320: Mary Hainge and Bertie Green (photograph); Edward Robbins (diary)

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posted on 2024-01-11, 16:55 authored by Lest We Forget Project Team

Wedding photo - Mary Hainge and Bertie Green. Diary - Edward Robbins, the contributor's father in law, was an 18-year-old soldier. In the diary there is a knot tying useful information for soldiers. The diary was given to every soldier in the regiment. Robbins was taken prisoner by the Germans two weeks before the end of the war they couldn't afford to feed them all so sent them home quickly.

Shells - 2 pounds of shells fired from a small field gun collected from car boot sale. broad arrow stamped (belongs to the government

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Name of contributor(s)

Daphne Robbins

Subject of the story/individual the object(s) relate to

Mary Hainge and Bertie Green wedding photo; Edward Robbins' diary

Date(s) the event(s) in the story took place

Wedding: 1915, Diary: 1918, Shells: 1915

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Photograph; diary; shells

Community Collection Day

Cheney School, Oxford (10/11/17)

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Lest We Forget World War One

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