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Chapter 2: Grandfather’s Journal

Posted on February 15, 2014 by brushedwithmystery

  On the morning of the 1st we arrived at the dock feeling very damp and dispirited, during the next few years we were fated to see a great deal more of this kind of weather than we could appreciate. … Continue reading →

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Excerpt from Grandfather’s journal

Posted on January 25, 2011 by brushedwithmystery

June 24, 1919 Chapter 1 My father(Lieut-Col. T.C.D. Bedell) was one of the first to volunteer for active service in August of 1914.  He went to England with the surplus officers and went through all of the terrible hardships on … Continue reading →

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