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X354/7/7/5
Title
Article 'the Bedford Highlanders 1914' by Waddy Wadsworth. An account of the author's experience as an 8 year old boy when the Highlanders were billetted in Bedford.
Date free text
Written c. Oct 1986
Production date
From: 1914 To: 1914
Admin/biog history
Ainslie Murray Wadsworth was born on the 3 May 1906 in Bedford. His father having retired to Bedford from India. Ainslie 'Waddy' attended the Crescent School and Bedford Modern School. By the 1980s he was living in Devon, where he died in March 2000 aged 93.
Scope and Content
Includes reference to Major Dawson, Colonel Forsyth and Lieutenant McPhail, who were billetted in the Wadsworth family home in Chaucer Road.
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