Treatment card Frank Bailey from Addington Park military hospital 17 April 1919 Certificate of postal draft for £1.15s.6d - last pay up to when he was discharged Silver war badge B187722 Great War Medal Victory Medal || Francis Bailey was born on October 24 1897 in Cheshire. He was a farm worker until being conscripted on 4 January 1917 into the Cheshire Regiment No 243655. He was the Grandfather of Sheila Hylton. Bailey was aboard the SS Transylvania, which was taking men and nursing staff from Marseilles to Egypt. The ship was sunk on May 4 1917 by U63 U-Boat. He was rescued by a Japanese destroyer which was escorting SS Transylvania and continued to Alexandria. He was discharged on 17 April 1919 with chronic amoebic dysentery. Army Reserve and Territorial, serving in 1st /7th Cheshire Regiment Home address Outward Road Handforth Cheshire Frank Bailey died in 1972. || || Frank Bailey's silver war badge || Silver war badge, number B187722 || Francis (Frank) Bailey || || Francis (Frank) Bailey || Silver war badge, number B187722 || Frank Bailey's silver war badge || || Frank Bailey discharge certificate || Francis (Frank) Bailey || || Francis (Frank) Bailey || Frank Bailey discharge certificate || || Francis (Frank) Bailey || Frank Bailey's treatment card || || Frank Bailey's treatment card || Francis (Frank) Bailey || || Francis (Frank) Bailey || Frank Bailey's certificate of postal draft || Certificate of postal draft for £1.15s.6d

Private William George Turner was a family relation to the contributor. William might have been the contributor's suspected grandfather's sister-in-law or brother-in-laws' son. The letter was found in Ernest Arthur Alderman (the contributor's grandfather) belongings upon his death in 1956. William George Turner was a private in the Coldstream Guard and died on 28 September 1915. The letter is dated 18th June 1915. It describes life in the trenches and the headache brought on by the 'big guns' written in old English. He refers to his family and asks after them. The letter is written to his aunt and uncle, suspected to be Ernest Arthur Alderman, he and his brother both married women named Hogsflesh. William was the son of George and Eliza Turner, of Yew Tree cottage, Greywood, Haslemere, Surrey. William is commemorated on the Loos Memorial. || letter dated the 18th of june 1915. 13435. PTE. W.B Turner. No. 7 Section No. 1 company, 1st Batt Coldstream Guard, First Brigade 1st Division, Britsh Expeditionary Force. France. My Dear Aunty & Uncle, I am now writing just a few lines hoping you are all quite well, I am very glad to say I am at present, I went in the Trenches on Sunday for the first time & it was strange at first, & we were under very bad shell fire I have now experienced what the headache is like I have never had it before, but it was the big guns that done it, & I pity anyone who have it. I had a letter come from dear Mum when I was in the trenches, & I was very glad to hear from them all, I hope you will let me have a line from you soon. We are having a rest now come out trenches on wed night. I hope Dear little cousin is getting on quite well, I should like to see him now, but he will be a big boy when I come home & see him & so will my dear little Florrie, no more news this time write to me soon, Love to all from your ever loving nephew, William xxxxxxx || || Private William George Turner || Private William George Turner's letter

Certificate of transferral, detailing his British War medal and Victory Medal, and photographs of Donald. Also a photograph of the family, and of the headstone of Donald's parents grave, near Hastings || Rachel's Grandfather Donald worked as a druggist and had a pharmacy. Donald served in the Coldstream Guards, and was transferred to the Household Battalion. His parents held the pharmacy when he was away at war, his father Frederick passed away during that time, in 1915. His mother Margaret recieved a message saying both brothers had gone missing in action and took her life very shortly after the death of her husband. He returned to the pharmacy after the war. He later worked as a policeman during World War II, and Rachel has his policeman's whistle, and also a fragment of an incendiary bomb, which he likely picked up when a policeman. || || Donald Allan Tree || Certificate of Transferral, detailing the British War Medal and Victory Medal won. || Donald Allan Tree's Certificate of Transferral || || Certificate of Transferral, detailing the British War Medal and Victory Medal won. || Donald Allan Tree || Donald Allan Tree's Certificate of Transferral || || Donald Allan Tree || Donald Allan Tree's parent's headstone || || Photograph of Donald Allan Tree || Donald Allan Tree || Photograph of Donald Allan Tree (on the right of photograph)