Ollie's campaign for BURTON MEMORIAL HALL - this is a much-loved & well-used village hall in south Cumbria. Ollie has offered to raise funds for the Hall during June by riding 100 miles. Please support him if you can, thanks!
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At 4.25pm on 25th November 1941 the battleship HMS Barham was sunk by a u-boat torpedo strike. The list of men aboard doesn't include anyone named Docwra (or variants) but there may be connections by marriage. The full... https://t.co/hpcI4isuM7
Another moving memorial of those lost in WW1, this time it's in Belgium to commemorate the 600,000 lives lost in Belgium alone. https://t.co/HOBQwAUIQp
It's hard to visualise the numbers of combatants lost in WW1, there were so many. This map showing the Somme shows how many bodies were found in each 250sqm area. It makes shocking reading, and helps to bring home the scale of the loss there. https://t.co/fKeeMdl2Ed
#OneCentenary100Stories A moving film about the 306 British and Commonwealth soldiers executed for desertion and "cowardice" during #WW1.
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@grabber01@Rocks703@PeterDocwra There was a whole lot of Docwras in Kelvedon - Quakers mainly. I have some info about them. They had Grey's Mill at Kelvedon and at least one was involved in the temperance movement.