Tag: Great War

Tales from the Front (17)
1914, Tales from the Front

Tales from the Front (17)

Tales from the Front (17) tells the story of Charles Frederick Brown, a Bournemouth native who fought in the Great War. He joined the 2nd Battalion Scots Guards, and fough during the 1st Battle of Ypres. He fell at Gheluvelt, an area lying 10 km to the south-east of Ypres, November 1st 1914.

Tales from the Front (15)
1914, Tales from the Front

Tales from the Front (15)

Tales from the Front (15) tells the story of Henry Albert Newman, a Bournemouth native who fought in the Great War. As a teenager, Corporal Newman had worked as an errand boy while living in Winton. He enlisted with the 9th Lancers at Weymouth. Newman, 27, fell during the defence of Messines and Wytschaete, October 30th, 1914.

Tales from the Front (11)
1914, Tales from the Front

Tales from the Front (11)

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 (8)
1914, Tales from the Front

Tales from the Front (8)

Tales from the Front (8) tells the story of George Robert Newman, Bournemouth-born, who fought in the Great War. His unit, the 2nd Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle Corps, belonged to the 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 1st Corps. Newman, 19, fell on September 17th, 1914, during the Battle of the Aisne.