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"Recently, the US military launched a small offensive to help India in their war efforts. There are reports of American troops burning Chinese rice farms to create food shortages. More on the story later tonight, now to Larry with the weather."
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Also, this vig isn't 100% yet, I have a crackling order coming in with a few pieces that you guys might like ;)
Just a little further down Pall Mall and using the tripod with legs collapsed (as I did for the last one for a different perspective) a front of view of the war museum.
ISO 200 | 6 sec | f/14 | 9mm
Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay (1883-1945) was the Royal Navy's foremost expert in amphibious warfare during the Second World War. Working from the underground tunnels beneath Dover Castle, he was responsible for Operation Dynamo, the Dunkirk evacuation which rescued 338,000 British and allied troops trapped in France by German forces in 1940.
As Naval Commanding Officer, Eastern Task Force, Ramsay prepared the amphibious landings during the Allied invasion of Sicily in July 1943. A year later, as Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Naval Expeditionary Force, he oversaw Operation Neptune, the naval contribution to the invasion of Normandy. This is still regarded as the greatest amphibious operation in history. He was killed in a plane crash on 2 January 1945.
This statue, commemorating the man and his achievements, is in the grounds of Dover Castle and overlooks the English Channel - where, perhaps, he had his finest hour.
Bristol's last four surviving Civil War veterans, May 30, 1926 in front of the West Cemetery Civil War monument.
From left to right are: George H. Bates, George B. Chapin, Walter H. Hutchinson, and Edward H. Allen.
The brownstone monument was dedicated in 1866, less than a year after the end of the Civil War.
SOLDIERS MONUMENT, Bristol, is significant historically because of its early date, January 20, 1866. The selectmen were authorized to buy the land the previous year, dating the monument's origins from 1865. It is one of the first Civil War monuments in Connecticut.
Josiah F. Peck, Sr., a prominent Bristol citizen, organized the committee for the monument. He may have been motivated by the fact that four members of the Peck family, Albert C., Noble, Richard L., and Henry A. Peck, served in Bristol's Company I, 25th Regiment, Connecticut Volunteers, one of the units named on the monument. Josiah F. Peck, Sr., purchased the site, furnished transportation for the monument, and paid James G. Batterson, the supplier, $1,500. In addition, there was widespread support from small contributors; the Bristol Public Library has 17 small notebooks listing individual "Subscriptions of $1.00 no more no less."
It is an early example of the obelisk-type Civil War monument with lettering of men lost and battles engaged, modestly embellished with trophies. It is essentially a cemetery monument, typical of funerary art of the time, on a large scale.
This overall design was to continue for about two decades, before being gradually supplanted by more sophisticated and elaborate designs. The supplier of the monument, James G. Batterson of Hartford, at the end of the Civil War built up his cemetery monument business purposefully and efficiently to become a major producer of Civil War monuments.
The monument is a square tapered brownstone column made up of stylobate of three risers, pedestal, and shaft. It is crowned by a brownstone eagle, which faces east. The cornice at the top of the shaft carries an egg-and-dart molding. The east face of the shaft is decorated with two trophies, in addition to the three bands of lettering naming battles in which the memorialized soldiers fought. The lower trophy is a pair of shields encircled by swags. The upper trophy is a composition of crossed flags, musket, and sword with a cartridge box hanging from the musket.
ERECTED BY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS
IN GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE OF THE VOLUNTEER SOLDIERS OF BRISTOL
WHO GAVE UP THEIR LIVES IN BEHALF OF THEIR COUNTRY
IN THE WAR OF THE GREAT REBELLION
THE SACRIFICE WAS NOT IN VAIN
Men from Bristol who died in the Civil War
Inscriptions on the Civil War Monument in West Cemetery, Bristol
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Nothing you see here is real, even though the conversion or the presented background story might be based on historical facts. BEWARE!
Some background:
As the Luftwaffe (German Air Force) lost control over the skies over Germany in the second half of the Second World War, it could no longer provide sufficient protection against Allied aircraft. Panzer divisions were especially affected by the lack of cover from fighter aircraft because they were always at the center of the most intense fighting.
The Germans already had copious amounts of half-tracked Self-Propelled Anti-Aircraft Guns (SPAAG) of different calibers and weights (Sd.Kfz.10/4, Sd.Kfz.6/2, Sd.Kfz.7/1, etc.). As these vehicles had very limited or no armor, they were vulnerable to enemy fire either from ground or air. The crew needed better protection from small arms fire and artillery/mortar high explosive fragmentation shell shrapnel. A tank-based anti-aircraft vehicle (Flakpanzer) could solve this problem, as it would have sufficient armor to resist most ground attacks with the exception of larger caliber guns. They would also provide some protection against air attacks, but even tanks could be destroyed by air ground-attack fire.
Many designs based on different Panzer chassis and weapons were tested and built during the war. The most successful early ones were based on the Panzer IV chassis (Möbelwagen, Wirbelwind and Ostwind), but one of the major shortcomings of all German Flakpanzers was the lack of a fully enclosed fighting compartment. As all were open-topped (because of easier construction, easier exhaust of gun fumes and the need to produce them as fast as possible), the gun crews were exposed to air attacks and the weather.
As the war progressed, German engineers tried to solve this problem by designing and building new Flakpanzers with fully enclosed turrets, based on later and bigger tank chassis’. One of these was the Flakpanzer based on the Panther tank, best known today as the ‘Coelian’, which was a new turret that could take various gun armaments.
The path to the Coelian SPAAG was not straight. In May 1943, Oberleutnant Dipl. Ing von Glatter-Götz, responding to the orders of Inspectorate 6, initiated the development of a new series of Flakpanzers based on already existing chassis. The Panzer I and II were outdated or used for other purposes. The Panzer III tank chassis was earmarked for the production of the StuG III and thus not available. The Panzer IV and the Panzer V Panther were considered next. The Panzer IV tank chassis was already in use for several German modifications, so it was decided to use it for the Flakpanzer program, eventually leading to the light “Kugelblitz” SPAAG. The Panzer V Panther was considered in case even the Panzer IV chassis proved to be inadequate for the task. Furthermore, the development of a whole new tank generation, the “Einheitspanzer” or “E-Serie”, had just been initiated.
The Germans formed a commission for the analysis of the effectiveness of enemy ground attack planes. The report (dated 31st June 1943) stated that, in the case of dive-bombing, the lowest point that the enemy plane reached was 1.200 to 1.500 m at an angle of 45-80°. Planes using larger caliber machine guns or cannons attacked at an altitude of around 150 to 300 m. The committee suggested that the best way to bring down enemy planes was using direct fire autocannons. To effectively fight the enemy planes, the future Flakpanzer would have to have a fully rotating turret with a high angle of fire and the caliber used should not be lower than 2 cm, with the more powerful 3.7 cm being preferred.
To give the crew the best protection possible and to meet any future Allied developments, the Panther-based Flakpanzer had to have a fully enclosed turret that could be armed with several different proposed weapon configurations. These included the 2 cm Flakvierling, 3.7 cm Flak either in twin or triple configuration, a newly developed 5.5 cm Gerät 58 Flakzwilling and even the powerful 88 mm caliber heavy anti-aircraft gun. The new turret design was to be ready for frontline service by the middle of 1944.
The first proposed design drawings were completed by Rheinmetall under the internal project number H-SkA 82827 in late May 1943 with the title “Turm Panther II mit Vierling MG 151/20”. This turret was heavily based on the Panther’s standard turret that it would simply replace. The new turret had to fulfill several set criteria like armor thickness and having an effective traversing mechanism. The armor protection of the turret was impressive, with 80 mm frontal armor and 40 mm on the sides. The turret was to be moved by using a hydraulic drive which was powered by the tank’s own engine. The maximum traverse speed was around 36° per second. Hydraulic power was used to raise the weapons, too, but a manual drive option was included as a fallback option.
The H-SkA 82827’s armament consisted of four 20 mm MG 151/20, mounted in staggered pairs, the same armament carried by the contemporary Panver IV-based “Möbelwagen” and “Wirbelwind” SPAAGs, too, but now under full armor protection. The elevation of the four guns was -5° to +75° and they had a combined practical rate of fire of 800 RPM, even though a maximum ROF of 1680 to 1920 RPM was theoretically possible. The weapons had a muzzle velocity of 900 m/s, a range of 4.800 m (15,720 ft) and an effective ceiling of 3.700 m (12,120 ft). They were belt-fed and separated from the turret crew, the gunner and the commander, which were seated in the left of the turret, weapons and ammunition were placed on the right side. The commander sat behind the gunner in an elevated position under a cupola, adapted from the Panther battle tank, for a good all-round view. Thanks to the belt-fed guns, no dedicated loader was necessary anymore, saving internal weight and space. The rest of the crew, driver and radio/machine gun operator, were seated in the Panzer V hull’s front in their standard positions.
After a wooden mock-up had been built, inspected and approved by the Heeresinspektorat 6, the go-ahead for the construction of five prototype turrets was given in September 1943, to be mounted and tested on refurbished Panther hulls. The new vehicle received the official designation Sd.Kfz. 171/1 “Flakpanzer V/20 mm”. On the 21st of December 1943, however, a Panzerkommision was formed to examine the further development of a Flakpanzer based on the Panther tank chassis. It was decided that the main armament should consist of at least two 3.7 cm caliber anti-aircraft guns, for more range and firepower, and this requirement was later revised to two even heavier 5.5 cm Gerät 58 guns. The Luftwaffe’s 30 mm MK 103 machine cannon was considered, too, since it had outstanding range, accuracy and penetration.
The problem was now that the Sd.Kfz. 171/1’s turret did not offer enough space or development potential to accommodate these heavier and bigger weapons, so that a completely new turret had to be designed from scratch around them. Daimler-Benz was chosen for this follow-up project, which was internally called “Flakpanzer 341” – after the SPAAG’s planned main armament with an experimental 3.7 cm (L/77) Flak 341 twin gun, also known as “Gerät 341”. In mid-1944 it would evolve into the Panther-based Coelian SPAAG family, but even this more sophisticated design with several armament variants became just a stopgap solution, bridging the delay of the anti-aircraft tanks based on the new Einheitspanzer chassis family.
Serial production of the Sd.Kfz. 171/1 was consequently dropped, only three fully operational prototypes were completed by March 1944, plus two armed turrets for static test. One of these turrets was later mounted onto another Panther hull, for a fourth operational vehicle. Rheinmetall kept on working with these vehicles and components until late 1945, and the four SPAAGs were also employed by the company’s Werksverteidigung unit (manned by the Rheinmetall staff, not by Wehrmacht soldiers) at the Apolda factory in central Thuringia.
The Sd.Kfz. 171/1s and the separate turrets were also used in the development programs for Rheinmetall’s so-called “Einheits-Flakturm” for the upcoming E-50/75 SPAAGs, primarily for targeting and rangefinding systems, weapon mounts and simplified turret movement mechanisms. One of these developments was the Kommandogerät 44, a much more compact analogue rangefinder, effectively an analogue fire control calculator that translated target and ambient data into electronic signals that could control weapon drives and trigger a weapon at an ideal moment. This innovative device eventually became part of the later E-50/75 SPAAGs that entered service in 1946.
The fate of these four unique vehicles after the factory’s invasion through Soviet troops is uncertain, though. They were probably destroyed by retreating German troops to prevent their experimental technologies from falling into enemy hands.
Specifications:
Crew: Four (commander, gunner, driver, radio-operator/hull machine gunner)
Weight: 40.5 tonnes (39.9 long tons; 44.7 short tons)
Length (hull only): 6.87 m (22 ft 6 in)
Width: 3.42 m (11 ft 3 in)
Height: 3.06 m (10 ft 2/3 in)
Suspension: Double torsion bar, interleaved road wheels
Fuel capacity: 720 litres (160 imp gal; 190 US gal)
Armor:
15–80 mm (0.6 – 3.15 in)
Performance:
Maximum road speed: 55 km/h (34 mph)
Operational range: 250 km (160 mi)
Power/weight: 15.39 PS (11.5 kW)/tonne (13.77 hp/ton)
Engine:
Maybach HL230 P30 V-12 petrol engine with 700 PS (690 hp, 515 kW)
ZF AK 7-200 gear; 7 forward 1 reverse
Armament:
4× 20 mm (0.787 in) MG 151/29 machine cannon in two twin mounts with a total of 3.200 rounds
1× 7.92 mm MG 34 machine gun in the front glacis plate with 2.500 rounds
The kit and its assembly:
This is an OOB what-if model, the prototype of the “Panther 20mm Flakvierling MG 151/20” from Dragon. The kit is actually mislabeled as “Flakpanzer 341”, but this designation had been allocated to the later prototype of the “Coelian” turret for the Panther chassis, just as described in the background. AFAIK, the “Panther 20mm Flakvierling MG 151/20” was not produced at all, there was just a wooden mock-up. And the whole project was quickly cancelled because it did not offer sufficient firepower and development potential. The only “official” designation I could find is the title of a project paper that describes the turret’s layout and construction, and it was called “H-SkA 82827.
But what if a small batch of these vehicles had been manufactured/completed and used by factory defense units like the Luftwaffe’s Werkschutzstaffeln?
That’s the basic idea/story behind this build, and it was kept OOB. The Dragon Panther is a simple affair and goes together well, but the instructions are weak, if not confusing. Good thing, though, is that the kit contains an extra sprue from a Jagdpanther kit that contains many optional parts for early and late Panther variants, as well as hull equipment, so that you get a good number of surplus parts for the spares box. The only downer is the fact that the soft vinyl tracks were molded in a bright sand tone, so that these delicate parts had to be completely painted.
Painting and markings:
The Panther 20mm Flakvierling is – even though it never “existed” – frequently depicted in a weird two-color scheme, probably consisting of Dunkelgelb (RAL 7028) over a red primer coat. But the depicted colors frequently appear much too garish and strong, like bright sunflower yellow over wine red! WTF? However, I liked the concept and adopted it for the model, just with more realistic tones and some personal twists.
The hull received an overall coat with RAL 3009 (Oxidrot), while the turret was painted with a paler shade of red (Humbrol 70, Brick red). On top of that, thinned Tamiya XF-57 (Buff) was used to add a fragmented meander pattern to break up the tank’s outlines. The result is quite attractive, and it might have worked well in an urban/factory environment – hence the idea of allocating the vehicle to a Werksschutz unit – several aircraft companies, e. g. Heinkel or Focke Wulf, also used prototypes for local defense, organized outside of Luftwaffe units.
To emphasize the prototype nature of this vehicle, the wheels and the armor skirts were, for some variety, painted in standard Hinterhalt camouflage colors, in Dunkelgelb (Tamiya XF-60), Olivgrün (RAL 6003, Humbrol 86) and Rotbraun (RAL 8017, Humbrol 160). The latter was also used for the engine bay cover, which I simply forgot to paint on Oxidrot in the first place. But the slightly darker Rotbraun blends well into the rest of the hull. The wheels were painted uniformly, and I added a wheel in Brick Red on each side as an un-camouflaged replacement. The armor skirts’ camouflage pattern consists of dark circles over a Dunkelgelb background, created with a stamp (self-made from fine sponge rubber) and mimicking the original “factory design” of the Hinterhalt paint scheme.
As mentioned above, the tracks had to be painted, and this time I tried a base with acrylic black paint from the rattle can, plus some grey and re brown wet-in-wet acrylic paint on top of that. Worked quite well and might become a new standard for this field of work.
The tactical markings became minimal, as the vehicle would be factory-operated and also a test article – hence it just received small Balkenkreuz insignia (on the hull ,mostly obscured by tools), and a large black “3”, edged in white for more contrast, on the turret sides, with smaller numbers at front and back of the turret for quick identification from every side.
The model received an overall washing with thinned dark brown acrylic paint and dry-brushing with light grey and beige, before it was sealed with matt acrylic varnish. Once the vinyl tracks had been mounted, the model’s lower areas and the running gear were dusted with grey-brown mineral pigments.
Well, another simple build, thanks to an OOB kit of this exotic SPAAG prototype. The result looks quite good and was completed in just two days, another member in my growing collection of real, semi-fictional and whiffy German SPAAG vehicles – turning this mock-up into an of an operational prototype of a Werksverteidigung unit certainly works and could actually have been, even though the Panther 20mm Flakvierling MG 151/20 just remained a stillborn proposal.
The war memorial in Saltcoats was due to be unveiled and dedicated on Saturday 27th May 1922 by the Marquis of Ailsa ( the Lord-Lieutenant of the County). However, he was ill and his wife, the Marchioness, travelled from London to take his place.
According to a notice in the local newspaper, The Ardrossan and Saltcoats Herald, arrangements were made to close Hamilton Street, Manse Street, Ardrossan Road and Caledonia Road for vehicular traffic between the hours of two and four o'clock in the afternoon.
The Provost and Town Clerk further suggested that "on the occasion of the unveiling of Saltcoats War Memorial on Saturday 27th May 1922 at three o'clock afternoon, the Magistrates unanimously recommend that all shops, and also places of entertainment, golf courses putting greens, bowling green, football fields and other similar places be closed between the hours of one and four o'clock afternoon."
It was reported in the following week's Herald that the unveiling ceremony attracted a crowd of thousands who stood in the sunshine to hear the Marchioness deliver her speech and unveil the monument. The event was covered thoroughly in the newspaper the following week, and included all the names of the soldiers who are inscribed on the monument, the roll of which was read out during the ceremony. The photographs accompanying the report show a huge crowd.
Originally the memorial was surrounded by a garden, as can be seen in this picture. New developments in the area resulted in the garden being removed and replaced with a roundabout, in the middle of which stands the war memorial. It was in front of the North Parish Church, which was demolished in the 1970s, and was built on the site of the old town jail. The houses in the background are still standing. The soldier's bayonet was missing for many years before being replaced by North Ayrshire Council.
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Civil War Reenactment.
My fascination with the history of the Civil War brings me to these events for a look & understanding at the sacrifices of those who so nobly fought & died.
It's an AT-AT for your lawn……and perfect $40 future stolen lawn ornament. ibornforthis.com/star-wars-fallen-at-at-lawn-ornament/
Sar Wars Unofficial Galaxies at Peterborough Cathedral.
One of the largest private Sar Wars collections in the world.
Unofficial Galaxies is rarely seen in the UK and among the most exciting exhibits in the 120+ piece collection are a full-size Landspeeder purchased from London’s Elstree Studios, and the desk and chair of young Anakin Skywalker from the 1999 film The Phantom Menace.
Also on display will be an array of original production items, as well as costumes for characters such as Princess Leia, Han Solo, Chewbacca, Darth Vader and many more. Much prized Star Wars toys dating from 1977 to 1999 will also be on show.
Yoda Grand Master of the Jedi Order.
Darth Vader has been listed among the greatest villains and fictional characters ever.
Kit Fisto is a Nautolan Jedi Master and member of the Jedi Council. He dies when attempting to arrest Darth Sidious.
Shirokine holiday resort in Ukraine after fierce fighting between Ukrainian and Russian backed separatist forces.
War-Horse unveiled in 2018 to commemorate one hundred years since the end of WW1 and remember those who made the ultimate sacrifice.
Naturally, like a lot of you (I hope), I've been watching "The War," a program The New York Times criticized for being too Americocentric. While I could see their point, that the Brits and the Canadiens and the Ruskies and a whole host of others were fighting alongside us, from a dramatic standpoint I think Ken Burns and his crew made the right decision, and I'm sure they made the practical decision, for the vantage of selling the series to their sponsers.
When "The War" started, the video images, the home movies, the newsreels and the
battle footage, were disconcerting. Of course I thought that "The Civil War" series was the greatest thing ever, and as you know, I'm a a still photo, black-and-white kind of guy. With the moving image, you're not really left with anything---it comes and washes over you and moves on---you might say that a moving image is an experience, and a still picture is a moment of stais, a stilpunkt (forgive my German spelling), a denkmal, a interaction in a way the moving image is not.
But those were my thoughts before the series ran its course. Having watched almost every second now, I feel overwhelmed, traumatized, emotionally devastated.
When you write short stories, you discover that there are scenes you have to write, scenes that can't be avoided, scenes the challenge of which you must write up to.
I thought this series did "The Obligatory" scenes very well.
The series had one over-riding theme, Death, and the pounding relentlessness of Death, Death Death became almost unbearable, at times.
Wasn't that the point? Wasn't that the daily reality for our fathers and mothers (well, your grandfathers and grandmothers)? My stepfather went into North Africa, and got bogged down with the 38th Texas Infantry at Montecassino. My mother spent the later half of the war years down in Florida, at the requisitioned Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables, where she ministered (as a very pretty young woman) to the wounded soldiers and fended off sixteen marriage proposals.
"The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude," Willie Morris says. But Ken
Burns brought plenty of grief to "The War," and it seemed altogether fitting. He has a contract with PBS through 2026, or something like that, and the last leg of his war trilogy is going to be Viet Nam. I hope that I live long enough to see it. One can imagine someone, someday, making "The Iraq War," when our pride in our country [and the nobility of our leaders] will be replaced with unending nausea.
The back of this photo has a censor's stamp, and the number "45," which may, or may not, refer to the date. It looks more like Germany than Okinawa, but who knows.
It was found in "Dossaccio". The Dossaccio is a fortification dating back to the Great War, which was built at 1,800 m of height between 1909 and 1912 as part of an extensive network ("Cadorna Line")with the aim of defending the Italian territory agasinst Austro-Hungarian attacks. Still operational during the World War II, the Oga Fort was dismantled in 1958. More recently it was converted into a Great War museum, and now il welcomes a steadily growing number of visitors.
"War horse" Jagermeister in portrait during the Knights of Mayhem jousting show at the London Bridge Renaissance Faire in Lake Havasu City, Arizona, U.S.A. (Mar. 16, 2019)
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This week's Star Wars Deliveries:
Disney - Droid Factory R2-BNE
Hasbro - Black Series: Carbinized Ahsoka Tano & HK-87 Assassin Droid
Hasbro - Vintage Collection: 344 Star Wars Luke Skwalker
Hasbro - Vintage Collection: 345 Acolyte Jedi Master Indara
Hasbro - Vintage Collection: 347 Ahsoka Anakin Skywalker
Hasbro - Vintage Collection: 348 Ahsoka Clone Trooper Lieutenant
E J Goose
SDGW has an Edgar James, born Forncett St Peter, Norfolk, but with no place of residence recorded. He was 19427 Norfolk Regiment.
GOOSE, EDGAR JAMES
Rank: Private
Service No: 19427
Date of Death: 22/04/1916
Regiment: Norfolk Regiment, 2nd Bn.
Panel Reference
Panel 10.
Memorial
BASRA MEMORIAL
CWGC www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/865431/GOOSE,%20EDGAR...
No match on Norlink
Medal Index Card:WO 372/8/66896
He is recorded as Private Edgar J. Goose of the Norfolk Regiment.
Baptism
The baptism of an Edgar James Goose, born 12th March 1883, took place at St Peter Church, Forncett St Peter on the 29th July 1883. Parents were James, a Labourer, and Mary Anne. Also baptised on the same day was his sister Rosanna, who had been born 28th March 1881.
His place in a family tree is shown on an online site.
Father GOOSE, James Mother RICHES, Mary Ann Sister GOOSE, Ellen Elizabeth Brother GOOSE, George Brother GOOSE, Edward Sister GOOSE, Rosanna GOOSE, Edgar James Sister GOOSE, Edith Mary Sister GOOSE, Ruby Alice Sister GOOSE, Lucy Emma Brother GOOSE, Harold Bertie Sister GOOSE, Jessie Eliza
www.thegoosefamily.plus.com/fh/Goose/ppl/f/5/acfb4de84fa0...
Census
The 18 year old Edgar J, born Forncett St Peter and working as a something related to Sheep on a Farm, (unfortunately the 1901 census enumerator has scrawled some kind of classification and blotted out most of the underlying text - the Genes Reunited transcriber had him down as Sheep “Sawyer” on Farm !) was recorded living at The Street, Ashwellthorpe. This was the household of his parents, James, (aged 48 and a Teamster on Farm from Tharston, Norfolk), and Mary A, (aged 42 and from Tasburgh, Norfolk). Their other children living with them are:-
Edward……………aged 22.……….born Tharston…………..Horseman on Farm
George…………….aged 24.……….born Tharston…………..Horseman on Farm
Jessie E……………aged 7.…………born Ashwellthorpe
Lucy E…………….aged 12.………..born Wreningham
Rosa A…………….aged 20.……….born Tharston…………General Domestic Servant
Ruby A……………aged 14.……….born Wreingham
By the time of the 1911 census the 28 year old Edgar James is married and recorded as the head of the household at a dwelling at Wacton, Long Stratton, Norfolk. Working as a Horseman on Farm, he lives with his wife of 4 years, Grace Emma, (aged 34 and from Thurlton, Norfolk). The couple have already had three children, then all still alive. They were :-
Ivy Mary………..aged 4.…….born Ashwellthorpe
Jessy Mary………aged 2.……born Ashwellthorpe
Ruby Alice………aged 1.……born Wacton
The marriage of a Edgar James Goose to Grace Emma Gibbs was recorded in the Depwade District that covers Ashwellthorpe in the January to March 1907.
Grace Emma was possibly heavily pregnant with another child at the time of the 1911 census, as the birth of an Edgar J. was recorded in the Depwade District in the April to June 1911 quarter. July to September 1913 saw the birth of a Robert F Goose in the Depwade District, (mothers maiden name Gibbs) . Finally in January to March 1915 in the same District came the birth of Grace Goose, again mothers surname Gibbs. When she was widowed Grace was therefore bringing up 5 or even 6 small children.
The Siege of Kut
During the siege of Kut which lasted for 5 months aircraft were first used to try and drop supplies to the garrison. The aircraft could not carry enough supplies some were shot down and the attempt ended in failure. The Turks used aircraft more successfully in bombing the town, many troops having been wounded were then killed in hospital by an air raid. Several attempts were made to break out across the river on floating bridges, but as the river was in flood at this time of the year the attempts failed. Radio contact with the outside world was kept up until the end.
Towards the end of the siege the daily ration for British troops was reduced to ten ounces of bread and one pound of horse or mule flesh. Indian troops who refused to eat flesh were dying of scurvy at the rate of 10 to 20 a day. In all 1746 people died during the siege from wounds or disease. On 29 April 1916 Kut surrendered to the Turks.
www.stephen-stratford.co.uk/pte_wilby.htm
For more on each name, see comments.
(SDGW - Soldiers Who Died in the Great War
CWGC - Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Norlink - Norfolk County Picture Archive)