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Private William Darch 2546, 1st/6th Battalion Devonshire Regiment and Pr...
Two Darch brothers were killed in the Great War, the sons of Thomas and Jane Darch of Pilton Street, Pilton. The first was Private William Darch who was employed at the Barnstaple Cabinet Works in...
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Private Ronald Thomas John Frayne 2416, 1st/6th Battalion Devonshire Reg...
Private Ronald Frayne of Pilton Street was 21 when he died on March 8th 1916 helping to relieve British comrades besieged inside the city of Kut, near Baghdad, He was one of five children of John...
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Private Frank Norman 10003 1st Battalion, Devonshire Regiment
Private Frank Norman was born in Barnstaple in 1894 to William and Susanna Norman and lived at 47, Bradiford. Prior to enlisting with the 1st Battalion of the Devonshire Regiment, just after the o...
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A Barumite's Experience at the Front at Christmas 1914
In January 1915, the North Devon Journal wrote up the experiences of a Pilton man after enlisting in the 1st Devons just before World War I broke out in July 1914. After four months training, Priv...
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