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Simply magnificent
This post dates from 1918, but is being reposted because the formatting of the original went haywire while WordPress was trying to force me to use Blocks instead of its Classic Editor. Researching the events of the last week of … Continue reading
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Anthonie Johannes Havenga
Jérémy Bourdon’s Instagram account (@jeremy.bourdon) has become my favourite account for war memorials in France. It’s partly because he features the graves of our allies as well as those of our enemies, and because of his keen eye for the … Continue reading
Richmond Cemetery 2021
Yes, we were there again on Remembrance Sunday, the cyclists, aka The Patrons of Lost Causes, arriving just ahead of us—the full complement of three this year, and a visitor, a friend of one of the cyclists. So there were … Continue reading
William Victor St Clair McLaren posts in date order
My account of William McLaren’s life and his family network has grown considerably since my first post on him, after I’d popped into St Cuthbert’s one Saturday, hoping to find a certain Minister of the Kirk in the portraits on … Continue reading
South African War Memorial, Richmond Cemetery, 2020
We had a good turnout (perhaps best ever?) for the two-minutes’ silence on Remembrance Sunday: a full complement of The Patrons of Lost Causes—the Surrey cyclists, who have been supporting us since at least 2014—two family groups, and my bloke … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert St Francis Gibbs, Alfred John Paton Landrey, Athol William Leslie Tomlinson, Clement Wallace Hayes, Edgar Porter, Ernest Conry, Ernest John Croft, Ernest Michael Smith, Ernest Sydney Holland, Frank Fleming Fuller Kidson, Fred George Pitfield, George Henry Rosser, Henry William Miller, Herbert Rose, James Binnie McPherson, James Charles Norval, James Martin, John Leslie Francis, John Roy Denny, Joseph Francis Still, Joseph MacRae, Lancelot de la Penha Garcia, Lionel Victor McCallum, Martin Jacobus van Dyk Osler, Ockert Thomas Oosthuizen, Otto Lund, Percy Rowney Greenhough, Philip Pitman, Pieter Michiel Rentzke, Samuel Pieter Marthinus Nel, Sidney Victor Boothroyd, Stafford Smith, Stanley Shirley Bromley, Thomas Frank Fitchett, William Edward Wheeler, William George Godden, William Henry Harker, William Sharp
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A reading list for research into No. 2 Wing SAAF 1944
Now that the UK is losing the Data Protection that its citizens and residents have enjoyed while being within a European jurisdiction, Greedy Google has snapped up the opportunity to transfer its users to US jurisdictions. In preparation for exiting … Continue reading
Airmen of KH158 remembered in Richmond upon Thames
As I approached the South African War Memorial in Richmond Cemetery, ahead of the Two Minutes’ Silence in November 2019, I saw some distinctive and unusual wreaths—two from the Polish Airmen’s Association and a third, on which the written message, … Continue reading
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Tagged 2/Lieut. Peter J Lordan, Anne E Storm, F/O George Edward Hudspith, F/O Thomas Roberts Millar, KH 158, Lieut. Geoffrey A Collard, Lieut. Norman W Armstrong, Major Selwyn S Urry, Martin Urry, Neirone, Sergeant Reginald Charles Fitzgerald, W/O Leonard B Bloch
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Remembrance Sunday in Richmond, 2019
We are ever hopeful that this year South Africans will turn up, and perhaps become Old Faithfuls in years to come…but alas not. No South Africans turned up this year, other than the one behind the camera. There is a … Continue reading
Remembrance Sunday 2016
My disappointment at the neglect, by South Africans, of the South African War Memorial on both Remembrance Day and Remembrance Sunday continues. I was sorely tempted this year, to go to the annual commemoration at Ham or Petersham, and did not … Continue reading
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‘The Blue Death’—the influenza epidemic of 1918
The ‘Great Influenza Epidemic’ reached its height in the last quarter of 1918, though there had been a noticeable increase in influenza cases in the preceding year. As the virus became more virulent, some patients developed complications, notably pneumonia or … Continue reading
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Tagged Dorah Bernstein, Lance Corporal L V McCallum, Private Edgar Porter, Private Ernest Michael Smith, Private Frank Fenning Fuller Kidson, Private Martin Jacobus van Dyk Osler, Sergeant Lancelot de la Penha Garcia, South African Cemetery Richmond, South African Military Hospital, The Blue Death, Willesden Cemetery
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South Africa Remembers 