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The discovery of a book belonging to a nurse who worked at Stockport’s Stepping Hill Hospital during the First World War has provided an artistic glimpse into the lives of both soldiers and nurses at the time.
Liam Parr was one of the two men from Stockport who travelled to Dublin in early 1916 to take part in the Easter Rising.
Christened Joannes Francois Vermeulen and born on 13thJune 1892, JF Vermeulen was one of nine children, having 2 brothers and 6 sisters.
Wherever it began and whatever its actual identity, the 1918 flu pandemic hit the world in three main waves.
