Child Soldiers of WW1
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Child Soldiers of WW1 28 th March 2014
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Child Soldiers of WW1. 28 th March 2014. Youngest Soldier of WW1. John Condon, Ireland: Served with the Royal Irish Regiment Died on 24 th May 1915 in a German gas attack near Ypres. John Cornwell, VC Born 8 th January 1900 - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Child Soldiers of WW1
28th March 2014
Youngest Soldier of WW1
John Condon, Ireland:Served with the Royal Irish RegimentDied on 24th May 1915 in a German gas attack near Ypres
John Cornwell, VCBorn 8th January 1900Died of wounds received in the Battle of Jutland, 2nd June 1916
Alec Campbell, AustralianEnlisted aged 16 Landed with the Australian Forces at Gallipoli in 1915Invalided home six weeks laterDied in Hobart Australia on 16th May 2002, aged 103
Valentine Strudwick, aged 15
A P Antrobus (OS), aged 18
My boy Jack"If any question why we died
Tell them, because our fathers lied,"
• Kipling, after his son Jack died at the Battle of Loos, 6 weeks after his 18th birthday.
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