pferguson | November 11, 2021

Private George Edwin Ellison L/12643 5th (Royal Irish) Lancers Son of James W. and Mary Ellison, George Ellison was born in York and raised in Leeds where today a memorial to him has been placed at Leeds Railway Station. The commemorative plaque, normally blue in colour, is olive green representing the British soldier uniform of […]

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Tags: 11 November 1918, 309 Fatalities, 46th Canadian Infantry Battalion, 5th (Royal Irish) Lancers, 994, Armistice, Chatham Naval Memorial, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Frederick Thomas Ellison, George Edwin Ellison, George Lawrence Prince, H.M. Trawler Towhee, John Parr, King George V, Known unto God, Middlesex Regiment, Silent Witnesses, St. Symphorien Military Cemetery, The King's Pilgrimage

pferguson | November 10, 2021

Private Harry Wilkinson 8850 2nd Lancashire Fusiliers Eternal Rest Give to Him O Lord and Let Perpetual Light Shine Upon Him…Harry Wilkinson…whose body was found in a Flanders field in 2000. Previously commemorated on the Ploegsteert Memorial, Harry now rests at Prowse Point Military Cemetery, Belgium, grave 1.A.7. along with 242 burials of his comrades. […]

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Tags: 10 November 1914, 2nd Lancashire Fusiliers, Chaplain Ray Jones, Charles Bertie Prowse, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Family, Harry Wilkinson, Identity Discs, Ploegsteert War Memorial, Prowse Point Military Cemetery, Re-Burial, Richard Lancaster, St. George's Memorial Chapel (Ypres), Warneton

pferguson | November 9, 2021

Private Thomas Cordner 11254 Royal Irish Fusiliers We return to Strand Military Cemetery this day with the story of Thomas Cordner, a soldier who lost his life in attempting to save the life of his friend, Private William Hanvey. This is the tale of three Portadown men and sister Thomas’ sister Christina. Private Cordner’s story appears […]

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Tags: 1st Battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers, 9 November 1914, Christina Cordner, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Edward Burns, Family, Mementos, Pilgrimage, Portadown, Portadown (Ireland), Royal Irish Fusiliers, Seagoe Parish, Soldier Comforts, Soldier Helpers, Strand Military Cemetery, Thomas Cordner, William Hanvey

pferguson | November 8, 2021

2nd Lieutenant Kenneth Theodor Dunbar Wilcox 8th Battalion The Queen’s (Royal West Surrey Regiment) These past days of commemoration bring us another story of a son whose remembrance is recorded elsewhere and can be best accessed by reading of him at Westminster School and The First World War. Still there is a reminder of this […]

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Tags: 8 November 1915, 8th Battalion The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment), Chaplain to the Forces, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Kenneth Theodore Dunbar Wilcox, Lankhof Chateau, Lankhof Farm, Reninghelst Churchyard Extension, Reninghelst New Military Cemetery, Reverend Alfred G. Wilcox, Westminster School

pferguson | November 7, 2021

Captain Eric John Western Dolphin 1st Battalion Hampshire Regiment The 1st Battalion Hampshire Regiment landed at Le Havre, France 23 August 1914 and fought as reinforcements at the Battles of Le Cateau (26 August 1914) and later at the Battle of the Marne (6 -1 2 September 1914), the Battle of the Aisne (13 – […]

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Tags: 1st Battalion Hampshire Regiment, 7 November 1914, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Eric John Western Dolphin, Herbert Beaumont Boggs, Ploegsteert Churchayard, Thomas Sutton