Lives of the First World War
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The Loved and Were Loved
The Loved and Were Loved
A collection of stories that attempts to show the various ways war impacted romantic relationships. The name for the community comes from John McCrae's poem, In Flanders Fields, but the grouping here includes unions broken by the war as well as those that lasted well beyond it.
Created by: , Kristen1288
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British Army 1706 Lance Corporal Ceylon Planters Rifle Corps
British Army Lieutenant Royal Field Artillery
British Army Acting Captain Royal Field Artillery
More about Hugh Hampden Massy -
Born 1887
Canadian Expeditionary Force Nursing Sister Canadian Army Medical Corps
More about Dorothy Frier Later Cusler -
Born 1880
Died 1968
Canadian Expeditionary Force Captain Canadian Army Medical Corps
Canadian Expeditionary Force 372-4-142 Acting Major Canadian Army Medical Corps
More about Ernest Fulton Risdon -
Born 1885
Died 1933
Australian Imperial Force 1873
More about Ernest Alfred Lawrence -
Born 1899
Died 1991
Other Empire Force Munitions Worker Woolwich Arsenal
More about Lily Maud Truphet -
Born 1891
Died 1957
Other Empire Force Voluntary Aid Detachment St. John's Ambulance Brigade Hospital
More about Bessie Brereton Trimble, Later Brunwin -
Born 1889
Died 1972
Other Empire Force Sister French Red Cross
More about Madelaine Frances Jaffray Later Morrison -
Born 1897
British Army General Headquarters Intelligence France
More about Sylvia Margaret Risdon -
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Born 1893
Died 1973
British Army Personel Mission Anglaise Paris
More about May Wedderburn Cannan -
Born 1892
British Army 453 Private Army Service Corps
British Army 103852 Driver Machine Gun Corps
More about George Henry Nellist -
Born 1879
Died 1934
British Army Captain Royal Army Medical Corps Florence Fiennes Hospital Dunkirk
British Army Captain Royal Army Medical Corps St. Johns Ambulance Brigade Hospital
More about Alan Deed Brunwin -
British Army 419 Private Middlesex Regiment
British Army 43319 Private Bedfordshire Regiment
More about Frederick George Meade -
Born 1893
Died 1970
Other Empire Force V.A.D. Voluntary Aid Detachment
More about Vera Mary Brittain -
Born 1892
Died 1915
Canadian Expeditionary Force Lieutenant Canadian Field Artillery
More about Alexis Hannum Helmer -
Born 1889
Died 1916
British Army Captain Royal Scots 16th Battalion
More about Lionel George Coles -
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Born 1888
Died 1918
Other Empire Force Voluntary Aid Detachment Voluntary Aid Detachment
More about Gertrude Luce Keyworth -
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Born 1890
Died 1919
British Army Captain /Acting Major Attached Royal Field Artillery
British Army Major Royal Field Artillery
More about Bevil Brian Quiller-Couch