5th Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry - Feb 1916 - two men

[johntanner]

Aurel

 

Read the article last night. It reads very well and your logic in terms of identifying who it might be is very strong and persuasive.

 

John

[Louise Jeynes]

Hello, Harold Curtis was my Great Grandmothers younger brother. I was doing some research yesterday when I came across this forum. I was very interested to read the information posted.

[Aurel Sercu]

Hello Louise,

Yes, in the summer of 2020 I did some research on that specific row in Talana Farm Cemetery, because it's the only 1916 row, and I was particularly interested in the Unknown grave. And tried a possible ID. Though I knew from the start I would never find a definitive result.

Anyway, I concluded my research end of August / beginning, and wrote an article (for myself in the first place) beginning of September 2020.

If you want me send it to you, you can contact me, in a PM or an e-mail (when clicking on me).

Should that do not work, maybe because you are a new member, you can contact me directly by e-mail (so that I know your e-mailaddress, if you have no objection). Then I will send the article (PDF 22 pages, 5 or 6 MB, but with many illustrations).

aurel.sercu[@]telenet.be

Drop the square brackets [  ]. I used them here to camouflage my e-mail address in public.

Best wishes from grey and wet Flanders,

Aurel

 

 

[sadbrewer]

4 hours ago, Louise Jeynes said:

Hello, Harold Curtis was my Great Grandmothers younger brother. I was doing some research yesterday when I came across this forum. I was very interested to read the information posted.

From The Reading Observer, 4th March, 1916.

Courtesy of the British Newspaper Archive 

 

[Aurel Sercu]

Thanks, Sadbrewer, for this additional information.

These names were brought back to life again. Yes, 'again'. For last Thirsday (Armistice Day) I popped in in Talana Farm Cemetery, and reading each of the over 500 names on the headstones, aloud, spared a few extra seconds at the headstone of the Unknown Soldier in that row, wondering : Will I ever know who you are ? Curtis or Norcott ?

Aurel