The Edwin letters, 1915-1917
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- Written by: Edward Peck
Edwin Robert Richmond Peck joined his battalion in France on 20th July 1916. Born on Boxing Day in 1892, educated at the local grammar school in Ipswich, he became a clerk at a brewery on the banks of the river Orwell before signing up for the Suffolk Regiment in 1915. Between 1915 he remains in England, becoming a temporary 2nd Lieutenant (a wartime rank) in January 1915.
During his period in France he wrote letters home to his mother. They provide a window on his experiences, albeit one that is written for his mother to read.
The life and loves of Sir John Chetwode
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Sir John and Dorothy Chetwode, George Romney, 1769
Sir John Touchet Chetwode, the third Baronet of Oakley was a man who had everything. His wealth was derived not from hard work however, but from a series of propitious marriages.
Captain Richmond of the Great Eastern Railway Fleet
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Reproduced from LNER Magazine October 1930
When he was a child, my father was told that one of his distant relatives was the captain of a ship that took the German Ambassador, Karl Max, Prince Lichnowsky out of England at the outbreak of the first world war in August 1914.
It seems likely that Luke Johnson Richmond was the relative his family had in mind.