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The story of the 1st Battalion The Somerset Light Infantry in WW1, using the War Diary. Also other items on Somerset in WW1. Contributions welcome & credited
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1899, 2nd Bn Somerset Light Infantry. Corunna Barracks. Queen's Avenue and HQ Building to the right, #Aldershot
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Well I finally managed to unlock the account. I hope everyone is well, a lovely image of Boer War era SLI below with a familiar name to anyone who followed the story of the Battalion from 1914-1916
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@thesomersets @enquireinside @thesomme19240 @ypreswoman @SomersetLInf Capt Charles Prowse, 1903 - middle row, right of centre, Adjt of his Battalion on return from the Boer #SomersetLightInfantry
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100 years after first memorial service, South Western Railway worker pays respect to his great-grandfather railtechnologymagazine.com/Rail-News/100-… via @RTMNews
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The Somersets and the Christmas Truce:
thesomersets.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-so…
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Panel on one of the new GWR trains remembering staff who were casualties in WW1, including Albert Moger 8th Somerset Light Infantry
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13.11.18 Battalion was 2nd in the Brigade Tug-of-War competition. Played the Rifle Brigade at football and won 1-0 (The War Diary continues until mid 1919)
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Arthur Cook ended his diary on 11th November 1918 - during his recovery he was surprised to meet Capt Osborne who he had helped rescue at Preseau - Osborne's last words to him had been "I'm finished" & Cook had been informed he had died of wounds
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Weston-super-Mare’s #PagesoftheSea portrait shows John Hardyman of Somerset Light Infantry who died aged 23. #Armistice100
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A slide show of Capt Bennett's photos via The Mail - shows Battalion HQ - Somerset House in Ploegsteert Wood:
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6…
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If you are following because you had a relative who served with the Battalion 1914-15 in Ploegsteert have a look at this article: Capt Bennett was one of the few senior officers from this time to survive the war via @MetroUK
metro.co.uk/2018/11/09/fam…
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Arthur Cook " The electrifying news came that the Germans have asked for an armistice! I don't know whether to be pleased or otherwise. I have been waiting for a nice "Blighty" wound for years. What I would not give to be with my Battalion now!"
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11.11.18 Brigade group moved from Haspres to Curgies. Cold Day
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Someone has given Bath old boy Harry Patch a poppy ahead of Remembrance Day. Pic by Matt Brooks beside the Devonshire tunnel on the Two Tunnels #ArmisticeDay100
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I'm proud to announce that 'No News of Fred' is on display @WellsCathedral1 for the Armistice Centenary. The exhibition tells of the sacrifice made by one 19-year-old Somerset Light Infantryman (my great-uncle) in 'the war to end all wars' #WW1 #Armistice100 @penswordbooks
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Arthur Cook "Arrived Southampton at 6.30 am and at 2.15 pm on my way to York Military Hospital. Got there about 10.30 pm
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10.11.18 Fine day, Church Parade in the village school (Haspres) as 10am. Played football against Hants Regt in Brigade Competition - Lost 2-0
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We’ll hear from Arthur Cook’s diary on a special @bbcsomerset programme to mark the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War.
Join me, live at the Bishop’s Palace in Wells from 9am.
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5.11.18 Arthur Cook, wounded on 2nd November, reaches a US hospital at Rouen “I was pretty much hardened to war, but yesterday’s ward was just as much as my seasoned stomach could stand. Yet these young American nurses with their nasal drawl, stood up to it”
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