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By Nonda Trimis:

On this Memorial Day I am contemplating the devastation of war and the veterans and families which it has affected. These are excerpts from two letters written by Charles Benedict, my Great grandfather. In the 1st he is excited by his participation in the war & trying to get his cousin to join up. 6 months later he is in a hospital being treated for "shell shock"...

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Here are the letters in their entirety:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set?vanity=nonda.trimis&set=a.10168295596607715

Tobruk Fig Tree cutting planted in Port Lincoln to honour Eyre Peninsula's Rats - ABC News share.google/5nnPS039ramg.... #News #Australia #WW1History Good on this young man. Decided at age 13 ge wanted to do this and at age 32 achieved his dream. Lest We Forget

Tobruk fig planted in honour o...

Militaria - the Large War 1914 M Turpin in its Laboratory - Laboratory - CPA TOP

https://www.cpaphil.com/en/categories/war-1914-18/pages/113

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French Army Infantry In observation (militaria) CPA

https://www.cpaphil.com/en/categories/manoeuvres-1/pages/44

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This chart shows the average weekly diet of one working class family from Oxfordshire in England, in 1912.
It was included in the book “How the Labourer Lives: A Study of the Rural Labour Problem” by B. Seebohm Rowntree and May Kendall, published in 1917.
Source: “How the Labourer Lives: A Study of the Rural Labour Problem”, Rowntree & Kendall, pp. 59-63, pub. 1917.
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Hey Folks, New episode out!

Historian Peter Belmonte comes on the show to talk about the massive effort to feed, equip, and arm the AEF in WW1:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/battles-of-the-first-world-war-podcast/id1119044000?i=1000635305616

This was a fantastic conversation. 😃

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