Boy Soldiers of the Great War (revised edition) by Richard van Emden

[J Banning]

Richard has completely revised the 2005 version of his book. There are lots of new stories including that of a 13 year old serving with the Manchesters as well as 16 year old boy who dies on meningitis the evening he walks through his mum's door. Richard has compiled a database of over 2,000 cases of boys soldiers found on Ancestry. From these he has been able to compile a whole variety of new stats. The original 2005 book was eminently readable and I am sure that the extra work, research and attention to detail will make this one even better.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Boy-Soldiers-Great-Richard-Emden/dp/1408824728/ref=sr_1_8?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1352118866&sr=1-8

[edcoyne]

Hello Richard; My maternal unkle was a boy soldier,as follows,Harry William Lloyd,age at enlistment with his fathers permission at 14and 1/2 years on March 13th 1915.Died in service on September 14th 1924 at British Station Hospital,Quetta,India.He was a member of The Scottish Rifles,old number 18078.new number 3233649.He was awarded the General Service Medal with clasp "Kurdistan".I have recently been advised that his hand written "diary" was purchased at auction this spring.It also contained three pictures of him,two of them are of him at 15/16 years of age.I have another five pictures of him at various ages,mostly taken in "India".I am in contact with the collector who now owns the "diary". My Mother,Violet (Lloyd) Coyne,was his older sister. Should you want futher information regarding him or his diary please let me know. Please let me know where I may get a copy of your latest updated issue of your new book. Thanks Ed

[MaureenE]

I have another five pictures of him at various ages,mostly taken in "India".

The FIBIS Fibiwiki is always looking for photographs of the British in India to be uploaded to its website and it would be great if you could upload the photographs of your maternal uncle.

Fibiwiki link http://wiki.fibis.org/index.php?title=Main_Page

How to upload images: http://wiki.fibis.org/index.php?title=Upload_images

FIBIS link http://www.new.fibis.org/ Families In British India Society is registered as a charity in England

Cheers

Maureen

[Forton]

Hi Ed

Sorry, I missed your post. Thank you for letting me know about your maternal uncle. How did his hand written diary end up in an auction and did you get a chance to have a look at it beforehand? As I've said, I think I will always be on the look out for new material on boy soldiers, especially if it offers an new slant on the subject.

As for your question about where you can get a copy of Boy Soldiers of the Great War, then does 'all good booshops' suffice? Apparently WH Smith took several thousand according to my publisher, which does suggest a lot of returns next year!

All best and have a good Christmas.

Richard

[AlanCurragh]

A reminder that Richard will be at the GWF conference next April, and his talk will be on the Boy Soldiers of the Great War

Alan