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Jan 29, 2007 · Quote:- From a wealthy and privileged background, Robert Anthony Eden was born on June 12, 1897, at Windlestone Hall near Bishop Auckland, Durham. He was the third son of Sir William Eden, with one sister, Marjorie, older than all the brothers, of which there was a total of four. Young Eden was e...
Nov 6, 2020 · The Times and other media have carried a story that the Great War medals of Anthony Eden, later Prime Minister, are to be auctioned in May 2021, according to a "puff" put out by the auctioneers Woolley and Wallis, of Salisbury. The auctioneers stated that there was some doubt about what earned hi...
Oct 5, 2010 · I picked up a copy of Eden's autobiography "Another World" which covers the period between 1897 and 1919. He ended a Brigade major at 20 probably through a combination of talent and no little influence. On page 59 he is just about to join up and comments :- "These were miserable months for my mot...
Sep 16, 2024 · Anthony Eden appears to have been awarded his MC for his part in a raid/patrol at Ploegsteert about early August 1916, apparently saving the life of his platoon Sergeant Bert Harrop.
Oct 14, 2005 · From what I have been told he got shot on the front line and it was my grandfarther that went out and carried him back...my grandfarther (james wattie simpson or wattie james simpson) got a medal for this. when tony eden became prime minister he made a visit to new zealand were james had a privat...
May 31, 2016 · Anthony Eden's brother - a boy on Indefatigable Battle of Jutland By Liz in Eastbourne 31 May , 2016 in Sailors, navies and the war at sea Share Followers 0
Nov 17, 2014 · I'm slightly confused, what's new? Spartacus Educational has Anthony Eden in the KRRC winning an MC at the Battle of the Somme. The KRRC Eden is a different man is it not? Hon William Alfred Morton Eden missing 3/5/1915 Anthony Eden Medal Rolls Did he (Earl of Avon) win the MC? Mike
Jul 7, 2016 · Eden also mentions Park’s death, saying he went to set a rat trap in a disused fort. Neither mentions the rifleman in C Company also killed that day, John Milburn, but they were writing long after events, and I assume the sergeant’s death stood out more in their minds.
Jun 6, 2003 · Major Jack S Churchill was the father-in-law of Anthony Eden Foreign Secretary and then Prime Minister of Britain in the 1940s to 1950s. British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden (55), whose first marriage was dissolved on June 8, 1950, would shortly marry Miss Clarissa Spencer-Churchill (32), the niece of Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
Nov 14, 2009 · If you're after a copy of the war diaries for the months in question please let me know. CWT PS I thought it might mention the place in Anthony Eden's memoirs but he left the battalion in July 1917.
