Radio Merseyside

Last week on 11th November, the University of Chester’s Dr. Hannah Ewence and Ann Marie Curtis of the St. Werburgh’s Great War Study Group, visited BBC Radio Merseyside to talk about the Belgian refugees and soldiers who lived, recovered, and died in Cheshire during the First World War.
Diverse Narratives

Australian Munitions Workers

The Great War 1914-1918 was the first industrialised war on a global scale.
Bert Shepherd with his Wife Elizabeth and their son Frederick George James

Albert Edward Shepherd

Albert Edward Shepherd , known as ‘Bert’ to his family, was born in late 1880 in Toxteth Park, Liverpool.