Tag Archives: WWI
“I HAVE HEARD STORIES THAT SOME OF THE SOLDIERS INJURED THEMSELVES TO GET OUT..”
You’ll be pleased to peruse Hannah Jacobson’s vividly illustrated story, of four relatives, taking in Russia, Holland, Poland (as it was pre-1919), and London. Hannah came to expand our growing repertoire with the accounts of her maternal grandfather Solomon Harris, great uncle Abraham Harris, father’s brother Elias Samplon, and her late husband’s uncle, Isaac Jacobson. […]
“HERE WE HAVE KITCHENER ‘YOUR ARMY NEEDS YOU’’, THERE IT WAS THE JEWISH GERMAN PEOPLE WERE TO FIGHT FOR THE KAISER…”
Julius & Max Weinberg: One rainy November day last year, we had the delight of interviewing almost twenty people and digitizing scores and scores of sentimentally fortified objects. It was a COTGW highlight made possible by our friends at the Jewish Military Museum who co-hosted Children of The Great War at the suitably atmospheric RAF […]
“Even though he had his foot amputated he still stood and walked like a soldier.”
William Hills: Leaphia Darko donated to us her account of her father, William Hills. William was a well-travelled man, a Bajan of the Victorian era. Eventually he would become a veteran who, having moved to England, lived a life that sounded to us quite charming around the Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire areas. He later served […]
Children of The Great War 