21 September 1918 Private Harold Symes (20003) 5 Bn Royal Berkshire Regiment was killed in action and is commemorated on the Vis-En-Artois Memorial.

Harold is also remembered inside Stockport War Memorial #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters

21 September 1916 Private Sydney Moore (3782) 6 Bn Cheshire Regiment was killed in action and buried in Knightsbridge Cemetery.

Sydney is remembered inside Stockport War Memorial #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters

21 September 1916 Private Joseph Meadows (4348) 10 Bn Cheshire Regiment was killed in action and was buried in Knightsbridge Cemetery.

Joseph is also remembered inside Stockport War Memorial #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters

Tea was a lifeline to the soldiers. It helped keep warm, made the water taste better (often carried in reused petrol tins), and kept a certain sense of normalcy in the trenches.

#WW1 #WarHistory #Tea

Beginning another tour on behalf of @sophie1wwtours.bsky.social, following in the footsteps of a 2nd Bedfordshire man, who only survived 40 days on the Western Front in 1918.

On our way down, today, we stopped off at one of my very favourite sites: Vimy Ridge.

#Canada #SGWT #FWW #SGWT #WW1

1/2: This morning, two sets of guests depart with their expert private guide, in search of what happened to their relatives in #WW1.

20 September 1916

Francis Ledwidge completes the poem ‘To A Sparrow’

But for all your faults I love you
For you linger with us still,
Though the wintry winds reprove you
And the snow is on the hill.

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20 September 1916

Edward Tennant writes to his mother ‘To-night we go to the last trenches we were in, and to-morrow we go over the top. . . I have never been prouder of anything, except your love for me, that I am of being a Grenadier.’

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20 September 1915

Robert Graves writes to his family ‘This is just in case I get killed. You are a dear lot of people & I send you my very best love [...] If my verses are ever published I want the copyright held jointly between Claree Ros & Peter’

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3. VAD Nurse Gladys Eleanor Runton is buried at Northern Cemetery, Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire. #WW1 #VAD

2. Gladys joined the Voluntary Aid Detachment Nurse (VAD). Unit Q.A.I.M.N.S. Company WO 329.
On 25th August 1916 Service VAD H.M.H.S “Warilda”. On 15th April 1917 she was in France and Belgium.
Gladys died while on service of Influenza and Pneumonia on 17th October 1918 aged 29. #VAD #WW1

1. Women of the Empire: We remember Galdys Eleanor Runton.
Gladys Eleanor Runton was born in 1888, Sculcoates, Yorkshire. She was the daughter of Frederick Runton and Louisa Marion Storry. #WW1

I haven’t done my #MuseumOfFamilyStuff thing for a while, so here is a photo popped up whilst I was looking for something else.
Compass belonged to my Grandad,
Royal Engineers #WW1 #FWW #GreatWar

20 September 1917

Battle of the Menin Road Ridge.

Men of the 13th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry, in trenches just prior to their attack towards Veldhoek.

📸 IWMQ5966

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20 September 1917 Sergeant David Orr (15228) 9 Bn Cheshire Regiment was killed in action and buried in Hooge Crater Cemetery

David is also remembered inside Stockport War Memorial #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters

20 September 1917 Private Samuel Hall (49723) 9 Bn Cheshire Regiment died of wounds and was buried in Locre Hospice Cemetery.

Samuel is also remembered inside Stockport War Memorial #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters

20 September 1917 Private Leonard Truran (19315) 1/4 Bn King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment) was killed in action and has no known grave but is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial.

Leonard is also remembered on the Gatley War Memorial #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters