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Originally Posted by Retlaw
Just read throgh this thread again.
Now that the anniversaries of WW1 are coming ever nearer, (99 years last August) what gets me is the number of people today who don't know who their Gt Grandfather or Gt Gt Uncle was, or that he probably fought in one of the bloodiest wars in recent history.
Over 500 men from Accrington alone served in the 11th East Lancs, and nearly 14.000 Greater Accrington (now Hyndburn) men & women served in WW1.
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I am guilty! I only knew my grandmother and grandfather on my mother's side and my grandmother on my father's side. I have a photograph of my father's father in military uniform, but I don't know his military history. He died long before I was born in 1954. I don't know who my great grandfathers were.