Genealogy Chat

Remembering my Great Uncles Albert Edward Warrey age 21 1914 Stoker HMS Monmouth and his Brother Thomas Alfred Warrey age 24 1916 Stoker HMS Indefatigable RIP

my mum Margery Lee served in the ATS during the war my dad Edward Henry Scott was in India during the war and my uncle Ernest William Lee was at Dunkirk and wounded all gone now rest in peace

I'd like to remember my Grandfather Arthur Richard Horne who gave the ultimate sacrifice in WWI leaving a widow with a 4year old (my mother) and a baby of a few months old. We will never forget you Grandad. Wendy

In Memory of My Great Uncle Pte Frederick Harold Wightman MM of the 6th Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment Died 23 April 1917 aged 22 yrs in Arrass He left his son, 1yr old Harold, whose mother had already died shortly after his birth R I P

to all the poor young boys called cowards and executed, we all know you were to young to see what you did, and didn't deserve the treatment you got, you were hero's for signing up for war in the beginning GOD BLESS ...moe

A Great Uncle Douglas Wolfe died in the Somme 1917 buried in France My father Maurice Michael Francombe who survived Sicily,North Africa and Palestine in WW2 and just after - succumbed to Cancer in 1990. And all who have fought and died around the world in ANY conflict. Hilary

Husbands cousin x1 Frederick Platt Royal Welsh Fusiliers died and buried in Iraq 16/2/1917 age 17 and his brother John who is on the war memorial but not yet traced. Grans brother Willie Kisby KIngs Royal Rifle Corps died of wounds in France 3/5/1917 age 29 buried Etaples cemetary. Aunts husband [she is still alive] died in England within 24 hours of returning home very ill after nearly 5 years abroad with the army. Although married for 5 years they only spent 8 weeks together due to the 2nd World War.

Remembering with great respect my Uncle who i never met and all other P O W,s who died that day. Serjeant Cedric Clarkson 9th Coast Regiment Royal Artillery Cedric died along with 1159 other P O W,s who perished when the ship they were being transported on the RAKUYO MARU was torpedoed on 12th September 1944

hello i would like us to remember my grandmothers half brother who we all knew nothing about till we started tracing the family tree EDWARD NUGENT born 1889 in LEIGH LANCASHIRE at the age of 12 he was in the workhouse and then joined the ROYAL DUBLIN FUSILIERS as a drummer boy, he fought in gallipoli and over in beligium where he died 28TH SEPTEMBER 1918 just two months before the end of the war. He is buried at HOOGE CEMETERY IN BELGIUM GODBLESS HIS SOUL I just wished our family had known about him Love LInda x