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https://museumofeastdorset.co.uk/world-war-one/

PDF Research Documents

Background

Discovering East Dorset's Home Front - By Karen Hunt

Who was on the East Dorset Home Front?

The challenges of the East Dorset home front

Hospitals

East Dorset's WW1 Hospitals - By Janette Marsh

First World War Hospitals in East Dorset (additional notes) - By Janette Marsh

Medals

How metal identified two soldiers from the First World War - Medal Identification

How metal identified two soldiers from the First World War - Notes by Samantha Whitehall

St John's

St John's - Wimborne's other parish - By Linda Atkinson

St John's - Additional notes

Additional Articles

The Story of James Austin Brown and the Tyneside Scottish Brigade - By Alan Brown

East Dorset's War Memory, Mourning, Commemoration or Remembrance? - Martin Barry BSc. (Hons), M.A. University of Bristol.

Media

Find out more about Olive Hardcourt (a character in Tommy’s Sisters) in Voices from 1918, a project developed by artists Sharon Hayden and Alastair Nisbet in partnership with Wimborne Community Theatre, Dorset History Centre and the Museum of East Dorset with funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund: https://www.screen-play.co.uk/voices/