Great War lives : a guide for family historians / Paul Reed.

Title :

Great War lives : a guide for family historians

Author:

Reed, Paul (Historian)

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Language:

English

ISBN - ISSN:

9781848843240

1848843240

Physical Description:

viii, 215 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 22 cm.

General Note:

At head of cover title: How your ancestors lived.

"How our ancestors lived"--t.p.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Boy Who Came Home / Lieutenant Vernon James Austin, Royal Field Artillery Austin, Vernon James, Lieutenant 11 -- Chapter 2 Where are the Boys of the Village Tonight? / Roy Fazan Fazan, Roy, Wadhurst Tragedy Tragedy, Wadhurst 27 -- Chapter 3 Britain's Sea Soldiers at Gallipoli / Frederick James Stone Stone, Frederick James 43 -- Chapter 4 All Quiet on the Western Front - A Greek Printer in the Trenches / Alexis Ectos Maffuniades Maffuniades, Alexis Ectos 61 -- Chapter 5 Beneath the Western Front - A Tunneller in France, William Hackett VC, Royal Engineers 79 -- Chapter 6 Died of Wounds at the Base - The Short War of Rifleman Francis Davies 97 -- Chapter 7 A Vicar's Son on Three Fronts - William Coburn Cowper's Long Journey from France to Palestine 115 -- Chapter 8 Died in Hell ... They Called it Passchendaele - Henry Joseph Penn, a Royal Marine in France and Flanders 135 -- Chapter 9 A Great War Guinea Pig / Frank Plumb Plumb, Frank, Suffolk Regiment Regiment, Suffolk 147 -- Chapter 10 From Officer to Private - The Strange Case / Ernest Hopcraft Hopcraft, Ernest 165 -- Chapter 11 Britain's Black Pilot / William Robinson Clarke Clarke, William Robinson, Royal Flying Corps Corps, Royal Flying 179 -- Chapter 12 A Poet at War - Ivor Gurney, 2/5th Gloucestershire Resiment 191.

Subject:

Merchant marine -- Great Britain -- Records and correspondence.

World War, 1914-1918 -- Sources.

Great Britain -- Genealogy.

Great Britain. Army -- Records and correspondence.

Great Britain. Royal Flying Corps -- Records and correspondence.

Great Britain. Royal Navy -- Records and correspondence.

Series:

Family history from Pen and Sword.

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Great War lives : a guide for family historians / Paul Reed.

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The Great War was a key event of the twentieth century and it is one of the most popular and rewarding areas for historical research - and for family historians. More records than ever are available to researchers whose relatives served during the war, and Paul Reed's new book is the perfect guide to how to locate and understand these sources - and get the most out of them.

In fascinating detail he follows the stories of twelve service men who fought and died in the Great War - a rifleman, an infantry officer, a tunneller, a gunner, a Royal Marine, a naval rating, an airman, and others. He describes their wartime careers and shows how they fitted into the armed forces. He looks at what they did, at their lives in the front line, in the rear areas, on leave, and at the conditions they endured and the experiences they had. And he demonstrates how the research was done and how the lives of these individuals were reconstructed - the methods that were used, the sources that were consulted.

Paul Reed's informative and accessible book will be essential reading and reference for anyone who wants to find out about the Great War and is keen to understand the part an ancestor played in it.

Lieutenant Vernon James Austin and Royal Field ArtilleryRoy Fazan and Wadhurst TragedyFrederick James StoneAlexis Ectos MaffuniadesRifleman Francis DaviesFrank Plumb and Suffolk RegimentErnest HopcraftWilliam Robinson Clarke and Royal Flying Corps

Acknowledgements	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
A Guide to Great War Research	p. 3
Chapter 1 The Boy Who Came Home	p. 11
Chapter 2 Where are the Boys of the Village Tonight?	p. 27
Chapter 3 Britain's Sea Soldiers at Gallipoli	p. 43
Chapter 4 All Quiet on the Western Front - A Greek Printer in the Trenches	p. 61
Chapter 5 Beneath the Western Front - A Tunneller in France, William Hackett VC, Royal Engineers	p. 79
Chapter 6 Died of Wounds at the Base - The Short War	p. 97
Chapter 7 A Vicar's Son on Three Fronts - William Coburn Cowper's Long Journey from France to Palestine	p. 115
Chapter 8 Died in Hell ... They Called it Passchendaele - Henry Joseph Penn, a Royal Marine in France and Flanders	p. 135
Chapter 9 A Great War Guinea Pig	p. 147
Chapter 10 From Officer to Private - The Strange Case	p. 165
Chapter 11 Britain's Black Pilot	p. 179
Chapter 12 A Poet at War - Ivor Gurney, 2/5th Gloucestershire Resiment	p. 191
Further Reading	p. 209
Index	p. 211

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