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Offline Tuggybear

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Newspaper searching.
« on: Tuesday 12 November 24 16:21 GMT (UK) »
Following a memorial post on a fb group on 11 11.24 I have amazingly been shown a photograph of my great uncle William Prince who was gassed in the Somme and died several days later on 14.12.17
I'm thrilled to see the photo, which apparently came from the Leicester illustrated Chronicle but I'm wondering if there would be any further information printed with it.
I've tried searching the British Newspaper Archive and FindMyPast but can't find the photo let alone any attached article. Is there somewhere else I could search?
Thanks.
Knight, Bates, Newton, Pick,Perkins, Marshall, North, Kilby, Beckett, Prince.

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Re: Newspaper searching.
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 12 November 24 16:33 GMT (UK) »
You could try the administrator or the person who posted on fb to ask where they got the picture from. 
Or you could contact the Leicestershire Record Office and ask if they could help.  They do hold old copies of the Leics, Illustrated Chronicle, apparently.  Google for opening times, contact details etc.
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« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 12 November 24 16:39 GMT (UK) »
I've tried searching the British Newspaper Archive and FindMyPast but can't find the photo let alone any attached article.
Thanks.

As far as I can see FindMyPast doesn't have the Leicester Illustrated Chronicle in its newspaper archive.
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Re: Newspaper searching.
« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 12 November 24 16:46 GMT (UK) »
On Findmypast

Another item.

Leicester Mercury 14 December 1918.
Leicester.

PRINCE
In Loving Memory of William Prince Pte. 1st, Leicestershire Regt., who died of gas poisoning 14Th. Dec., 1917

It’s hard to lay him in his grave when he has done his best,
But it makes the heart beat harder
When we know not where he rests.
From his loving Mother, Sisters, and Brothers, Fred (in India) Brother-in-law) Jim (at sea)
CHOULES All ,  COKER Harwich Essex & Rochester Kent 
COLE Gt. Oakley, & Lt. Oakley, Essex.
DUNCAN Kent
EVERITT Colchester,  Dovercourt & Harwich Essex
GULLIVER/GULLOFER Fifehead Magdalen Dorset
HORSCROFT Kent.
KING Sturminster Newton, Dorset. MONK Odiham Ham.
SCOTT Wrabness, Essex
WILKINS Stour Provost, Dorset.
WICKHAM All in North Essex.
WICKHAM Medway Towns, Kent from 1880
WICKHAM, Ipswich, Suffolk.


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« Reply #4 on: Tuesday 12 November 24 18:55 GMT (UK) »
Thank you for the replies. I will look in the Leicestershire records office in Wigston as soon as I can obtain a readers ticket. 

Thanks for the in memoriam notice. So sad that so many families were suffering so much heartache.

I hadn't seen any illustrated chronicle pages so I thought they might not have them. Thanks
Knight, Bates, Newton, Pick,Perkins, Marshall, North, Kilby, Beckett, Prince.