Tales from the Front (38) tells the story of Albert Applin, a native of Victorian Bournemouth, who fought in the Great War. Private Applin may have served for a brief period with the Grenadier Guards but took the medical to join the First Dorsets on August 11th, 1914, a few days after the declaration of war. He inhaled poisoned gas at Hill 60 on May 1st, 1915, and made it to the hospital, but did not survive.
Tales from the Front (37) tells the story of Edgar Frank Williams, a native of Victorian Bournemouth, who fought in the Great War. Private Williams, a motor mechanic, served with the First Battalion, Dorset Regiment. On May 1st, 1915, the teenager went missing in action on Hill 60, another plausible victim of the gas attack.
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.