Can anyone help with these names?
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shuli
http://talk.operationwardiary.org/#/subjects/AWD000399q
I can't make out the names of the men receiving commendations for various acts of bravery, rescue etc.... I would really like to be able to tag them properly
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Maybe not sure: 2/Lt. F J G Driden. 18537 L/Cpl. J Earle. 1534 Pte J. Johnson. Major G H Altrinson. Faint so cannot zoom in on the diary page.
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ral104
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I've got to run now, but will take a look at this first thing tomorrow and see if I can make anything out.
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cyngast
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I thought the second name was Didden. It's hard to tell because the line printed on the page runs right through that third letter. Also, maybe the last one is Johnston, rather than Johnson. I agree with Marie on Earle and that the first name starts with A and ends with son, but I can't make out the middle part.
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ral104
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Major George Herbert Stevenson: https://livesofthefirstworldwar.org/lifestory/4261403
Lieutenant FJA Dibdin, Royal Sussex Regiment, but attached to the 2nd Welsh: https://livesofthefirstworldwar.org/lifestory/5310185
#18587 L/Cpl TG Earle: https://livesofthefirstworldwar.org/lifestory/4980336
#1534 Pte E Johnson (I'm not sure about this name, but the service number matches): https://livesofthefirstworldwar.org/lifestory/2114719
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shuli
Wow thank you, it's amazing to read about them.
I accidentally closed the page already - should I add their names or numbers in hashtags in the comments? or just hope the next person tags them properly?Posted
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ral104
moderator, scientist
No problem - as you can see there are always plenty of people happy to help 😃
If I were you, I'd add the names as a comment to the page, just to help out subsequent taggers, but no need to hashtag them.
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shuli
by the way, I found an account from Cardiff U. that tells of the 2nd welsh (the regiment I'm tagging) at the battle of Aubers ridge:
http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/share/resources/Ivor Griffiths'%20War.pdf
It's fascinating to read the details and understand what was going on (a bloodbath with 30% casualties courtesy of Gen Haking...)Posted
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ral104
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Thanks for the link. It's always very moving to read about the experiences of individuals during the war.
I'm just going to repeat the link here because part of it got missed off above: http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/share/resources/Ivor%20Griffiths'%20War.pdf
This would also be a great resource to attach to Ivor Griffith's life story on Lives of the First World War!
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David_Underdown
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My great-great-uncle joined the battalion among reinforcements just after Aubers Ridge (so far as I've been able to tell). He was one of those who joined up under age, and still had not actually reached 19 when he died of wounds received at the Somme on 26/7/1916. http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/blog/my-tommys-war-an-underage-welsh-brickie-on-the-somme/
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shuli
After reading the above account of the battle, I am (as always) struck by the contrast between the dry and emotionless writing in the diaries, and the events as they were actually unfolding.
For example, the diaries make no mention of the fact that many of the regiment's dead could not be recovered.
Three months after the battle of Aubers Ridge, a Captain Buckmaster was in the trenches at the Rue du Bois.
He wrote "Just over the parapet were the bodies of many of the 2nd battalion of the Sussex Regiment..
There they lay facing the enemy, mummified…"
David_Underdown - the research you did on your uncle's life is fascinating!Posted
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ral104
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The diaries can vary enormously depending on who was writing them. Some, like you say, are very dry. Others are much more personal.
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