The Sincerest For Of Poetry
Apprenticed To My Mother
Walking Into Trouble
Dead Flies and Sherry Trifle
The Last Will Of Sven Andersen
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Buster & Moo
Salisbury Square
My Father and Other Liars
Life In A Conversation
Life, in a Grain of Sand
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Tag Archives: Military Medal
To End All Wars? A Personal View
My father was born on the eleventh November. As a child that was Dad’s birthday; it contained nothing more resonant than that. At some point however, and I wouldn’t have been very old, I realised it was also Remembrance Day … Continue reading
Posted in family, memories, miscellany, WW1
Tagged memories, Military Medal, st Pol, the great war, thoughts, war, willi dyson, World War One
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William Harding Dyson 1896 – 1917 – one young man’s story
William Dyson, Willie to his family, was born at the back end of the 19th Century into a reasonably comfortable family in Linton, in Cambridgeshire. He had two brothers, Allen and Edward and three sisters Mabel (Mabs), Gladys (Glad) … Continue reading
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Tagged Battle of Arras, Linton, Military Medal, Poppies, RAMC, Tower of London, William Harding Dyson
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