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George Ferguson WWI
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Day-by-day account of WWI from the diaries of George Ferguson, Liverpool Scottish. Fuller accounts at https://georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/
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"A pretty nurse is selling poppies from a tray
And though she feels as if she's in a play
She is anyway"
George's picture for the day was the memorial window from St Barnabas Church, Penny Lane
Three panels that form part of a large stained glass window. On the top left, the Holy Spirit is represented by a dove flanked by angels, above a nurse, soldiers, and an injured combatant with a crutch and bandaged eyes. The middle panel apears to include heroic characters from history at the back, with a Liverpool Scottish soldier and a young drummer at the front. On the right are high-ranking clerics and a woman playing a piano.
November 11, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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@britwarmemorial.bsky.social St Lawrence Church, Bradwell. Although the nearby Memorial Hall list is online, I think this one may not be.
A dark wooden frame has 'St Lawrence Roll of Honour' carved on it. A hand-lettered text places '1914 to 1918' within a cross and goes on 'In memory of the men of Bradwell who fell in the war 1914–1918.' Eleven men are named. Beneath their names it says 'Greater love hath no man'. It goes on 'and in honour of those who also served'. The 60 or so names that follow are written in smaller script. The roll is decorated with poppies.
October 2, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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@britwarmemorial.bsky.social The South Moor miners' banner shows their memorial partk
Close up of a banner labelled 'National Union of Mineworkers Durham Area South Lodge'. The image on the banner shows the gates to the memorial park with wreaths of red poppies on them. Beyond the gates and the park the pit head can be seen.
July 16, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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@britwarmemorial.bsky.social The Pelton Fell miners' banner includes an image of the Pelton Hall cenotaph
Maroon banner framed in gold. Text reads 'National Union of Mineworkers. Remembering our past, inspirig our futures. Dedicated to all those affected by the Pelton Fell explosion of 1866'. Images include a girl with a trombone, another with a book, a boy skateboarding while wearing a mortarboard, a pithead, and an image of the Pelton Fall cenotaph.
July 15, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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@britwarmemorial.bsky.social The new Thornley Lodge miners' banner also shows a war memorial at the back and sides of the image
New banner hanging from wooden pole with blue and gold tasselled cords. The banner is framed in gold. The text says 'Durham Miners' Association Thornley Lodge 1835–1970 Lest We Forget'. At the foot of the banner is a pithead wheel in the sunset. Above tha,t four young people in miners' orange overalls and hard hats are walking forward. Behind them is another banner and behind that a war memorial with wreaths upon it. To their left and right are silhouettes of soldiers with their guns and heads facing down.
July 15, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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@britwarmemorial.bsky.social The Easington Lane war memorial depicted on a banner at the Durham Miner's Gala last weekend
Banner on wooden poles with a red border around it. It is headed 'Easington Lane War Memorial' and shows a picture of the tall, tower-like war memorial with wreaths on it. Underneath, the text reads 'Lest We Forget'
July 15, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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There are quite a few in the Fyfe collection in the IWM, including this one from the day the Liverpool Scottish went on the attack
Blalck and white photograph of World War 1 soldiers going 'over the top'
May 15, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Hampshire Telegraph 20 May 1932
Photograph of the war memorial at Flers
April 1, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Sydenham, Forest Hill & Penge Gazette 4 Sept 1931 'the question of officially unveiling and dedicating the memorial to the dead of the 41st Division in Flers, France.'
April 1, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Hampshire Telegraph 4 Mar 1927 'A memorial to the 41st Division was recently erected in Fiers and it has been formally taken over by the Marie fof the little French town...There has been no public unveiling so far, chiefly due to the cost
Illustration of the war memorial - a soldier in full kit on top of an inscribed stone plinth
April 1, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Fine wooden huts
built by REs
26 men to a hut

More on George and the #LiverpoolScottish 110 years ago on this day on the #WesternFront of the #FWW at georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/wp-admin/pos...
Black and white photograph of ten soldiers in uniform in front of tent-shaped wooden huts
March 22, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Leeds Mercury, 12 March 1918
LAW – On March 7th, at Bingley, Coventry, from privation in trenches, aged 33 years, ROBERT HODGSON husband of MARGARET LAW and youngest son of Robert Hodgson and Ellen Binmire Law, Irthington, Carlisle
March 11, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Dundee People's Journal
February 21, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Speech by Colonel
“Boys you are doing
uncommonly well +
we are making history” Princess
Mary Gifts +
Officers Wives presents distrib
uted – Pipes going

More from George about Christmas 1914 on the #WW1 #WesternFront at georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2024/12/25/2...
Photo of Princess Mary's gift box, oblong and made of brass, with her profile in the middle of it and 'Christmas 1914' beneath.
December 25, 2024 at 11:02 AM
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Left Tunbridge Wells 9.30am
Arrived Southampton 1.30pm
Boarded SS Maidan
Joined by Queens Westminster
Sailed 7pm
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Three rows of soldiers from the Liverpool Scottish, wearing kilts, photographed at Tumbridge Wells before leaving for the continent. Labelled 'Officers of the 10th Liverpool Scottish'
November 1, 2024 at 9:09 AM