William George Leaney
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In October 1914 enlisted in the Warwickshire Yeomanry in 1916 served in Sinai and Palestine under Ge…
Bessie Darling–Leaney
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Bessie was a VAD Nurse in 1915 during World War 1. She served in Erdington Birmingham nursing wounde…
John Geoffrey Smerdon
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John Merdon was born in 1893 and lived at Bishhops Hull,Taunton. At the out break of the first World…
Merlin Broom
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Peter Trotman was part of the 2nd Mounted Division. Today the land where the British Forces were act…
Mr L J Tibballs
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Harringay News Friday 1st July 1938 (shown right) Former Residents Death Early Worker for the Burges…
Kenneth Cary Helyar
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Lieutenant Commander Kenneth Cary Helyar’s photo (right) is just before the First World War in 1913…
The Stone House, Pitminster 1914-1918
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The Stone House was the village garage owned by Mrs Pym at the time of the First World War. The owne…
Fred Owen
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Fred Owen was a relative veteran of 37 when he signed up in 1915 with the 5th Battalion of the Yorks…
Albert Thomas Gould
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Albert Thomas Gould was part of the 779 West Somerset Yeomanry. Albert Thomas Gould was born in Berm…
The residents of Pitminster Parish have created an exhibition of World War One based on the articles and artefacts received from people who live in the villages of the Parish. 
