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FROM THE CONTEMPORARY LOCAL NEWSPAPERS OF NORTH BUCKS (BUCKS STANDARD, NORTH BUCKS TIMES, WOLVERTON EXPRESS)
With today’s internet a wealth of official information is available regarding those who served.
In an age before local radio and television, families often allowed letters to be published in the local press from their loved ones on active service.
However, for their descendants the letters reveal a more personal aspect, graphically describing the experience of the people and providing an insight into their personalities.

B.S. 1915 June 5th

The son of Mr. J. Ridgway, of Akeley, Sergeant Major H. Ridgway, of the Royal Warwicks, was wounded in action on Sunday, May 16th. He remained unconscious in the trenches until the following day, but managing to crawl a considerable distance, he was initially conveyed to Boulogne, and then to the military hospital at Oxford. There four shrapnel wounds were found, one piece of shrapnel having pierced a lung. A resident at Chackmore, before the war he had been a postman at Buckingham. He has a wife and child, and six of his brothers are on active service.


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