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Desert Island Discs
Desert Island Discs
Desert Island Discs is a radio programme first aired on the BBC Forces Programme on 29 January 1942. Each week a guest, called a 'castaway' is asked to choose recordings, a book and a luxury item to take with them if they were cast away on a desert Island. This community seeks to identify those 'castaways' who served during the First World War.
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Born 1894
Died 1973
British Army SE/418 Private Army Veterinary Corps
British Army SE/418 Acting Serjeant Royal Air Force
British Army Second Lieutenant Royal Air Force
More about Alan John Cobham -
Born 1897
Died 1967
Air Force (RAF/RFC)
More about Derek Ivor Breashur Mcculloch -
Born 1896
Died 1975
British Army Probationary Second Lieutenant East Surrey Regiment
British Army Second Lieutenant East Surrey Regiment 9th (Service) Battalion
British Army Temporary Lieutenant East Surrey Regiment 9th (Service) Battalion
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More about Robert Cedric Sherriff -
Born 1879
Died 1961
British Army 2546 Rifleman London Regiment
More about Ernest Frederic Graham Thesiger -
Born 1890
Died 1982
British Army Private Rifle Bridgae
British Army Probationary Second Lieutenant Connaught Rangers
British Army Second Lieutenant Connaught Rangers
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More about Stanley Augustus Holloway -
Born 1895
Died 1972
British Army 472026 Rifleman London Regiment 9th Battalion
British Army 4990 Rifleman London Regiment 2/12 Battalion
More about Charles Robert William Howes -
Born 1876
Died 1952
British Army Second Lieutenant Officers Training Corps Junior Division
British Army Second Lieutenant Unattached List Territorial Force
British Army Temporary Captain Machine Gun Corps
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More about John Hay Beith -
Born 1900
Died 1978
Other Empire Force Orderly British Red Cross Society and Order of Saint John of Jerusalem
British Army 30342 Lance-Corporal Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
More about Victor Marlborough Silvester -
Born 1896
Died 1968
British Army 1126 Driver Royal Field Artillery Divisional Ammunition Column
British Army 1126 Driver Royal Field Artillery 311st Brigade
British Army 1126 Driver Royal Field Artillery 8th South Midland Brigade
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More about Reuben Weintrop -
Born 1897
Died 1966
British Army Second Lieutenant Royal Garrison Artillery
British Army Lieutenant Royal Field Artillery
British Army Lieutenant Royal Dragoons
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More about Alfred Daniel Wintle -
Born 1893
Died 1966
Royal Navy Lieutenant
Royal Navy Lieutenant HMS Southampton
Royal Navy Cadet
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More about William Stephen Richard King-Hall -