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Originally Posted by LancYorkYankee
Hey James, it's really ashame that as many folks didn't do the same for the WWI years. As far as keeping some good first person stories about things ..........
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Yes, it is indeed a shame, Brian. I appreciate your lament. My own grandfather Pickering had great stories about his Army service in Egypt & France during WW1 as a soldier in the East Lancashire regiment. He also had a nice collection of photographs, army accoutrements and medals. The stories were never recorded and his WW1 effects were thrown out by my grandmother, as was the fashion in those days, when he died in 1943. The same thing happened with my father's and uncle's WW1 memorabilia -- all lost to succeeding generations forever.
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.......... I wonder if folks "on the homefront" during WWI would have been as forthwith as the WWII folks? .......... It's very frustrating that most of any of my detailed history is lost to the ages!
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Unfortunately much of the WW2 memorabilia I saved from WW2 was thrown out after the death of my father in 1963, including his medals and Home Guard accoutrements -- how sad! I composed my
WW2 British Home Front pages and
Unsung Allied Heroes of WW2 pages in an attempt to rectify that and preseve our WW2 heritage and record precious historical information.
James