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Forum: The Lost Villages, Radcliffe and Chevington Drift. 08-08-2016, 10:36 AM
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Posted By Coquet
Private Thomas Hook Brown, Army Service Corps

bit of a clean up:

http://www.coquetandcoast.co.uk/images/t-h-brown.jpg
Forum: The Lost Villages, Radcliffe and Chevington Drift. 08-08-2016, 10:22 AM
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Posted By Coquet
I do have all the 1915 newspaper data now...

I do have all the 1915 newspaper data now including that page, but my photo is not much better:


http://www.coquetandcoast.co.uk/images/radcliffe-browns.jpg
Forum: The Lost Villages, Radcliffe and Chevington Drift. 08-05-2016, 09:05 AM
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Posted By Coquet
Very nice to see Barbara. I have most of the data...

Very nice to see Barbara. I have most of the data from the contemporary newspapers on the district's WW1 casualties, but with a few periods missing, latter part of 1915 being one of them.
Forum: The Lost Villages, Radcliffe and Chevington Drift. 06-06-2015, 04:34 PM
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Posted By Coquet
1st Life Guards. A Scout. Harry Payne Postcard, 'Tuck's Oilette.'

I'm processing a collection of military postcards for disposal (500!) and came across this one. Thought it would be an appropriate addition to this thread. Romanticised 'Scout' of the 1st Life...
Forum: The Lost Villages, Radcliffe and Chevington Drift. 27-05-2015, 02:37 PM
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Posted By Coquet
Well, we've come a long way with this one. Not...

Well, we've come a long way with this one. Not just a mysterious "Brown" carved on the Radcliffe memorial anymore.
Forum: The Lost Villages, Radcliffe and Chevington Drift. 27-05-2015, 02:28 PM
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Posted By Coquet
So James Leonard Brown was a miner at Newburgh...

So James Leonard Brown was a miner at Newburgh Colliery.
[Someone asked which colliery he might have worked at and I said 'probably Broomhill Colliery', but from his service papers it was actually...
Forum: The Lost Villages, Radcliffe and Chevington Drift. 27-05-2015, 02:27 PM
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Posted By Coquet
..and from a descendant of this family: ...

..and from a descendant of this family:


"Peter and Jane Glendinning Brown of Amble had six sons, five of whom were "miner soldiers".

George Tait Brown, born 1880. Married. Rabbit Catcher. In...
Forum: The Lost Villages, Radcliffe and Chevington Drift. 27-05-2015, 02:24 PM
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Posted By Coquet
Gravestone in 'B' section Amble West Cemetery.

http://www.coquetandcoast.co.uk/images/brown_peter_gravestone.jpg


That gravestone records a lot of death in a short few years.
Forum: The Lost Villages, Radcliffe and Chevington Drift. 27-05-2015, 01:58 PM
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Posted By Coquet
James Leonard Brown, a coal miner from Dansfield...

James Leonard Brown, a coal miner from Dansfield Place, Radcliffe, enlisted into the 1st Life Guards at Amble on the 3rd November 1914. His declared aged was 19, height 5’9½”, of fair complexion,...
Forum: The Lost Villages, Radcliffe and Chevington Drift. 26-04-2015, 06:35 PM
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Posted By Coquet
Lest we Forget.

Lest we Forget.
Forum: The Lost Villages, Radcliffe and Chevington Drift. 26-04-2015, 01:07 PM
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Posted By Coquet
The amazing thing about it is that they managed...

The amazing thing about it is that they managed to do what was asked of them; seal the breach in the line caused by the German gas attack; otherwise history might have been very different; The Ypres...
Forum: The Lost Villages, Radcliffe and Chevington Drift. 26-04-2015, 09:58 AM
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Views: 31,531
Posted By Coquet
Yesterday and today, 100 years ago, the local...

Yesterday and today, 100 years ago, the local boys found themselves thrust into the fighting at Ypres. Over the next few days, news was filtering back to Radcliffe, Alnwick, Broomhill, Amble, etc.,...
Forum: The Lost Villages, Radcliffe and Chevington Drift. 26-04-2015, 09:50 AM
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Views: 31,531
Posted By Coquet
Just had a message from a descendant of Charles...

Just had a message from a descendant of Charles Brown, a Radcliffe 'soldier miner' wounded 100 years ago today, that the two Browns on the Radcliffe Memorial and Charles were brothers.

Charles is...
Forum: The Lost Villages, Radcliffe and Chevington Drift. 16-05-2014, 09:40 PM
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Views: 31,531
Posted By Coquet
On the subject of Life Guards, looks like one of...

On the subject of Life Guards, looks like one of the WW2 Coquet Mouth dredger casualties served in the 1st life Guards in WW1 as well -Robert Forster English. [Who was also my G-Grandparents next...
Forum: The Lost Villages, Radcliffe and Chevington Drift. 16-05-2014, 07:19 PM
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Posted By Coquet
If I'm on the right family on the census and the...

If I'm on the right family on the census and the age is correct, then he was seriously under age when he enlisted, as he was sent overseas in early 1915.
Forum: The Lost Villages, Radcliffe and Chevington Drift. 16-05-2014, 07:03 PM
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Posted By Coquet
One of 9 children according to the 1911 census, 7...

One of 9 children according to the 1911 census, 7 still at home, all the males are miners including James aged 13, who is a driver underground. At 38 King Edward Street, Amble in 1911.
Forum: The Lost Villages, Radcliffe and Chevington Drift. 16-05-2014, 01:41 PM
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Posted By Coquet
Trooper James Leonard Brown.

This is Trooper James Leonard Brown, 1st Life Guards. From Radcliffe. Died of wounds (http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/19598/BROWN,%20J%20L) 29th January 1916 aged 19.


Why do we have...
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