Loston Hero Survivor Among Four Of Thirtyone Riders
By William J. Robinson a 22 year old Loston veteran recounts fourteen months in France as dragoon guardsman dispatch rider and motor car driver. He survived among only four of thirtyone motorcycle dispatch riders.
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France
Ade
Ypres
Army Service Corps
Gime
I Through Ypres in a British Ambulance Escape
William J Robinson recounts enlisting in a British cavalry unit and driving through the bombed city of Ypres in October 1914. He shelters in cellars, assists his officer, and survives harrowing rides through heavy shelling to reach Potijze and Elverdinghe amid gas, artillery, and wrecked streets.
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William J Robinson
London
Ostend
Calale
Poperinghe
Ypres
Wruetadt
Kaiser
Gervans Xtill
Echurch
Liie
Potijze
Elverdinghe
Clverdingbhs
Riverdiaghbe
Elverdingke
Expansion of the Mind and Toll Liberation
Expansion of the Mind argues education should liberate faculties and expand beyond narrow duties. It laments constrained students who lack surplus thought and energy for broader tasks, labeling them unfinished or stunted.
Neighboring theft tip in archaic phrasing circulates
A fragment urges borrowing from a neighbor described as having a plentiful supply and to take as much as possible, then discard. The language reflects an old timey tone, implying opportunistic wrongdoing without modern safeguards.
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William J. Robinson
Little, Browe & Co
Leighan
Royal Horse Artillery
Paria
Glasgow
Calais
Bua
Intelligence Department
Viamertinghe
Viamertinghire
Ope
Thompson
THE
First State Bank