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http://www.pooleatwar.com/
This site is dedicated to those brave men and women from Poole and the surrounding areas who gave their lives for their country. Name, rank, and memorial are recorded and visitors can search under relevant headings.
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Website giving details of Poole people who died in their country's conflicts. The great majority of the material relates to the two World Wars.
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Extract from the Salisbury Journal for 21st June 1756. Letter from Thomas Hart of the "Supply" at Palma, Majorca. Sent to the owner Mr Barfoot of Poole. Prevented from leaving by French Men of War.
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Museum Ref No: G9_0008Poole Soldiers Home Committee; Alice Kelley is third from right next to the kneeling soldiers; The lady next to the sea cadet on left hand second row is thought to be Theresa Coward; 1918.
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Extract from Salisbury Journal on 25th December 1739 quoting a letter from Benjamin Windsor concerning the crew of the John and Mary, Captain Botley, made prisoners of war in Gijon, Spain.
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Transcription of extract from the Salisbury Journal 11th March 1740 reads:
"By a private letter from one of our poor countrymen, prisoner in Spain, to his father at Pool, we are informed, that all the English are threatened with being starved in a prison if they will not enter into the Spanish service."
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Extract from Salisbury Journal on 15th April 1740 quoting a letter from John Morris to his wife in Poole. He describes the conditions he is detained in as a prisoner of war in Corunna, Spain.
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Museum Ref No: G9_0015Procession of WW1 soldiers along Poole Quay, passing the Custom House.
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Museum Ref No: AH_Recreation_Ground_and_War_Memorial_BroadstonePostcard caption reads "Recreation Ground and War Memorial, Broadstone".
From the Andrew Hawkes collection.
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Museum Ref No: F2b_0012 det.Lt. F. Rigler, C.Coy., Poole A.Tk. Island Command, 3rd Dorset H.G., July 1944.
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