Tales from the Front (43) tells the story of Richard Tarrant, a native of Victorian Bournemouth, who fought in the Great War. Corporal Tarrant had left behind a successful football career and a wife with two children to march with the First Battalion, Dorset Regiment. Stationed with A Company behind Hill 60, he appears to have avoided the poison gas delivered on May 1st, but fell by enemy fire two days later.
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Victorian Bournemouth (198): sporting society
Victorian Bournemouth (198) examines the social profiles of men acting in an official capacity for one or more of the local sporting clubs.