People and Ancestors covered in MyFamilyArchive
Here’s a list of the family names I’m currently researching on this website.
James Rigby
From Manchester to Gallipoli Private James Rigby 11691 Border Regiment James Rigby of the 6th Bn. D Coy was killed in action in the Great War after the Landings at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli in Turkey on 9th August 1915. He is my Great Grandfather on my father’s side of the family and was born on…
Francis Robert Lowe
A Driver with the Royal Horse Artillery Driver Francis Robert Lowe 99690 was with the Royal Horse Artillery and died in the Great War during the Battle of the Somme on 22/10/1916 and buried in Crecy-en-Ponthieu Communal Cemetery. This location is quite unusual as it is a communal cemetery and only contains two Commonwealth burials…
Isaac Chetham
An officer in the Napoleonic Wars Portrait of Isaac Chetham c1830 (marked on back “Capt. Isaac Chetham”) b.1781 d.1854 Isaac Chetham is my 5th Great Grandfather and was involved in the Peninsula War fighting with the infantry regiments 29th Foot, 79th Foot and 40th Foot. Like Richard Sharpe in the novels, he joined the army…