First World War – Page 3 – Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum

Osmond Bartle Wordsworth (Image used with the kind permission of the Warden and Scholars of Winchester College)

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Nov

Osmond Bartle Wordsworth – An Unknown Officer killed during the Great War has now been identified as collateral descendant of poet William Wordsworth In late October, volunteers at the Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum in Woodstock received good news after years of research that took them on a journey from a garden in Northern France to across the United Kingdom, Australia, The United States of America, Ireland, Canada -and back to…

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Oct

Visiting the E H Shepard Archives In September our Collections Manager Peggy visited the University of Surrey archives to see their E H Shepard archives, with a view to a potential exhibition at SOFO in 2023. The initial research follows the story of Shepard during his service with the Royal Artillery in the Great War, and explores the stories of other creatives who served in the Army. Peggy said of…

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Sep

Stories from the SOFO Archives: Flight Lieutenant Bernard “Pop” Green RAFVR, MC Decorated Great War Officer in the Ox & Bucks, and in the Second World War, a Great Escaper and Long March Survivor Bernard Green from Bourne End, Bucks survived both the Great War and the Second World War – just. 2nd Lieutenant Bernard Green served with distinction in the First World War at Ypres, and on the Somme…

Tag: First World War

Osmond Bartle Wordsworth – The Missing Great War Officer Finally Identified

Visiting the E H Shepard Archives

Stories from the SOFO Archives: Flight Lieutenant Bernard “Pop” Green RAFVR, MC