In Search of a Glemsford Family

Keeping memories alive

The Great War played its part in the Brown family, as in so many families.
Photographic "keepsakes" were very popular.

 
Jacob?Alvah?

Eric Bogle's moving song "No Man's Land" is called to mind here:
"... Or are you a stranger without even a name
Forever enshrined behind some glass pane
In an old photograph torn and tattered and stained
And fading to yellow in a brown leather frame. ..."

We don't know for sure who these are.
In the left hand photo, the man on the right MAY be Gersham.
There is some similarity between him and the fine figure of a fellow in the lower picture!
As for the other man on the left, the uniform may be that of the Royal Flying Corps, but we know no more.
And with the right hand photo, there are more mysteries.
It is a Canadian uniform. Alvah joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force.
But who is the woman? His wife? So why is the photograph embossed "Keighley"?
We don't think he visited Keighley during the war, and his wife wouldn't have accompanied him if he had.
Unless the photo was sent and copied in Keighley. ...


Gersham

 

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What we know about the
Brown Family History
and something of their progress later
in the 20th Century

 		  

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Savage family
of Cavendish,
with several twists and turns,
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© Tracey Foulds, Sandra Poole and Stephen Clarke
December 1 2005
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