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___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________   24th Nov 2018 - From the Features Box on the right hand side of the Home Page, select Slide Show to view a video

                     commemorating all of the men who gave their lives during World War 1.

 17th Sep 2022 - Read the latest addition to the Histories section - HMS EREBUS - Journal Found



Photos

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At least one living or private individual is linked to this item - Details withheld.
 
  3 Feb 2025
Herbert Leslie Taylor
Herbert Leslie Taylor
 
  19 Jan 2025
Bertie Taylor
Bertie Taylor
 
  19 Jan 2025
Constance Kempson and sisters Gladys Kempson, Sybil Kempson, Olga Kempson & Doris M Kempson.
Constance Kempson and sisters Gladys Kempson, Sybil Kempson, Olga Kempson & Doris M Kempson.
Pictured left to right. 
  18 Jan 2025
Flora Amy Foster
Flora Amy Foster
 
  14 Dec 2024
William Jefford
William Jefford
 
  14 Dec 2024
Gerald R Clifton
Gerald R Clifton
 
  29 Nov 2024
Penelope Mosley
Penelope Mosley
 
  28 Nov 2024
Henry Every Bt.
Henry Every Bt.
 
  28 Nov 2024
Dulce Sylvia Hopkinson
Dulce Sylvia Hopkinson
 
  27 Nov 2024
Lina Mariana Hopkinson
Lina Mariana Hopkinson
 
  27 Nov 2024
Mariana Dulce Siemens
Mariana Dulce Siemens
 
  27 Nov 2024
At least one living or private individual is linked to this item - Details withheld.
 
  27 Nov 2024
Alice Hopkinson
Alice Hopkinson
Plaque on sundial. 
  24 Nov 2024
Alice Hopkinson
Alice Hopkinson
Memorial Sundial in Newnham College, Cambridge. 
  24 Nov 2024

Documents

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Maria Walker
Maria Walker
Birth Certificate 
  2 Feb 2025
Edmund Charles Walker
Edmund Charles Walker
Birth Certificate 
  2 Feb 2025
George Wright Walker
George Wright Walker
Birth Certificate 
  29 Jan 2025
Rebecca Elizabeth Godfrey
Rebecca Elizabeth Godfrey
Death Certificate 
  28 Jan 2025
Rebecca Elizabeth Godfrey
Rebecca Elizabeth Godfrey
Birth Certificate 
  28 Jan 2025
Elizabeth Sarah Godfrey
Elizabeth Sarah Godfrey
Birth Certificate 
  28 Jan 2025
Elizabeth Middleton
Elizabeth Middleton
Death Certificate 
  28 Jan 2025
Alice Esther Godfrey
Alice Esther Godfrey
Birth Certificate 
  28 Jan 2025
Charles Godfrey
Charles Godfrey
Death Certificate 
  28 Jan 2025
John Jones
John Jones
Birth Certificate 
  6 Jan 2025
Elizabeth Jones
Elizabeth Jones
Birth Certificate 
  5 Jan 2025
Mary Ann Dubberley
Mary Ann Dubberley
Birth Certificate 
  5 Jan 2025
Emily Jones
Emily Jones
Birth Certificate 
  28 Dec 2024
Samuel Stannah and Emma Richardson
Samuel Stannah and Emma Richardson
Report in The Staffordshire Advertiser of their marriage July 15 1820. 
  17 Dec 2024
Samuel Stannah
Samuel Stannah
Article from the Morning Advertiser dated 03 Nov 1830. 
  17 Dec 2024

Headstones

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Percy Edward Walker
Percy Edward Walker
Headstone in St Mary Magdalene Churchyard, Sandringham, Norfolk. 
     2 Feb 2025
Florence Walker
Florence Walker
Headstone in St Mary Magdalene Churchyard, Sandringham, Norfolk. 
     2 Feb 2025
Edmund Charles Walker and his wife Eliza Flatman
Edmund Charles Walker and his wife Eliza Flatman
Headstone in the St Mary Magdalene Churchyard, Sandringham, Norfolk. 
     2 Feb 2025
Harry Frederick Le Marchant and his wife Marie Anne Behaegel
Harry Frederick Le Marchant and his wife Marie Anne Behaegel
Headstone in Chesham Bois Burial Ground, Buckinghamshire. 
     19 Jan 2025
Richard Novell and Harriett Robinson
Richard Novell and Harriett Robinson
Headstone in St Paul's Churchyard, Tongham, Guildford, Surrey 
     5 Dec 2024
Evelyn Oldenbourg
Evelyn Oldenbourg
Close-up of headstone in Cambridgeshire.  
     24 Nov 2024
Evelyn Oldenbourg
Evelyn Oldenbourg
Headstone in Ascension Parish Burial Ground, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire. 
     24 Nov 2024
John Hopkinson with his son John Gustav and his daughters Alice and Lina Evelyn.
John Hopkinson with his son John Gustav and his daughters Alice and Lina Evelyn.
Died together in a climbing accident on Petite Dent de Veisivi in the Val d'Herens, Switzerland  
     21 Nov 2024
Ernest Henry Brabon
Ernest Henry Brabon
Military Headstone 
     11 Nov 2024
Kennett Thomas Kemp and his wife Dorcas Mary Ann Reynolds
Kennett Thomas Kemp and his wife Dorcas Mary Ann Reynolds
Headstone 
St Margaret of Antioch Churchyard, Womenswold     3 Nov 2024
John Shepherd Fletcher and his wife Ellen Helen Chorley
John Shepherd Fletcher and his wife Ellen Helen Chorley
Headstone in Monton Unitarian Chapelyard, Eccles, Manchester 
     24 Oct 2024
Capt Maynard Percy Andrews M.A. Oxon
Capt Maynard Percy Andrews M.A. Oxon
Military Headstone 
     6 Oct 2024
Martin Hopkinson and his wife Christine Holliman Hartnoll
Martin Hopkinson and his wife Christine Holliman Hartnoll
Headstone in All Saints Churchyard, Spelsbury, Oxfordshire. Also remembers their son Richard Adrian Hopkinson - lost near Stavanger, Norway. 
     28 Sep 2024
James Hartnoll
James Hartnoll
Military Headstone 
     27 Sep 2024
James Brett & his wife Rebecca Mount Harris & their daughter Ada Mary Brett & their sons Frederick John Brett & Walter Henry Brett
James Brett & his wife Rebecca Mount Harris & their daughter Ada Mary Brett & their sons Frederick John Brett & Walter Henry Brett
Headstone close up. 
     3 Sep 2024

Histories

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Sgt. Daniel Bryant and HMS 'Erebus'
Sgt. Daniel Bryant and HMS 'Erebus'
Capt. Sir John Franklin's doomed expedition to locate the Northwest Passage 
  28 Oct 2023
Alice Rose Davies
Alice Rose Davies
St Michael & All Angels – Bosherston, Pembrokeshire
The Squint Window and the West Window
These were erected by a schoolmistress, Alice Evans Davies, who taught for many years in the old Bosherston School (now the Church Hall). The squint window depicts St Nicholas as the patron saint of sea-farers and is in memory of Petty Officer George Evans, her husband, who was killed in the battle of Jutland. The west window is a depiction of Jesus. The Resurrection and the Life was erected in memory of her father, James Walter Davies of Pembroke Dock.
 
  28 Oct 2023
POW in Milag Nord nr. Bremen
POW in Milag Nord nr. Bremen
The SS St Margaret (Master: David Sidney Davies) left Liverpool as part of convoy ON-165 at 0800 Tuesday 2nd February 1943. The vessel, sailing to South American ports, was carrying machinery, whisky, stout, textiles, military stores for the Falklands Islands and Yardley’s products,.
Among the passengers, on her way to join her husband in Buenos Aires, there was Octave Osten with her daughter Ruth Schaeffear and son in law Tony Schaeffear. They had managed to escape from Germany just before the war. Also on board was Matron Frances Gowans who was matron in charge at Port Stanley, Falkland Islands hospital. Having purchased her trousseau in England she was returning to be married. In addition, two Belgians and a Hungarian Jew were also travelling.
Overall, there were fifty persons aboard, the seven passengers and forty-three officers and crew.
At 13.55 19th Feb 1943 SS St Margaret was given orders to disperse from the convoy, and to continue her passage South to Pernambuco, Brazil for refuelling and subsequent delivery of supplies and passengers to their various destinations.
At 09.42 on Saturday 27th February the St Margaret was, by now, in the middle of the Sargasso Sea, in the central North Atlantic, when a huge explosion occurred. This was the result of a torpedo from a U-Boat hitting the engine room on the port side. On investigation three men were missing. George Brady, a 21 year old Fireman, Patrick Edward Loughran, a 24 year old Donkeyman and Capt. Davies’s very good friend, John Bradford Meadley the Chief Engineer.
Although severely damaged and stopped there was no immediate danger of the vessel sinking, so Captain Davies ordered everyone to abandon ship via the lifeboats.
This was eventually achieved, after some struggles with the lifeboats, and eventually all survivors were away from the St Margaret.
A little over an hour after being struck by the torpedo and as Capt. Davies had surmised, a further torpedo struck. 10 minutes later the St Margaret was gone.
The U-Boat that brought about the destruction of SS St Margaet was U-66, commanded by Lieutenant Captain Friedrich Markworth.
Markworth, knowing that the abandoned people in the lifeboats could not fight back, raised the U-Boat to the surface and approached the lifeboats. He than demanded that Captain Davies go aboard the U-Boat who was then taken as a Prisoner of War.
At 0815 on 2nd March, the other survivors were eventually rescued by USS Hobson and taken to Bermuda.
Meanwhile, Captain Davies had been transferred to another U-Boat. Around the 1st March 1943 he was transferred to U-460 commanded by Lieutenant Captain Ebe Schnoor, and taken to St. Nazaire. Four days later, on the 5th of March. Capt. Davies was sent to a merchant navy Prisoner of War camp, Milag Nord near Breman. This camp was liberated by the Welsh & Scots Guards at 10:30 pm on the 27th of April 1945 – they were a highly welcome sight to Davies, who was Welsh and spoke that language.


 
  22 Aug 2023
Fortitude
Fortitude
Brian Hambleton's WW2 story concerning his mother and a time bomb. 
  17 Oct 2020
At least one living or private individual is linked to this item - Details withheld.
 
  17 Oct 2020
Air Raid On Croydon Airport
Air Raid On Croydon Airport
62 Civilians killed 
  17 Oct 2020
A Trunk and Letters in a Canvas Cutlery Holder
A Trunk and Letters in a Canvas Cutlery Holder
Surviving letters written in 1854/5 by Colour Sergeant George Clarke and sent to his wife Mary Anne in Corfu and England, which sparked the research into a family history.  
  17 Oct 2020
Herbert Theodore Ghent and Eliza Strutton
Herbert Theodore Ghent and Eliza Strutton
Not cut out for the military. 
  17 Dec 2013

CWGC WW1

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Ernest Henry Brabon
Ernest Henry Brabon
CWGC Commemoration 
  11 Nov 2024
Capt Maynard Percy Andrews
Capt Maynard Percy Andrews
CWGC Commemoration 
  6 Oct 2024
James Hartnoll
James Hartnoll
CWGC Commemoration 
  27 Sep 2024
Ernest Ellender
Ernest Ellender
CWGC Commemoration 
  25 Jun 2024
Henry Ellender
Henry Ellender
CWGC Commemoration 
  24 Jun 2024
Albert Ellender
Albert Ellender
CWGC Commemoration 
  24 Jun 2024
James William Evans
James William Evans
CWGC Commemoration 
  13 Nov 2023
George Price Davies
George Price Davies
CWGC Commemoration 
  23 Oct 2023
John Thomas Davies
John Thomas Davies
CWGC Commemoration 
  23 Oct 2023
Jeffrey Victor Harvey
Jeffrey Victor Harvey
CWGC Commemoration 
  4 May 2022
James William Gerhard
James William Gerhard
CWGC Commeration 
  4 May 2022
Henry Frederick Peet
Henry Frederick Peet
CWGC Commemoration 
  28 Jan 2021
Charles William Stanley Irving
Charles William Stanley Irving
CWGC Commemoration 
  18 Nov 2020
Ernest James Ghent
Ernest James Ghent
CWGC Commemoration 
  18 Nov 2020
Thomas Alfred Good
Thomas Alfred Good
CWGC Commemoration 
  17 Nov 2020

CWGC WW2

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Richard Adrian Hopkinson
Richard Adrian Hopkinson
CWGC Commemoration 
  28 Sep 2024
Isaac Todd
Isaac Todd
CWGC Commemoration 
  11 Jun 2024
Walter Fox
Walter Fox
CWGC Commemoration 
  8 Jun 2024
John Peter Reed
John Peter Reed
CWGC Commemoration 
  31 Oct 2022
Albert John Mantle
Albert John Mantle
CWGC Commemoration 
  31 Oct 2022
Harold Ernest Mantle
Harold Ernest Mantle
CWGC Commemoration 
  7 Oct 2022
Roy Littlewood Couves
Roy Littlewood Couves
CWGC Commemoration 
  11 Sep 2021

Individuals

 ID   Last Name, Given Name(s)   Born/Christened   Location   Last Modified 
I15439 
PHILLIPS, Alfred 
b. 12 Mar 1829  Southwark, Surrey  11 Feb 2025
I15440 
PHILLIPS, Robert Baxter 
b. 15 Sep 1823  Southwark, Surrey  11 Feb 2025
I15436 
PHILLIPS, Thomas 
b. 1793  St George the Martyr, Southwark, London  11 Feb 2025
I15442 
PHILLIPS, Harriet 
b. 1834  Southwark, Surrey  11 Feb 2025
I15441 
PHILLIPS, Ellen 
b. 1831  Southwark, Surrey  11 Feb 2025
I15438 
PHILLIPS, Ann Bellamy 
b. 24 Mar 1822  Peckham, Surrey  11 Feb 2025
I15437 
STOTT, Ann Beresford 
b. 1796  Staple Inn, Holborn, London  11 Feb 2025
I15433 
PHILLIPS, William Stott 
b. 1818  Peckham, Surrey  9 Feb 2025
I15435 
PHILLIPS, Charles Henry 
b. 1851  Swansea, Glamorgan, Wales  9 Feb 2025
I15434 
PHILLIPS, William Augustus Stott 
b. 1850  Swansea, Glamorgan, Wales  9 Feb 2025
I9927 
STANNAH, Emily 
b. 11 Mar 1827  Westminster, London  9 Feb 2025
I3842 
MANTLE, Kim Laurence 
b. 9 Dec 1942  Kensington, London  8 Feb 2025
I5465 
MANTLE, Karen 
   8 Feb 2025
I5457 
MANTLE, Paula 
   8 Feb 2025
I15424 
FOSTER, Thomas Sempers 
b. 1847  Broughton, Lincolnshire  5 Feb 2025

Families
               
 ID   Father ID   Father's Name   Mother ID   Mother's Name   Married   Last Modified 
 F3589 
 I15436  Thomas PHILLIPS  I15437  Ann Beresford STOTT  29 Mar 1817  11 Feb 2025
 F3588 
 I15433  William Stott PHILLIPS  I9927  Emily STANNAH  3 Jan 1850  9 Feb 2025
 F3587 
 I15424  Thomas Sempers FOSTER  I15397  Mary Ann WALKER  1866  3 Feb 2025
 F3586 
 I15415  Edmund Charles WALKER  I15420  Eliza FLATMAN  1885  2 Feb 2025
 F3579 
 I15393  George WALKER  I15394  Charlotte WRIGHT  1842  2 Feb 2025
 F3585 
 I15412  Unknown HUGGINS  I15413  Unknown KING    31 Jan 2025
 F3584 
 I15409  Frederick William HUGGINS  I15410  Madeline Doris MILLINGTON  1917  31 Jan 2025
 F3583 
 I15409  Frederick William HUGGINS  I15405  Amy Ethel STENNING  1929  31 Jan 2025
 F3575 
 I15374  Alfred Ernest STENNING  I15375  Elizabeth FULLER  5 Apr 1893  30 Jan 2025
 F3582 
 I15404  Isiah FULLER        30 Jan 2025
 F3581 
 I15403  Charles STENNING        30 Jan 2025
 F3580 
 I15395  William WRIGHT  I15396  Mary UNKNOWN    28 Jan 2025
 F3578 
 I15390  Peter TAYLOR  I15391  Elizabeth UNKNOWN    26 Jan 2025
 F3576 
 I15376  John James KNIGHT  I15366  Caroline Sarah GODFREY  9 Apr 1871  25 Jan 2025
 F3574 
 I15371  George Edmund WALKER  I15372  Alice Rosaline STENNING  1919  25 Jan 2025