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Tagged With: First World War ancestors

Shell-shock and James Gordon Burnley

Posted on February 27, 2014 by Pat S

James Gordon Burnley enlisted in the Leicestershire Yeomanry in February 1915, with a reference from the august owner of Saltaire (the Salt family’s successor), Sir James Roberts, stating he was distinctly soldier-brained and would make an excellent officer.   Seldom was a man more mistaken.  James Gordon was a little above average height at five foot … Continue reading »

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The Royal Flying Corps in WW1 – dangers and accidents

Posted on February 8, 2014 by Pat S

Early in 1915 my grandfather, Frank Oswald Burnley, was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant into the 16th (Service Battalion) of West Yorkshire Regiment, after some three months in the Territorials (the Reserve Army Service Corps).  This was a Bradford brigade.  The following year, paid for privately I suspect, he gained his Aviator’s Certificate on a … Continue reading »

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