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Arthur Curson and the Yorkshire Regiment
6:13pm Wednesday 12th November 2008
Gavin Engelbrecht, reporter for The Northern Echo, traces the life of his great-grandfather who fell on the day of the offensive at the battle of Neuve Chapelle during the First World War.
Comments (0)Memories of RAF Linton-on-Ouse
4:54pm Wednesday 12th November 2008
In 1952, as a Civil Servant Radar and Radio Technician, I was fortune at being employed at R.A.F Linton-on-Ouse near York.
Tommy's story
4:48pm Wednesday 12th November 2008
Back in 2003 there were not many people left who grew up just prior to the Second World War, and who went through that War, and with whom we could talk to face to face about those perilous times.
Emigration to Canada in 1920s
4:59pm Wednesday 12th November 2008
This letter, written in 1945, was addressed to my parents, Mr & Mrs.Thomas Suddes 9, Ivy Terrace, The Middles, Craghead, Stanley, County Durham.
Scarborough 1938-48
4:50pm Wednesday 12th November 2008
I was born in September 1938 at Prospect Mount Road. My father was an electrition for Scarborough Council.
Italian POW camp
4:42pm Wednesday 12th November 2008
I remember eating slices of Genoa Cake at the cookhouse in the Italian POW Camp in the old Lime Quarry at Downhill Farm, West Boldon in 1944.
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