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Margaret Doores

Margatet Doores: Love’s Greatest Gift – Remembrance

November 8, 2018 By Margaret Doores Leave a Comment

In the late spring of 2014 I read with interest of the national plans to commemorate the fallen of WW1. It was accepted that these commemorations would not in any way be an attempt to glorify war but were to be an acknowledgment of the great sacrifice made by so many.

It was also decided that these commemorations would continue until November 2018. It was suggested that researching the names on local war memorials could be an appropriate way of doing this. [Read more…] about Margatet Doores: Love’s Greatest Gift – Remembrance

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Chandler’s Ford War Memorial Research: Part 5

October 28, 2014 By Margaret Doores 6 Comments

I am no expert on WW1 and am therefore not in a position to provide a detailed account of the Gallipoli Campaign.

As I understand it, the idea had been to create a new front, as the war on the Western Front had become a stalemate, with troops from both sides staring at each other from a line of trenches which stretched from the English Channel to the Swiss border. [Read more…] about Chandler’s Ford War Memorial Research: Part 5

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Chandler’s Ford War Memorial Research: Part 4

September 6, 2014 By Margaret Doores 10 Comments

The Wilson brothers, Chandler's Ford War Memorial.

This month I thought I would focus on the Wilson brothers: Major and acting Lieutenant Colonel Harry Stuart Wilson, Royal Munster Fusiliers and Lieutenant Commander John Skinner Wilson, HMS Indefatigable.

The brothers were killed in action in the same year, John on 31st May, Harry three months later on 9th September 1916. A tragic loss for their parents. [Read more…] about Chandler’s Ford War Memorial Research: Part 4

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Chandler’s Ford War Memorial Research: Part 3

July 21, 2014 By Margaret Doores 11 Comments

I expect many of you will have seen the fantastic work that has been undertaken on our war memorial over the last few weeks?

Stonemason Jon, of Blackmore and Moody has indeed done a good job. It is now possible to easily read the names of those brave men, and of course, that of Margaret Caswell, the only women whose name appears on the memorial. [Read more…] about Chandler’s Ford War Memorial Research: Part 3

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Chandler’s Ford War Memorial Research: Part 2

June 8, 2014 By Margaret Doores 10 Comments

William Henry Kelsey feature

My research on the Chandler’s Ford War Memorial is progressing well. I have found out quite a lot and thought I would share some of this with you all.

My starting point has been a list complied by Martin Edwards (2006) as part of National project by the Royal British Legion to make a record of all war memorials. This list gives full christian names, number, rank, regiment and also information regarding when and where they were killed. [Read more…] about Chandler’s Ford War Memorial Research: Part 2

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Chandler’s Ford War Memorial. Can You Help?

April 30, 2014 By Margaret Doores 20 Comments

Margaret Doores on Chandler's Ford War Memorial

Centenary of World War One 1914 -1918

Commemorations of the Fallen of World War One will start this year and continue through the next four years until the end of 2018. It is not intended that these commemorations are in any way an attempt to glorify war but rather a way of an acknowledgment of the sacrifices made by millions of people, both military and civilian. [Read more…] about Chandler’s Ford War Memorial. Can You Help?

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