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Ronald Skirth, the Glossary

John Ronald Skirth (11 December 1897 – 1977) was a British soldier who served in the Royal Garrison Artillery during the First World War.^[1]

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Military personnel from Chelmsford
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Amnesia

Amnesia is a deficit in memory caused by brain damage or brain diseases,Gazzaniga, M., Ivry, R., & Mangun, G. (2009) Cognitive Neuroscience: The biology of the mind.

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The Battle of Messines (7–14 June 1917) was an attack by the British Second Army (General Sir Herbert Plumer), on the Western Front, near the village of Messines (now Mesen) in West Flanders, Belgium, during the First World War.

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Battle of Passchendaele

The Third Battle of Ypres (Dritte Flandernschlacht; Troisième Bataille des Flandres; Derde Slag om Ieper), also known as the Battle of Passchendaele, was a campaign of the First World War, fought by the Allies against the German Empire.

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Bexhill-on-Sea

Bexhill-on-Sea (often shortened to Bexhill) is a seaside town and civil parish in the Rother District in the county of East Sussex in South East England.

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Bombardier (rank)

Bombardier is a military rank that has existed since the 16th century in artillery regiments of various armies, such as in the British Army and the Prussian Army.

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British Army

The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, a part of the British Armed Forces along with the Naval Service and the Royal Air Force.

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British War Medal

The British War Medal is a campaign medal of the United Kingdom which was awarded to officers and men and women of British and Imperial forces for service in the First World War.

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Campo San Martino

Campo San Martino is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Padua in the Italian region Veneto, located about northwest of Venice and about north of Padua.

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Canadian Forces College

The Canadian Forces College (CFC) is a military staff college for senior and general officers of the Canadian Armed Forces.

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Channel 4 News

Channel 4 News is the main news programme on British television broadcaster Channel 4.

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Chelmsford

Chelmsford is a city in the City of Chelmsford district in the county of Essex, England.

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Conscientious objector

A conscientious objector is an "individual who has claimed the right to refuse to perform military service" on the grounds of freedom of conscience or religion.

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Corporal

Corporal is a military rank in use by the armed forces of many countries.

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Derby Scheme

The Derby Scheme was introduced during World War I in Britain in the autumn of 1915 by Herbert Kitchener's new Director General of Recruiting, Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby (1865–1948) after which it was named.

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Duncan Barrett

Duncan Barrett is a writer and editor who specialises in biography and memoir. Ronald Skirth and Duncan Barrett are 20th-century English writers.

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Ealing

Ealing is a district in West London, England, west of Charing Cross in the London Borough of Ealing.

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Francis Turner Palgrave

Francis Turner Palgrave (28 September 1824 – 24 October 1897) was a British critic, anthologist and poet.

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Germany

Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.

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Ian Hislop

Ian David Hislop (born 13 July 1960) is a British journalist, satirist, and television personality.

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Imperial War Museum

Imperial War Museums (IWM), is a British national museum.

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Italian front (World War I)

The Italian front (Fronte italiano; Südwestfront.) was one of the main theatres of war of World War I. It involved a series of military engagements in Northern Italy between the Central Powers and the Entente powers from 1915 to 1918.

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John Keats

John Keats (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821) was an English poet of the second generation of Romantic poets, along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley.

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Jon Snow (journalist)

Jonathan George Snow HonFRIBA (born 28 September 1947) is an English journalist and television presenter.

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Lieutenant general

Lieutenant general (Lt Gen, LTG and similar) is a military rank used in many countries.

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Lions led by donkeys

"Lions led by donkeys" is a phrase used to imply a capable group of individuals are incompetently led.

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Lord Byron

George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824) was a British poet and peer.

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Macmillan Publishers

Macmillan Publishers (occasionally known as the Macmillan Group; formally Macmillan Publishers Ltd in the UK and Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC in the US) is a British publishing company traditionally considered to be one of the 'Big Five' English language publishers (along with Penguin Random House, Hachette, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster).

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Michigan State University

Michigan State University (Michigan State or MSU) is a public land-grant research university in East Lansing, Michigan.

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Military Medal

The Military Medal (MM) was a military decoration awarded to personnel of the British Army and other arms of the armed forces, and to personnel of other Commonwealth countries, below commissioned rank, for bravery in battle on land.

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Military occupation

Military occupation, also called belligerent occupation or simply occupation, is temporary hostile control exerted by a ruling power's military apparatus over a sovereign territory that is outside of the legal boundaries of that ruling power's own sovereign territory.

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Montegrotto Terme

Montegrotto Terme (Montegròto) is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Padua in the Italian region Veneto, located about west of Venice and about southwest of Padua.

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Not Forgotten (TV series)

Not Forgotten is a British television documentary series made by Wall to Wall for Channel 4.

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Office for National Statistics

The Office for National Statistics (ONS; Swyddfa Ystadegau Gwladol) is the executive office of the UK Statistics Authority, a non-ministerial department which reports directly to the UK Parliament.

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Pacifism

Pacifism is the opposition or resistance to war, militarism (including conscription and mandatory military service) or violence.

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Palgrave's Golden Treasury

The Golden Treasury of English Songs and Lyrics is a popular anthology of English poetry, originally selected for publication by Francis Turner Palgrave in 1861.

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Patriotism

Patriotism is the feeling of love, devotion, and a sense of attachment to a country or state.

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Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley (4 August 1792 – 8 July 1822) was an English writer who is considered as one of the major English Romantic poets.

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Richard Holmes (military historian)

Edward Richard Holmes, CBE, TD, VR, JP (29 March 1946 – 30 April 2011), known as Richard Holmes, was a British military historian.

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Ring binder

Ring binders (loose leaf binders, looseleaf binders, or sometimes called files in Britain) are large folders that contain file folders or hole punched papers (called loose leaves).

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Royal Garrison Artillery

The Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA) was formed in 1899 as a distinct arm of the British Army's Royal Regiment of Artillery serving alongside the other two arms of the Regiment, the Royal Field Artillery (RFA) and the Royal Horse Artillery (RHA).

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Sabotage

Sabotage is a deliberate action aimed at weakening a polity, government, effort, or organization through subversion, obstruction, demoralization, destabilization, division, disruption, or destruction.

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Schio

Schio is a town and comune in the province of Vicenza (region of Veneto, northern Italy) situated north of Vicenza and east of the Lake Garda.

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Second Battle of the Piave River

The Second Battle of the Piave River (or Battle of the Solstice), fought between 15 and 23 June 1918, was a decisive victory for the Italian Army against the Austro-Hungarian Empire during World War I, as Italy was part of the Allied Forces, while Austria-Hungary was part of the Central Powers.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Skirth

Also known as Reluctant Tommy, Skirth.

, Vicenza, Victory Medal (United Kingdom), Western Front (World War I), World War I, World War II.

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Military personnel from Chelmsford

People from Bexhill-on-Sea

War writers

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