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Wartime | WW1 | Old Contemptibles Association

The Old Contemptibles were the veterans of the British Expeditionary Force sent to France in 1914, so named because of a German reference to the contemptible little army facing them.1

The Romford branch of the Old Contemptibles Association was formed in 1927.

Memorial in St. Edward's church

1940s

1950s

1 The Oxford Encyclopedic English Dictionary.

 

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