WilliamLMillerNow that I’m back in the academic-journal waiting game, I’m settling once more into the second draft of my first book, Beyond Survival: Forgotten Heroes and the Evolution of a New Humanity. That means returning to the mid-19th century when a conceptual leap would stop hospitals from being death traps. At the time, one was even grateful to leave missing limbs. Too many never left at all. #history #ForgottenHero #Semmelweis #Lister #writing
After finishing rereading Etiology, Concept, and Prophylaxis of Childbed Fever by Ignaz Semmelweis, I was once again moved by the last paragraph of the book. #History #bookstodon #Semmelweis #ForgottenHero
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Forgotten HeroI hope they will feel the desperate, cold chill of terror while they sit in the rear turret of a WW2 bomber flying over occupied territory at night. Straining everything to catch sight of the dark shape of an enemy plane intent on your, and your crew's destruction. Hopelessly staring straight at the blinding full moon from where the attack will most likely come.
And then the firing starts.
#writerscoffeeclub15
(I should perhaps tell you my WIP is NON-fiction)
Epilogue
I hope, in future editions, to be able to add here that
William's grave is no longer unmarked.
A memorial has been established at the recently found crash site near Plancenoit.
N R Hartley's fate has been discovered, there are now have some clues to follow up.
Another new post today, and it's a 3rd cousin 3 X removed to my wife. A chap who saved thosands of lives, and not one of them had even heard of him!
WIlliam Loveday. - Just Another Forgotten Hero
Today's forgotten hero is William Dunmore Loveday. A man from very humble beginnings who saved thousands of lives. He was born in the small Northamptonshire town of Irthlingborough in 1864, and was a 3rd cousin 3 times removed to the lady I married there a lot later on. His father, William, was a shoemaker and
@steverocky
I hope your father came home and made some sort of recovery after his ordeal. Iknow know many bore the scars for decades. I have a blog post you might like to read, and if yoy send me some of his details I can perhaps add him too.
From Singapore To The Burma Railway. - Just Another Forgotten Hero
Some time ago I discovered that my 6th cousin, Phyllis Eileen Brown, who was born in Kettering in 1911, married a Walter Edward Goode in late 1935. Walter was as a clicker cutting the uppers for making boots, he was born in 1911 too. By 1940 Walter was a Gunner in No. 3 Heavy Anti-aircraft
I've just put a new 3rd cousin on my Family Tree, John William Sabey born in Huntingdonshire in 1884. He was called up in 1916 and sent to France. Towards the end of Sept 1918 he was wounded 5 times in just 4 days!
The 1st 4 were dealt with on the front line & straight back into action. the 5th was a shrapnel wound to the thigh, off to the Casualty Clearing Station and then the Field Hospital for 12 weeks.
In spite of all this he lived to be 101, one tough old bird!
Today is the anniversary of the fall of #Singapore in 1942. A chap who had married a cousin of mine was captured there.
He was still working on the #BurmaRailway when the final piece of line was laid and the railway was complete. He died the next day.
Phyllis re-married after the war and I recently made contact with a descendant of hers. If Walter had not died Phyllis would not have re-married and we would not be cousins!
Full story here https://forgottenhero.co.uk/di/
#WW2
#Genealogy
#ForgottenHero
He was still working on the #BurmaRailway when the final piece of line was laid and the railway was complete. He died the next day.
Phyllis re-married after the war and I recently made contact with a descendant of hers. If Walter had not died Phyllis would not have re-married and we would not be cousins!
Full story here https://forgottenhero.co.uk/di/
#WW2
#Genealogy
#ForgottenHero
From Singapore To The Burma Railway. - Just Another Forgotten Hero
Some time ago I discovered that my 6th cousin, Phyllis Eileen Brown, who was born in Kettering in 1911, married a Walter Edward Goode in late 1935. Walter was as a clicker cutting the uppers for making boots, he was born in 1911 too. By 1940 Walter was a Gunner in No. 3 Heavy Anti-aircraft
Forgotten HeroToday is the anniversary of the fall of #Singapore in 1942. A chap who had married a cousin of mine was captured there.
He was still working on the #BurmaRailway when the final piece of line was laid and the railway was complete. He died the very next day.
Phyllis re-married after the war and I recently made contact with a descendant of hers. If Walter had not died Phyllis would not have re-married and we would not be distant cousins!
https://forgottenhero.co.uk/di/
#WW2
#Genealogy
#ForgottenHero
He was still working on the #BurmaRailway when the final piece of line was laid and the railway was complete. He died the very next day.
Phyllis re-married after the war and I recently made contact with a descendant of hers. If Walter had not died Phyllis would not have re-married and we would not be distant cousins!
https://forgottenhero.co.uk/di/
#WW2
#Genealogy
#ForgottenHero
From Singapore To The Burma Railway. - Just Another Forgotten Hero
Some time ago I discovered that my 6th cousin, Phyllis Eileen Brown, who was born in Kettering in 1911, married a Walter Edward Goode in late 1935. Walter was as a clicker cutting the uppers for making boots, he was born in 1911 too. By 1940 Walter was a Gunner in No. 3 Heavy Anti-aircraft