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First-person experiences of WW1, taken from letters, diaries, personal albums, oral history, memoir, poetry, and more.
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Born 1899
Died 1987
Canadian Expeditionary Force 160064
Canadian Expeditionary Force 160064 Sergeant 82nd reserve battalion
Canadian Expeditionary Force 160064 Lieutenant Royal Canadian Medical Services 18 Field Ambulance
More about W. James Thompson -
Born 1880
Died 1957
Royal Navy Commander
Royal Navy Lieutenant
Royal Navy Admiral
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More about Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans -
Born 1886
British Army VAD Nurse Voluntary Aid Detachment/British Red Cross
More about Ruth Barnabine Durst Later Gibson -
Born 1899
Died 1961
Royal Navy Cadet RN College Osborne
Royal Navy Sub-Lieutenant HMS GOLIATH, HMS COLOSSUS
More about Wolstan Beaumont Charles Weld Forester -
Born 1896
Died 1981
Other Empire Force British Red Cross Society and Order of Saint John of Jerusalem
More about Mairi Lambert Gooden-Chisholm -
Born 1884
Died 1960
British Army Nursing Sister British Red Cross Society/Australian Volunteer Hospital
British Army Staff Nurse Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve
More about Lily Hilda Saw -
Born 1897
Died 1917
Canadian Expeditionary Force 460445
Canadian Expeditionary Force 460445 Private Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment)
More about George William Battershill -
Born 1895
Canadian Expeditionary Force 27088
More about Horace Hozner Mcarthur -
Born 1887
Died 1917
British Army 16138 Private Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
British Army 16138 Lance Corporal Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers 1st Battalion
More about Francis Edward Ledwidge -
Born 1882
Died 1916
Canadian Expeditionary Force 44002
More about Joseph Matthew Agar -
Born 1889
Died 1957
British Army 193 Driver First Aid Nursing Yeomanry Corps
More about Ruby Edith Ayre -
Born 1879
Died 1978
British Army Sister British Red Cross Society
Other Empire Force Matron Scottish Women's Hospitals [British Committee, French Red Cross] America Unit ( Ostrovo Unit - Macedonia & Serbia)
More about Anna Violetta Thurstan -
Born 1895
Died 1918
Royal Navy 17836 Royal Marine Light Infantry: Chatham Division
Royal Navy CH/17836 Private Royal Marine Brigade - Chatham Battalion
Royal Navy CH/17836 Private RMLI HMS Lowestoft
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More about Stanley James -
Born 1877
British Army 23675 Private Middlesex Regiment
British Army 38372 Private Lancashire Fusiliers
Air Force (RAF/RFC) 127249 Private 1st Class Royal Air Force
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More about Herbert Jollyman -
Born 1881
Died 1930
British Army Trained Nurse American Ambulance Hospital in Paris Neuilly Sur Seine
Other Empire Force Nursing Sister French Red Cross
Other Empire Force Nursing Sister British Field Hospital Belgium
More about Madelon Hancock -
Born 1873
Other Empire Force Painter War Amputations of Canada
More about Mary Riter Hamilton -
Born 1891
Died 1984
Canadian Expeditionary Force 901552 193rd Battalion
More about William Richard Bird -
Born 1886
Died 1919
Other Empire Force Nurse Voluntary Aid Detachment Le Treport
Other Empire Force Nurse Voluntary Aid Detachment Wimereux
Other Empire Force Nurse Voluntary Aid Detachment Etaples
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More about Dorothea Mary Lynette Crewdson -
Born 1890
Died 1918
Other Empire Force 4th Engineer Officer Mercantile Marine (Merchant Navy)
Other Empire Force 4th Engineer Officer Mercantile Marine SS Ausonia
More about Lawrence Curtis -
Born 1868
Died 1926
Royal Navy Naval Intelligence, Cairo
Other Empire Force British Red Cross Society
Indian Army Major Indian Expeditionary Force in Iraq Political Office
More about Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell