A once imposing war memorial dedicated to members of the print union Natsopa has been restored to its former glory and takes pride of place in a new peace garden in Wellsborough, Leicestershire.
The…Read more…
National Socialist Party Split from BSP – WW1 – 1916
28th September 1916
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Welsh Hospital Netley WW1
Welsh Hospital Netley (near Southampton) WW1
Nurse Mary Rodwell – Suffragette – Klled 17th November 1915 (Hospital Ship Anglia)
Suffragette and WW1
Nursing Heroine
Miss Mary Rodwell (Brockdish, Norfolk) was a member Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service (Q.A.I.M.N.S.R.). She was killed on the night of 17th November 1915 when the Hospital Ship Anglia was retu…Read more…
Class Distinctions and the War – WW1
Article – November 1914
Class Distinctions and The WarEver since the outbreak of the war the press and politicians have been telling us that all sections of the community have dropped their…Read more…
Pension loss for war grave staff scandal
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) is to slash the pensions of staff who tend the cemeteries of the war dead. The CWGC is pressing ahead to break the final salary linkage for the…Read more…
RAMC WW1
National Union of Boots and Shoe Operatives
The National Union of Boots and Shoe Operatives was established in Stafford in 1874. By 1918 the union could report that over 20,000 of its members were in military service and over 2,000 had been…Read more…