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Cover Page Dedication Title Page Copyright CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS/PICTURE CREDITS INTRODUCTION CHAPTER ONE: Joining Up

ROBERT BURNS, born 12th November 1895, died 29th October 2000, 7th Queens Own Cameron Highlanders. GEORGE LITTLEFAIR, born 13th May 1896, died 8th July 1998, 1/8th Durham Light Infantry. DICK BARRON, born 19th October 1895, died 14th February 1999, 2nd London Mounted Brigade Field Ambulance. GEORGE MAHER, born 20th May 1903, died circa 1999, 2nd King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment. FRED HODGES, born 18th July 1899, died 10th February 2002, 10th Lancashire Fusiliers. GEORGE LOUTH, born 27th February 1897, died 1st April 2000, 15th Hampshire Regiment. GUY BOTWRIGHT, born 5th November 1897, died 2000, Army Service Corps. PERCY WILLIAMS, born 15th September 1899, died 28th May 2000, 5th Northumberland Fusiliers. ROYCE McKENZIE, born 7th August 1897, died 30th August 1999, Drake Battalion, 63rd Royal Naval Division.

CHAPTER TWO: Leaving For The Front

ANDREW BOWIE, born 3rd October 1897, died 26th August 2002, 1st Queens Own Cameron Highlanders. ROBERT BURNS DICK BARRON GEORGE MAHER FRED HODGES

CHAPTER THREE: Trench Life

JACK ROGERS, born 21st March 1894, died 13th April 2000, 1/7th Sherwood Foresters, later 2/7th Sherwood Foresters. ROBERT BURNS DICK BARRON ANDREW BOWIE FREDERICK HODGES ROYCE McKENZIE JACK ROGERS ANDREW BOWIE GEORGE LITTLEFAIR

CHAPTER FOUR: Dreams of Home

HAL KERRIDGE, born 21st September 1898, died 9th October 1999, 1/14th London Regiment (1st London Scottish), later 1st Gordon Highlanders. ROBERT BURNS GUY BOTWRIGHT JACK ROGERS NORMAN COLLINS, born 16th April 1897, died 2nd February 1998, 1/4th Seaforth Highlanders.

CHAPTER FIVE: The Battle of the Somme

TOM DEWING, born 21st April 1896, died 1st February 2001, 34th Division Signals Company, Royal Engineers. FREDERICK FRANCIS, born 20th January 1894, died March 1999, 11th Border Regiment. THOMAS GAY, born 25th May 1898, died 19th February 1999, 2nd Royal Scots Fusiliers. ARTHUR WAGSTAFF, born 12th May 1897, died 22nd August 2000, 2/4th London Regiment, later 1/4th London Regiment. GEORGE LOUTH ARCHIBALD RICHARDS, born 7th January 1897, died 10th February 1998, D Company (D7) Heavy Section Machine Gun Corps. NORMAN COLLINS

CHAPTER SIX: Saving The Wounded

WILLIAM EASTON, born 15th October 1898, died 18th August 1999, 2/2 East Anglian Field Ambulance, later transferred to the 77th Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps DICK BARRON HELEN GORDON-DEAN née McNEIL, born 28th May 1899, died 8th January 1998, VAD, Order of St John. ALFRED PEARSON, born 11th July 1898, died cira 1999, Red Cross Medical Orderly ALICE McKINNON née BLOOD, born 23rd June 1894, Special Military Probationer, Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service Reserve, No 24 General Hospital, Etaples.

CHAPTER SEVEN: Death, Bereavement and Loss

ANDREW BOWIE WALTER GREEN, born 26th November 1897, died 5th March 1998, 20th Durham Light Infantry. GEORGE LITTLEFAIR NORMAN COLLINS FLORENCE BILLINGTON née Dillon, born 3rd December 1898, died 16th August 1998. Girlfriend of Edward Felton, 4th Kings Liverpool Regiment, killed in action 16th May 1915, Ypres. ELLEN ELSTON née TANNER, born 14th August 1908, daughter of Sergeant John Tanner, 9th Royal East Surreys, killed in action at Ypres, 6th August 1917. LUCY WALTER née NEALE, born 4th April 1907. Daughter of Sergeant Harold Neale, 2/3rd Kings African Rifles, died of dysentery, 15th October 1917. KATHLEEN BARRON, born 7th March 1902, sister of Dick Barron. HARRY PATCH, born 17th June 1898, 7th Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry.

CHAPTER EIGHT: Long-Term Recovery

HORACE ‘JOCK’ GAFFRON, born 20th October 1896, died 15th April 2000, 1/4th Gordon Highlanders. GUY BOTWRIGHT FREDERICK TAYLER, born 12th May 1898, died 19th March 2000, 13th Battery, 29th Division Royal Field Artillery. HARRY WELLS, born 1st January 1900, died 19th July 1998, 17th Royal Fusiliers.

CHAPTER NINE: Women and the Home Front

CORA TUCKER, born 13th January 1904. Resident of Colwyn Road, Hartlepool, 16th December 1914. EMMA CUSSONS née HARRISON, born 25th July 1908. Living in Hartlepool, 16th December 1914. MARY JOLLIE, née Clarke, born 1st April 1894, died 5th May 1998. General Nurse. NORAH CLAYE, born 11th July 1895. General Nurse. DAISY COLLINGWOOD née Major, born 11th August 1897, Munitions Worker, Kynocks Munitions Factory, Shellhaven.

CHAPTER TEN: Prisoners of War

JACK ROGERS WILLIAM EASTON PERCY WILLIAMS

CHAPTER ELEVEN: Road to Victory

ROYCE McKENZIE ANDREW BOWIE HAL KERRIDGE FREDERICK HODGES

CHAPTER TWELVE: Armistice and Aftermath

ANDREW BOWIE GEORGE LOUTH NORMAN COLLINS GEORGE LITTLEFAIR JACK ROGERS ALICE McKINNON HELEN GORDON-DEAN FREDERICK HODGES FREDERICK TAYLER LUCY WALTER HARRY PATCH HAL KERRIDGE

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