Cushion cover, photos, medals and award certificate || John Robert Ratcliffe, born 15 August 1893 in Blackburn and died February 1972 in Blackburn. Private in the East Lancashire Regiment. The great uncle of the contributor, Jean Dunston. Her maternal grandmother's brother. Cushion cover made which John Robert Ratcliffe was in a convalescent Hospital in Godalming, Surrey, after being mustard gassed on the Somme. He used the cushion in the different hospitals he visited on his journey home. The contributor used the cushion of here children as babies. She stopped using it in the 1970s/1980s. Collection includes two photos, two medals and an Oddfellows Award.

Company framed photograph. Caption title above frame: Machine Gun Corps Cadet Btn., Pirbright March 1917. Text inscribed on photograph itself: C.Coy, No. 2 Cadet BTN, 2nd course, March 1917. Photograph of Tom Henry Alexander in uniform. Photograph of the Alexander family when Tom was a boy. || Tom Henry Alexander, born January 1898, joined the Artists Rifles, which was attached to the 2nd London Regiment (part of the RN division). He was posted to France in 1917, and killed in action on October 30 1917 whilst attacking two concrete German machine gun emplacements, thigh deep in mud at Passchendaele. They were hit by a 100 yard sq artillary barrage, and casualties were approximately 80 per cent. Tom was sent to carry a message detailing the carnage, and was hit by a fragment to the head and died instantly. The following night, under cover of darkness, the machine gun positions were captured without loss of life by eleven men and one officer. The battle was won approximately four days later. This happened near to the Poelkapelle Road during the attack on Varlet Farm. His family never recovered from his loss.

Hierbij twee foto's van mijn vader Joannes (Jan) Tromp die van 1914 tot 1918 met zijn voeten in de modder stond achter den IJzer. Hij was carabinier en vocht o.a. in de buurt van Passchendaele. || || Women || Remembrance || Photograph || Familiefoto Jan Tromp (rechts) met zijn zuster Trui en haar man in 1915 || 50.90028479999999,3.0206636000000344 || Home Front || Joannes Tromp || Een foto uit 1915 waarop rechts Jan Tromp staat; zittend is een van zijn zusters, tante Trui, de andere manlinks is haar echtgenoot die brandweerman was. Onbekend waar de foto werd genomen. || Front || || Jan Tromp || Remembrance || Front || Photograph || Jan Tromp in 1916 met rouwband na het overlijden van zijn moeder || Western Front