Norman Binnie was my uncle. He lived at Gordon House, Drumcondra, Dublin. These are four telegrams relating to his army career. They include one instructing him to report to London and another confirming his discharge from the army. They were sent from Finner Camp, Co. Donegal, to Drumcondra Post Office. || 4 telegrams

On the 'Children of the Great War' collecting day at Leyton orient Supporters club, 16th February 2014, Christopher Bates contributed what he knew of great-grandfather Henry Jackson, a North London man who volunteered aged 34 and was killed. || || Interview || Christopher Bates || Henry Jackson

Article with annotations. || Henry Dalziel VC (18 February 1893–24 July 1965) was an Australian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. For information Dalziel's VC was the 1000th awarded. He was 25 years old, and a Driver (Private)in the 15th Battalion (Queensland & Tasmania), Australian Imperial Force during the First World War when, during the Battle of Hamel, the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC. On 4 July 1918 at Hamel Wood, France, when determined resistance was coming from an enemy strongpoint which was also protected by strong wire entanglements, Private Dalziel, armed only with a revolver, attacked an enemy machine gun. He killed or captured the entire crew and, although severely wounded in the hand, carried on until the final objective was captured. He twice went over open ground under heavy artillery and machine gun fire to obtain ammunition and, suffering from loss of blood, continued to fill magazines and serve his gun until wounded in the head. The attached account of his actions was written by James Price Lloyd of the Welsh Regiment, who served with Military Intelligence. After the war, the government to destroyed all the archives relating to this propaganda (section MI 7b (1)). They were regarded as being too sensitive to risk being made public. Remarkably these documents have survived in the personal records of Captain Lloyd. Many of these papers are officially stamped, and one can trace the development of many individual articles from the notes based on an idea, to the pencil draft which is then followed by the hand-written submission and the typescript. The archive Tales of the VC comprises 94 individual accounts of the heroism that earned the highest award for valour, the Victoria Cross. These are recounted deferentially and economically, yet they still manage to move the reader. Date stamp: 22 October 1918.