This podcast from the National Archives Voices of the Armistice series contains an acccount by Able Seaman C Jones about conditions as a prisoner of war after his capture at Antwerp in 1914. Original document catalogue reference: WO 161/100/576.
Prisoner of war
November 20, 2008 at 4:00 am (Genealogy, History, Podcast)
Tags: Armistice, Jones, National Archives
Florence Jessie Clark (1897-1981)
July 18, 2007 at 5:49 am (Uncategorized)
Tags: Biography, Clark, Harwin, Jones, Shelley, Smith, Tompkins
Florence Jessie Tompkins was born in 1897 at Frome Vauchurch, Dorset, England the daughter of farm labourer Frederick William Tompkins and his wife Annie Linda Eyers and spent her early years at Wynford Eagle and West Compton. Like many country girls of the time she entered domestic service, first with the local rector and at the time of the Great War as a cook at 14 Victoria Terrace in the seaside town of Weymouth, Dorset.
