William Alfred Rushen Posted 27 December 2013 by Peter RushenWilliam Alfred Rushen was born in Weymouth in 1892, one of six sons born to Edwin Rushen and Lucy Catherine Randell. He joined the 1st Battalion Dorsetshire Regiment on 5 December 1910 at the age of seventeen years and nine months. On Attestation he was five feet seven and a half inches tall, weighed one hundred and thirteen pounds, with a chest measurement [Click to continue…]
Joseph Abbott Posted 26 October 2014 by Adrian AbbottJoseph was my great-uncle and he provided a vital clue in validating a story I hadn't believed. I had been told by my father, just before he died at 95, that my g.grandfather, a Coalminer from County Durham, had taken his family to Alabama to work in the mines there, but returned after a few years. Since nobody had mentioned this before I found it [Click to continue…]
Peter Penfold Posted 31 December 2013 by Departed MemberPeter Penfold was born on the 13 April 1887, in Redhill, Surrey, England. His family emigrated on 21 March 1895, from Liverpool, Lancashire to Canada, arriving in Halifax, Nova Scotia on 1 April 1895. He married Henrietta Shelmerdine on 2nd December 1913 in St.James, Manitoba, Canada. He signed his Attestation Paper for the Canadian Over-Seas Expeditionary [Click to continue…]
Oswald Robert Bowey Posted 15 May 2015 by Departed MemberOswald Robert Bowey was the son of Thomas Bowey and Sarah Jane (formerly Oswald) and was born in Leeds in 1899. His Bowey line goes back to Alnwick in Northumberland. He was a Rifleman in the Kings Royal Rifle Corps and was one of over 9,000 men who fell in the period from 8 August 1918 to the date of the Armistice in the Advance to Victory in Picardy [Click to continue…]