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BCA - 2023.4282
Title
Emigrants leaving Bampton in 1913
Date(s)
- 2023 (Creation)
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Photograph
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Emigrants leaving Bampton in 1913 Henry Arthur Green, Stan Solly and Percy Hughes bound for Canada surrounded by a group of well-wishers who went to Bampton Station with them to wish them God Speed. 'Harry' Green joined the 4th Canadian Mounted Riffles Battalion when war broke out. He died on June 2nd 1916 at Ypres. His name is on the Menin Gate and on his parent's grave in Bampton.