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Originally Posted by Retlaw
Thanks for that, but you should have said if you wanted a news article, I've done all te local papers from 1814 to 1920.
Retlaw.
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I said in post 8 there was an article on him on 26 May 1917. Your version is much better than mine though..thank you.
If anyone is interested the story is as follows. My mother had two photos, the first of two soldiers, one soldier sat down and one stood up behind him outside a building in France. The photo has a hole in the centre and a stain around the outside. On the back my mother had wrote " found on Jim Pilkingtons body after he was killed" and she told me the hole was thought to be a bullet/ or shrapnel hole and the stain could be blood. I have always thought that one of the soldiers was Jim Pilkington. That was until a second photo turned up (the original of the one in the observer). My mother had wrote on the back "Jim Pilkington" and he was not one of the soldiers in the first photo. I assume they were his mates. I have thought that maybe his surviving relatives would be interested in the having the photos in memory of Jim.
The only possible flaw in the story could be that the photo was not taken from his body, because he has no known grave hence the Arras Memorial commemoration. That is unless he was killed in action and the photo was taken from his body by his mates, then the troops had to retreat and leave him.
It is all very intriguing and a wonderful story for one of our heroes and I have always wondered what the connection between his family and mine was...mum was only 5 when he died. She had done some research before she died hence the observer cutting which she obtained from the library in 1995.
So the search for relatives goes on............
Phil