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  1. USING BLOGS - README FIRST

    A blog by keithmroberts in General

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    This area is not for queries but for ongoing blogs. if you want to ask for help, please go to the appropriate sub-forum in the main part of the GWF.

    You have been asked to make your first post in a specified location. Once you have done that, your query can be raised in the various sections of the forum.

    If you previously posted a request for help or information in this area, it is likely to be deleted at some point in the next few weeks or months. So if you have a reply, please make a note of it, If not, can you re-post it in the appropriate part of the forum, which is likely to get you a quick response.

    Keith Roberts

    for the GWF team

  2. Socks, Sütterlin, & Other Musings

    A blog by knittinganddeath in General

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    This list is intended as a starting point for basic research and does not include individual books or newspapers.

    Edit: charlie2 gave some very useful links in the comments below. I have also added them to this list.

     

    Dead, Wounded, and Missing

    Verlustlisten (casualty lists): https://des.genealogy.net/eingabe-verlustlisten/search

    Geheime Marine Verlustliste: https://des.genealogy.net/wk1marine/search/index

    Denkmalprojekt (database of names on war memorials and rolls of honour): http://denkmalprojekt.org/

    Volksbund (German war graves commission): https://www.volksbund.de/erinnern-gedenken/graebersuche-online

    War graves in Baden-Württemberg: https://des.genealogy.net/labw_kgl/search/index

    Vermisstenlisten Prussian army (postwar list of missing Prussian soldiers): https://des.genealogy.net/wk1vermisste/search/index

    Vermisstenlisten Royal Saxon Army (postwar list of missing Saxon soldiers): https://wiki.genealogy.net/Verlustlisten_Erster_Weltkrieg/Vermisstenliste

    Ehrenmal des preußischen Offizier-Korps (list of Prussian Army officers killed in the war): https://www.digibib.genealogy.net/viewer/!image/406274452D/2/

     

    Prisoners of War

    International Red Cross POW database: https://grandeguerre.icrc.org/en/

    Internees in Switzerland 1916: https://des.genealogy.net/schweiz1916/search/index

    Internees in Norway and Denmark (compiled by the forum's very own @JWK: https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/298127-what-is-this-pow-uniform/?do=findComment&comment=3123469

     

    Official Lists of Officers

    Prussian Officers from 1785 to 1928, from 1894 including the Royal Württembergische Officers of the XIII Armee Korps; the post-war Ehren-Rangliste is also included: https://sbc.org.pl/de/dlibra/publication/392685/edition/370076/ehren-rangliste-des-ehemaligen-deutschen-heeres-auf-grund-der-ranglistern-von-1914-mit-den-inzwischen-eingetretenen-veranderungen-herausgegeben-vom

    Royal Saxon Army 1850-1914 https://digital.slub-dresden.de/werkansicht/dlf/31677/

    Imperial Navy 1894-1914 http://digital.ub.uni-duesseldorf.de/urn/urn:nbn:de:hbz:061:1-468952

     

    Soldier Records

    Records of the soldiers in the Regiments of the Grand Duchy of Baden:  https://www2.landesarchiv-bw.de/ofs21/olf/startbild.php?bestand=13908

    Kingdom of Württemberg's soldiers records, card indexes for the missing, dead and POWs: https://www2.landesarchiv-bw.de/ofs21/suche/findbuecher_mit_digitalisaten.php?archiv=1&sortierung=&klassi=1.12#_1.12

    Prussian service records were destroyed in WWII. Ancestry.com has records of Bavarian soldiers.

     

    Books and Newspapers

    Erinnerungsblätter (regimental histories): https://portal.dnb.de/opac.htm?method=moveDown&currentResultId="erinnerungsblätter"%26any%26online&categoryId=dnb.wk1

    https://portal.kobv.de/simpleSearch.do?index=internal&plv=2&sortCrit=score&sortOrder=desc&hitsPerPage=10&query=&formsearch=✓

    https://digital.wlb-stuttgart.de/suche/suchergebnis?tx_dlf[asc]=0&tx_dlf[order]=relevance&tx_dlf[pointer]=0&cHash=cae2b573b8b9fc70116632ab44fd5f87

    https://www.slub-dresden.de

    Hessian newspapers from the war: https://hwk1.hebis.de/

    Field newspapers digitised from the collection of the University of Heidelberg: https://www.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/helios/digi/feldzeitungen.html

    Digitalised collection of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, including many Great War-era books, field newspapers, and memoirs: https://digital.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/

     

    Uniforms

    Die Uniformen der deutschen Armee: https://bibliotecavirtual.defensa.gob.es/BVMDefensa/i18n/catalogo_imagenes/imagen.cmd?path=169281&posicion=1&registrardownload=1

    Historien-Kabinett: https://historien-kabinett.de/Home

    Kaiser‘s Bunker (no longer maintained): https://kaisersbunker.com

    Bekleidungsamt XIII: https://www.bekleidungsamt-13.de/Anzugsarten-1907-1918

    Westphalian photo archive, including military photos: https://www.lwl.org/marsLWL/de/instance/ko/Militaeruniform.xhtml?oid=4362

     

    Kurrentschrift/German Cursive

    AI transcriptions of Kurrentschrift: https://www.transkribus.org/kurrent-transcription

    Subreddit for help reading/transcribing Kurrent: https://www.reddit.com/r/Kurrent

    You can also post a thread on the forum and someone will come along to assist you.

     

    Miscellaneous

    Feldgrau Forum (German-language military forum, including subforums for the Great War): https://www.feldgrau-forum.com/

    Meyer's Gazetteer of the German Empire: https://www.meyersgaz.org/

    Historical German address books: https://adressbuecher.genealogy.net/addressbooks

    DeepL (free online translator): https://www.deepl.com/en/translator

  3. Not Only Railways

    A blog by BHJ63F in General

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    ... And finding a Trench Map error.

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    LOCATING THE FIRING SITE

    In 2020 our GWF colleague Ian Jones researched and published a super blog article on "The King's Shot", describing how King George V attended the live firing of a 14" shell from the "Boche Buster" railway gun on the 8th August 1918.

    But where exactly was the gun located when the shot was fired? This article looks at evidence to confirm the location - and finds that the Army map makers at the time incorrectly plotted the location as a narrow gauge line that would never have managed to carry such a large gun.

    The war diaries / shooting reports for 26th HAG show that the railway gun was located near to Maroeuil Station, north west of Arras, on the 8th August 1918 with the primary target being Douai Station, approximately 20 miles away..[1]   When in firing position, such artillery pieces could not remain on a main line, so they were run onto branch lines that were often specially built for the purpose. "Boche Buster" had only +/- 2 degrees lateral aiming motion on its railway mount, so the main targetting was done by positioning of the gun wagon on a curved branch spur. In the days before a major shoot, plotting officers would calculate precisely where the gun carriage had to be on the curve and would mark the rails so that wheels were exactly at the right spot.

    Hence, using maps, we are looking for a curved branch spur from a standard gauge railway line near Maroeuil with the ability to align the gun to point at Douai, on a bearing just north of due east.

    Film of the King attending the gun is available courtesy of IWM and that gives clues about the firing site that need to be considered. These include the fact that the railway branch is curved and stops short of a road; there are buildings visible in various directions; and another stretch of standard gauge line runs jointly close to the branch.[2]

    Using the TrenchMapper system available via the WFA, alongside Google Maps in Satellite mode, it is possible to search for candidate locations.

    In previous days "Boche Buster" had been garaged at Savy-Berlette on the line from Arras to St Pol and the gun had been reported firing at Fond de Vase, which lay on a standard gauge line between Maroeuil and Thelus, due north of Arras. So by tracking along the railway line between Savy and Fond de Vase using the mapping tools, it is possible to look for likely locations.

    Google Maps proved to be the source of the most likely site, with a scar visible on ground that lies between Bray Woods and the town of Maroeuil.

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    The main railway line still operates today and is visible running from top left to bottom centre right in the picture, lying between hedgerows. A field track runs alongside west of the line and the Bray - Maroeuil road is to the east.  At the centre of the image a curved mark runs across the fields and forms a triangle with another straight mark. The mark stops just short of the River Scarpe and the Bray road.

    To cross-check that this is the right place we use Trench Mapper to see if there is a map available around the date of the shot.

    The map of the 6th May 1918 does not show any feature that matches the triangular scar - and nor does the French map of 28th May.

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    Both show  a 60cm W^D Light Railway line running across the fields just west of the standard gauge line, notably in the gap next to a field with a marked right-angle corner. That field can still be seen on Google Maps today.

    However, the railway gun branch is marked on the 1:20,000 map "51C NE Aubigny Harbarcq 4C Local trenches corrected to 20 July 1918", so the branch spur looks to have been constructed during June/July 1918. That ties in well with the facts from WO 95 that the railway gun had arrived in France on the 26th May with 471 Siege Battery and had been allocated to 26th HAG on the 8th July. [3]

    (**** Update - it is now clear that the spur was constructed earlier, possibly in 1917 - see comments and German maps below ****)

    It would be nice to cross check with a map reference from the day, but unfortunately the 26th HAG shooting reports (TNA WO 95/218/4) do not give grid references of firing sites. But there are clues in the film taken of the King's visit to see "Bocche Buster" in action that help to confirm that this is the right location. The following stills show key features and then a diagram maps those features to the location.

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    Looking more closely at the 20 July map we can see that the Army cartographers made a mistake in their plotting of the new branch spur. "Boche Buster" was a huge, heavy monster of a gun and ran on standard gauge railway track. The modern satellite view clearly shows that the spur connected with the main railway line. But the map makers have drawn the branch as a 60 cm light railway, drawn in red with short marks crossing regularly.

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    The mapping offices had huge workloads to issue regular updates to the many trench maps that were needed for military planning, so inevitably some errors crept into the final product. By 1918 the use of aerial photographs was well advanced and we can imagine that whoever interpreted the new railway feature at Maroeuil made a quick assumption that any change must have been to the highly flexible light railway rather than to a main route. Their focus was probably concentrated on edits needed to marked enemy trenches rather than odd additions behind the Allied front line.

    The branch looks to have been purpose built to keep firing at Douai Station on a regular basis. Douai was a key junction for the Germans to move men and supplies southwards and would be an important target. That perhaps explains why a large building is marked on the map beside the branch spur. The railway gun needed supplies of shells, each weighing three-quarters of a ton, and hefty cordite charges, along with maintenance facilities. The crew needed food and accommodation, and the officers needed working space for range plotting. The gun itself would normally be returned to Savy for garaging after a firing session.

    A special ammunition wagon had been built by Armstrong-Whitworth that carried up to 128 shells and that had a special hoist mechanism to feed each shell to the rear of the railway gun for loading. And the complete train needed if the gun moved to a new firing site included the ammo wagon, cordite wagons, one or two officers' wagons, an artificer's wagon, diverse supplies wagons, several French "40 Hommes 8 Chevals" wagons for the crew's accommodation, and a guard/brake van. So it is likely that putting much of that capacity into a building on site would make it easy to run a much shorter train from Savy-Berlette on the accasions that "Boche Buster" was to fire from the Maroeuil spur.

    One aspect to consider is that the new branch had to cross the line of the existing light railway. There were some standard ways of addressing that issue used by the Light Railway Operating Companies, including an angled crossing-point junction for the two different gauges, or even putting a lifting section into the 60 cm track - see the excellent books by Roy Link "WDLR Album" and "WDLR Companion" for further details.

    Looking more closely at the ground today it can be seen that the second straight line alongside the curved arc served two purposes. Firstly, there was a "run-around" at the end of the line by the River Scarpe, which allowed a locomotive that may have hauled the gun into position to move away from the front of the gun and back into a safe area. The line also enabled supply wagons to be manouevered to the buildings.

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    THE SITE TODAY

    Given that the line of the branch spur is visible from above, what does it look like on the ground today?

    The next images, thanks to Google Streetview, show that the rail embankment is clearly visible from the Bray-Maroeuil road.

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    The River Scarpe lies between the site and the road, making access difficult at this point. However there is a field track that runs from close to Maroeuil Station into the pasture field where the emabankment is located, so on my next visit to Arras I plan to go and take a look.

    HITTING THE TARGET

    Lastly, as Ian reported, it is believed that the King's Shot was a direct hit on Douai Station. By switching from Google Streetview to Google Earth it is possible to plot the ground trace of the shell's trajectory. The fire plotting officer would have a good idea of the places that lay under the shell's flight path, but the crew would just know that the gun was aimed somewhere over the direction of Thelus. 

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    The railgun wagon had been aligned on a tangent to the rail arc that aimed at Douai, with final adjustment on the gun mount.

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    The distance measurement tool on Google Earth reckons that the shell travelled 28,500 metres. Given a muzzle velocity of around 1000 metres/second, that means the shot took something like 30 seconds to fly to Douai Station. 

    On the way it flew past many places known to those familiar with the battlefield between Vimy and Arras, including passing right overhead Oppy Wood.

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    A remarkable shot by a remarkable gun, managed by a skilled and zealous unit.

     

    A few questions remain that I continue to consider and would welcome any additional information:

    Is there a war diary for a company of engineers that built the branch line and the building?
    Is there a report that pins down how the existing light railway was crossed?
    Why does the straight line not re-join the mainline? Did it cross the LR as well? 
    Can it be confirmed that the building was for Railway Gun supplies?
     

    Thanks gratefully given to Ian Jones for his kind help with information about the 471st Siege Battery; Imperial War Museum {IWM) for making the film of the King's Shot available; The National Archives (TNA) for access to WO95 unit records; Western Front Association (WFA) and TrenchMapper; Google Maps Streetview and Google Earth.

    References:

    [1] TNA WO 95/218/4 page 100 of 124 26th Army Brigade RGA (aka 26th HAG)

    [2] Catalogue number IWM 218:  https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1060008215 from 12:00

    [3] TNA WO 95/5494/4 page 216 of 227.

  4. Black Watch (& other bits 'n bobs) Things

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    When the Great War began, the Town of Arbroath had a Police Force of twenty, for a population of something over 19,000.

     

    From the outbreak of the war, it wasn't until November of 1915, when voluntary enlistment was about to come to an end, that nine of the eleven men of the Police Force, who were of military age, as well as the Chief Constable James MacDonald, requested to be released from their duties to join the military.

    Four, in addition the Chief Constable, were permitted to do so at this time.

     

    The Chief Constable joined the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders and went to an officer training school, becoming a Lieutenant and going to France in November, 1916.

     

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    (Chief Constable McDonald in later years)

     

    The four constables, all journeyed to Glasgow to enlisted into the Royal Marine Light Artillery, on the 24th of November, 1915.

     

    They received consecutive service numbers: David Wyllie – RMA 1386, William Smith – 1387, Stewart Paterson - RMA 1388, David Findlay - RMA 1389,

     

    The R.M.L.A. operated huge howitzer guns that took 60 men each to man.

    They were part of the navy, being Royal Marines, although they worked in support of the army.

     

    Eight policemen from Scotland enlisted into the RMLA in December, four from Glasgow and four from Arbroath.

    Of the Glasgow contingent, two came from St Rollox district and two from the Central one.

     

    Their group photo was published in the Daily Record on the 31st of December, 1915.

     

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    Stewart Paterson joined the Arbroath burgh Police force in June 1907. He was wounded in July, 1917 by a gunshot wound to his face, however, he retuned to duty the following month.

     

    A year after this first wounded he was killed in action on the 10th of July, 1918. Paterson was 31 years of age and had been married for 9 years to Mary Ann, with whom he had 3 children.

     

    He was one of nine from his Howitzer to die on that day and are burried at Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery in Belgium.

     

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    After this initial group were permitted to enlist, a further two gained permission.
    Constables William Lindsay and Alexander Sturrock joined the Military Foot Police.

    They were reported in the local press as leaving to enlist in Perth, where they did on the 3rd of December, 1915.
    They were given consecutive service numbers of P.3096 and P.3097 and went to France on the same date, the 2nd of July, 1916.

     

    The roll of the Military Foot Police was to manage traffic, as well as help lost soldiers return to their units and pick up men gone awol.

     

    William Lindsay had been a police constable for 14 years. He was married to Catherine Cargill and had two sons.

     

    Five days before the armistice, he died in a casualty clearing station at Cambrai of influenza, aged 38.

    He is today buried in Cambrai East Cemetery.

     

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    Alexander Sturrock had been a farm servant and joined the Arbroath police force in 1908.

     

    He had over 2 years continuous service abroad, before joining the tens of millions who died form the flu pandemic all over the world. on the 27th of October, 1918 aged 35.

    He left a widow Helen and three sons aged 6, 4 and 2 months and is buried in Roisel Communal Cemetery, France.

     

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    Three of the seven from Arbroath Police Force were to die on service, that of these, only one died as a result of enemy action, shows how lethal the flu pandemic was.

     

    All three men are remembered on the Arbroath War Memorial.

  5. Updates to the Long, Long Trail [closed]

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  6. John and Marie

    A blog by Michael Johnson in General

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    "But Georges," said Dominique, dismayed, "How do I do that?"

    The General considered a minute.

    "It isn't going to be easy. You will have to go to her. Take Drouin and a Staff car - it will be better than arriving in your own car with chauffeur, and the fact that the village is in the Canadian military zone is a good excuse. As to what you are to say, I can't tell you that. It will be up to you to read Marie, and respond in whatever way will touch her."

    And so it was that a week later Dominique found herself knocking at the door of the house of Marie's cousins. She felt very vulnerable. Drouin had driven off, promising to return within the hour.

    It was Marie who answered the door.

    Dominique screwed up her courage.

    "Mademoiselle Drollet? May I come in?

    Marie's back straightened at the sight of Dominique, but she bade Dominique come into the sitting room.

    "Mademoiselle Drollet - Marie? I've come to apologize."

    "Yes?" replied Marie.

    "I should have introduced myself back at the hospital. And I should have thanked you for helping me nurse the General. I am Madame Johnson - well, Veuve Johnson to be correct. The General tells me that you are the Marie that Jean wrote to tell me he would marry. But I understand that you have dismissed him. Would you tell me why? Do you not love him anymore? Or do you feel that his family would not approve?

    Marie stammered her reasons, ending with "And of course you and the General would not want a farm girl for a daughter-in-law."

    Dominique looked at her. "Georges has had nothing but good things to say about you. He says you love Jean very much, and I know he loves you. And above all other things, I want Jean to be happy."

    "Marie, let me tell you a story. Years ago there was a young girl. She was attractive, but had little money, and truth be told not a whole lot of intelligence. But because she was attractive, she had many admirers. There was one she liked better than the others. He was a young army officer, just starting his career. But he was due to be posted to Algeria, and this girl did not want to leave France, so she did not encourage him. And the night before he left it seemed there was something he wanted to say, but it was left unsaid because he received no encouragement. Shortly after, the girl met a wealthy lawyer who was visiting France, married him, and went to live in Canada. They had one son - that was all. He was good to her in his own way, but he was not the right man."

    "As you will have guessed, Marie, that girl was me. I spent over twenty years in a foreign country. Years that I could have spent with a man I truly loved. But God was good. Edward died, and the young officer, now a General had not married. And I found him again, but gravely wounded. I was selfish back then, and I fear I've never quite lost it. I should have payed more attention to you, whether or not I knew you were my son's fiancee."

    "Marie, please do not make the same mistake that I did. If you love Jean, as I believe you do, please let him know. You might not be as fortunate as I was."

    Marie threw herself into Dominique's arms, and burst into tears. Dominique held her and cried as well.

    "I love him!" cried Marie. "It's just this war, and my father, and maman. I can't stand the waiting, the fear that I will lose another dear one."

    "You must be brave, as I must be. This war will not last forever, but we must finish it. And then there will be time to rebuild, to marry. Please, let John know that you love him. It will give him something to help him through to the end."

    "Can't you do that for me, Madame?" asked Marie. "I'm too ashamed of my behaviour."

    "No. my dear. It must come from you. Otherwise it will just be 'Maman interfering again' and John won't trust it."

  7. Paul Roberts

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    Albert Henry Victor Brackley enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force under a false name in 1916. He had ‘deserted’ his wife and two children when he sailed for England later that year. His ruse was discovered when he went absent without leave and after his wife told the Australian Army he had enlisted as ‘Herbert Walters’. Just a few months later, he ended up on the Western Front – facing the greatest danger. Here, I look at the story of Albert, who was connected to my family.

    He didn’t fight on the front line – but beneath it. He helped to dig tunnels under No Man’s Land to allow explosives to be detonated under enemy positions.

    The work was exhausting and dangerous. The explosions were frequently devastating, sometimes killing thousands of soldiers.

    Albert, a sapper in the Royal Australian Engineers, was one of tens of thousands of tunnellers on the Western Front in the Great War.

    He joined the 1st Australian Tunnelling Company – who carried out vital offensive and defensive mining work in France – in the summer of 1917.

    Just a few months before arriving on the front line, Albert found himself at the centre of a major controversy.

    He enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) on October 10, 1916 under a false name, calling himself Herbert Walters.

    He was not the first or last soldier with an assumed identity. But he was found out after going ‘absent without leave’ – and deserting his wife and two children in Australia.

    Albert sailed to England with the AIF on October 25, 1916 and arrived in Plymouth on December 28 that year.

    Ten days later – on January 7, 1917 – he went missing from Perham Down Army Camp on the edge of Salisbury Plain.

    He surrendered himself in London to a sergeant in the Army Military Police on February 20 that year, and was sentenced to 60 days’ detention.

    When he had been sailing to England, Albert’s wife, Queenie Alice Maud Brackley, wrote to the officer in charge of Army base records in Melbourne, declaring that she had been ‘advised by the police to let you know that my husband had enlisted under the name of Herbert Walters’.

    Queenie, aware that he had left Australia with the AIF, said she had a warrant out for his arrest – issued on November 9, 1916 – for deserting her and her two children.

    She revealed that a Mrs (Lydia) White – Albert’s aunt, listed as a ‘friend’ and next of kin when he enlisted under a false name – had been ‘drawing his money’ (wages) since he joined the Royal Australian Engineers.

    On March 2, 1917, while in custody, Albert signed a declaration that he had enlisted under an incorrect name after Queenie submitted a sworn statement before a Justice of the Peace that he and Herbert Walters were ‘one and the same person’.

    When in France, Albert was twice admitted to hospital with diarrhoea and repeatedly punished for going absent without leave.

    At one stage he was promoted to lance-corporal but ‘reverted’ to sapper shortly after the appointment.

    Admitted to the Australian Dermatological Hospital at Bulford on Salisbury Plain in 1919 with syphilis, Albert returned to Australia from Devonport in January 1920.

    In May that year, Albert was charged, on warrant, with deserting his wife and children after he arrived back in Australia.

    He and Queenie were divorced in February 1922. Albert, then a tramway worker, petitioned for the divorce on the grounds of misconduct.

    He claimed that during his active war service, his wife gave birth to a third child fathered by another man.

    Albert married Alma Beck (1895-1959) on September 9, 1922 in Victoria, and they had a son, William Albert Ernest, who was held as a Japanese prisoner of war in Thailand in the Second World War.

    Albert was a farmer when he died on May 20, 1924 at the public hospital in Swan Hill, Victoria, aged 33. He was buried at Swan Hill Cemetery, Victoria.

    Queenie, born on May 24, 1895 in Inglewood, Victoria, died on August 14, 1963 in Bendigo, Victoria, aged 68. She was buried in Bendigo Cemetery.

    Alma Beck, born on June 28, 1895 in Victoria, married Albert’s younger brother, George Alfred Brackley (1897-1963) on May 2, 1925 in Victoria. She died on October 10, 1959 in Parkville, Victoria, aged 64.

    NOTES

    The Victoria Police Gazette in Australia reported on November 9, 1916 – under the headline ‘Deserters of wives and children’ – that Albert was charged, on warrant, with deserting Queenie.

    Albert’s service records reveal that he initially enlisted in the 14th Infantry Battalion of the AIF under his own name in May 1915 in Tarnagulla, Victoria, Australia. Aged 24 at the time, he was a labourer. The records show that he failed to embark for service abroad in September 1915.

    The 1st Australian Tunnelling Company were one of four tunnelling companies of the Royal Australian Engineers in the Great War. They helped to spearhead offensive and defensive mining work, including placing mines under enemy lines and building dugouts and trenches for troops.

    In the months leading up to the Battle of Messines in June 1917 – which began with the detonation of 19 mines which killed 10,000 German soldiers and left 19 large craters – the 1st Australian Tunnelling Company helped to ensure that tunnels and explosives in the area remained intact and undiscovered.

    Albert, born on October 10, 1890 in Tarnagulla, Victoria, Australia, was the son of Henry George Brackley (1850-1924) and Mary Elizabeth Hurford (1872-1899). Mary was the daughter of William Hurford (1840-1915), of Stockleigh English and Mary Ann Roberts (1842-1926), who emigrated to Australia after their marriage in Cornwall in 1863. William was the son of William Hurford (1802-1881) and Charlotte Roberts (1815-1884). Charlotte was the daughter of Thomas Roberts (1770-1852) and Elizabeth Sharland (1776-1841). Thomas was my great-great-great-great grandfather. Albert married Queenie Alice Maud Hughes (1895-1963) on February 12, 1913 in Bendigo, Victoria.

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    Albert Henry Victor Brackley. Used with the permission of his great-granddaughter, Sonya Salzke.

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  8. Rambles and thoughs of a tired Kraut.

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    Alright so I gusse I should share more about me 🤔 

    First thing you need to know is I'm young and a little bit stupid 😂🥲. So please be nice to me if I get things wrong. 

    I've always liked WWI and history. I mostly make art about ghosts from WWI. 

    I tend not to take my self too seriously, but am always willing to learn. 😊😊 I wish to make new friends and share my art 👁👄👁. 

    I'll probably be active a lot, so feel free to dm or ask me anything. Just be nice (:

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  9. Cemetery and Ceremony Videos by Edward Walshe

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    Tilloy British Cemetery, Tilloy-Les-Mofflaines. Tilloy-Les-Mofflaines was taken by Commonwealth troops on 9 April 1917, but it was partly in German hands again from March to August 1918. The cemetery was begun in April 1917 by fighting units and burial officers, and Rows A to H in Plot I largely represent burials from the battlefield. The remaining graves in Plot I, and others in the first three rows of Plot II, represent later fighting in 1917 and the first three months of 1918, and the clearing of the village in August 1918. These 390 original burials were increased after the Armistice when graves were brought in from a wide area east of Arras and from smaller burial grounds. The cemetery now contains 1,642 Commonwealth burials and commemorations of the Great War, 611 of the burials are unidentified, but there are special memorials to 14 casualties known or believed to be buried among them. Other special memorials commemorate 11 men of the 6th Bn. K.O.S.B., buried in Tees Trench Cemetery No.2, whose graves were destroyed by shell fire. The cemetery was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens.

  10. Diary of a Dispatch Rider

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    Continuing the diary of Corporal John Sangway, dispatch rider with XVII Corps.

     

    30th Oct

    Came into hospital with “special” flu a week ago, 23rd. Damnable. If this is typical of hospitals out here, Florence Nightingale never finished her job. I have seen disinfectant once. I have had my medicine half the times ordered. I have slept on the floor all the time in verminous and dirty blankets. There is no ventilation at night & it stinks. People play horribly on pianos outside your door. The latrine arrangements are foul & frightfully inadequate & there is no water at night to wet your parched tongue. Can’t think of any more horrors at the moment. And yet I am feeling better. God knows why!

     

    Nov 1

    Left hospital, God be thanked. When shall I get free of vermin!

  11. Test Blog

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    Andy - can you see if you can add a completely new Blog Entry to this Blog, or whether you can only add a Comment to one of my existing Blog Entries.

     

    Mk

     

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  12. WW1 Petersfield, Buriton, East Meon, Langrish and Sheet Casualties

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    I have put together a digital talk for the Petersfield Museum to mark 100 years since the death of Lt-Col Gerard Leachman on August 12th.

    Available free on YouTube for one night only,  but you will need to register via the museum website. Lots of photographs and maybe some controversial viewpoints. 😀 

    https://www.petersfieldmuseum.co.uk/whats-on/gerard-leachman-petersfields-lawrence-arabia-digital-talk

  13. Don Hedger

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    Any one seen a library card for CEF troops WWI that reads University of Vimy Ridge ~ somewhere in France this was used to educate Canadian Troops while engaged in combat.

    This is most interesting however there is simply no data that I have seen ~ although these library cards did exist 

    More info is required on this unknown subject 

  14. WW1 Base Depots

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    Le Treport Miscellaneous depots and camps
    No 3 General Hospital (opened Dec 1914).
    No 16 General Hospital (opened Feb 1915).
    No 2 Canadian General Hospital (opened Feb 1915).
    No 3 Convalescent Depot (opened June 1915).
    No 16 General Hospital (Isolation Division) (opened Dec 1915).
    No 7 Canadian Hospital (opened 1916).
    No 47 British General Hospital (opened 1916).
    No 10 BRC Hospital
    VAD Camp (opened May 1917)
    RE Workshops & Stores (Mar 1915).
    Horse Rest Camp (EU) (opened Mar 1917).
    Horse Rest Camp (MERS) (opened 1917).
    Tanks Camp (opened Sep 1917)
    POW Camp (Pont et Marais) (opened 1917).
    Army Ordnance Camp (Mers) (opened Oct 1917).
    Rifle Range (opened 1918).
    Chinese Labour Camp (Mers) (opened Jan 1918).
    Chinese Labour Camp (Criel) (opened Jan 1918).
    PoW Compound, Isolation Hospital (opened 1918).
    PoW Compound (Le Treport) (opened 1918).
    No 2 E F Canteens
    No 2 YMCA Recreation Huts
    No 1 YMCA Cinema
    No 1 Canadian RCS Recreation Hut
    No 1 Salvation Army Hut
    No 1 BRCS Recreation Hut
    No 1 Church Army Hut
    No 1 RC Church Hut
    No 4 Base Supply Depot (MT)
    Bakery
    Ammunition Wharf

  15. Richard Laughton's Blog - The Unknowns

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    These are the categories that I have on my computer in bookmarks. I will update this page on a regular basis, particularly during the early phase of the "sorting into categories".

     

    These are ONLY for the British cases here on the GWF. They do not include any of the cases on the CEFSG (here).

     

    I was initially posting this information for the benefit of GWF PALS that wanted to investigate the case further and possibly take it to the reporting stage. I was not familiar enough with the Regiments and did not have access to the UK War Diaries, so I could not finish the case. With the assistance of the Long, Long Trail and now with Ance$try Worldwide, I am able to proceed. There are a number of these cases still listed in the final category below ("Other Cases Posted") and I am now in the process of working through these to move them to the other categories. Many may end up in the "Abandon or Hold" category, which I have now split. If you have looked at a report and believe it is in the wrong category, let me know.

     

    Changes to this blog include:

    • 23 November 2019 the details of acceptance or rejection during the Approvals Process have now been added, which are generally emails from the CWGC. Any team response or report updates are then uploaded to the site. This information, on how the process works, may be of benefit to other researchers.
    • 12 February 2019 the topic lists that have multiple nationalities have been sorted and classified as to their nationality
    • 25 January 2018 addition for "Short Listed Candidates". Those are the cases where is there is more than one person that fits the characteristics for the grave but the list is very short. The reason for this category is for FAMILY who may be researching an UNKNOWN, so they now know it may be their relative in that grave - but it is not a positive identification. This category has also been used where one or more of the candidates has been identified elsewhere, thus shortening the list.
    • 5 July 2018 addition of "CWGC Reports to be Submitted / Possibly Incorrect Identifications". It appears that the named person is "clearly" (not a minor question) in that grave. This has not been applied yet to cases where a recent submission (post 2000) may have misidentified an UNKNOWN (i.e. Kipling Case).
    • 8 July 2018 added "A member is looking for this soldier".
    • 22 July 2018 added "The Approvals Process", in concert with the 1st "Phase I" Approval.
    • 27 October 2018 added "Abandon or Hold / Accounted for by Special Memorial(s)" - men are listed missing but may be on a Special Memorial within a cemetery

     

    The cases are now also posted to TWITTER as:

     

    As always, I appreciate the assistance of any member who wishes to participate in these investigations. If a draft report is prepared, any member is welcome to review the document and provide comments, corrections or criticisms. If the report goes to the Submission Stage, any member that participated in the process can have their name added to the report. For that I need your Real Name, Affiliation (can be as simple as "Private Researcher") and your email address (so the CWGC can contact you directly if they wish).

     

    A list of both the Canadian and Commonwealth reports that I have submitted can be found here, with download links:

     

    The difference between the Canadian and Commonwealth reports is that initially the Canadian reports were submitted to the CWGC Canadian Agency in Ottawa for review first. If acceptable to Ottawa, they then were forwarded to the Maidenhead CWGC Office. This process was modified in January 2019 so that now all cases go directly to the CWGC Maidenhead.

     

    As cases move through the process, their place on the list below is modified. A topic might go from "New Cases" to "Reports Submitted" and then up to the "Approvals Process". There it might stay for a considerable length of time, before being marked as "Approved" or "Rejected". Once in that part of the process, additional information is added, such as a direct link to the report or review documents received from the approvals authorities (including rejections). Under the new process, a "Commonwealth Case" must make it through all three (3) phases of the approvals process. There is no information at present to indicate a "Canadian Case" would move through the process in the UK or if it would then be sent back to Ottawa.

     

     

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    Corporal Martin Carroll #55818, Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery, Plot 6 Row D Grave 3

    2nd Division, 4th Infantry Brigade, 19th Infantry Battalion

    CANADIAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE

    Killed in Action of 8 August 1918

    Reported Found 29 May 2015

    Rededication Service 1 December 2016

  16. Australian nurses

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    Looking for a reference book on Australian nurses in WW1? I recommend this book

     

    'More than Bombs and Bandages - Australian Army nurses at work in World War I' (Big Sky, Newport NSW, 2011).

     

    A review from a Queensland RN, Rev’d Dr Barbara Oudt:

     

    What I enjoyed most about Dr Kirsty Harris’s book is her ability to reflect those nurses voices in a way that was so real – one could be there, the settings were so well understood from her research and the language kind of made a time warp in the reading. Very satisfying. As you know I have that Peter Rees book, but I could not get into it after reading the historical one. It was like comparing a great documentary to Face Book trivia!!!

     

    Available from all good book shops, online via the publisher at http://www.bigskypublishing.com.au/…/more-than-bombs-and-b…/, (at a very reasonable price for a hard back) or read or order for your local library.

  17. Stars, Stripes and Chevrons

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  18. WW1 Pension numbering

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    In December 1918 the Class Z system was introduced by the army.  This system, which released huge numbers of men very quickly, created a reserve of soldiers who would be recalled quickly to the army if the armistice was to break down.

     

    Many of the men who were discharged to the Class Z reserve had claims to pensions for disability - presumably an assessment was made that this disability would not prevent the man being useful to the army again in future.

     

    The Class Z system lead to a new pension numbering format being used for these cases.

    Class Z

    The reference under the Class Z system was in the format of Z / Corps or Regiment / Sequential Number of claim from Corps or Regiment / Surname Split.

     

    For example,

    Z/DLI/1234

    Z/MGC/1234/AtoK

  19. Paul Chiddicks

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    I have finally written up the story for my 3 x great grand father John Edwin Barnes, thanks again for everyone's help on here that have helped make this possible, cheers everyone.

     

     

    One of my “Heroes” and Favourite Ancestors the fourth in my series of blogs about my 8 great-grandparents The Life and Times of John Edwin Barnes

     

    https://chiddicksfamilytree.wordpress.com/2019/08/17/the-life-and-times-of-john-edwin-barnes/

     

  20. 22nd Motor Machine Gun Battery - Action at Badama Post

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    During the night of 30/31 July 1919, a relief column of 3rd Guides Infantry marched the 20+ miles from Parachinar to Sadda. Nearly 300 men strong, the column was based on B and D companies of 3rd Guides, supported by guns from 28th Mountain Battery and 40 additional mounted infantry from the Kurram Militia. The column was commanded by OC B Company Capt John Henry Jameson DSO. 

    The column reached Sadda on the morning of 31 July and, supported by machine guns from 22 Battery, went into action at around midday. Picquets were established on the high ground, the engine from the crashed Bristol Fighter was salvaged and the body of Lance Daffadar Miru Mian was recovered.

    By the evening, reports indicated that the tribesmen were dispersing.

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  21. Sgt. Thomas William Chisholm

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    A few have asked to be kept informed as to the publication of my diary, so here you are. It is available from Amazon as an ebook as well as in paperback format. It can be bought from Waterstones in Newcastle upon Tyne, Morpeth and Hexham, also at Cogito Books in Hexham or direct from broomfieldpublications@gmail.com for £6.99 + p&p. It is available in the Newcastle City Library, The Newcastle University Library, and the Lit & Phil Library in Newcastle. So far it is being read in the US, Germany, Australia, Spain, and France. It has yet to have any major review, but all individual reviews by private individuals are very positive indeed. Many thanks for any interest shown to date and in the future.

  22. 61st Field Battery, 14th Brigade, C.F.A.

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    100 YEARS AGO TODAY: The March to the Rhine - Day 21.

     

    King George V and General William Birdwood visit the graves of several notable soldiers including, the temporary grave of Prince Maurice of Battenburg, the King's one-time equerry Major Lord Charles Mercer-Nairne, Brigadier General Francis Aylmer Maxwell VC, CSI, DSO & Bar, and Major the Hon. William George Sidney Cadogan, the equerry to the Prince of Wales. Presentation of baton of the Marshal of France to Philippe Petain at Metz, 8 December 1918. Marshal Petain, Marshal Joseph Joffre, Marshal Ferdinand Foch, General Maxime Weygand (France), Field Marshal Douglas Haig (Britain), General John Pershing (USA), General Cyriaque Gillain (Belgium), General Alberico Albricci (Italy) and General Józef Haller (Poland) awaiting the arrival of French President Raymond Poincare.

     

    General Staff - 1st Canadian Division, C.E.F.
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    13th Battalion (Royal Highlanders of Canada)
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    14th Battalion (The Royal Montreal Regiment)
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    15th Battlion (48th Highlanders of Canada), 3rd Inf. Bde, C.E.F.
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    16th Battalion (Canadian Scottish), 3rd Inf. Bde, C.E.F.
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    5th Canadian Divisional Artillery, C.E.F.
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    14th Brigade C.F.A., C.E.F.
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    61st Field Battery, C.F.A., 5th C.D.A., C.E.F.
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    Lt Abner Virtue - 6st Fld Bty
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    60th Field Battery, C.F.A., 5th C.D.A., C.E.F.
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    Recht, Photo: Edward Walshe

     

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    Marcard, Photo: Edward Walshe

     

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    Railway Bridge Bonn and Kirke, Photo: Edward Walshe

     

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    Dedenburg & Bonn Railway Bridge, Photo: Edward Walshe

     

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    Amel, Photo: Edward Walshe

     

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    Moderscheid, Photo: Edward Walshe

     

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    Bullingen, Photo: Edward Walshe

     

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    Outside Bullingen, Photo: Edward Walshe

     

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    Outside Wirtzfeld, Photo: Edward Walshe

     

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    Wirtzfeld, Photo: Edward Walshe

     

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    Outside Krinkelt, Photo: Edward Walshe

     

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    Krinkelt, Photo: Edward Walshe

     

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  23. MIKAN: Before and After Photos by Edward Walshe

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    MIKAN 3329308: Amiens Front - Ecourt St. Quentin, Apr. & May 1919.

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     Église St.Léger, dating from the twelfth century, Saudemont, 19th April 2018 at 8:49 AM.

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  24. Great War Films by Edward Walshe

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    IWM 319: PONT REMY SPORTS [MAIN TITLE]
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    Click here for the video.

    Object description
    The competition between Army Forestry Companies from Britain, Australia, Canada and New Zealand at the Forestry Camp at Pont-Remy, France, 15th September 1918.

     

    Full description
    The soldiers watch several forms of contest. A pillow fight between two men sitting astride a log suspended over water. A tree-stump felling contest, in which the four representatives each have to cut down a stump about three metres high. A similar competition to cut through a short log lying on the ground, won by the Australian whose fellows rush forward to cheer him. He poses in his shirt, shorts and bush hat with his axe beside the trunk. A third contest, including New Zealand Maoris, in chopping down medium-sized trees. Finally a 'log rolling' contest for men keeping balance standing on a log on the river, which they cross by rolling the log forward.

     

    Production date
    1918
    Place made
    GB
    Dimensions
    whole: Number Of Items/reels/tapes 1

    Catalogue number
    IWM 319

  25. Ian Barton

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    Obituary for my Grand Father Company Sergeant Major Fred Seaman No.5572, Of The 2nd Battalion Coldstream Guards

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