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A researched account of my great-uncle Charles James Partridge, a Regular soldier in the Essex Regiment who served in India and South Africa before the First World War. It follows his role in the Gallipoli landings, his wounding at the Second Battle of Krithia, and his death aged twenty-seven in 1915, while placing his brief life within the wider realities of imperial and wartime service.
A research account of Edward Charles “Charlie” Rendell’s First World War service with the King’s Royal Rifle Corps. It traces his likely enlistment as a teenager, service on the Western Front, capture during the German offensive of March 1918, and imprisonment within the Stendal camp system, while carefully separating established records from informed inference and unresolved questions.