Continuing on from part one on this website, the second selection of pages from a World War One diary. Here, despite the fighting going on around him, the soldier clings ...
Nuneaton Memories were passed this diary by a family member. What particularly stands out at the beginning is the length of time needed to reach their station, but also the ...
A brief background
Lady Dorothie Feilding was daughter of Rudolph Feilding, ninth Earl of Denbigh, and the Countess of Denbigh, Cecilia Mary Feilding. In World War One she drove ambulances for ...
In 1855 19 year old Thomas Adkins, a native of Milcote, near Weston-on-Avon, was appointed a supernumerary interpreter at the Superintendency of British Trade with China. He was to remain ...
In 1855 19 year old Adkins, a native of Milcote, near Weston-on-Avon, was appointed a supernumerary interpreter at the Superintendency of British Trade with China. He was to remain with ...
I came to live in Harbury in 1933 and in April 1939 married my late husband, Raymond Ceney and lived with his widowed mother Mrs Sarah Ceney in the cottage ...
The name Newton Regis commemorates the ownership by King Henry II (reigned 1154-1189). From the 17th century, possibly because at the time royalty was out of favour under the Commonwealth, ...
During the Second World War a civil servant working at the castle came and told us we had to have someone staying with us, he was doing war work. My ...
Woodlands School
When I was three, I went to the Woodlands School. I can still remember the big red tubular rocking horse there. We used to line up for a glass ...
Bishop’s Itchington is a small village located in the Stratford-upon Avon district of Warwickshire, and is currently home to 2,082 people; this is Audrey’s story, and is set in the ...
Born and raised in a farm in Winterborne, far away from the built-up areas in Warwickshire, we acquired the assistance of land-girls to help run our farm, which was needed ...
Mr Alfred Jordan was a lengthman at the beginning of World War 2, and so was exempt from having to serve in the war because of this...
Verity Fincher wrote down reminiscences of her childhood in Abbot’s Salford and Salford Hall, around the time of the First World War. Her recollections of the war offer an insight into ...
During the First World War, The British Red Cross set up temporary auxiliary hospitals/convalescent homes across the country for less seriously wounded servicemen who often just needed time to recuperate.
They ...
The document taking the spotlight this month is quite unique and particularly fascinating. It is a coded letter written by Lord Feilding of Newnham Paddox, alongside the cipher with which ...
Thomas Fredrick Reeves was born in 1896, in Fazeley. Later moving to Tamworth and then to Kingsbury, where he worked at Kingsbury Colliery.
On 6th August 1914 in Whittington, Staffordshire, Thomas ...
Herbert John Reeves was born in 1899, in Tamworth. Later moving to Kingsbury, where he worked at Kingsbury Colliery.
On 17th September 1914 at Brook Street in Birmingham, Herbert joined the ...
A strong wind was blowing across the trenches. A putrid smell lingered in the air, a mixture of chlorine gas, mud, filth, and flesh. It was approaching lunchtime in the ...
War-time memories
During the war we used to hide under the table during air raids: we weren’t allowed to go into the public shelters because of my father’s occupation.. I’ve donated ...
Walls surrounded the medieval city of Coventry with 12 gateways and 32 towers made from handsome local red sandstone.
The city walls slighted
Just before the outbreak of the Civil War in 1642, Charles ...
Surprisingly the entries in the Stretton on Dunsmore elementary school logbook for 1914 do not mention the war at all.
The King reviews the troops before Gallipoli
In February 1915 the children ...
First World War Soldier Charles Thomas Raven was commemorated by his wife in a lovely tapestry (see photo).
This shows that he served as a private in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment ...
I know very little about my grandfather, I know he was born in or around Knowle and I have his soldiers small book and some papers relating to service in the ...
Armistice Day is nearly upon us, and it’s worth pausing to note its continued significance. Here are a few quotes from people that show the continued awareness.
“It’s a moment to ...