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Following a white feather
Harry Williams
My grandfather, Harry Williams (seated, centre) was born in Monmouthshire in November 1896 and left school aged twelve to work on a farm. Later he became a boy porter on the Great Western Railway and was still only seventeen when a smartly dressed woman got off the train and gave him a white feather. It affected him for life. He never wanted to join up, or - I think - believed the propaganda, b…
Contributors
- Merryn Williams
Subject
- World War I
- World War I
- Henry (Harry) Williams
Type of item
- Story
Date
- 1914
- 1958
- 1958
- 1914
- 1958
- 1914
Contributors
- Merryn Williams
Subject
- World War I
- World War I
- Henry (Harry) Williams
Type of item
- Story
Date
- 1914
- 1958
- 1958
- 1914
- 1958
- 1914
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
Creation date
- 2014-09-10 10:17:26 UTC
- 2014-09-10
- 2014-09-10
Temporal
- europeana19141918:timespan/85b43b19ac5d4ec607c947abdd6502e7
Places
- England, Wales and France
Provenance
- INTERNET
Source
- UGC
Identifier
- https://1914-1918.europeana.eu/contributions/17575
- 17575
Language
- eng
- English
Is part of
- EnrichEuropeana
Year
- 1958
- 1914
Providing country
- Europe
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2019-09-11T08:31:38.804Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2023-06-05T08:05:33.085Z