Four newly researched stories from WW1Lives.
In this latest update, we are pleased to share four newly researched profiles. Each story offers another glimpse into the lives of the men and women whose experiences form part of the wider history of the First World War.
Joseph Harkin
A Letter Home from Gallipoli
1st Royal Dublin Fusiliers
Born in Letterkenny and later working in Glasgow, Joseph Harkin enlisted in the Royal Dublin Fusiliers in 1915. Within months he was at Gallipoli, where a letter home would become part of his story.
Andrew Alexander Cameron Adam
A Moray Gardener Goes to War
13th Royal Scots
A gardener from Moray, Andrew Adam was already in his mid-thirties when military service changed the course of his life. With the 13th Royal Scots, he would soon find himself on the Western Front.
Ethel Gordon Dunbar
A Life Devoted to Others
British Committee of the French Red Cross
Ethel Gordon Dunbar devoted much of her life to nursing and humanitarian work. Her service during and after the First World War would take her far from home and into some extraordinarily difficult circumstances.
Henry Thomas Pedder
A Submarine, Neutral Waters and a Mission
HMS E13
After more than a decade in the Royal Navy, Henry Thomas Pedder joined HMS E13 on a secret wartime to the Baltic. What followed in neutral Danish waters became an extraordinary episode of the First World War.
