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Nostalgia Album, Part Eight

26th March 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

After last week’s Nostalgia Album sadness at hearing great aunt Ernestine lost her husband in the First War, her son in the Second War and spent much of her life in the Lancaster County Mental [more…]

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Nostalgia Album, Part Seven

19th March 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

Last time on Nostalgia Album we became concerned about Ernestine, my great-aunt by marriage, who at first glance had moved on, relocating to Lancaster, after her husband had been killed in the First War (as [more…]

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Nostalgia Album, Part Six

12th March 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

Last time, we discovered my father’s cousin John Jr gave his life for his country at Bone in Algeria in 1943. In the First War his father, John Sr, died of sickness after being discharged [more…]

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