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I’ve been doing some research on my old Great Great Uncle Frank. Here are some scans of photographs taken by an officer who was in D Company of the 1st Btn Dorsets I found on Flickr. Credit to zombikombi1959<\/a> for the images.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

via flickr.com I’ve been doing some research on my old Great Great Uncle Frank. Here are some scans of photographs taken by an officer who was in D Company of the 1st Btn Dorsets I found on Flickr. Credit to zombikombi1959 for the images.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[8,9],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Wjz3-m","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1226,"url":"https:\/\/frankcrawshaw.uk\/6-12-1914-merry-bright\/","url_meta":{"origin":22,"position":0},"title":"Merry and bright","author":"ellimondo","date":"6th December 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"PC to Miss Crawshaw, 29 Strathleven etc franked APO 15 De 14 - chage to Censor No 1611 dated 6-12-14\u2013 written in pencil Dear Till Just a few lines hoping you are in the best of health and still merry and bright I expect by this time Uncle Matt has\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "The Great War"","block_context":{"text":"The Great War","link":"https:\/\/frankcrawshaw.uk\/category\/the-great-war\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":316,"url":"https:\/\/frankcrawshaw.uk\/14-08-14-dorsets-set-sail\/","url_meta":{"origin":22,"position":1},"title":"The Dorsets set sail for war","author":"ellimondo","date":"14th August 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"14th August 1914, Belfast, Ireland 100 years ago today, Frank was busy preparing for embarkation. 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