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Guy Dunmall

Guy worked as a photo engraver at The Telegram and even at war he pursued his passion for photography.

James Hester

Hester enlisted on June 10, 1915, lying about his age out of fear they would reject him for being too old.

Tom Nowell

As a married man of age forty, he was considerably older than the typical recruit.

Henry Schofield Rogers

In January 1916, he was assigned to special duties for the 3rd, 4th and 5th Army during the Battle of the Somme.

Thomas Rayner

Thomas Rayner died at the Somme September 26, 1916.

James Aitchison

The grimness of his own situation led him to fear that 1916 would be the ruin of not just himself, but his entire family.

Alan J. Hanchard

When he joined the 53rd Battalion at age seventeen, he had no idea the war would last for four years and be such a deadly conflict.

Thomas Victor (Tod) Bayne Rutherford

He refused to be taken out of the fight until the reinforcements were sent up. By this time, it was too late. The sergeant died that day.

Crooks Family

“He always had a smile and laugh for there was sunshine in his heart.” Crooks died at age twenty-six at the Somme.

Stephen R. Heal

“We went over, some six hundred odd strong and just had about two hundred fifty of us left,” he later wrote. “I lost most of my friends.”