Ban the Wasp started up as a repository for family history,\u00a0 thanks to a chance remark at a wedding, made by Marika Kennedy.\u00a0 I added in what was known about my mother’s uncles, two of whom were killed in the 14 – 18 war.<\/p>\n
There is a lot of awareness around the 100th anniversary of the start of this awful conflict which changed the world.\u00a0 I am therefore just going to place some links below to relevant articles, in case anyone wants to remind themselves.<\/p>\n
Great Uncles<\/a><\/p>\n Fiona Cook’s research<\/a><\/p>\n War medals<\/a><\/p>\n Postcards from the front<\/a><\/p>\n WW1 memorial at Monymusk<\/a><\/p>\n Song for Harry Patch, the last surviving Tommy. <\/a><\/p>\n 27.07.09\u00a0 A weekend in Glasgow, of which more anon.\u00a0 In the midst of it all, sitting in a shop on Sauchiehall Street which sells salads and pianos,\u00a0 we heard that Harry Patch had died.\u00a0\u00a0 I read Harry’s book earlier this year.\u00a0 If you can, catch the poem written for him<\/a> by Andrew Motion.\u00a0 Harry was the last Tommy from World War I.\u00a0<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ban the Wasp started up as a repository for family history,\u00a0 thanks to a chance remark at a wedding, made by Marika Kennedy.\u00a0 I added in what was known about my mother’s uncles, two of whom were killed in the 14 – 18 war. There is a lot of awareness around the 100th anniversary of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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