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Douglas Harold Smith

@Historydoug

Loves history, fairness, saving the planet, doing my best. History teacher, historian, author. MBE 2012.

 Chaddesley Corbett, England
Historynut.co.uk
Joined January 2014
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Remember the fallen@war_fallenNov 6
Remembering Staff Nurse Vivian Consterdine, Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service, died from illness on the 6th November 1918 aged 36. Read more via this link: rememberthefallen.co.uk/nurs… #WW1 #nurses
Staff Nurse Vivian CONSTERDINE | Remember The Fallen

Staff Nurse Vivian CONSTERDINE | Remember The Fallen

Staff Nurse Vivian CONSTERDINE served and died in WW1. Dicover the memorials and service history of this War Casualty.

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Remember the fallen@war_fallenNov 5
Remembering Staff Nurse Elizabeth Watson, Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service, died from pneumonia on the 5th November 1918 aged 30. Read more via this link: rememberthefallen.co.uk/nurs… #WW1 #nurses
Staff Nurse Elizabeth WATSON | Remember The Fallen

Staff Nurse Elizabeth WATSON | Remember The Fallen

Staff Nurse Elizabeth WATSON served and died in WW1. Discover the memorials and service history of this War Casualty.

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Lord Mayor of Birmingham@BrumLordMayorNov 6
🌹 On Sunday Birmingham will fall silent, as we remember the fallen at the annual Remembrance Day service and parade. ⛪ The Remembrance Service takes place on Colmore Row - the Salvation Band will play from 10.15am. 👇 For details see link in comments #lestweforget
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Alfred Edwards Middlesex Regiment Footballers Battalion/Duke of Cambridge Middlesex Regiment Killed 4th Nivember 1918 France Footballer Dudley Town, Bristol City @BristolCity Aston Villa, Newport County
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Remember the fallen@war_fallenNov 5
Remembering Warrant Officer Class 2 Ian Fisher, 3rd Battalion (Staffords) The Mercian Regiment, killed in a vehicle-borne suicide attack near Kamparak, Helmand Province, Afghanistan on the 5th November 2013 aged 42. Ian was from Essex. #Afghanistan
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Remember the fallen@war_fallenNov 2
Remembering Nurse Hilda Chadwick, Voluntary Aid Detachment, died from illness on the 2nd November 1918 aged 20. Read more via this link: rememberthefallen.co.uk/nurs… #WW1 #nurses
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Remember the fallen@war_fallenNov 1
Remembering Nurse Rosamond Lord, died from acute pneumonia on the 1st November 1918 aged 20, worked as a nurse at Bicester Red Cross Hospital, no VAD index card, death registration in the December Quarter 1918. Read more via this link: rememberthefallen.co.uk/nurs… #WW1 #nurses
Nurse Rosamond LORD | Remember The Fallen

Nurse Rosamond LORD | Remember The Fallen

Nurse Rosamond LORD served and died in WW1. Discover the memorials and service history of this War Casualty.

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Remember the fallen@war_fallenOct 31
Remembering Staff Sergeant Olaf Schmid GC, Royal Logistics Corps (E.O.D.), killed in an IED blast Sangin Region, Helmand Province, Afghanistan on the 31st October 2009 aged 30. He was posthumously awarded the George Medal. #Afghanistan
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Samuel Eyres Royal Garrison Artillery Killed 31st October 1917 Belgium Footballer Manchester City, Failsworth, Colne, Hyde
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Remember the fallen@war_fallenOct 31
Remembering Corporal Ian Plank, Special Boat Service, killed by hostile fire during a Coalition operation in Iraq late on 31st October 2003 aged 31. #Iraq
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Sydney Frederick Hammond Royal Field Artillery Killed 18th October 1917 Belgium Footballer West Ham United
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Remember the fallen@war_fallenOct 17
Remembering Nursing Sister Constance Edmeades, South African Military Nursing Service, died on the 17th October 1918 aged 28. Read more via this link: rememberthefallen.co.uk/nurs… #WW1 #nurses
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WW1 On This Day
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British soldiers examining a German 10.5 cm FH 9809 field howitzer, abandoned on a road near Courtrai, 18 October 1918. Some of the horses of the team were killed by shell fire. IWMQ11388
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PRH191418@QMGS191418Oct 16
Lt Herbert Cook 70 Squadron RFC. Died 17 October 1917. Mendinghem Cemetery. Old boy of QMGS 1902-05.
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Remember the fallen@war_fallenOct 18
Remembering Staff Nurse Helena Bennet, Queen’ Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service, died from pneumonia following influenza on the 18th October 1918 aged 29. Read more via this link: rememberthefallen.co.uk/nurs… #nurses
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PRH191418@QMGS191418Oct 13
Pte Frank Wise 1/6th South Staffs died 14 October 1917. Philosophe Cemetery, Mazingarbe. Old boy of QMGS.
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Dan P@DanielJPhelan_Oct 11
A pedestal marker (sometimes called a Gallipoli marker) used to remember Pte Victor Cantrill, a Coventry man who served with the Canadian forces. Time and the elements had not been kind to the lead lettering used on his original memorial. 📍Coventry (Windmill Road) Cemetery 🇬🇧
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WW1 On This Day
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Two army cooks of the 4th Australian Division stand in a landscape of waterlogged trenches on Westhoek Ridge during the Third Battle of Ypres (Passchendaele), 9 October 1917.IWMEAUS 1091
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Remember the fallen@war_fallenOct 10
Remembering Nurse Sophia Barrett, Voluntary Aid Detachment, died on the 10th October 1918 when SS Leinster was torpedoed and sunk in the Irish Sea. Read more via this link: rememberthefallen.co.uk/nurs… #WW1 #nurses
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Albert Milton Royal Field Artillery Killed 11th October 1917 Belgium Footballer South Kirby, Barnsley, Sunderland @SunderlandAFC Swindon Town
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