Douglas Hopkin Jones was from Carmarthen who worked for South Wales Electricity. He was also a Naval Volunteer. Judging by the small collection of ephemera, Douglas’ father also could have had a naval connection. I acquired these items from an auction website in 2018.
Una Margaret Part was born in 1887 in Sunninghill, Berkshire, her father, James, was 46, and her mother, Edith, was 40. She […]
Frank Ewart Barnes was born on 16 November 1888 in Dorset, his father was John Charles Barnes (born Wimborne, Dorset in about […]
A letter from a former American soldier, Sgt B. Armstrong, in New York to his buddy in Blackpool, England, reflects a deep […]
When Annie Gladys Butler was born on 6 February 1899 in Edmonton, Middlesex, her father, Robert Henry Butler, a shipping clerk, (1877-1930), […]
