Hello Terry
Yep I thought that about the blue caps. Unfortunately no dates. These came from an album full of soldiers from all regiments who all worked at the same factory in Birmingham but they are all broke up now. There were a couple of interesting pictures with names on one of which is a named group of four soldiers two of whom died but one of them is Pte 530 Frederick Chare. When I read your first book he you state he was a carpenter and made the cross for an officer who died and was being visited by his brother Lieut Furse
Steve R
Hello Terry, Frederick Chare was my grandfather and was a cabinet maker in Aston. After the war the family business divided between brothers as each had different views how to grow the business.Hello Terry
Yep I thought that about the blue caps. Unfortunately no dates. These came from an album full of soldiers from all regiments who all worked at the same factory in Birmingham but they are all broke up now. There were a couple of interesting pictures with names on one of which is a named group of four soldiers two of whom died but one of them is Pte 530 Frederick Chare. When I read your first book he you state he was a carpenter and made the cross for an officer who died and was being visited by his brother Lieut Furse
Steve R
Interested to see your relation to Fred Chare. I have a fascinating letter from him, to home from the front in the Fall of 1916, telling of the huge losses that the battalion has suffered. Would love to hear from you about him.Hello Terry, Frederick Chare was my grandfather and was a cabinet maker in Aston. After the war the family business divided between brothers as each had different views how to grow the business.
Thank you Vivienne. My grandmother, Amy Dorothy Hyndman served as a VAD nurse at Highbury in WWI before being posted to St Omer in France. I have scoured the family photos to try to find a photo of her there, to no avail.