Frank
Soldier, Londoner
1893–1915
Photo: Captain R. E. Partridge
A journal from the Western Front. 1914–1915 and 2014-2015.
- One way ticket on the Necropolis Line
- A Frank farewell
- My act of remembrance
- He seemed to like getting shot at
- A Shephard joins the flock
- Belgian chocs away
- Albert square bashing
- Bomb boy duck
- I would be so glad to receive these things
- Poulet the other one
- An example of
- Dirty rotten scoundrels
- Tommies, Cooper
- Incessant
- Lamp batteries
- A bad moon rising
- Stuck with the Peacemakers and the Holy Boys
- Humdrum day
- Night raiders
- Trench fervour
- My name is Blücher
- A nasty accident at sea
- Don't rain on my parade
- A dot ball for the Dorsets
- Reboot
- Resting by Musket and Saxon
- Top spin lob, smash and POW!
- Asylum streakers
- Bailleul diversity
- Ransome notes
- Waiting for Spring
- I never had the slightest idea of what was going on
- Up periscope
- What a bastard
- Wish you weren't here
- Loaf letters
- Billet minion
- Water, water, everywhere
- Rain and Abel
- Sandbags and wet rags
- Not feeling fab from the jab
- Dig for victory
- How many bombs would a bomb chucker chuck?
- A shot in the arm
- Out with the Auld
- Storm in a tea cup
- Mary Christmas from Frank
- All quiet on the Western Front
- Cat amongst the turkeys
- Not so Stille Nacht
- A white lie Christmas?
- Do the Heuvelland shuffle
- Tram Blam thank you ma'am
- Have yourself a Verey merry Christmas
- Mad men & English togs
- A Twiss in the tale
- Blazin' squad
- A salient point
- The ballad of Frank's censor
- Brixton - the flower garden of London
- The Wasp Factory
- Brew ha ha
- Dolly mixture
- Short stop
- Having to turn out for a German
- Heavy weather
- That patrol emotion
- Conditions very trying
- The Wytschaete line man
- Merry and bright
- Stopping a Jack Johnson
- Dreaming of cold tea
- Me nerves are all shattered
- Post cartography
- Super furry animaux
- Say cheese
- Peppermints and perfumed soap
- Quite Quiet
- Deadlock holiday
- Ten dud thuds
- Situation quiet – snipers very active
- Baaah!
- British to the Backbone
- A General morale boost
- Woollens for your Walloon Warriors
- The tattered 15th
- Snow rest for the wicked
- Knock off wood
- Cold kidneys on brown bread
- They have no fear in them
- Letters Like Buses
- The Dorsets' Achilles heel
- Postcards from the edge (of a wood)
- The mysterious Brixton Bill
- They're shelling the bathroom!
- Down the Ploeg 'ole
- Four Marks war memorial
- Rhyme nor reason
- Suits you sir
- Mysterious mishaps in the mist
- Mabel and her John Willie
- Le Battle Royale
- If it wasn't for those bosky kids
- Plugging the gap
- Busman's holiday
- Promises promises
- Au revoir to all that
- 5th Division's band aid
- Partridge captures geese
- We're going to Neuve Chapelle
- Gorre blimey
- Trenchant views
- Men at work
- A respite of sorts
- Dorset's finest and finings
- Straightening the line
- Sacks and Violaines
- Bring up the bodies
- We're on the rue to nowhere
- Cuthbert, seedy
- Unlucky Dorsets join the 13th
- Relief but for how long?
- A Bols from the blue
- Overwhelmed
- The beginning of the end
- A move towards hot water
- I demand to have some booze
- Dial M for Muff
- Do the Oakley-Kokey
- A train journey without a destination
- Post rest aunt
- New Bols please
- Unmentionable crimes
- Let's camp here for the night
- Fog on the Aisne
- For Love and Courage
- Sharp shooting Frank
- Meet Mister Sniper
- Memories
- KV and other posh expressions
- Steam punk engineers
- A cellar full of excellent wine
- Howitzer that!
- These Missy nights
- On the (Ed.)
- Nun the wiser
- D.I.V.O.R.C.E.
- Tuppence a quarter
- I haven't found any Thomases yet
- The squat pen(cil) rests; snug as a gun.
- The Jury is out
- A locality of great interest
- The elderly chicken and other murders
- Black Marias and Cow-Guns
- A bottle of Harvey sauce and a ham-bone
- Everything of the smallest value stolen
- Everlasting bully beef
- The abandoned battery on Hill 189
- Witness to an unnecessary death
- Super-excellent "William" pears
- You are in a twisty maze of passageways, all alike
- Last hors d'oeuvres
- The usual answer, "Eggs"
- A horrible little house
- A stout peasant
- Can't get any cold tea
- Speechless with thirst
- A wash and a shave
- Postcard from the edge
- Luckily untouched by a Scottish accent
- St-Quentin, you've been living hell to me
- Splendid work with machine guns
- Nobody calls me Cecil
- Quelle fromage
- No longer playing games
- Dour by name
- An excellent penny cigar
- Ready to march but where?
- House of Fraser
- D'Ors set
- Gare to Guerre
- Rest Camp No. 8
- Bound for Le Havre
- The Dorsets set sail for war
- A frank update
- We are off on Friday to the War
- Frank's girlfriends
- Farewell to Arms
- Frank's little secret
- Frank goes to Cambridge
- Biddy sends a letter home
- An Introduction to Frank
- 1st Battalion Dorset Regiment 1914 - 1915 - a set on Flickr
- Frank Crawshaw. Soldier, Londoner