and uploaded to Flickr, features a great cover photo of a snowman in Essex named […]
On December 11th I published a blog article describing a Red Cross flag that belonged to the 3rd Field Ambulance of the Australian Imperial Force. New information has come to […]
Valentine Hitchcock Part 1 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 Valentine Hitchcock’s military training began in the 1890’s when he joined the 5th Regiment Canadian Garrison Artillery in Victoria, BC. He had […]
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