|
|
This website uses cookies. By continuing to use this site you agree to accept cookies.
If you enjoy this site please consider making a donation.
Site Home
Help & FAQs
Features
Submissions
Information
Advertisements
World War 1 One ww1 wwII greatwar great 1914 1918 first battalion regiment
Pte. Walter Dinsdale MM.
British Army 2nd Btn. East Lancashire Regiment
from:Settle
Walter Dinsdale was my Grandfather. He joined up in 1914 and was in the First World War for its duration. He was stationed in France and was wounded twice. He, like many who fought in this war, did not really talk about his experiences. It was only later in his 80s that he spoke a little of what happened to him to my Uncle. He said that he did not think he would survive, and made light of being awarded the Military Medal.
He said it arrived through the post one day after the war had ended. He told my Mother, his daughter, that at the front you did not know if the soldiers were dead or not but could not do anything about it. He told my Uncle that he lost his close friend when he was blown up beside him. One interesting thing he did tell my Uncle was that when the announcement that the war had ended he along with other soldiers who were recovering from their wounds were on Saltburn Beach. There was no joyous reaction or celebration just complete silence.
After the war Grandad came back to Stainforth, near Settle and continued to be a farmer. He was a quiet dignified man who lived into his ninetieth year.
Related Content:
Can you help us to add to our records?
The names and stories on this website have been submitted by their relatives and friends. If your relations are not listed please add their names so that others can read about them
Did your relative live through the Great War? Do you have any photos, newspaper clippings, postcards or letters from that period? Have you researched the names on your local or war memorial?
If so please let us know.
Do you know the location of a Great War "Roll of Honour?"We are very keen to track down these often forgotten documents and obtain photographs and transcriptions of the names recorded so that they will be available for all to remember.
Help us to build a database of information on those who served both at home and abroad so that future generations may learn of their sacrifice.
Celebrate your own Family History
Celebrate by honouring members of your family who served in the Great War both in the forces and at home. We love to hear about the soldiers, but also remember the many who served in support roles, nurses, doctors, land army, muntions workers etc.
Please use our Family History resources to find out more about your relatives. Then please send in a short article, with a photo if possible, so that they can be remembered on these pages.
The free section of The Wartime Memories Project is run by volunteers.
This website is paid for out of our own pockets, library subscriptions and from donations made by visitors. The popularity of the site means that it is far exceeding available resources and we currently have a huge backlog of submissions.
If you are enjoying the site, please consider making a donation, however small to help with the costs of keeping the site running.
Hosted by:
The Wartime Memories Project Website
is archived for preservation by the British Library
Copyright MCMXCIX - MMXXIV
- All Rights Reserved -We do not permit the use of any content from this website for the training of LLMs or for use in Generative AI, it also may not be scraped for the purpose of creating other websites.
