The Home Front in Wimborne

The recollections of some of those who lived through the war in Wimborne and the surrounding area have been recorded for the Priest’s House Museum and the Dorset Sound Archive. Keith Eldred has put them together into a book, from which these selections are taken.

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William Charles Wentworth, Australian Statesman (1793—1872)

This brief biography is taken from ‘A Catalogue of Notable Middle Templars: With Brief Biographical Notices’ by John Hutchinson and Published by Printed by Butterworth and Co. for the Honourable society of the Middle Temple in 1902

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A British ‘Saving Private Ryan’

If ‘Saving Private Ryan’ were a British World War II film then it could easily have been made about the family of the Rev. Canon Archibald Leslie Keith, vicar of Wimborne, Dorset

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Wimborne Minster, Dorset (1911)

The following description of the town Wimborne Minster in Dorset, England  is taken from the 1911 edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica

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