Name: Arthur ‘Art’ Pringle Service: Merchant Navy (Pre-war), Royal Naval Reserve (RNR) (Wartime) Rank: Seaman (RNR) Home Port: Grimsby, Lincolnshire, England Born: 1888 Born into…
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Nurse Eleanor Vance
Name: Eleanor Vance Service: Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve (QAIMNSR) Rank: Staff Nurse Enlistment Date: October 1915 Place of Birth: London, England, 1890…
Continue Reading....James Clarke of the 1st Battalion, Lancashire Fusilier in The Great War
Name: James Clarke Regiment: 1st Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers (part of the 29th Division) Service Number: 12476 Enlistment Date: September 1914 Place of Birth: Manchester, England,…
Continue Reading....Kiprono arap Chepkwony of the King’s African Rifles
The sun, a relentless eye in the vast, pale sky, beat down on us as we marched. It was a heat that burrowed into your…
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