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Remembering Ernest Squires, Harold Algar, James Goodson

Posted on: 17, August, 2018
Remembering Ernest Squires, Harold Algar, James Goodson

Every day on the British Army Ancestors Facebook page I take time to commemorate a British soldier. This post will look at three of the men I have remembered this week. Remembering Ernest Squires 8037 Pte Ernest Squires of the Somerset Light Infantry sent this photograph of himself (far left) from Doberitz PoW camp on […]

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