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scotianostra · 10 months ago

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19th January 1644 saw a Scottish Covenanter army of 20,000 men under the command of Alexander Leslie, 1st Earl of Leven move south into England and their civil war supporting Oliver Crowmell.

Sit doon and get comfy, this will be a lengthy post, for the start of this post has it's roots in The English Civil War it takes us right up to the Jacobite Uprisings and the split in loyalties between King and country.

The 17th-century civil war may seem a very English affair, but that is misleading – it was started and ended by Scots.

We all know a bit about the rise to power of Oliver Cromwell and his New Model Army; the Battles of Worcester and Naseby and Marston Moor that ended with the execution of King Charles I, to me it marked the beginning of the end of the Stuarts, and it all seems a rather English affair, recently, however, historians have preferred to call it ‘The War of Three Kingdoms’, since both Scotland and Ireland were inevitably drawn into the dispute. It is easy to see why the older version prevailed for so long.

To me the internet has helped people, like myself understand history better, we can seek out so many sources so easily, at school, if you were lucky you got a text book with the one version being "gospel" but even on here I have been called out for getting things wrong, well in the eyes of the person calling me out I certainly will concede certain ground, but history as well is how you perceive it, what to put in my posts and what to leave out. I rely on some people to keep me right in some respects, and I can't hold a torch to some peoples knowledge of certain aspects of our history, I take my hat off to the likes of my friends, Marti Morrison, or Roland Obrien whose Jacobite knowledge can put me to shame, these guys live and breath the history, wear the outfits, walk the battlefields and have done for years, mere mortals like me scour the archives piecing together from many sources, like todays post, giving an understanding of events that has been lacking in the classrooms when the super info-highway was still drifting out in space.

Anyway back to the post in hand.

The English story is clear – the extravagant and naïve Charles pitted against the unglamorous and hard-headed Cromwell over a clear point of principle. The Scottish story, however, is much more ambiguous.

Indeed, if the ‘English Civil War’ might broadly be dated from 1640, when Charles I dissolved the ‘Short Parliament’, to 1660, when General Monck restored Charles II to the throne, the ‘Scottish Civil War’ could be said to have run from 1637 to 1744, and the final defeat of the Jacobite cause.

Lets start with simple question: to whom did Charles I surrender in 1646? Not to Fairfax, Essex, Ireton or Cromwell, the leading lights in the English Civil War, but to the Scottish regiment encamped at Newark, led by Alexander Leslie.

Charles, who had of course been born in Scotland, and always had a problem with the Scottish Kirk, who maintained that while the King had authority in matters temporal, they had authority in matters spiritual; and often where one ended and the other began was a point of serious contention. Time and time again I go back to pointing out the Stewart/Stuart, mantra of Devine right of Kings.

James VI as the first King to "rule" over the two Kingdoms of Scotland and England got away with having two forms of worship by not getting too involved with them, Charles however was much more headstrong, his first, and some say biggest mistake was the introduction of his own prayer books on the Scottish Kirk in 1637. It caused a riot, with one woman, Jenny Geddes, purportedly throwing her stool at the minister and shouting ‘daur ye say Mass in my lug?’ They saw it as being to close to the "Popery" of the Catholic church, it led to the drawing up a ‘National Covenant' which was a solemn agreement inaugurated to reject the prayer book and any meddling by the King in their religion. Don't underestimate this agreement a staggering six hundred thousand Scots signed the document, in any age, it stated that as long as the king protected the Presbyterian Church, the Presbyterian Church would protect the king. There was the rub.

Charles, forgetting that the word ‘thrawn’ could have been invented to describe the Scottish Church, sorted refused to sign, leading to the so-called First and Second Bishops’ Wars, the latter ending with Montrose and the veteran of the European wars Alexander Leslie in control of Northumbria and County Durham. Charles had to recall the English Parliament for financial support – the ‘Long Parliament’ – and precipitated his war with them.

Parliament now opened negotiations with the Church. Although there were many mutual areas of agreement, the Church of Scotland held both the Independents and the Puritans at arm’s length.

Nevertheless, Westminster and Edinburgh both signed a successor document to the Covenant, the Solemn League and Covenant, which brought the Scots into the fray on the side of Parliament. Even before this, Montrose had already switched sides, concerned that the Kirk was attempting to usurp the power of the Crown.

While Charles was fighting Cromwell he still held out hope that the Scots could wield and come to his rescue, perhaps this is why he surrendered himself to Leslies army and not the Roundheads. What did for him was English gold. The Scots had been promised much and were financially insecure, so in exchange for their prisoner, the English Parliament paid Scottish debts, Leslie's army had not been paid as promised for allying themselves with Cromwell, with this settled Charles was handed over, eventually to be tried and executed.

The execution of Charles was a turning point. The English had killed the legitimate King of Scots without so much as a by-your-leave. Charles II was proclaimed King of Scots in Edinburgh, and the head of the ‘Engagers’, the Duke of Hamilton, beheaded in London.

Under the Treaty of Breda, Charles II signed the Covenant; an act he did so in supreme bad faith. He needed allies not disputations on theology. Cromwell addressed the General Assembly over the Scots defection, saying: ‘I beseech you, in the bowels in Christ, think it possible ye may be mistaken.’

When the Assembly decided they were not, Cromwell launched a punitive strike against Dunbar, capturing it from Sir David Leslie, ( his brother, Alexander by now aged and retired) beside whom he fought at Marston Moor. Three thousand Scots were killed and 10,000 captured. By the Battle of Inverkeithing, Cromwell had effective control of everywhere south of the Firth of Forth.

But the Scots were intransigent. In the last battle of the ‘English Civil War’, the Battle of Worcester, the majority of the 16,000 strong Royalist force was Scottish. Around 8000 Scottish prisoners were sent as indentured labourers to the West Indies and Canada, starting a relationship with those regions that would have significant influence in later centuries. Leslie was sent to the Tower, and released a decade later on the successful Restoration of Charles II and the death of Cromwell.

The Scots had instigated the war on their insistence that they were religiously and politically different from England. One unforeseen consequence was that Cromwell’s Commonwealth was the first time Scotland and England had the same governance, he is acknowledged as the only an to invade and control all of Scotland, a feat Longshanks, Edward I never quite accomplished.

Charles II did not heed the lessons of what had happened to his father, and his attempts to create ecclesiastical uniformity led to the ‘Killing Time’ between 1680 and 1688. Even more bizarrely, after the English Parliament invited William III to take the crown, in favour of the Catholic King James VI and II, some Covenanters fought for the Stuarts against the new regime. The misery of war and religious schism makes for strange bedfellows indeed.

At the root, perhaps, of the problem was the difference between the Scottish and English experiences of Stuart monarchy. The Stuarts had ruled Scotland since 1371 and England since 1603. They may have been weak, injudicious, opinionated, divisive and profligate kings – but they had been our kings for a much longer time.

#scotland #scottish #history #civil war

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canadanewsblog · 5 years ago

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Northern Ontario hospital workers talk about the 'anxiety and stress' of fighting a pandemic https://canada.birblog.net/news/local/northern-ontario-hospital-workers-talk-about-the-anxiety-and-stress-of-fighting-a-pandemic/ Soldiers with the The Essex and Kent Scottish Regiment were deployed on Monday to Canadian Forces Base Borden in Ontario as part of the Canadian Armed Forces' Operation LASER response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. #canada #canadanews #corona #canadaslondon #toronto #torontonews #torontonewspaper #torontoblog #canadablogger #canadabloggers #canadablog #canadapolitics #canadaschools #canadasports #canadasport #canadacity #canadacollege #worldnews #worldnewstonight #worldpolitics Essex and Kent Scottish Regiment deployed as part of Canadian Forces COVID-19 response | CBC News

#Essex and Kent Scottish Regiment deployed as part of Canadian Forces COVID-19 response | CBC News

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livinglikebritishroyalty · 5 years ago

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k2kid · 7 years ago

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Undated photograph. One of these men is Private Dauphin. Is the other Private Sherman? Source: Gathering Our Heroes

“It was cold and dark. The two Canadian Privates from Chatham, Ontario stood on the rail platform momentarily and lit their cigarettes. Drawing deeply from the cigarettes the blew the smoke out and turned to walk up the platform. They could hear murmurings of conversation and the odd metallic click of equipment as the men on the open rail cars shifted for more comfort in the open rail cars. The smokers walked and drew deeply from their cigarettes as they walked, rifles slung, waiting for the train to take them on the next stage of their journey home.

A hiss of steam and then the sharp, hard clunk of the railway car couplings engaging as the locomotive began to pull way. A sergeant called out for the two men to get back on the train and they threw their cigarettes down and began to jog towards their rail car, one hand steadying the buttstock of their Lee-Enfield rifles. The jog changed to a run, the rifles now rocking with the increased pace. The lead man hopped on and there was a smattering of soft clapping as the soldiers that were awake noted their appreciation for the effort made. But they also were acknowledging the act of independence these two soldiers had made at the station because orders stated quite clearly that no one was to get off the train without permission. Their attention turned to getting back to sleep or their conversations and the first soldier onboard turned and saw the second hop aboard. The first soldier had hopped up and slid his buttocks onto the rail car edge, letting his legs dangle over the edge of the car. His legs moved forward and back mimicking continued running and the two men smiled at each other at their shared delinquency and then the first soldier disappeared.”

In this fictionalized account of an accident which involved Privates W.T. Sherman and T. Dauphin of the 18th Battalion. Both enlisted in Chatham, Ontario and were together three years later that fateful day when the one of them perished.

Private William Tecumseh Sherman of the 18th Battalion military service did not quite match that of his namesake from the American Civil War. Perhaps that name was a burden to him with his comrades-in-arms. Since his enlistment with the 186th Battalion at Chatham, Ontario on February 10, 1916, Private Wilson had experienced a frustrating tour of service after his arrival in Europe. His constitution appears to have been subject to the stressors of combat and the sub-standard environment of front-line service as large part of his service career was spent being treated and transferred between medical facilities for range of ailments. His final movement to the Battalion involved leaving the Canadian Infantry Base Depot on November 8, 1918 and finally arriving at his unit eight days later at Ciply, Belgium. Perhaps the increased tempo of operations of the Canadian Corp made this 206-kilometer trip more arduous than usual. The Canadian Corps was moving forward rapidly and the lines of transport and communication during the offensive of The Last Hundred Days may have made transport for a reinforcement challenging.

Private Sherman was re-united with other members of the Battalion from the 186th Battalion and it appears that he was friendly with another member of this unit, a Private Timothy Dauphin. Private Dauphin had joined the 91st Battalion in December 1915 and then was transferred to the 186th Battalion to help complete it complement so it could be deployed to Europe. He had experience a challenging time during the formative months of training with the 186th Battalion having been punished several times for minor offences for being absent from duty. He served stolidly for a year in active duty from November 1917 until November 1918 when he was sentenced to 28 days of Field Punishment No. 1 for being absent without leave for three days that month.

Privates Sherman and Dauphin would share the mutual experience of occupation duty in Germany from the latter part of November 1918 until January 1919 when the Battalion began the long-anticipated journey home January 20, 1919. It entrained at Sieberg, Germany at 18:00 hours and left for its destination, Fosse, Belgium. It arrived at Auvelais, Belgium twenty-four hours later. At sometime after midnight on January 21, 1919 the train taking the 18th Battalion to Belgium stopped a Düren after midnight and the train restarted its journey at approximately 2:45 a.m. when the accident occurred. The 18th Battalion War Diaries make no mention of the tragedy that had befell Private Sherman. Neither does the 4th Canadian Infantry Brigade Diaries. This sad chapter in the Battalion’s history would have been forgotten save for the documents relating to it in Private Sherman’s service record.

18th Battalion War Diary January 17 – 24, 1919 showing the routing and timing of the Battalion’s move from the Colonge Region of Germany to Fosse, Belgium. Note that no reference is made to the accident.

Upon falling from the train Private Sherman was horribly hurt with both femurs and his left ankle crushed. He was taken to No. 17 Casualty Clearing Station where he died of his injuries. This tragedy spurred military bureaucratic activity to discover the nature of the accident and to determine blame.

Died – Whist attempting to jump on a train as it passed out of No. 1 Platform, DUREM STATION, at 2.41 a.m. on January 21st, 1919, he fell beneath the train and was seriously injured. He was conveyed to No. 17 Casualty Clearing Station, DUREN, where he died the same day from compound fractures of thighs, right leg, and left ankle.

On January 22, 1919 a Second (British) Army communication from the President of the Sub-Commission, Inter-Allied Railway Commission located in Cologne, Germany issued the following to headquarters, Second British Army stating:

Report from Allied Railway Commssion

“The German Railway authorities have today reported the following accident:-

No. 880026 Pte. WILLIAM SHERMAN, 4th Battn. [sic] Canadian Inf., slipped whilst trying to jump on a troop train in motion in DUREN Station at 02.54 to-day. He was severely injured about the legs. The Germans disclaim all responsibility for the accident”

This communique is directed to command headquarters and the occupation forces were concerned about any possibility of German resistance or a re-initiation of hostilities. The 18th Battalion had practiced a defence “scheme” shortly before leaving Germany in case such an event occurred. Also, the British and Canadian Expeditionary Forces had a responsibility for the safety and well-being of the soldiers on active service. The end of the war and the public’s, as well as the soldiers’, desire for the men to return from war whole and safe would have been a priority and any such incidents a public relations minefield if the perception that the authorities were not working proactively for the safety and security of the men.

A Court of Enquiry assembled at Duren on March 3, 1919 to review the incident. The Enquiry was made up of officers of the British Expeditionary Forces and they heard testimony from two witnesses.

Lieutenant-Colonel Roberts, Railway Transport Officer related:

“I was on duty at Duren Station at 2.41 am on the 21st Jan. [1919] as the train conveying the 18th Battalion Canadian Infantry of the 2nd Canadian Division left No. 1 siding. Pte. Sherman of the 18th Canadian Battalion attempted to mount the train while it was in motion. He slipped and fell underneath the train. He was the conveyed to No. 17 C.C.S. at Duren.

So far as I know he was a passenger on the train. [Personnel] had orders not to leave the train without permission.”

Lieutenant-Colonel Roberts’ testimony is succinct. A soldier fell on the track. He was taken to be treated. He was not to be on the platform.

Emile Kallenbach, a Railway Assistant at Duren Station gave a statement through an interpreter:

“On the 21 Jan. [1919] at 2.41 am in the morning I saw English soldiers trying to mount a troop train which was in motion. The end part of the train consisted of open trucks. The two soldiers not able to climb up and fell down. One of them train fell clear. Then second one fell between the wheels. The upper part of his body between the rails and his thighs on the rails. Both legs were run over. He saw the soldier try to draw his left [leg] in. The wheels ran over his ankle.”

Mr. Kallenbach’s testimony has a bit more detail but suffers some in clarity due to the translation. Essentially, two soldiers fell with one falling clear of the tracks and the other falling into the track and being severely injured. The detail about two soldiers falling is not related by Lieutenant-Colonel Taylor’s statement and a later statement by Private Dauphin corroborates Mr. Kallenbach’s statement as he was one of the two soldiers running for the train, though he does not mention falling.

It is interesting to note the differences between the testimony of the witnesses, a common issue even today within the justice system. This testimony would be considered expert as Taylor was a Railway Transport Officer and Mr. Kallenbach worked for the German railway system in some capacity.

The court found that Private Sherman was to blame for the accident and the inquiry was closed on that date.

On March 8, 1919 Private T. Dauphin of the 18th Battalion gave a statement in response to the inquiry and though the inquiry assigned its finding with the testimony of two witnessed is it interesting to read his statement as he was the other of the two soldiers attempting to get on the train on the early morning of January 21, 1919:

“I was on the Station platform (DUREN) about 1.00 a.m. on 21st January with Pte. Sherman. It was very cold and we were walking up and down to try and get warm. We were warned by Sgt. R.C. Taylor to get on the train. The train started to move and we both ran for it. I got on my car and expected that Pte. Sherman would get on the next. Pte. Sherman had been riding in the same car as me. I have not seen him since.”

Private Dauphins perspective fills in the details. The soldiers ran for the train after being extolled by a sergeant to get back on the train. It also gives context to why they disobeyed orders. There is an odd turn of phrase at the end of the statement which seems awkward and out of place with the body of Dauphin’s testimony, “I have not seen him since.” A statement of regret perhaps in relation to the fact that, perhaps, it was at Private Dauphin’s urging that Private Sherman followed onto the train platform which led, ultimately, to his death.

The Report on Accidental or Self-Inflicted Injuries that was submitted one month after the accident had some additional details:

“According to witnesses, (German Railway Officials at DUREN), Pte. Sherman attempted to board a train in motion. He had his arms inside the doorway of the car with his legs dangling down when he slipped, his legs getting under the wheels of the car.

No men of the 18th Battalion witnessed the accident.”

Once again, the information in this report is not definitive. No other witness or testimony corroborates the physical positioning of Private Sherman’s body immediately before the accident. It states that “No men of the 18th Battalion witnessed the accident,” when there is a statement from Private Dauphin. The statement contradicts that of Mr. Kallenbach who has two soldiers falling during the incident. One that falls clear and whose subsequent fate is unknow (did he get on the train or not) and the other that falls under the wheels.

The exact circumstances of Private Sherman’s death will remain a mystery, but his journey home has not quite ended. His body was not repatriated to Canada, but it did not stay interned where he died in Germany. He was buried in Grave 7 at Düren and his body was later exhumed and moved to its final resting place, the cemetery at the Brussels Town Cemetery. He rests with fellow Battalion comrade, Private Anile (Patsy) Pasquale[i] and two soldiers of the Essex Scottish Regiment, which perpetuates the 18th Battalion lie with Privates Sherman and Pasquale. Private W.L. Cousineau and Corporal T.J. Cochrane rest with them. These men rest with a further 120 Canadian soldiers and airmen who sacrificed their lives as well.

Private Dauphin returned to Canada and was demobilized and discharged from the C.E.F. on May 24, 1919 at London, Ontario and planned to reside at 397 St. Clair Street, Chatham, Ontario. He lived until the age of 42 when he died on June 5, 1938 and was buried in the Veterans Plot at the Maple Leaf Cemetery, Chatham.

[i] Private Pasquale died January 18, 1919 of pneumonia.

"It was cold and dark. The two Canadian Privates from Chatham, Ontario stood on the rail platform momentarily and lit their cigarettes.

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fanzonesports · 7 years ago

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Dieppe Raid Exhibit Opens At The Chimczuk Museum

#Dieppe Raid Exhibit Opens At The #ChimczukMuseum #EssexAndKentScottish

A map of the Dieppe Raid on 19 August 1942 is part of the installation Sacrifice and Courage at the Chimczuk Museum until 31 December 2017. Photo by Robert Tuomi.

(WINDSOR, ON) – Entitled Sacrifice and Courage: The Dieppe Raid Remembered, the newest exhibit at the downtown Chimczuk Museum brings into tight focus one of the most deadly of military initiatives in the early days of the Second World…

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heavyarethecrowns · 5 years ago

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A Kent Fact

Prince Michael entered the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, in January 1961, from where he was commissioned into the 11th Hussars (Prince Albert's Own), in 1963, he later served in The Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales's Own) after the 1969 amalgamation between the 11th Hussars and the 10th Royal Hussars (Prince of Wales's Own).

He saw service in Germany, Hong Kong, and Cyprus, where his squadron formed part of a United Nations peacekeeping force in 1971.

Subsequent tours of duty, during a military career that spanned twenty years, included a number of appointments on the Defence Intelligence Staff. He retired from the Army with the rank of Major in 1981.

In 1994, Prince Michael was made Honorary Commodore (later Honorary Rear Admiral and currently Vice Admiral) of the Royal Naval Reserve, and in 2002, he was made Honorary Air Commodore of RAF Benson (promoted to Honorary Air Marshal in 2012). From 2009 to 2012, he was Regimental Colonel of the Honourable Artillery Company and has been, since 31 January 2012, Royal Honorary Colonel of that regiment. He is also Colonel-in-Chief of the Essex and Kent Scottish Regiment in Canada.

#prince michael #kent #antedote #fact

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ourforgottenwars-blog · 6 years ago

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Korean War Tag List

Here is the tag list for the Korean War as it currently stands:

General Tags

Korean War

Cold War

Battles

Battle of Chosin Reservoir

Battle of the Imjin River

Battle Of Incheon

Battle of Old Baldy

Second Battle of Seoul

Second Battle of Naktong Bulge

Second Battle of the Hook

Fourth Battle of the Hook

Battle of Taejon

Battle of Miudong

Battle of Yultong

Locations

Chorwon

Daejeon

Hong Kong

Kimpo Air Base

Heartbreak Ridge

Hagaru-ri

Han River

Hyesan

Inje County

Iwakuni

Singapore

Seoul

Suncheon

Suwon

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Downton Abbey - References to Historical Figures + References to Other Fictional Characters and Works

The following are two lists; one are real people who where mentioned on Downton Abbey, and the other is fictional characters and works that were also mentioned in the show. I complied these two lists together (because sometimes I had to research what was indeed being referenced!). As I didn’t know if I’d ever been sharing these lists, I don’t have the episode numbers listed out, but they do go in order by mention.

Real Historical Figures Mentioned in Downton

* means that the person was not contemporary of the characters and there for famous or well-known to them. Others without it may not be known personally by them, but are their contemporaries. Some of these have made it to the character list, if for sure they did indeed know the Crawleys, or other any other major character.

- Lucy Rothes (Titanic survivor, friend of the Crawleys) - John Jacob "JJ" Astor (business man who died on Titanic, friend of the Crawleys) - Madeleine Astor (not mentioned by name, but as JJ's wife, Titanic survivor, Cora did not like her) - Sir Christopher Wren* (architect, designed the Dower House) - David Lloyd George (politician and Prime Minister starting in 1916) - William the Conqueror* - Mark Twain* (author) - Queen Mary (wife of King George V) [mentioned in S1, appears in S4CS] - Queen Catherine of Aragon* - Oliver Cromwell* - Bishop Richard de Warren* - Anthony Trollope* (author; he would have been somewhat contemporary, died in 1882) - Piero della Francesca* (painter) - Franz Anton Mesmer* (scientist) - Thomas Jefferson* (politician, inventor, third president of the United States) - Léon Bakst (Russian painter and scene- and costume designer) - Sergei Diaghilev (another Russian artist) - Edith Vane-Tempest-Stewart, Marchioness of Londonderry (sounds like the Crawleys did attend her parties from time to time) - Emily Davison (suffragist) - Herbert Henry "H.H." Asquith (politician and Prime Minister until 1916) - Kaiser Wilheim (ruler of Germany; Sir Anthony personally visited him a few times) - Vincenzo Bellini* (composer) - Gioachino Rossini* (composer) - Giacomo Puccini* (composer) - Karl Marx* (philosopher) - John Ruskin* (social thinker and artist; he would have been somewhat contemporary, died in 1900) - John Stuart Mill* (philosopher) - Franz Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria - Guy Fawkes* - Gavrilo Princip (member of the Black Hand and Franz Ferdinand's assassin) - H.G. Wells (author) - Major General B. Burton - Heinrich Schliemann* (German businessman archaeologist, died in 1890; deleted scene mention) - General Douglas Haig (later a field marshal) - Belshazzar* (King of Babylon) - Mabel Normand (actress) - Plantagenets* - Eugene Suter (hair stylist) - Alexander Kerensky (Russian political leader) - Vladimir Lenin (Russian communist revolutionary) - Florence Nightingale* (nurse; died 1910) - Czar Nicholas II and the Romanov family (ruler of Russia) - Jack Robinson (footballer; he stopped playing in 1912) - Frederick Marryat* (author) - George Alfred "G.A." Henty* (author; he would have been somewhat contemporary, died in 1902) - Maximilien Robespierre* (French revolutionary) - Marie Antoinette* (French queen) - Erich Lundendorff (German commander) - Sylvia Pankhurst (suffragist) - Jack Johnson (boxer) - Commander Harold Lowe (Fifth Officer of the Titanic; if P. Gordon was really Patrick, he would have known him personally) - Theda Bara (actress) - Robert Burns* (poet, read by Bates; name is not uttered on screen, but it is clear on book cover) - Jules Verne* (author; he would have been somewhat contemporary, died in 1905) - Marion Harris (singer of "Look for the Silver Lining"; name is not uttered on screen) - Edward Shortt (Home Secretary from 1919-1922) - Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of York (one of the first actual historical figures in the show; married Matthew and Mary, visited Downton Abbey for dinner) - King George V (king of England) [mentioned in S3E1, appears in S4CS] - Charles Melville Hays (president of the Grand Trunk Railway that Robert invested in; died on the Titanic) - Robert Baden-Powell (founder of the Boy Scouts) - Lady Maureen Dufferin (socialite, friend of the Crawleys) - Georges Auguste Escoffier (famous chef and restaurateur) - Marie-Antoine Carême* (famous chef) - Queen of Sheba* - Napoleon Bonaparte* - The Bourbons* - The Buffs* (famous army regiment; "steady the Buffs" popularized by Kipling) - Croesus* (king of ancient Lydia; mention several times starting in S3 and through S4) - Thomas Edwin "Tom" Mix (Wild West picture star) - Dr. Samuel Johnson* (English writer; quote paraphrased by Carson) - Jean Patou (dress designer; maker of Edith's S3 wedding dress in-show) - Lucy Christiana, Lady Duff-Gordon (dress designer of "Lucille"; a survivor of the Titanic) - The Marlboroughs (famous family; mentioned like the Crawleys knew them personally, Sir Anthony did) - The Hapburgs* (rulers of the Holy Roman Empire) - Maud Gonne (English-born Irish revolutionary) - Isabella Augusta, Lady Gregory (Irish revolutionary) - Constance Georgine Markievicz, Countess Markievicz (Irish revolutionary and politician) - Lady Sarah Wilson (née Churchill) (female war correspondent) - Gwendolen Fitzalan-Howard, Duchess of Norfolk (real person and friend of Violet's) - Pope Benedict XV - Lillian Gish (actress) - Ivy Close (actress) - Alfred the Great* (9th century ruler of England) - Oscar Wilde* (author; he would have been somewhat contemporary, died in 1900) - Nathaniel Hawthorne* (author) - Charles Ponzi - Walter Scott* (author) - Charles Dickens* (author) - Virgina Woolf (author, one of the first actual historical figures in the show, was not actually mentioned though, just a background guest at Gregson's party) - Roger Fry (artist, one of the first actual historical figures in the show, was not actually mentioned though, just a background guest at Gregson's party) - Sir Garnet Wolseley* - Phyllis Dare (singer and actress) - Zena Dare (singer and actress, sister to Phyllis) - Maurice Vyner Baliol Brett (the second son of the 2nd Viscount Esher, Zena Dare's husband) - King Canute* (Cnut the Great, norse king) - Nellie Melba (opera singer, one of the few actual historical figures in the show) - Al Jolson (singer) - Christina Rossetti* (poet) - Marie Stopes (feminist doctor and author of Married Love) - George III* (ruler of England) - Lord Byron* - Arsène Avignon (chef at Ritz in London, actual historical figure in the show) - Louis Diat (chef at Ritz in New York) - Jules Gouffé* (famous chef) - King of Sweden (whoever it was when Violet's husband was alive) - Rudolph Valentino (actor) - Agnes Ayres (actress) - Lord Robert Henley, 1st Earl of Northington* (Lord Chancellor and abolitionist) - Albert B. Fall (US senator and Secretary of the Interior) - King Ludwig* (I’m assuming of Bavaria) - John Ward MP (liberal politician, actual historical figure in the show) - Admiral John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe (Royal Navy, Blake and Tony served under him) - Benjamin Baruch Ambrose (bandleader at the Embassy Club, his band appears on-screen but it's not pointed out who he is) - The Prince of Wales (David, who became Edward VIII when King) - Freda Dudley Ward (socialite and mistress of the above) - The Queen of Naples* - Wat Tyler* (leader of the 1381 Peasants' Revolt in England) - Edmond Hoyle* (writer of card rules) - Ramsay MacDonald (Prime Minister Jan-Nov 1924) - Archimedes* - Boudicca* (Queen of the British Iceni tribe) - Rosa Luxemburg (Revolutionary) - Charles I* - Douglas Fairbanks (movie star) - Jack Hylton (English band leader) - Edward Molyneux (fashion designer; Cora has a fitting with him in S5E3) - The Brontë Sisters* (Charlotte, Emily, and Anne, all authors. Anne's work The Tenant of Wildfell Hall was the charade answer in S2CS.) - Leo Tolstoy* (author) - Nikolai Gogol* (author) - Elinor Glyn (author of romantic fiction) - Czar Alexander II - Prince Alfred (son of Queen Victoria) - Grand Duchess Maria (wife of Alfred, daughter of the czar) - Peter Carl Fabergé (Russian jeweller) - Ralph Kerr (officer in the Royal Navy; Mabel mentions a man by this name as a friend) - Keir Hardie (Scottish socialist, died in 1915) - The Moonella Group (formed a nudist colony in 1924 in Wickford, Essex) - John Singer Sargent (American painter, died in 1925) - Rudyard Kipling (author and poet - often quoted starting in S1, but first mentioned by name in S5) - Mary Augusta Ward (Mrs. Humphrey Ward - author; I'm not adding her to the character list, died in 1920) - Adolf Hitler - Pola Negri (film star) - John Barrymore (actor [Drew Barrymore's grandfather]) - King Richard the III (of England)* - Hannah Rothschild and Lord Rosebery (British socialites Violet knew; Hannah died in 1890) - General Reginald Dyer - Lytton Strachey (supposedly was at Gregson's party) - Niccolo Machiavelli* - Adrienne Bolland (aviatrix) - The Fife Princesses (as listed by Sir Michael Reresby) - Duke of Arygll (as listed by Sir Michael Reresby) - The Queen of Spain (as listed by Sir Michael Reresby) - Lady Eltham (Dorothy Isabel Westenra Hastings) - King John* - Neville Chamberlain (Minister of Health in 1925, later Prime Minister; appears on-screen in S6E5) - Anne de Vere Cole (Neville Chamberlain's wife. Fictitiously, she is Robert's father's goddaughter. Her father is mentioned has having served in the Crimean War with Robert's) - Horace de Vere Cole (Anne de Vere Cole's brother) - Joshua Reynolds* (painter) - George Romney* (painter) - Franz Xaver Winterhalter* (painter) - Sir Charles Barry* (real architect of Highclere, cited here as one as Downton Abbey) - Tsar Nicholas I* - Teo (or Tiaa)* - Amenhotep II* - Tuthmosis IV* - King Charles* - Clara Bow (actress) [To my knowledge, the Ripon election candidates in S1E6 were not real people, as were not always the case for military personnel Robert referred to.] Fictional Characters and Works Mentioned in Downton - Long John Silver (referenced by Thomas) - Andromeda, Perseus, Cepheus (Greek mythology) (referenced by Mary) - Sydney Carton (A Tale of Two Cities) (referenced by Robert) - Princess Aurora, and later Sleeping Beauty (the ballet I presume) (referenced by Robert) - Horatio (Hamlet; Thomas quotes a line in a deleted scene) - "Gunga Din" (poem by Kipling; quoted by Bates and later quoted by Isobel) - Little Women (referenced by Cora) - The Lost World - Elizabeth and her German Garden (book given to Anna by Molesley) - Wind in the Willows (referenced by Violet) - "If You Were the Only Girl in the World" (sung by Mary, Matthew and cast) - "The Cat That Walked By Itself" (short story by Kipling; quoted by Matthew) - Iphigenia (Greek mythology, may be referenced in The Iliad but I cannot confirm) - Uncle Tom Cobley ("Widecombe Fair") (referenced by Sybil) - Alice and the Looking Glass - "The Rose of Picardy" (only a few strains played, possibly the John McCormack version which was out in 1919) - Zip Goes a Million and "Look for the Silver Lining" (song played by Matthew) - The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (title used in The Game) - Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Angel Clare (referenced by Mary) - Lochinvar (from Sir Walter Scott) (referenced by Martha) - "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" (played at Mary and Matthew's wedding) - "Let Me Call You Sweetheart" (sung by Martha and cast) - "Dashing Away with the Smoothing Iron" (English folk song sung by Carson) - Way Down East (film) - The Worldings (film) - "Molly Malone" (Irish song) - The Scarlet Letter (referenced by Isobel) - Lady of the Rose (musical) - The Lady of Shalott (ballad) - The Puccini pieces from S4E3 - The jazz pieces from S4E4 sung by Jack Ross ("A Rose By Any Other Name") - The Sheik (film) - The jazz pieces from S4E6 sung by Jack Ross ("Wild About Harry") - "The Second Mrs Tanqueray" (play and films) (referenced by Edith) - "The Sword of Damocles" (Greek myth) - Dr. Fu Manchu - Mrs. Bennett (Pride and Prejudice) - A vague allusion to Wuthering Heights (talking about the Brontë sisters and moors) (referenced by Rose) - Vanity Fair and Becky Sharp (Molesley reads this with Daisy) - "It's a Long Way to Tipperary" (sung by Denker) - "The Fall of the House of Usher" (short story by Edgar Allen Poe) - Madame Defarge (A Tale of Two Cities) - Ariadne (Greek mythology) - "Cockles and Mussels" (Spratt sings a few bars in S6E5; this is also called "Molly Malone") - Elizabeth Bennett and Pemberley (Pride and Prejudice) (referenced by Violet) - Mr Squeers (Nicholas Nickleby) (referenced by Bertie) - The Prisoner of Zenda (adventure novel by Anthony Hope) (referenced by Tom) - "The course of true love never did run smooth" (quote from A Midsummer Night's Dream) Not included are proverbs or sayings (which Anna says a lot of), nor Biblical references. Do note that there's a lot of scenes with the characters reading, but we don't know exactly what.

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chiddicksfamilytree · 5 years ago

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This is the fourth in my biographies about the lives of my eight great-grandparents, next up is John Edwin Barnes.

John Edwin Barnes was one of the first Ancestors that I researched, in real detail and he is someone who will always hold a special place in my heart, due to the fact he was sadly killed in action at Gallipoli in WW1.

After my Nan died, I was the humbled recipient of his WW1 medals and it was these very medals, that inspired me to trace my family history in my early years of research.

Are we allowed “Favourite Ancestor’s?” Of course we are, so apologies if there is a lot of info in this blog, I have managed to uncover a lot about John Edwin’s military career, in what was actually, an extremely short life.

So sit back and take a glimpse into the life of my Great-Grandfather John Edwin Barnes.

John Edwin Barnes was born on 17th March 1890 at 49, Benledi Street, Bromley-By-Bow, Poplar, he was the fourth child of eight, born to Henry Barnes and Martha Barnes nee Harvey.

Within a year, we find John Edwin Barnes counted in the 1891 Census, still living at 49, Benledi Street, with his parents and three older Brothers.

1891 Census

(Benledi Street)

By the time of the 1901 Census, the family home had moved to 50, Burke Street, West Ham and young John Edwin is still living at home with his parents and six siblings, Henry aged 17, Walter aged 13, Arthur aged 8, Edward aged 6, Martha aged 2 and baby Ethel aged just 5 Months.

1901 Census

Whether he was inspired by his older Brother Harry Barnes, who joined the East Surrey Regiment, I can’t say for certain, but the next record we find for our young John Edwin Barnes is his Army attestation papers detailing his enlistment to the Essex Militia, Army Number 9431;

The following information is taken from John Edwin Barnes Army enlisting documentation dated 19th October 1906. He was recruited into the Essex Regiment at the Frances Street Office, Woolwich, London. On the day he enlisted, he was 17 years and 7 months old, his height was 5ft 6 1/2″ and his weight 12st 3lbs. His chest measurement was 35″ and his complexion listed as Sallow. He had brown eyes and auburn hair and his religion is listed as C of E. His occupation is listed as a Carman and he is listed as single.

He had the following distinguishing marks:

Scar left side of forehead

Scar between shoulder blades

Tattoo I Love F.Bevens front of left forearm

(I have no idea who F. Bevens was, but she obviously made an impact!)

His address on enlisting is: 66, Hansworth Street, Canning Town, London.

His next of kin are listed as follows:

Father Harry, 66, Hansworth St. Canning Town Essex

Elder Bros Harry, Pte East Surrey Regt, Walter Jnr, Bros Arthur and Edward Sisters Martha & Ethel, all with father.

He enlists into the 3rd Militia Battalion Essex Regiment, Number 9431, on 19th October 1906 and shortly after receives the Army Recruiting Office seal of approval on 22nd October 1906. Exactly one month later, on 19th November 1906, he attested for Regular Service with the 3rd Battalion, Essex Regiment.

John Edwin Barnes Attestation Record

After completing basic training at the Warley Depot, at the end of 1907, he was posted to 2nd Battalion Essex Regiment, with the Army Number 8987. He was posted from the 2nd Battalion to the 1st Battalion and is stationed at Quetta, Baluhistan, India on the 5th January 1911 and is counted in the 1911 Census in India.

1911 Census

He is stationed here in “C” Company and later in 1913 “C” Company was merged to form part of the new “Y” Company when the Battalion moved to a four Company structure in 1913.

A helpful link to understanding Essex Regiment Service Numbers can be found here

Essex Regiment Service Numbers

It’s during this period in Ireland and specifically Dublin, that John Edwin Barnes meets and marries his sweetheart, Elizabeth (Lizzie) Daniels.

They were married on 27th October 1909 at The Registrar’s Office in The City of Dublin and John Edwin Barnes was living at 6, Madeline Terrace, Golden Bridge, Dublin at the time and Lizzie’s address was 3, Woodroffe Cottages, Island Bridge. His occupation was listed as Private, Essex Regiment.

Between John Edwin Barnes enlistment and before he was sent to India, the Essex Regiment were stationed at The Island Bridge Army Barracks, in Dublin, the exact dates I can’t be sure. During this period there is also evidence of a Court Martial for a John E Barnes, of the 2nd Battalion, at The Curragh Army Barracks, Ireland. The date of the trial was 5th December 1910 and the Court Martial took place on 20th December 1910, the outcome of the trial was a Court Martial for desertion and he was sentenced to 112 days. I would like to think that he was deserting for good reasons, to go and meet his Wife, Lizzie, who would have been pregnant at the time with their only child Martha Annie Barnes. I will never know for certain the reason for his desertion, but the sentimental part of me would like it to be for this reason.

Court Martial Record

John Edwin Barnes and Lizzie Barnes only had the one child, Martha Annie Barnes (My Nan), who was born 21st April 1911, at The Stevens Hospital Dublin.

Sadly John Edwin Barnes died at Gallipoli on this ill-fated campaign, on the very first day of battle, 25th April 1915. Whether he was able to see his only child, Martha Annie Barnes or not, between his service in India, with the Essex Regiment and the outbreak of WW1, I am unable to say for sure.

You might think that there is where the story ends for John Edwin Barnes, but far from it, over the years I have been able to piece together more and more information about his time at Gallipoli thanks to the wonderful help of sites such as The Long Long Trail, The Great War Forum and The Gallipoli Association.

So I have included some more detailed information regarding the Gallipoli Campaign, the part the Essex Regiment played and the part my Ancestor John Edwin Barnes played.

There is a whole wealth of well documented books, blogs and research into the Gallipoli Campaign which would be far too lengthy to be included with this blog, but a very brief note of why the Allied Forces chose to attack the Dardanelles Peninsula is included here;

The eight month campaign in Gallipoli was fought by Allied forces in an attempt to force Turkey out of the war, to relieve the deadlock of the Western Front in France and Belgium, and to open a supply route to Russia through the Dardanelles and the Black Sea. The Allies landed on the peninsula on 25-26 April 1915; the 29th Division at Cape Helles in the south and the Australian and New Zealand Corps north of Gaba Tepe on the west coast, an area soon known as Anzac.

From now on, we will concentrate on the 29th Division, which consisted of 12 Battalions: Border Regiment, 1st Battalion Essex Regiment, Hampshire Regiment, King’s Own Scottish Borderers, 1st Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers, Royal Dublin Fusiliers, Royal Fusiliers – City of London Regiment, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, Royal Munster Fusiliers, 1/5th Royal Scots – Lothian Regiment, South Wales Borderers and the Worcestershire Regiment. John Edwin Barnes was part of The Essex Regiment that landed at “W” beach on 25th April 1915.

Troops of the 1st Battalion, Essex Regiment landing at ‘W’ Beach, 25 April 1915.

The following is the actual transcript of the 1st Battalion Essex Regiment War Diary in the run up to the landings on 25th April 1915 and the days after;

12th March 1915

His Majesty’s Inspection

Battalion entrains at Milverton Station, Warwick:

“A” & “B” Companies 8-25 am.

“C” & “D” Companies 8-45 am.

Inspection by His Majesty on main Coventry – Rugby Road.

Return home.

21st March 1915

Warwick, Warwickshire. Part of the 88th Brigade, 29th Division.

To Avonmouth and embarked Caledonia.

April 2nd 1915

Arrived Alexandria, Egypt.

April 6th 1915

Disembarked and to Mustapha Camp.

April 11th 1915

Embarked DONGOLA and sailed for Lemnos.

April 13th 1915

Arrived Mudros Harbour.

April 24th 1915

Set sail to Cape Helles.

April 25th 1915 09:00 hrs

The Battalion less Z Company transhipped from H.T. DONGOLA to a minesweeper and was conveyed as close to the shore as possible, when they were transferred to boats. The landing was carried out under fire and there were several casualties in the boats that took place on W. beach about 9.30 am.

April 25th 1915 09:30 hrs

As soon as the first boats were beached, we received orders to connect between the Royal Fusiliers on right and Lancashire Fusiliers on left and as many as were available were sent to fill this gap, reinforcing as men arrived on the beach. On reaching the crest it was found that no one was on our right.

April 25th 1915 11:35 hrs

A message was received from G.H.Q. to report progress and reasons for not pushing on. Reply was sent, that we were waiting for our left to come up and would then advance. This was attempted but the advance was held up by very heavy fire and many casualties occurred.

April 25th 1915 12:30 hrs

Supported by 4th Worcester’s and after bombardment by Navy, which drove out the enemy, the Battalion took Hill 138 and redoubt beyond.

April 25h 1915 19:00 hrs

Received orders to connect with Worcester’s on right & Hampshire’s on left and entrench position.

Enemy attacked at night & came to close range with a Machine Gun, but inflicted no loss and were driven off.

Casualties during day

2 Officers – Killed

4 Officers – Wounded 1 since dead.

Other Ranks 15 killed 87 wounded.

April 26th 1915

Continued to hold same position.

April 27th 1915 16:00 hrs

Advanced in Line 3 Brigades with 175th French Regiment on right and entrenched new position.

April 28th 1915 08:00 hrs

Advanced in same formation to take up a new position Pt. 236 – Knoll about 700 yds. N.E. of KRITHEA – Pt. 472 – X Coast Line in Sq. 184.R.8

April 28th 1915 09:00 hrs

Met with considerable opposition. The Battalion on the left of the 88th Brigade on reaching a point beyond which they could not advance owing to the right & left of the line being held up entrenched and held till 6 P.M. when it retired to another position in the line with the remainder of the Brigades the right of the line having retired. The enemy made very good use of their Machine Guns causing heavy casualties.

Casualties Officers Other Ranks

Killed 2 12

Wounded 1 75

Missing 33

April 29th 1915

Remained in position.

April 30th 1915

Remained in position, shelled by enemy causing little damage.

May 1st 1915

Remained in same position, Battalion relieved by 2nd Hants. Regt. in trenches and went into reserve.

May 1st 1915 22:30 hrs

Enemy attacked trenches in force. The Battalion was called out and ordered to retake trenches which has been evacuated and were held by the enemy. During the advance the Battalion was subjected to heavy fire from the front and also from the rear by parties of the enemy who had broken through 1 Officer and about 40 Turkish prisoners were taken during the advance. X Company under Capt. Pepys found one trench occupied by the enemy and retook it with the bayonet. The remainder of the Battalion remained in support ready to strengthen any portion of the line.

May 2nd 1915 04:30 hrs

A Counter attack was ordered. This consisted of three companies under Captain Bowen they took a small redoubt killing and capturing some of the enemy, ordered to advance and entrench new position.

This was found impracticable owing to enemy’s heavy shell fire. The old trenches were occupied.

Casualties Officers. O.R.

Killed 2 12

Wounded 3 28

Missing 5

The Essex Regiment Diaries can be found on Ancestry and the links are attached here;

Essex Regiment War Diaries 1

Essex Regiment War Diaries 2

Essex Regiment War Diaries 3

Essex Regiment War Diaries 4

Essex Regiment War Diaries 5

Essex Regiment War Diaries 6

Essex Regiment War Diaries 7

John Edwin Barnes is commemorated on the Helles Memorial alongside the names of his own Essex Regiment comrades and the other 20,000 plus soldiers, who sadly lost their life here at Gallipoli.

CWGC Record

Medal Rolls 1

Medal Rolls 2

Medal Roll Card

He was awarded The Victory Medal, The British Medal, The 1914-15 Star as well as The Memorial Plaque (knows as “The Death Penny”).

There are numerous Newspaper reports listing the wounding and death of John Edwin Barnes in various newspapers, these can be found on Find My past and The British Newspaper Archive websites, the links are included here;

Sheffield Daily Telegraph 31st May 1915

Essex Newsman 5th June 1915

Essex Newsman 20th November 1915

Essex Newsman 20th November 1915 Additional Article

The Chelmsford Chronicle 3rd December 1915

I am very fortunate, over the years, I have accumulated a large amount of Photographs from Gallipoli. I am eternally grateful to those that have allowed me to use their own pictures within my Family History Research. Credits to the images are listed below.

VLUU L210 / Samsung L210

(Images kindly supplied by Sean Ryan)

(Images kindly supplied by Robert Pike)

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

(Images kindly supplied by Bob Cumberbatch)

After his death, John Edwin Barnes widow, Lizzie Barnes, was entitled to a War Gratuity benefit from the Army, which was duly paid to her on 15th July 1919 for the sum of £5. The payment sheet recording this, is shown here;

Soldier’s Effects

A detailed explanation of how the War Gratuity was calculated and paid can be found here on a blog written by Craig from The Great War Forum. War Gratuity

John Edwin Barnes even managed to get a mention in a book by Trevor Royle entitled “Britain’s Lost Regiment’s, you can view the extract here;

Britain’s Lost Regiment’s John Edwin Barnes

My one lasting regret is that I don’t have a picture of my hero John Edwin Barnes……………..if only.

Special thanks to all those that have helped with contributions and images and have kindly allowed me to include them here. I hope you managed to reach the end………

The Life and Times of John Edwin Barnes This is the fourth in my biographies about the lives of my eight great-grandparents, next up is John Edwin Barnes.

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ww1revisited · 6 years ago

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Etaples is a town about 27 kilometres south of Boulogne. Etaples Military Cemetery is to the north of the town, on the west side of the road to Boulogne.

Etaples Military Cemetery

During the First World War, the area around Etaples was the scene of immense concentrations of Commonwealth reinforcement camps and hospitals. It was remote from attack, except from aircraft, and accessible by railway from both the northern or the southern battlefields. In 1917, 100,000 troops were camped among the sand dunes and the hospitals, which included eleven general, one stationary, four Red Cross hospitals and a convalescent depot, could deal with 22,000 wounded or sick. In September 1919, ten months after the Armistice, three hospitals and the Q.M.A.A.C. convalescent depot remained.

Etaples: Jasper Myers Richardson

Etaples: Lt-Col W.R.A. Dawson DSO

Etaples: Lt-Col A.M. Holdsworth

Etaples Military Cemetery

The cemetery contains 10,769 Commonwealth burials of the First World War, the earliest dating from May 1915. Hospitals were again stationed at Etaples during the Second World War and the cemetery was used for burials from January 1940 until the evacuation at the end of May 1940. After the war, a number of graves were brought into the cemetery from other French burial grounds. Of the 119 Second World War burials, 38 are unidentified. Etaples Military Cemetery also contains 658 German burials and a few war graves of other nationalities. The cemetery, the largest Commission cemetery in France, was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens.

Etaples Military Cemetery in the snow 1919

Royal Field Artillery

584

Royal Engineers

302

Royal Garrison Artillery

271

Northumberland Fusiliers

258

Machine Gun Corps

244

Royal Fusiliers (City Of London Regt)

243

Kings Liverpool Regt

203

Gordon Highlanders

199

West Yorkshire Regt

188

Royal Scots (Lothian Regt)

178

Seaforth Highlanders

163

Middlesex Regt

156

Durham Light Inf

153

Royal Army Medical Corps

142

Kings Royal Rifle Corps

135

Manchester Regt

135

Rifle Brigade

128

Duke of Wellingtons (West Riding Regt)

127

South Staffordshire Regt

125

Lincolnshire Regt

125

Army Service Corps

124

Lancashire Fusiliers

117

Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry

116

Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys Regt)

112

York and Lancaster Regt

107

Royal Welsh Fusiliers

103

Highland Light Infantry

101

Queens (Royal West Surrey Regt)

Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders

Black Watch (Royal Highlanders)

Border Regt

East Yorkshire Regt

Yorkshire Regt (Green Howards)

Essex Regt

Royal Warwickshire Regt

Worcestershire Regt

Hampshire Regt

Cheshire Regt

Suffolk Regt

Loyal North Lancashire Regt

Royal Lancaster Regt

Royal Berkshire Regt

Kings Shropshire Light Inf

Grenadier Guards

Ox and Bucks Light Infantry

Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)

South Lancashire Regt

Bedfordshire Regt

Gloucestershire Regt

Royal Sussex Regt

Cameron Highlanders

Royal Army Service Corps

Kings Own Scottish Borderers

Royal West Kent Regt (Queens Own)

Devonshire Regt

East Lancashire Regt

Leicestershire Regt

Somerset Light Infantry

Royal Scots Fusiliers

19th Bn London Regt (St. Pancras)

1st Life Guards

East Surrey Regt

Buffs (East Kent Regt)

South Wales Borderers

Norfolk Regt

North Staffordshire Regt

Welsh Regiment

Royal Dublin Fusiliers

Duke of Cornwall’s Light Inf

Coldstream Guards

Irish Guards

Royal Naval Division, Royal Marines Light Inf

Honourable Artillery Coy

Wiltshire Regt

Royal Air Force

Dorsetshire Regt

Scots Guards

Northamptonshire Regt

Royal Irish Rifles

14th Bn London Regt (London Scottish)

Tank Corps

9th Bn London Regt (Queen Victorias Rifles)

Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers

1st Bn London Regt (Royal Fusiliers)

Royal Flying Corps

12th Bn London Regt (The Rangers)

Leinster Regt

Royal Irish Fusiliers

5th Bn London Regt (London Rifle Brigade)

22nd Bn London Regt (The Queens)

Royal Horse Artillery

Welsh Guards

Monmouthshire Regt

Royal Irish Regt

16th Bn London Regt (Queens Westminster Rifles)

8th Bn London Regt (Post Office Rifles)

Royal Naval Division, Anson Bn

Royal Naval Division, Hood Bn

Army Veterinary Corps

Labour Corps

21st Bn London Regt (1st Surrey Rifles)

4th Bn London Regt (Royal Fusiliers)

15th Bn London Regt (PWO, Civil Service Rifles )

18th Bn London Regt (London Irish Rifles)

Royal Munster Fusilier

17th Bn London Regt (Poplar & Stepney Rifles)

Royal Naval Division, Howe

1st Household Bn

Royal Guernsey Light Infantry

28th Bn London Regt (Artists Rifles)

3rd Dragoon Guards (Prince of Wales’s)

20th Bn London Regt (Blackheath & Woolwich)

13th Bn London Regt (Kensington)

Army Cyclist Corps

Royal Naval Division, Drake Bn

Royal Army Ordanance Corps

3rd Bn London Regt ( Royal Fusiliers)

23rd Bn London Reg

Royal Naval Division, Hawke Bn

24th Bn London Regt (The Queens)

Cambridgeshire Regt

Royal Naval Division, Nelson Bn

2nd Bn London Regt (Royal Fusiliers)

Military Police Corps

6th Bn London Regt (London Rifles)

Hertfordshire Regt

11th Hussars (Prince Alberts Own)

QMAAC

2nd Dragoon (Royal Scots Greys)

7th Bn London Regt

5th Dragoon Guards (Princess Charlotte of Wales’s)

9th Lancers (Queens Royal)

1st Dragoons (Royal)

10th Hussars (Prince of Wales Own Royal)

Royal Army Veterinary Corps

Guards Machine Gun Regt

Mercantile Marine, SS “Huntsmore”

6th Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers)

Royal Horse Guards

YMCA

3rd Hussars (Kings Own)

4th Hussars (Queens Own)

2/3rd Bn London Regt (Royal Fusiliers)

2nd Dragoon Guards (Queens Bays)

2/2nd Bn London Regt (Royal Fusiliers)

Queens A Imperial Military Nursing Service

Civilian

Non Combattants Corps

Royal Naval Division, Medical Unit

Connaught Rangers

12th Lancers (Prince of Wales’s Royal )

2/5th Bn London Regt (London Rifle Brigade)

10th Bn London Regt (Hackney)

Royal Naval Division, Machine Gun Coy

Royal Naval Division, Royal Marine Artillery

2/7th Bn London Regt

2/12th Bn London Regt (The Rangers)

Northamptonshire Yeomanry

2/4th Bn London Regt (Royal Fusiliers)

20th Hussars

19th Hussars (Queen Alexandra’s Own Royal )

2/6th Bn London Regt (London Rifles)

Voluntary Aid Detachments

Queens Own Oxfordshire Hussars

6th Dragoons (Inniskilling)

2nd Life Guards

14th Hussars (Kings)

Royal Navy HMS Victory

Lincolnshire Yeomanry

Royal Navy HMS President VI

1st Dragoon Guards (Kings Royal)

18th Hussars (Queen Mary’s Own)

Royal Navy HMS Eden

17th Lancers (Duke of Cambridge’s Own)

7th Hussars (Queens Own)

Lena Ashwell Concert Party

City of London Yeomanry (Rough Riders)

Chinese Labour Corps

North Somerset Yeomanry

Army Pay Corps

13th Hussars `

Royal Hussars (Gloucestershire)

Warwickshire Yeomanry

Royal Naval Division, Divisional Train

11th Bn London Regt (Finsbury Rifles)

1/1st Staffordshire Yeomanry

Belgian Motorcyclist

North Irish Horse

1/1st Huntingdonshire Cyclist Bn

2nd Household Bn

Special List

30th Bn London Regt

King Edwards Horse

29th Bn London Regt

34th Bn London Regt

Scottish Churches

23rd Lancers

Infantry Base Depot

Leicestershire Yeomanry

Chaplain to the Forces

1st King Edwards Horse

1/1st East Riding Yeomanry

2/14th Bn London Regt (London Scottish)

4th Dragoon Guards (Royal Irish)

General List

St John’s Ambulance Brigade

5th Lancers (Royal Irish)

2/2nd Lovat Scouts

Territorial Nursing Service

2/24th Bn London Regt (The Queens)

2/20th Bn London Regt (Blackheath & Woolwich)

2/1st Sussex Yeomanry

2/1st Bn London Regt (Royal Fusiliers)

3rd County of London (Sharpshooters)

Identified UK Burials

8752

Unidentified UK Burials

Total UK Burials

8785

Total Number of UK & Overseas Burials

10744

Silent Cities - WW1 Revisited website: Etaples Military Cemetery #WW1 Etaples is a town about 27 kilometres south of Boulogne. Etaples Military Cemetery is to the north of the town, on the west side of the road to Boulogne.

#1914-1918 #Behind The Lines #CWGC #Great War #Pas de Calais #Silent Cities #War Cemetery #WW1 Battlefields #WW1 Revisited

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if-you-fan-a-fire · 2 years ago

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"Fathers of Prisoners Aid Red Cross," Windsor Star. March 10, 1943. Page 3. ---- THESE two Windsor war workers, whose sons are prisoners of war, know what the Red Cross has done for their boys. Food boxes and personal boxes have reached them from Canada through the facilities of the International Red Cross. That's why their fathers are anxious to contribute to the current campaign for funds. On the leftabove is Mr. Adam Duxter whose son is Private Albert Duxter of the Essex Scottish. Beside him is Mr. D. M. Stephenson, father of Sergeant Louis Stephenson, also of the Scottish. Their contributions are being taken by Mr. A. P. "Bus" Ford, assistant accountant, Auto Specialties, Limited, where all three work. (By Staff Photographer.)

#windsor #international red cross #war workers #industrial workers #auto workers #fundraising campaign #essex scottish regiment #prisoners of war #canada during world war 2

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scotianostra · 2 years ago

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19th January 1644 saw a Scottish Covenanter army of 20,000 men under the command of Alexander Leslie, 1st Earl of Leven move south into England and their civil war supporting Oliver Cromwell.

The 17th-century civil war may seem a very English affair, but that is misleading – it was started and ended by Scots.

Anyway back to the post in hand.

Parliament now opened negotiations with the Church. Although there were many mutual areas of agreement, the Church of Scotland held both the Independents and the Puritans at arm’s length.

#scotland #scottish #english civil war #bishops war #the stuarts #royalty #oliver cromwell #the covenanters #history

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bluepointcoin · 5 years ago

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Essex and Kent Scottish Regiment deployed as part of Canadian Forces COVID-19 response

Soldiers with the The Essex and Kent Scottish Regiment were deployed on Monday to Canadian Forces Base Borden in Ontario as part of the Canadian Armed Forces’ Operation LASER response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

Master Warrant Officer Fergus O’Connor said approximately 30 troops have been deployed to take part in a 400-person territorial task group “in order to respond to any request…

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chrismarshall1948 · 7 years ago

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Adventures of Bravour Wednesday 17th of May 2 Tuesday 22nd of May 2017: Well, eventually we decided not to go up Ben Nevis as the mooring for Bravour was too exposed outside Fort William, also getting there getting the bus to the gondola and going up Ben Nevis and back with the bus and then going all the way to Oban would have been a very long day and meant we arrived at about nine or 10 o'clock in the evening. So we paid up at Corpach sea Loch without scratching the boat which I have done twice before in this location. We had all the fenders out including the fender board and the boat just nudged up very easily without even the hint of a scratch. We then had an easy motor down to Oban via the loch Lynn and the Lynn of Lorne eventually arriving at 3 o'clock having set off at 930 as planned conditions were calm and no excitements or panics on the way. Oban even greeted us with some sun. On the Friday it was chore day on the boat and watching the Scottish island Peaks race begin at midday with a very good turnout of boats. We met the new owners of Oban Marina, Gary and Catherine, who are quite adventurous types having run a restaurant and bar in Montenegro and now bought this Marina. Chatting to Gary it seems Catherine is the true sailor and Gary is the reluctant sailing husband. They both seem in their element here and I'm sure are going to make a go of it after having only opened this February. Already things seem better run. Elisabeth and I said cheerio to Alan on the Friday morning having said we would meet up sometime in the weekend or early week for a beer and a meal before we made our final farewell. I'm sure will be seen plenty of him as he is berthing his boat at Port Bannatyne as we are. On the Saturday it was a rather overcast rainy day and we visited cruachan energy storage project which has truly amazing with a massive cavern in the middle of the mountain next to Loch Awe which could have housed a cathedral. 34 lives were lost building this project in the late Fifties and 60s and it is a energy smoothing out facility which will cater for Peak demand of energy by emptying the lock and can run for 22 hours and produced 440 MW of power. A truly amazing engineering feat which has been hacked through black granite which is harder than steel. The following day, Sunday the 21st, we visited the Isle of Mull using the Caledonian MacBrayne ferries, me for the first time, very comfortable and smooth, with a short bus ride to Stuart Castle which is a prominent feature when you enter the sound of Mull. It is the home of the McLean clan and has existed for six or 700 years, originally as a timber structure which disappeared and then a stone structure which was occupied by the English forces keeping the Scots in order and was then unoccupied for 160 years before eventually the McLean's came back and decided to rebuild it around 1911 and put a roof on it as it was just an empty stone structure with walls about 2 m thick. The exhibition is superb with silverware presented to one of the McLeans who commanded a regiment, a collection of dirks and an amazing view up the sound of Mull from the roof of the Castle. A thoroughly enjoyable day. On the Monday we did some more tasks on the boat and cleaned off all the dirty marks from the starboard side left by the boom covers over the winter using Barkeepers friend, a fine powder rubbing compound. We also met Ron who had berths his massive boat on the hammerhead at the end of the pontoon and was a very chatty Scotsmen who told us he had owned his boat for 23 years. He made his money, and I think is still making it selling aircraft filters and lives in Essex. He trains to Scotland for just a week and has been sailing his boat with up to 11 as a crew and had amazing times on the boat. His wife has never taken much interest and now his health is failing and that of his final remaining crew member is also in question, the boat is up for sale. He is 74 so he's not had a bad run for his money. Another boat moored behind us was a Roberts fibreglass boat owned by Ernie and crewed by Alan, not Eric. He was an amazing character and showed me round his boat, it had nooks and crannies everywhere, at least seven berths, a fuel tank with 1700 L of fuel in it which only needs filling up once every two years, a massive engine and an electrically operated furling Genoa. A rather dangerous option in my view, as if it goes wrong you can't get rid of your Genoa which could be an interesting situation in a heavy sea. Anyway we chatted boats and the same situation applies to him, as he has only one crew member left who has been with him for 18 years. I think then he said he was in his mid-70s and also still working. He runs a fleet of boats on Windermere so his boating experience is vast. It's always interesting to talk to these guys and get good advice from them. I told him our heater seems to be pushing out noxious fumes and making us feel very much under the weather and he suggested we get in touch with a make of heater called Mikuni, which is Chinese but he uses them on all his boats and can vouch for the quality. This summer I'm going to ask John Stirling at Port Bannatyne if he can change the heater as we really don't want to be gassed in our boat and there's no way real of testing it. I'll ask him about these heaters and see what he says. The other job I'm going to asked John to do is to look at the windlass which was working when we first got to the boat and then stubbornly refused to work despite everything Alan and I did to it. It seems to be getting power to the front of the boat but nothing works. It's either the contact, solenoid or the switch which is faulty as I can't believe a rewired windlass will have burnt out its wiring and we have not abused it in any way. Yesterday Monday the 22nd we met Alan at the Oban pub, which is a brilliant little pub and one of the oldest buildings in Oban, for a couple of beers and some very tasty fish and chips. This morning, Tuesday 23rd of May, I have done a few little odd jobs to make the boat ready for sea, and we are going set off at 1130 in order to catch the ebb tide going down the sound of Luing. The idea is to anchor in Loch Craignish, however the windlass not working makes life difficult, however I have a scheme for getting the anchor back on the boat using the mast winches and a carefully prepared roping system. We will only anchor if conditions are fair. It's about an hour from Crinan basin so we can head for there as long as it's not too late. That's all for now folks your skipper Chris

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