I really need your help!!!!?

Question

hiyaaa ive got a history essay to wtite but i am not going to ask you to do it ,sort of thing (that would just be out of order!!)
Aniway i need some evidence for my essay it needs to be something from a world war one soldier so if any of you out there are willing to share anything for eg.. a postcard sent in those times ect... could you scan it and send it [e-mail] thankyou xx

Answer 1

you dont say what evidence you need...but you can buy a book for 7.99ish which gives real accounts of the last surviving soldiers from the first world war..its called ' Last post' by Max Arthur

Answer 2

looks like you have some answers here to help. Why not try the Imperial War Museum which has just opened up a good location for exploring the experience of war otherwise the British Legion will help or you can get help from grandparents/great grandparents.
I know the postcards you mean, but they are all with my mum in Salford.

Answer 3

I have paper copies of the original paperwork of two of my relatives.
Thomas McHugh was born 1888, joined British Army in 1904 (age 16) and served for 3 years. Whilst in the Army he struck an Officer and spent 56 days in Jail (hard labour in those days). He was not paid during this time. He was then on the reserve for 9 years. In 1914 war broke out on August 5th. He reported for service that day, and was sent to France the next day. He was sent to MONS, where the first action took place on 23rd August. He was part of the rear Guard which deliberately stood their ground, knowing that they would be captured, whilst the main body of the army retreated to Paris. He spent the rest of the war in a German P.O.W camp, and upon his release was paid, in full, his entire backpay for the years in custody.

Martin McHugh born 1893 enlisted on 1st December 1914, and trained as a signaller for the artillery. Whilst training he went missing 3 times (for a few hours each time), and was punished for it, the third time with 21 days jail. He went to France 1st April 1916. He took part in the bombardment which led up to the Somme offensive in July 1916, and fought every day from then on. On night of 3rd/4th November 1918, one week before the end, his observation post was hit by an enemy shell. He was not hurt, so he went to the next observation post and "voluntarilly helped to establish visual communication from an exposed position, and remained there working a lamp until severely wounded." In short, in the total darkness of a battlefield, he stood on a small hill with a flash-lamp, making signals to the big guns further back. He could be seen for miles, by enemy and friends. Nutter! The enemy did see him and blew him up, but he lost an arm but lived. He won a Distinguished Conduct Medal. This gave him the right to put DCM after his name. It also gave him an extra6pence per day pension, but he had to write to his MP to get it. (Member of Parliament, like a Congressman). The payroll were slow to sort out his papers, and I have several letters from Martin to the MP, and the MP to the commanding officer, to get his money.

Most of the papers are A3 size, and I only have a scanner up to A4. I have Martin's will from 18Jan1918. He had 16 pounds, 4 shillings, and 9 pence to go to a "man, 95 Blandford Rd, Salford, Manchester." This was his sister's husband, who he had lived with after his own mother died when he was aged 3.

email me [e-mail] if you want this.

Answer 4

Go to www.answers.com and type in world war two. It will give you links to what you are looking for and then you will be able to print.

Answer 5

ancestry.co.uk have teamed up with the public records office to publish army records from WWI.

see website below

Answer 6

why dont you get the evidence from where you got the information?

Answer 7

try this web site it has colour photos from ww1 www.worldwaronecolorphotos.com you can then print what you want.