{"id":309,"date":"2012-03-02T12:05:33","date_gmt":"2012-03-02T12:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/remember.porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/?page_id=309"},"modified":"2026-02-09T15:57:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T15:57:51","slug":"acknowledgements-and-sources","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/remember.porthillscouts.org.uk\/site\/acknowledgements-and-sources\/","title":{"rendered":"Acknowledgements and Sources"},"content":{"rendered":"

This site wouldn’t have been possible without the help and information supplied by the following people and organisations –<\/p>\n

Commonwealth War Graves Commission<\/a>
\nAncestry.co.uk<\/a>
\nThe National Archives<\/a>
\nStaffordshire Sentinel<\/a>
\nJanet Barber
\nDavid Blake – Curator Museum of Army Chaplaincy<\/a>
\nThe Hickton Family
\nTim Knaust
\nLesley Goodburn
\nJames Brazier – Margate Civic Society<\/a>
\nGill Bagnall
\nSteve Rogers – The War Graves Photographic Project<\/a>
\nGeoff Mayer
\n‘Call to War’ by Geoff Mayer
\n‘The Wolstanton Roll of Honour’ by Geoff Mayer and Chris Sheldon
\nChris Hartford
\nMick McCann – British War Graves<\/a>
\nVern Littley
\nJeff Elson – Head of Research Staffordshire Regiment Museum<\/a>
\nJohn Bradshawe
\nLieutenant Colonel C J E Seymour – Archivist of the Grenadier Guards<\/a>
\n<\/a>Berenice Baynham
\nChurches of Britain and Ireland<\/a> website & Kevin Gordon
\nVirtual British War Cemetery of Catania website
\n<\/a>The Davies Family
\nThe warsailors.com<\/a> website
\nFrank Simpson
\nGeoff’s Search Engine<\/a>
\nCarina & Gary Nelson of the International Wargraves Photography Project
\n‘Gone to War The North Stafford\u2019s Fallen Railwaymen’ by David J. Woolliscroft and Mike G. Fell
\nSimon Cork
\neMedals Inc<\/a><\/p>\n

Any omissions or errors are of my own doing and if anyone has any corrections or extra information, please contact me here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The background photo is a postcard of St. Andrews from 1953.<\/p>\n

The site’s header photo doesn’t actually include any of our Scouts, but is a group of Royal Engineers in camp, either in Newark or Lancashire, sometime between June 1916 and September 1917.<\/p>\n

\"W.E\"
\nThe man on the far right of the back row is my Great Grandfather, William Edgar Wood, who was also killed in WW1.<\/p>\n

N A Wood

This site wouldn’t have been possible without the help and information supplied by the following people and organisations – Commonwealth War Graves Commission Ancestry.co.uk The National Archives Staffordshire Sentinel Janet Barber David Blake – Curator Museum of Army Chaplaincy The Hickton Family Tim Knaust Lesley Goodburn James Brazier – Margate Civic Society Gill Bagnall Steve … <\/p>\n

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