Remembering C.S.M. Thomas Albert Narraway, M.M.
Being contacted by the relative of a soldier I’ve written about is one of the most gratifying aspects of maintaining my blog. This is exactly what happened as a result of […]
Staff Sergeant “Jack” from the 50th Battalion CEF
I have a new mystery to unravel and it involves a Staff Sergeant from the 50th Battalion CEF. Identifying”Jack” should have been relatively straight-forward but this has proven not to […]
Lt. William Lea Cook & Lt.-Col. Charles Benson Worsnop
Photo: City of Vancouver Archives, Ref: AM54-S4-: VLP 76.9 The St. Helens Roll of Honour website have created a tribute page to St. Helens born Lieutenant William Lea Cook. Cook died […]
Lt. William Lea Cook (1891-1917)
William Lea Cook was born in St. Helen’s, Lancashire in 1892, the fifth child of Robert Cook and Selina Lea’s seven children. William’s father died in 1908 and early the […]
Doing Our Bit 