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Tagged With: Frank Oswald Burnley

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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First World War ancestors

Posted on January 9, 2014 by Pat S

One hundred years ago, early in 1914 my grandfather and his two cousins, young men only 20 years old were beginning their working lives in wool textile manufacturing, as at least four generations of their forebears had done.  Frank Oswald Burnley, my paternal grandfather, had been an apprentice dryer in worsted yarn and was preparing … Continue reading »

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