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Stories from the people of Wiltshire

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The Call to Arms
Wiltshire Does its Bit
A Childs War
Keeping the home fires burning
Peace and Aftermath
All Wiltshire at War Stories

Rachel Coward: A Red Cross Nurse

Chippenham’s Laundry Effort!

The 4.34 from Bristol

The Incredible Resilience of Ted Clack, a Wiltshire Footballer

Albany Ward: Cinema Pioneer

Stories from a Wiltshire Town Crier

A Farmer and a Tailor do their bit

Feisty Aunt Olive & the Women’s RAF

Reqisition of Horses by The War Office 1912-1915

“Soldiers and Sailors Free and Easy”, Salisbury

Women and the Land – Meeting at Cricklade, 1916

Life in Cricklade, 1916

Cricklade and the Armed Forces in 1916

New Roles for Women

Florence Mildred White: Pioneering Policewoman

Charles Wellens: From Belgium to Chippenham.

Postcard home from Bulford Camp, Salisbury

Postcard from Bulford Camp: “A Soldiers Verse Letter to his Children”

Postcard from Salisbury: Children Guarding their Bunny

Postcard to Lacock, 1916

‘at war!’ – by Charlotte Schaller: Leigh School Pupil Receives a Book for Good Behaviour 1915-1916

Daylight Saving

Thomas Adlam, a Salisbury Hero

Fundraising in Cricklade, 1916 – Excerpts from St Sampson’s Parish Magazine

Life in Cricklade during WWI – St. Sampsons Parish Magazine Oct – Nov 1914

Life in Cricklade during WWI: Wilts and Glos Standard Aug – Nov 1914

Cricklade First World War Postcard

Cricklade: St Sampson’s Parish Magazine: News of Soldiers and Sailors

Cricklade and Lord Kitchener’s New Army: Wilts and Glos Standard Sep 5 1914

Cricklade Church Memorial

Frederick Burnham (Redlynch)

Military Tribunals: Cricklade and Wootton Bassett Men

Cricklade Christmas Market

Cricklade High Street: Then and Now

The Residents and Tradesmen of Cricklade during WWI

Salisbury Peace Parade – 1919

Cricklade’s Belgian Refugees

Cricklade’s George Herbert Clark

Cricklade’s Harry Cuss

Cricklade’s Major William Fleetwood Fuller

The Taunton Family

Sidney Hickman (Redlynch)

George Herbert Rose (Redlynch)

Edward Charles Quinton (Redlynch)

Charles James Newman (Redlynch)

Alice Futcher: a nurse and a cook (Redlynch)

Alfred Brown and his Brothers (Redlynch)

Ernest Withers & his Brothers-in-law (Redlynch)

The Chettleburgh Book Memorials

Salisbury Infirmary during the First World War

William Yonge Radcliffe – Remembered at Salisbury Infirmary

Salisbury Infirmary Advertises for Staff during the First World War

Flooding at Salisbury Infirmary in 1915

Butlin Brothers Reunited

Salisbury Guildhall Memorial Plaques

MORE THAN JUST A NAME – Remembering the Fallen of Easton Royal

‘Their name liveth for ever more’ – Excerpt from the book by Dennis Powney

Bert Shore – Raising Funds for Sailors & Soldiers with the Overseas Club

Albert and Evelyn Clack’s story – A Soldier and a Munitions Worker

The Story of William Jones

A Letter home (Fred Pope’s story)

Lily Withers – Get the full picture

Is this the Mark V tank? Or the Mark V*?

Longleat Relief Hospital’s debating society

Longleat’s fallen heir – John Alexander Thynne

Grandad Stanley’s war stories

Gwen Beauchamp’s diary

Lady Alda Hoare’s diary

The Red Cross Hospital at Corsham

Gertrude Luce – Nursing Heroine of Malmesbury

Malmesbury’s Wartime Hospitals

How Military Camps saved some Wiltshire villages from extinction

The Support of Wiltshire Prisoners of War from 1914 to 1919

Milking – a tough job for a maiden in 1914

Wilton House Hospital

Trellis Hospital, Tisbury

Elsie Hannam and her Australian Beau

The Batters Trenches in Corsham – Practice before you go, lads!

Harold Simmons – a Corsham boy misses his serving father

A cartful of countryside for wounded soldiers

‘Sapper’ Dorothy Lawrence: A forgotten Wiltshire Heroine

We were here – remember us! (The story of Fovant Camp)

The Life and Autograph Book of VAD Nurse Elsie Cuss

Marguerite Smith’s Autograph Book

Fred Woolford – A Brave old Soldier

Louis Walter Gough – A plucky Purton Boy Joins Up

From Dress-Making to Sail-Making

Stonehenge Airfield during WWI

Private 9120 William Frederick Stevens

Flu Deaths at Sutton Veny

Reginald Cartledge – A Hero of the Sky

An Unusual Mascot

And the Horses came too – Harold Ward’s story

Contraband Potatoes

A Daughter’s Plea for Remembrance

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