Pte Bertie Hibbett. Portrait painting from 1914 Photograph above. Greg Fearon. WW1 Exhibition. Town Hall Walsall, 11th November 2018. I was also very glad to visit Walsall that year, to gather round the War Memorial on Sunday 11th November at the 11thHour, to remember my Uncle Sydney, my ...
[1]M. LoCicero,A Moonlight Massacre: The Night Operation on the Passchendaele Ridge, 2 December 1917(Solihull: Helion & Company, 2014). vol. ii, p. 1279. [2]G. Sheffield, J. M. Bourne, eds,Douglas Haig: War Diaries and Letters 1914-1918(London: BCA by arrangement with Weidenfeld ...
Within 12 months the young widower William had remarried, to ourMary Gertrude Isabel Hoschke,who had been a bridesmaid at his first wedding, in fact they were married in the same church. Their first child, a daughter was born in October 1914 was named Edith, perhaps in honour of Mary’s...
The unlucky Ritz was pulled down after WW1 and replaced with the nilefront villa of Emile Jacobs of Antwerp (now Pakistan Embassy) along with five of the neighborhood's smartest apartment buildings belonging to Moise Naggar and Vita Palacci of Cairo; Youssef Smouha of Alexandria; and Limongelli...