Old Front Line
WW1 Podcast with Paul Reed
Bonus Episode: A Roll of Honour
For our final Bonus Episode before Season 10 begins in September, we look at a rare Roll of Honour for the Gravesend and Dartford area of Kent, and discuss the whole history of these Rolls of Honour and then look through this example seeing what it can tell us about the wider history of the Great War.
Main Image: Extracts from the Gravesend and Dartford ‘Peace Souvenir’ 1919. (Old Front Line archives)
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Really enjoyed, Thankyou, the social history behind each person is so interesting and good to keep alive. I picked a little book up from a carboot, which is about the staff in a London bank who went to war, sadly no photos, bit more research needed. Shirlee
Thanks, yes the social history is the fascinating bit!
Hi Paul
Helen Beatrice Swift b.1902 24 Suffolk Road died in a fire at the Vickers Hostel her inquest was reported in the St Mary Cray Orpington and District Times 5th May 1916. Nice to see a the Home Front featured so much more to learn
I’ve PM’d you on the GWF as I can’t figure out how to send the cutting here
Ken
Oh wow, thanks so much, Ken! I really appreciate you sharing that info and I’ll head over to GWF later!
Hi Paul – another interesting podcast. You mentioned the fact that 3 local lads were killed in the sinking of HMS Pathfinder. There were around 250 fatalities. Do you have any idea if (a) lads could enlist in the Navy with their pals or (b) be posted to the same ship because they came from the same area, almost as a naval version of a local regiment?
Keep up the good work!
Phil
Phil, Paul may have more information, but to my mind both are feasible. Until the late 1950’s the RN had 3 depots, Chatham, Devonport and Portsmouth, men who joined at Chatham would normally be drafted to Chatham ships, and as ships companies joined a ship en masse on it’s commissioning it’s quite possible that these lads went along to RNB Chatham to join up and were drafted to Pathfinder – a Chatham ship – at the same time.
Thanks for a another excellent podcast. I see that HMS Pathfinder was the first ship to be sunk by a submarine launched torpedo.