Each year around 60 bodies of First World War soldiers of all nationalities are found in the old battlefields, the spokesman went on.
But soon after joining the army in 1914, the 21-year-old was sent to the Western Front to fight against German forces. In October 1914, his father wrote to ask whether he had enough underwear to ...
Charles Harold Soder, of Zanesville, formerly of Newark, enlisted at age 15 in the U.S. Army as 18-year-old Frank Charles Fergus. He died in 1918.
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He also found out the young soldier had been married for one year and had a son, who was six months old at the time of his death. "The whole thought of my ancestor fighting a lot of these lads who ...
it’s clear that the commemorations created after what was then known as the Great War still resonate with serving soldiers today. WW1: Did the machine-gun save lives? documentWW1: Did the ...
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many have not replied and others are too old, too distantly related or live just too far away to attend." The team of researchers intend to represent any soldiers who they are unable to trace ...