@WesternfrontMKB

Welcome to the Milton Keynes branch of the Western Front Association. We come from all walks of life and have a keen interest in The First World War.

 Wolverton Milton Keynes
Joined March 2023
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OTD 1918 At the Battle of Albert, DCM holder CSM Wiliam Henry Couldwell and 2/Lieut Edgar Archer Brown (21) of Stony Stratford and Pte Herbert Sidney Roberts (20) of Newport Pagnell all lost their lives. @TheWFA @Taff_Gillingham @TerryWhenham @CWGC @GreatWarGroup
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Taff Gillingham
@Taff_GillinghamAug 6
Many of these markers have been stolen from cemeteries and churchyards over the years, and others taken home by relatives and find their way into house clearances and auctions. It’s always great to be able to give them a good home when they resurface, and owners are often happy to donate them too. #Chums
Great War Huts@GreatWarHutsAug 6
Another Old Contemptibles grave marker plaque rescued thanks to @TheKnotUnites. Many thanks to St Peter & St James Hospice, Sussex, who kindly sent it for the cost of the postage. It arrived yesterday - appropriately on August 5th Chum Cottee died March 1954. Buried in Lambeth.
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Paul Johnson
@Scarletboy44Jun 5
Thinking tonight of Flight Lieutenant Percy Cyril Morgan DFM, of Letchworth, Hertfordshire, who took off into the night air on 5 June 1944 in support of the D-Day operation and never returned. Remember Him. #DDay #WW2 #hertfordshire
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Paul Johnson
@Scarletboy44Jun 6
Remembering Lieutenant Trevor Tooley. A Hertfordshire man who was serving with 1st Battalion, The Suffolk Regiment. Killed in action on 6 June 1944 during an assault on “Hillman” at Colleville-Montgomery Normandy. #DDay #WW2 #Suffolkregiment
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Paul Reed@sommecourtMay 29
Yet another battlefield theft - there have been far too many on both #WW1 and #WW2 sites in recent years.
Craig Flagg@CraigFlagg1944May 29
Unfortunately, the rumours are true. 51st Highland Div. monument Bréville ridge. Stolen! I have no words. #ww2 #Normandy @BattlefieldBen @sommecourt @WW2TV @militaryhistori @AndyAitcheson @almurray @James1940 @Barber1944
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OTD 1917: Following the attack on the Grand-Couronne and Pip Ridge, Cpl William Thomas Marks (21) died of wounds in Salonika and Pte Charles Bernard John Gibbons (19) died of wounds in the 35th Casualty Clearing Station at Sarigol. @TheWFA @GreatWarGroup @WW1IEPER1917 @CWGC
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OTD 1917 Pte Stanley Rouse (19) died of wounds in a casualty clearing station at Duisans @GreatWarGroup @WFASouthScot @SussexWfa @herts_at_war @Scarletboy44 @TerryWhenham @Taff_Gillingham @CWGC @ww1cemeteries @TheWFA
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OTD 1917 Pte Stanley Rouse (19) died of wounds in a casualty clearing station at Duisans @GreatWarGroup @WFASouthScot @SussexWfa @herts_at_war @Scarletboy44 @TerryWhenham @Taff_Gillingham @CWGC @ww1cemeteries @TheWFA
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OTD 1919: Sgt Robert Henry Pipe (26) died of wounds in hospital at Etretat. He was the last of four brothers who all died in the war @CWGC @GreatWarGroup @TheWFA @TerryWhenham @HartMilitary @WFASouthScot @Scarletboy44
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OTD 1919: Sgt Robert Henry Pipe (26) died of wounds in hospital at Etretat. He was the last of four brothers who all died in the war @CWGC @GreatWarGroup @TheWFA @TerryWhenham @HartMilitary @WFASouthScot @Scarletboy44
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OTD 1919: Pte Harold Newton Harry Yeatman (19) died of influenza and pneumonia in the 44th casualty clearing station in Cologne @CWGC @ww1cemeteries @Scarletboy44 @WFASouthScot @SussexWfa @TerryWhenham @HartMilitary @Taff_Gillingham @greatwardaily @WW1IEPER1917
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Paul Johnson
@Scarletboy44Mar 12
Final piece of the puzzle, thanks to a local authority. Off now to convince the #CWGC that a soldier who was classed as a deserter needs to be recognised. 20 years service. Awarded MM. Took his own life in 1941. NOT recognised by #CWGC. Needs to be changed and headstone erected.
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OTD: 1915 Pte James Edward Trevatt (49) was hit by a train while on duty in Winchester. He died of his injuries at Royal Hants County Hospital, Winchester. @TheWFA @HartMilitary @PeterHart1915 @Scarletboy44 @Taff_Gillingham @TerryWhenham @WFASouthScot @ww1cemeteries
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1917: Pte Percy Charles Archer (26) died of Ludwig's Angina (swelling of the mouth and neck) & syncope in Endell Street Military Hospital, London @TheWFA @CWGC @ww1cemeteries @PeterHart1915 @HartMilitary @Scarletboy44 @WW1IEPER1917 @WFASouthScot @Taff_Gillingham
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OTD 1917 Pte William Grace (32) died of wounds in hospital in Rouen Pte Reginald Lambert (27) died of sickness at a casualty clearing station near Puchevillers @TheWFA @PeterHart1915 @CWGC @GreatWarGroup @WW1IEPER1917 @ww1cemeteries
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OTD: 1919 Pte George Parslow (25) died of  blood poisoning from bad food while a POW in Germany. He had been repatriated 2nd Dec and died at the Royal Bucks Hospital, Aylesbury @WW1IEPER1917 @Scarletboy44 @GreatWarGroup @TheWFA @CWGC
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OTD 1918 Pte Clifford Reginald Somerton (24) died of pneumonia in the 25th casualty clearing station in Thessalonika @TheWFA @GreatWarGroup @Taff_Gillingham @CWGC @ww1cemeteries @Scarletboy44 @PeterHart1915
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OTD 1914: Pte Ernest John Price (21) from Winslow died of wounds in hospital near Boulogne @CWGC @TheWFA @GreatWarGroup @ww1cemeteries @Scarletboy44 @PeterHart1915 @Taff_Gillingham
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OTD 1918: Two days before the Armistice ... Pte William Dingley (19) died of wounds in hospital in Abbeville following fighting east of Cambrai. @TheWFA @CWGC @ww1cemeteries @GreatWarGroup @PeterHart1915 @Scarletboy44
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We will remember them. @TheWFA @GreatWarGroup @CWGC @ww1cemeteries @PeterHart1915 @Scarletboy44 @WW1IEPER1917
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