Remembering today

Old Sweats
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Location:Essex
Interests:Local historian specialising in East of England (Essex, Hertfordshire and Suffolk) and vintage postcards. My book "Postcards from the Front: 1914-1919" has just been published by Amberley. "Postcards as a medium of correspondence became popular in the early years of the twentieth century. This soon became a flood as hundreds of thousands of postcards found their way into the postal system as the Edwardian era progressed. With the outbreak of the First World War in August 1914, it was only natural that the sending of postcards would spill over into the battlefields of the Western Front and Britain’s Home Front. The book also includes extensive appendices on how to identify and research postcards from the battlefields of the First World War, to reveal the story of your own ancestors’ war." https://www.amberley-books.com/postcards-from-the-front-19141919.html

Posted 1 January , 2006

This link has photos of the HMS Formidable

Name: SHOESMITH, JESSE JAMES

Initials: J J

Nationality: United Kingdom

Rank: Boy 1st Class

Regiment: Royal Navy

Unit Text: H.M.S. "Formidable."

Age: 17

Date of Death: 01/01/1915

Service No: J/29547

Additional information: Son of Jesse and Susan Shoesmith, of 10, Clarence St., Brunel Rd., Rotherhithe. Native of Walworth, London.

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