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There
were many others from Bradford who fought in different regiments
and battalions.
One
of these was the writer J.B. Priestley who was to write in 1934:
"There are many gaps in my acquaintance now; and I find it difficult
to swap reminiscences of boyhood. The men who were boys when I was
a boy are dead. Indeed they never even grew to be men. They were
slaughtered in youth; and the parents of them have gone lonely,
the girls they would have married have grown grey in sisterhood,
and the work they have done has remained undone."
Want
to know more?
Bradford
Libraries have published the following book: Hudson,
Ralph N, The Bradford Pals, 1998.
You
can find this title in the Bradford Library Local Studies department
where a cassette containing extracts of interviews with some of
the Bradford Pals is also available.
The
following websites may also be of interest:
THE
COMMONWEALTH WAR GRAVES COMMISSION: Their website at www.cwgc.org
includes an online database of the British and Commonwealth
dead and provides further information on the war cemeteries.
THE
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE:
Holds some records relating to individual soldiers as well as regimental
war diaries. Holdings are described on their website at www.pro.gov.uk
but you will probably have to travel to Kew to consult material.
PLEASE
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