Bombardier Sansum RA

• Guest 651

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  23 January 2012     15:45148933
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  Any relation?
  
  

  
  Been nice knowing you :)
• Guest 640

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  23 January 2012     16:32148942
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  My gawd them Sansums get in everywhere !lol
  
  Fascinating little nugget there Paul. Step up to the plate Keefy?? is it one of your long lost heroes...?
  
  
  
  email: dover7@msn.com
• Keith Sansum1

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  23 January 2012     17:17148953
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  blimey
  a heroe like myself lol
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• Guest 651

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  23 January 2012     17:51148960
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  Should have added that this was from the Dover Express February 1916 (on the edge of something else I was copying).
  
  Quite moving the papers from this era that every week put in the photos of guys going off to help the war effort, a lot of them probably never returning...
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• howard mcsweeney1

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  23 January 2012     18:52148972
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  it doesn't say how young he was,i suspect very young.
  
  not many would have acted like he did if fully mature, rather ironic that he got hospitalised with rheumatism.
• Guest 700

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  24 January 2012     16:45149147
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  SANSUM, Bombardier, awarded D. C. M. for bravery. - Report - NO PHOTO (Dover Express 21-1-1916 p. 5)
  
  SANSUM, Bombardier, RA, (PHOTO) awarded DCM, (details), a Dover man (Dover Express 28-1-1916 p. 8)
  
  I have not got any more details from the newspaper report.
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