This website also provides an insight into the research for my forthcoming book (read more). I have also created a database of names found in the newspapers, which can be found on www.militaryancestors.co.uk Pam Preedy, B.Ed, B.A, M.A
Month: April 2017
People
Portraits of soldiers printed in the Bromley District Times during the war years. [su_tabs][su_tab title=”People of 1914″][apsp-board-widget board_url=”http://www.pinterest.com/ppreedy/militaryancestors-1914″ custom_size=’custom’ image_width=”100″ board_height=”800″ board_width=”800″] [/su_tab] [su_tab title=”People of 1915″][apsp-board-widget board_url=”http://www.pinterest.com/ppreedy/militaryancestors-1915″ custom_size=’custom’ image_width=”100″ board_height=”800″ board_width=”800″] [/su_tab] [su_tabs]
Private L.W. Johnson
Taken from the Bromley & District Times, 25th December, 1917 (pg 3) I thought you might like to have a few lines from one of the Bromley boys, so have written a few lines about this country.
Newspaper Extracts
Whilst trawling through the newspapers of 1914-1919, Pam has come across many interesting articles which give us an insight into life both at the front line as well as back at home. Some examples are found here: [su_tabs] [su_tab title=”The Headlines”][su_posts taxonomy=”post_tag” tax_term=”28″ tax_operator=”0″ order=”desc”][/su_tab] [su_tab title=”Local News”][su_posts taxonomy=”post_tag” tax_term=”25″ tax_operator=”0″ order=”desc”][/su_tab] [su_tab title=”Entertainment”][su_posts taxonomy=”post_tag” tax_term=”29″ tax_operator=”0″ order=”desc”][/su_tab] [su_tab title=”Recipes & Home Advice”][su_posts taxonomy=”post_tag” tax_term=”24″ tax_operator=”0″ order=”desc”][/su_tab] [su_tab title=”Letters”][su_posts taxonomy=”post_tag” tax_term=”23″ tax_operator=”0″ order=”desc”][/su_tab] [su_tab title=”People”][su_posts taxonomy=”post_tag” tax_term=”26″ tax_operator=”0″ order=”desc”][/su_tab] [/su_tabs]
German Bullet Straight Through the Barrel
Chatty letters from Sergeant Sandle
Find Your Military Ancestors
Military Ancestors is a project created by Pam Preedy, which lists over 30,000 references to soldiers between 1914-1919, initially from the Bromley and District Times, in Kent. The data Pam has extracted from the newspapers include men who enlisted from 1914 to the beginning of 1916 when conscription was introduced; The names and addresses of some 1,500 men of the Bromley area who had signed up for the Derby Scheme, (a precursor to conscription and a failed attempt to prevent it), in 1915; Details of letters from the Western Front, India, S.…
War Seen Through the Eyes of Local People
Tuesday 7th November 2017 8:15pm A talk about the women who served in the VAD unit in Farnborough and about the men who went away to war, many of whom made the ultimate sacrifice as the Farnborough War Memorial testifies. St Giles Centre Farnborough Kent Contact: Liz Diamond (Parish Secretary) stgiles@parishoffice.eclipse.co.uk