Getting back to the Meadows family again this weekend, I discovered that my Great-Grandmother, Lily Maud Meadows, had a younger brother who was killed somewhere in the advance on Flanders, on October 2, 1918. Bitterly, this was only 40 days before Armistice Day. Daniel Ford Meadows made it through the whole war, having enlisted at 16, coincidentally, on the 2nd of October 1911. No one in the last generation still living who knew Lily Maud had ever heard of this brother, so it was sad to learn about him and his fate this week.
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British Army WWI Service Records, 1914-1920. Ancestry.com |
Thanks to the wonderful work of two Ipswich natives, there is now a photographic tribute to the 500 Ipswich soldiers killed in WWI and WWII, along with a Facebook tribute page.
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