Private John Henry Parr – An investigation of the evidence behind his story L/14196 Private John Henry Parr, a seventeen year-old former golf caddy from North Finchley who served with “D” Company of the 4th Battalion, The Duke of Cambridge’s (Middlesex Regiment), is curren…

Parr’s story is far more complicated and bound up with what may be myth making ourwar1915.wordpress.com/2021/05/06/p... #oldcontemptibles #ww1

Private John Henry Parr – An investigation of the evidence behind his story L/14196 Private John Henry Parr, a seventeen year-old former golf caddy from North Finchley who served with “D” Company of the 4th Battalion, The Duke of Cambridge’s (Middlesex Regiment), is curren…

Setting aside that there is no known photograph of Parr, the story is far more complicated and bound up with what may be myth making ourwar1915.wordpress.com/2021/05/06/p... #oldcontemptibles #ww1

I’m reading “1914 - Days of Hope” by Lyn MacDonald. This evocative painting (Our Little Contemptibles, 1914) by William Barnes Wollen depicts #riflemen of the #BEF engaging # #German troops from a hasty position in August 1914. #NationalArmyMuseum
#FWWHist #milsky #BEF #FWW #PBI #OldContemptibles

Tipperary Days by Robert William Service • Simple Poetry Oh, weren't they the fine boys! You never saw the beat of them, Singing all together with their throats bronze-bare; Fighting-fit and mirth-

I started reading “1914 -The Days of Hope” by Lyn MacDonald this weekend. She quotes from the #Canadian poet Robert W. Service’s “Tipperary Days”, a poem which really struck a chord with me.
#FWWHist #OldContemptibles #BritishArmy

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