Grrr now it's stuck in my head! I had no idea that song was so old! 😳

I would have thought not, just as you would not include Mr, Mrs or Miss - and if they say you should have included the titles, you could argue that they should have said to include titles as well as names!

I'm always sad when I find a soldier who died after the war ended. Just as their families thought they would return home safely, that happiness was snatched away... today I researched Edward Ryley Hulme of #Macclesfield who died of appendicitis on 28 Dec 1918 www.cheshireroll.co.uk/soldier/?i=1...

X-ray vision?

These are the First Wild War names added in July 2023

Albert Hearn is on the Imperial War Museum's Lives of the First World War website; his mother contacted the International Red Cross after he was reported missing (click on the i under 'more information') livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk/lifestory/18...

www.ancestry.co.uk/search/collections/61588/records/21167687
From this you can see Albert was at first reported missing, and it gives the name of his mother Sarah and her address in Miles Platting, Manchester...

WWI Pension Cards, saved by the Western Front Association (and vieweable free of charge by WFA members) are also available on Ancestry. To see the cards you need a Fold3 subscription, but you can right-click on the image and 'open in new tab' which makes the image just about big enough to read...

Some of the best records for confirming relationships of soldiers who died in WWI are the Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects on Ancestry which often give name(s) of next of kin to whom the gratuities were paid e.g. in this case the father who was David J Hearn www.ancestry.co.uk/search/colle...

Good luck - hope it goes well 🤞

Thank you, I didn't know that - I know the song Danyy Boy, of course, but not all the words. I can imagine it would be very hard to sing it at a funeral 💔

Come to Congleton - we have one independent petrol station which still serves you! Diesel is now self-service but petrol is not, although of course it's more expensive than other places

Do you think it was really children writing the letters, or their parents? 🤔

I was going to say that crocheting poppies gives lonely housebound old ladies like my late mother a purpose in life and a feeling that they are contributing something to the community, but now I'm completely speechless...

Can't help thinking that's just as bad as this one... www.findagrave.com/memorial/147...

... "This female (whose real name was Crowe), under the assumed title of Madame Wharton, was celebrated in London in the Poses Plastiques, at the Walhalla, an exhibition of classical grouping, in which she represented several figures with great effect...