WW1 ancestors

First World War soldiers at the Battle of Ypres, 1917 First World War records

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Royal Navy service records Sepia photograph of 16 Royal Navy ship's officers posed for a photograph on board ship in 1890, with the ship's cat

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John Wedderburn, seated

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John Davidson

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Arrival of German prisoners at Pietrograd (St Petersburg), Russia, World War I, L'Illustrazione Italiana, Year XLII, No 21, May 23, 1915

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