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13-12-13, 23:11
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Erm Phoenix
I know you love my George Hay, well here's another little gem relating to one of his descendants
Arthur Hay, grandson of the coastguard married into the Beechey family, a sister to the chaps mentioned on this link; http://www.thelincolnshireregiment.org/beechey.shtml
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Joseph Goulson 1707-1780 My sledging hammer lies declined, my bellows too have lost their wind My fire's extinct, my forge decay'd, and in the dust my vice is laid My coal is spent, my iron's gone My nails are drove, my work is done Lord receive my soul 
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13-12-13, 23:44
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I bought the book which contains many of the letters the boys sent home, I haven't finished reading it yet but I'm getting there slowly, it's certainly an eye opener and brings vivid images to mind
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Joseph Goulson 1707-1780 My sledging hammer lies declined, my bellows too have lost their wind My fire's extinct, my forge decay'd, and in the dust my vice is laid My coal is spent, my iron's gone My nails are drove, my work is done Lord receive my soul
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14-12-13, 00:13
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Most of my great uncles were either too old or too young to serve, and both my grandfathers died before I was two, so I don't have any sense of what it might have been like to have served in a war, or what it was like for those left behind.
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14-12-13, 01:53
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Yep
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Joseph Goulson 1707-1780 My sledging hammer lies declined, my bellows too have lost their wind My fire's extinct, my forge decay'd, and in the dust my vice is laid My coal is spent, my iron's gone My nails are drove, my work is done Lord receive my soul
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