Acknowledgements Commemorative Exhibition Project
I am very grateful indeed for all the help I have received
since I began in March 2012 and that I continue to receive with my on-going
commemorative exhibition project. Please forgive me if I have left anyone out.
First and foremost I have to thank Paul Breeze, who edits my work and prepares it for printing and publishing, for his endless patience and genius;
First and foremost I have to thank Paul Breeze, who edits my work and prepares it for printing and publishing, for his endless patience and genius;
Dean Johnson of The Wilfred Owen Story in Argyle Street,
Birkenhead, Wirral, UK and Janet Holmes of the WOS and Rathbone Studio, Argyle
Street, Birkenhead, Wirral, UK - for asking me to research for exhibitions at
the WOS and who kindly displayed the panels;
and for their constant help and encouragement with this
self-funded project:
The British
Red Cross Archive Department
Terry Bunn
Jo
Killmister
Bairbre O’Hogan
Colin
Woodbine
Roger Quinn (Harold and Janet Begbie)
Roger Cooper (Rosaleen Graves)
Chris O’Hara,
musician/composer
David
Windle, Musical Director, Blackpool Tower Circus
Chris Spriet
– editor of “We aged 100 years” WW1 poetry anthology
Parks Art
Deco Café, Blackpool
Salford
Museum and Art Gallery
Annette
Shelford
David
Reynolds
Sarah
Colgrave
Frank Harvey
Diana Jones
Roy Dalling
Dawn Dyer
Richard
Bartle
Sheena
Gaskell
“The Wirral
Globe”
“The Times”
"The Guardian"
"The Liverpool Echo"
"The Guardian"
"The Liverpool Echo"
“The Daily
Mail”
Angela Duffy
of Vertu Antiques, Hoylake
Phil Dawes
Dorothy
Clare
Debbie
Cameron – researcher and of the Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/1468972083412699/
Jane Crossen
- researcher
Stanley Kaye
of the Facebook Group World War One Remembered: https://www.facebook.com/groups/83518512190/
Stephen J.
Cribari
Pierre Virey
Dr. Margaret
Stetz - Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women's Studies and Professor of Humanities at the University of Delaware, USA
Mark Samuels
Lasner
Tim Paci
Mario
Malacrida
Carol Acton
Callan
Chevin
Ciaran
Conlan
Tony Smith
Yvon Davis
Marianne Février
Mary Sky Mac
Michael
Sharkey, Editor of "Many such as She" Anthology)
Martin
Zieren
Kurt W.
Drobeck
Auriel C.
Drobeck Condon
Geoff
Harrison
Cathy Sedgwick
Sue Robinson
of Wenches in Trenches, The Roses of No Man’s Land
Marc Carlson
Joel Baetz
Ian Inglis
of The Mobile Military Museum, Scotland
John
Dennison and Caz of Francourt.org
Michael
Shankland researching sea poetry of WW1 http://www.eastsussexww1.org.uk/great-war-sea-poetry-project/
and Facebook Page
Faye
Threlfall
Mary Rose
Gaunt
Dawn Heuston
Claire Faulkner
Johan R.
Ryheul
William Bulcke
William Bulcke
Wolfgang Paland
Takis
Liakopoulos
Marion Devoy,
researcher/historian
Clara
Abrahams, May Wedderburn Cannan’s Grand-daughter, who has now set up a website
dedicated to May: https://maywedderburncannan.wordpress.com/
Eleonora
Padovani, writer
Elena Branca
of the Italian Red Cross
Vivien Newman,
writer
Anne Powell
Cecil Woolf
of Cecil Woolf Publishing
Jean
Moorcroft-Wilson
Deb Fisher
of the Siegfried Sassoon Fellowship
Joy Breeze
John Barnes
of the Royal British Legion, Old Trafford Branch
English
Language Verse
The Great War Doughboy Search: American World War One
Veterans https://www.facebook.com/greatwardoughboysearch/?fref=ts
Colin
Branfoot Reeves
Richard and
Sheila of The Devil’s Porridge Museum to the Memory of Munitions Workers,
Gretna
Mrs J.
Kingsland, Archivist, Downe House School
Jenny
Bartlett, Librarian, North London Collegiate School
Kelly Jones,
Archivist at Wimbledon High School
Jane Rooney
of the Huyton College Old Girls’ Guild Committee
Mrs J.
Kingsland, Archivist at Downe House School, Berkshire
Andrew
Thornton author of books about the South Staffordshire Regiments and https://www.facebook.com/OldContemptibles1914/?fref=ts
Vanessa
Lavallé
Timo Galzer
Jurgen
Verhulst
Clive
Barrett
Dominic
Sheridan of the Australian Great War Poetry Facebook Group and weblog https://www.facebook.com/australianwarpoetry
Professor
Brian Murdoch
Dr. Ian
Olson
Jacky
Rodgers
Vicki Lovell
Steve
Cloutier
Dave Waite –
Sir John Nelthorpe School
Lucy Beney –
Godolphin School
Rachel
Hassall – Sherborne School
Sherborne
School for Girls - Dorothy Goldsack
Downe House
– Jennifer Kingsland, Archivist
Wimbledon
High – Kelly Jones, Archivist
Rossall
School – Anton Maree
Clifton
College – Dr. C.S. Knighton
North London
Collegiate – Jenny Bartlett, Librarian
Huyton
College – Jane Rooney
Steve
Millward – Royal Worcester Grammar School and Alice Ottley School for Girls
Oundle
School – Elspeth Langsdale, Oundle School Archivist and
Mrs
Kerr-Dineen, Head Teacher – Oundle School
Sue James –
Sutton High School Archivist and History Teacher
Bill
Hamilton for permission to use the poems written by Eric Arthur Blair (George
Orwell)
Tim Kermode
Marielle Stockton and
Dr. Laura Laffrado of the American Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington, USA
Robert and Sue Vernede (R.E. Vernede)
Maria Coates
Alan Hewer
Keith Johnson and Gwyneth Westbury-Jones (Frederick Owlett's grandchildren)
Sharon Casey (Arthur Lewis Jenkins)
Professor Ian Higgins,
Tim and Peter Kermode
Sergio Sbalchiero (for inspiration, help and advise with artists of WW1 and in particular people who served on the Italian Front)
Rosie Crofts
Helen Roberts of the Map of Australia Trust for restoring the WW1 Map of Australia in Compton Chamberlayne, Wiltshire, UK
Jurgen Verhulst
Mary Sky Mac
Connie Ruzich https://behindtheirlines.blogspot.com/
Ian Higgins who has translated French poetry of the First World War
Tim Kermode
Marielle Stockton and
Dr. Laura Laffrado of the American Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington, USA
Robert and Sue Vernede (R.E. Vernede)
Maria Coates
Alan Hewer
Keith Johnson and Gwyneth Westbury-Jones (Frederick Owlett's grandchildren)
Sharon Casey (Arthur Lewis Jenkins)
Professor Ian Higgins,
Tim and Peter Kermode
Sergio Sbalchiero (for inspiration, help and advise with artists of WW1 and in particular people who served on the Italian Front)
Rosie Crofts
Helen Roberts of the Map of Australia Trust for restoring the WW1 Map of Australia in Compton Chamberlayne, Wiltshire, UK
Jurgen Verhulst
Mary Sky Mac
Connie Ruzich https://behindtheirlines.blogspot.com/
Ian Higgins who has translated French poetry of the First World War
AC Benus author, poet, translator and historian