Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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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...?
Keith Sansum1
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blimey
a heroe like myself lol
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Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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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- Location: Dover
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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.
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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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