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Accommodation | The Army Children Archive (TACA)

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The Army Children Archive (TACA). Chronicling British army children's history. CURRENT and RECENT RESEARCH. The Naval and Military Gazette,. Married quarters at Tidworth, Wiltshire, in the days when army wives wore long skirts and their sons, flat caps. PICTURE: 'THE CAMP AT ALDERSHOT – ON DUTY', MARRIED QUARTERS IN 1871. A soldier and his family are depicted at the door of their married-quarter hut (Number 23) in Aldershot, Hampshire, in a print that was first published on Saturday, 16 September 1871 in.

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TACA latest | The Army Children Archive (TACA)

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The Army Children Archive (TACA). Chronicling British army children's history. CURRENT and RECENT RESEARCH. PERSONAL STORY: ‘KHAKI SUNSET: THE TRANSITION FROM ARMY LIFE TO CIVVY STREET’. Lsquo;The transition from military life to civvy street was a heart-wrenching, wrecking experience. Schönes Deutschland, ich vergesse Sie nie! Military life was never static. Along with travel, entertainment played an important part in day-to-day life. Regimental dinners were juxtaposed with the dining-out of the...Rdquo...

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Memories & miscellanea | The Army Children Archive (TACA)

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The Army Children Archive (TACA). Chronicling British army children's history. CURRENT and RECENT RESEARCH. MEMORIES . . . When committed to paper, army children's memories often make interesting reading, including, maybe yours, or some that you have read. There follows a small selection. Lt Col James Skinner (1778-1841), quoted in Dennis Holman,. Sikander Sahib: The Life of Colonel James Skinner, 1778-1841. London, 1961, pp.213-14. TACA CORRESPONDENCE: DO YOU RECOGNISE YOUR YOUNGER SELF? I have five sis...

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Contributing & conditions | The Army Children Archive (TACA)

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The Army Children Archive (TACA). Chronicling British army children's history. CURRENT and RECENT RESEARCH. TACA welcomes images and text relevant to the history of British army children. If you would like to contribute any such material to TACA, be it for preservation or for possible inclusion on the TACA website (or both), please first consider the following issues:. If you would like to contact TACA, or to contribute material, either e-mail:. Magazine; Amanda Sedgwick; Janine Shirley; Jayne Shrimpton;...

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Forgotten faces | The Army Children Archive (TACA)

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The Army Children Archive (TACA). Chronicling British army children's history. CURRENT and RECENT RESEARCH. Many old photographs featuring anonymous army children from times past have found their way to TACA. It seems a shame that these forgotten faces should continue to be disregarded, which is why we will be posting the photographs on TACA. (See also ‘The Army Children of the First World War: Faces and Families’. THE PEREZ FAMILY, 1860S. A VICTORIAN ARMY FAMILY PHOTOGRAPHED IN CHATHAM, KENT. Four small...

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Lives & times | The Army Children Archive (TACA)

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The Army Children Archive (TACA). Chronicling British army children's history. CURRENT and RECENT RESEARCH. Can give one the reassuring feeling of belonging to a tight-knit community. And travelling the country, and the world, is, of course, an eye-opening education in itself. PICTURE: A SOLDIER'S FAMILY GRIEVES BY HIS GRAVE (. TOMMY ATKINS" MARRIED – PAST AND PRESENT. The sad vignette shown below entitled 'A Soldier's Funeral' is one of the scenes that makes up. Irish Guards Centenary Journal. Our upsta...

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On the move | The Army Children Archive (TACA)

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The Army Children Archive (TACA). Chronicling British army children's history. CURRENT and RECENT RESEARCH. Women and children being given free warm clothing aboard a troopship (an illustration published in. Of 3 August 1889. And these were the fortunate ones, the ones who were privileged to be 'children of the regiment' rather than those 'off the strength', whose abandoned mothers literally had to fend for themselves and their brood when their husbands and fathers were redeployed. SOLDIERS ON A MARCH.

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TACA home | The Army Children Archive (TACA)

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The Army Children Archive (TACA). Chronicling British army children's history. CURRENT and RECENT RESEARCH. What must it have been like to spend Christmas stumbling behind the baggage train during the Peninsula War's hellish retreat to Corunna in 1808, aged seven? Or, if you were a less privileged nineteenth-century child, to have called a corner of a smelly barrack room 'home'? To have lived in eight houses and to have attended nearly as many schools by the time you were sixteen during the Cold War era?

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1914-18 | The Army Children Archive (TACA)

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The Army Children Archive (TACA). Chronicling British army children's history. CURRENT and RECENT RESEARCH. As a member of the First World War Centenary Partnership, led by IWM (Imperial War Museums), TACA has also established the ‘The Army Children of the First World War’ project. Click here. Flickr set, note that you’ll find more on TACA’s ‘Forgotten faces’. Lsquo;THE ARMY CHILDREN OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR’ PROJECT. Lsquo;The Army Children of the First World War: Faces and Families’. Consists of a set of...