Gabrielle Honorine Hélène AULOY est née le 25 octobre 1870 à Sète et décédée le 16 septembre 1953 à Sète. Elle était la tante maternelle de Philibert CALAIS, père du contributeur. De 1916 à 1917, elle a été infirmière à l'ambulance de Baye à Souilly (Meuse) près de Verdun. Après l'armistice de 1918, elle a été infirmière à Sarrebruck (Allemagne), avec les troupes d'occupation. Puis elle est revenue à Sète, dans la maison familiale de la place Delille, où elle a vécu jusqu'à son décès en 1953. Elle est restée célibataire. C'était une personne menue mais très active et pleine d'énergie. Elle s'est beaucoup occupée des enfants et des petits-enfants de sa sœur aînée. || Portrait de Gabrielle AULOY à l'âge de 46 ou 47 ans, infirmière à Souilly près de Verdun. Photographies de groupe avec Gabrielle AULOY et vue générale de l'hôpital de Souilly (Meuse).

records; history of medals || My great-grandfather, Alfred Dunne, came from a British army family, and he followed suit by joining the Irish Light Infantry in 1891. He enjoyed drinking and socialising with friends; while stationed in Hamilton, Scotland, with the Highland Light Infantry (1903-7), he greatly enjoyed Highland Saturday Nights, when the men dressed up and waxed their moustaches before heading to the canteen for a night of drinking. Before WWI, he was with the Worcestershires in India (the North-West Frontier) and the Second Boer War (the South African War). During WWI, he was in Ypres with the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, having joined them on 4 November 1914. At the Second Battle of Ypres (1915), he is said to have jumped up and asked to be shot: everyone around him was shot, but not him. He joined the Royal Dublin Rifles after the Fusiliers were defeated. He is mentioned in dispatches by General Hickey, and received 1914-15 honours. The times he was on campaign, his wife Kitty would pawn their furniture and move in with her family, and then she would buy it back for when he came back to Ireland on leave. While on leave, he was tasked with reporting deaths to mourning families, which caused him distress. Though he was a professional soldier, he did not support the war, and he said of Irish-British involvement: We were foolish, and we were fooled. He was discharged from the British army on17 June 1920; he had trained as a fitter in the army, but worked various jobs in Dublin after the war. He had 4 daughters, and my grandmother received a pair of boots every year from the British army on account of his military service. || || A small piece of paper which summarises his military record and lists his medals. || Alfred Dunne || Alfred Dunne's medal record || Front || Other || || Alfred Dunne's medal record || Alfred Dunne || Back || Other || || Front || Alfred Dunne's discharge document || Dublin || Official document || Alfred Dunne || His discharge record from 17 June 1920 || || Alfred Dunne || Official document || Warwick || Alfred Dunne's discharge from the Worcestershires Regiment || This records his discharge from the Worcestershires Regiment on 4 February 1922. It says that he was born in 1871, he is 5'3 (and 3/4), has a 'fresh' complexion, has two scars on his neck, and has grey eyes and brown hair. He is described as being 'hard-working and reliable'. || || Hamilton, Scotland || Official document || Alfred Dunne || Alfred Dunne's Certificate of Character || This is from 1903, when he is with the Highland Light Infantry in Hamilton, Scotland. || || Alfred Dunne's discharge from Highland Regt || Official document || Hamilton, Scotland || Front || Alfred Dunne || || Official document || Back || Alfred Dunne || Alfred Dunne's discharge from Highland Regt

The Butler family originated in Birmingham as gunmakers, then moved to Stroud and Chipping Norton. Herman joined the Gloucester Regiment in September 1914, possibly from T.F.(?) His service no. was 13171 and he joined the 7th Battalion the Gloucestershire Regiment in Gallipoli in October 1915. The battalion was evacuated to Egypt in January 1917 and then Herman was invalided to the UK. In July 1916 he joined the 10th Battalion the Gloucestershire Regiment in the Loos sector near Calonne, then the Somme. He was awarded the Military Medal in July 1916 (? see London Gazette for September 1916). Herman was wounded in High Wood in September 1916 and discharged as a result of his wounds in December 1917. Herman went on to become publican of the Railway Arms, Chipping Norton. || Medal bar including the Military Medal. Miniatures of the above medals. Seven page account by the sergeant.