Faces of the First World War: Snapshot stories of wartime heroes still remembered and loved - Part 3

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Friday 9 November 2018 at 5:00pm

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Ted Day

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205356 Pte W.E.C. Day (Ted) 2/4 Yorks & Lancs, our Grandad. He enlisted with the Westminster Yeomanry 06/11/15, went missing in action (MIA) for 134 days but actually attached to the Machine Gun Corps (MMC). Attached to the Tank Regiment at the Battle of Cambrai, transferred into the 2/4 Yorks & Lancs. He received a severe gun shot wound to his left leg, and right elbow on 21 July 1918 while making a frontal assault on a German stronghold, just outside Rheims. Taken prisoner and had his left leg amputated, by another POW a Royal Naval surgeon while in Prusssia. He was discharged on 17/11/1919, and while recovering in Roehampton hospital met his future wife. He was one of the founding employees of the British Legion when it was formed in 1921, in the Old Kent Road. When the Poppy Factory was built he and his family moved into Veterans accommodation in Richmond Surrey, and he made poppies in the factory, and from his flat in later life. He passed away age 89 in 1886. A true inspiration

Henry Bembridge

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Joseph Hipkiss

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George Henry Mason

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William George Kemp

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Leonard James Taylor

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Georges Burgess

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George Adkins and his wife Minnie

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John Hayes

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George Henry Adams

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George Fredrick Hopton

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Isaac Chambers

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George Saunders

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Herbert Payne

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