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Tag Archives: First World War
Why we fight
In the anger, outrage and recrimination over the plans to curtail the annual Remembrance Sunday parade in Walsall Wood which came to light last week, it’s easy to lose sight of what Remembrance is about.
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Posted in Brownhills stuff, Churches, Clayhanger stuff, Environment, Events, Followups, Interesting photos, It makes me mad!, Local History, Local media, Local politics, News, Shared media, Shared memories, Social Media, Walsall community, Walsall Council, Walsall Wood stuff
Tagged 1st World War, Brownhills local history, Details, fallen, First World War, Great War, Lichfield, list, Local History, loss, memorial, Remembrance, Roll of Honour, Royal British Legion, Spreadsheet, Sunday, Walsall Wood, war, war memorial, WW 1
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Local history events this week
Kate Cardigan Gomez from the wonderful Lichfield Lore is really going some with her local history group, Lichfield Discovered – in the next week they have two events, one of which is tonight, and on an appropriate Great War theme, with author Joss Musgrave Knibb.
Posted in Environment, Events, Followups, Fun stuff to see and do, Interesting photos, Just plain daft, Local Blogs, Local History, Local media, News, Reader enquiries, Shared media, Shared memories, Social Media, Spotted whilst browsing the web
Tagged 10th November, 15th December, 2014, Archeology, Book, Brewood, cells, Channock Chase, Discovered, event, Events, Facebook, First Lines, First World War, Gaol, Great War, Guildhall, Hoard, Joss Musgrove Knibb, Kate Gomez, Library, Lichfield, local blogs, Local History, Lore, Messines, Model, New Photos, November 11th, Panoramio, Peter Pedro Cutler, poety, prison, Saturday, Staffordshire, Stephen Dean, Talk, Things to do, Twitter, WW1
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Live and Let Live
Since it’s Remembrance Sunday, I thought I’d publish this piece today, written by David Evans – as many readers will know, David has a particular and enduring interest in the Great War, and has worked hard to record the effects of it locally – from the stories of men who fought, like Cecil Arthur Burton and David’s Great Uncle, Levi Cooper, to more esoteric aspects like the Messiness model at Brocton on Cannock Chase.
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Posted in Cannock Chase, Environment, Events, Followups, Interesting photos, Local History, Local media, News, Reader enquiries, Shared media, Shared memories, Walsall Wood stuff
Tagged 2014, Brownhills local history, David Evans, Events, First World War, football, Footy, Great War, Lichfield, Local History, Messines, New Photos, Remembrance, Staffordshire, Walsall Wood, western front, World War 1, WW 1
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Military speaker to tell story of the South Staffords in the Great War
This is just a quick note to flag up what looks to be an interesting, engaging and relevant talk by an excellent speaker coming up at Walsall Local History Centre next Monday evening, when Major Ted Green (Retired) will present an illustrated talk entitled ‘The South Staffords in World War 1’.
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Tagged 2014, 2nd June, Black Country, First World War, Great War, history, lecture, Lichfield, Local History, Major Ted Green, Monday, New Photos, oral history, Regiment, South Staffs, Staffords, Staffordshire, story, Talk, Walsall, Walsall Council, Walsall Local History Centre, WW1
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The Fallen of Walsall Wood: a project
Since it’s Remembrance weekend, I thought I’d share with you a project that top reader and contributor David Evans has been working on. David has gone through the roll of honour for the First World War on the Walsall Wood memorial, and listed the entries, and what he can find out about them, in spreadsheet format.
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Tagged 1st World War, Brownhills local history, Details, fallen, First World War, Great War, list, Local History, loss, memorial, Remembrance, Roll of Honour, Royal British Legion, Spreadsheet, Sunday, Walsall Wood, war, war memorial, WW 1
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