Category: Gallipoli
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December: we remember
Using data from census records, war graves and war memorials we can begin to discover the names of those from the historic boroughs of Finsbury and Islington who died at Gallipoli. In December we remember the death of: 04/12/1915 Private John Clampitt Gloucestershire Regiment – 7th Service Battalion 11/12/1915 Temporary Sub-Lieutenant…
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November: we remember
Using data from census records, war graves and war memorials we can begin to discover the names of those from the historic boroughs of Finsbury and Islington who died at Gallipoli. In November we remember the death of: 11/11/1915 Private Charles William Hathaway London Regiment – 1st (City of London) Battalion…
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October: we remember
Using data from census records, war graves and war memorials we can begin to discover the names of those from the historic boroughs of Finsbury and Islington who died at Gallipoli. In October we remember the death of: Finsbury Rifles 01/10/1915 Lance Corporal William George Kearns 5 Brewery Rd., Caledonian…
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Learning through Gallipoli
In 2015/16 Islington Museum received funding from the Gallipoli Centenary Education Project to tell the stories of those men who travelled from Islington to Mudros to fight in the disastrous Gallipoli campaign. Five local primaries, Ashmount, Copenhagen, Drayton Park, Newington Green and Tufnell Park, worked with musicians Jonathan Rees and Firat Derat…
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September: we remember
Using data from census records, war graves and war memorials we can begin to discover the names of those from the historic boroughs of Finsbury and Islington who died at Gallipoli. In September we remember the death of: Finsbury Riffles 08/09/1915 Rifleman B. Miller 09/09/1915 Rifleman J.H.C. Davis 10/09/1915 Rifleman…
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August: we remember
Using data from census records, war graves and war memorials we can begin to discover the names of those Finsbury Rifles from the historic boroughs of Finsbury and Islington who died at Gallipoli. The attacks on the Finsbury Rifles in August 1915 seem to have been particularly devastating for our…
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Islington Daily Gazette and North London Tribune
Reading the Islington Daily Gazette and North London Tribune helps us to understand how the war was reported at home in Finsbury and Islington. It makes harrowing reading as we discover how little of the Finsbury Rifles’ suffering in Gallipoli is reported at home. Islington Daily Gazette and North London…
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