Tales from the Front (36) tells the story of Frank Wilcox, a native of Victorian Bournemouth, who fought in the Great War. Private Wilcox had served with the local militia before joining the First Battalion, Dorsetshire Regiment. He came to France in autumn 1914, fighting at Hill 60 the next year, where he went missing, another plausible victim of poison gas on the evening of May 1st, 1915.
Tales from the Front (35) tells the story of Frederick George Jeans, a native of Victorian Bournemouth, who fought in the Great War. Private Jeans, a former gardener, enlisted with the First Battalion, Dorset Regiment. He fell at Hill 60, near Ypres, in the evening of May 1st, 1915, a victim of poison gas, a new type of killing agent.
Tales from the Front (32) tells the story of Alfred Charles Holley, a native of Victorian Bournemouth, who fought in the Great War. Private Holley had already served with the First Battalion, Dorset Regiment, but returned to civil life. By April 1915, however, the war had summoned him back to the ranks. He reenlisted and served in Belgium, to fall at Hill 60, a small mound of huge strategic importance to both sides.
Tales from the Front (31) tells the story of William Lanham, a native of Victorian Bournemouth, who fought in World War I. A former labourer, Private Lanham, a member of the First Battalion, Dorsetshire Regiment, fell during the savage fighting at Hill 60.
Tales from the Front (26) recounts the life of Albert Frank Dashwood, a native of Victorian Bournemouth, who fought in World War I. Before the war, he had worked as an errand boy and, later, an ironmonger’s porter. Before the war he had served with the Territorials, later going on reserve but recalled in 1914. Lance-Corporal Dashwood died of wounds at Vlamertinghe, near Ypres, early in March 1915.
Tales from the Front (19) tells the story of Edward Stanislaus Williams, a Bournemouth-born man, who fought in the Great War. A van-boy in 1911, Williams went with the First Dorsetshire battalion to France in 1914. He fell along the Messines-Ploegsteert Wood road, November 16th, 1914.
Tales from the Front (13) tells the story of Henry Walter Dolman, a Bournemouth native who fought in the Great War. A former gardener, Private Dolman, serving with the 1st Battalion of the Dorsetshire Regiment, fell on October 22nd, 1914, at La Bassee.
Tales from the Front (12) tells the story of Henry Charles Hopkins, a Bournemouth native who fought in the Great War. Private Hopkins, a former fruit seller serving with the 1st Battalion of the Dorsetshire Regiment, fell on October 13th, 1914, at La Bassee.
Tales from the Front (11) tells the story of Charles George Morris, a Bournemouth native who fought in the Great War. A Private serving with the 1st Battalion of the Dorsetshire Regiment, he fell on October 13th, 1914, at La Bassee. He may have witnessed the first execution for desertion.
Tales from the Front (10) tells the story of Walter Henry Linham, a Bournemouth native who fought in the Great War. A sawyer, who served with the 1st Dorsetshire Battalion, he fell on October 13th, 1914, at La Bassee.