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.