{"id":1526,"date":"2013-09-02T00:30:45","date_gmt":"2013-09-01T23:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/?p=1526"},"modified":"2025-07-02T12:50:30","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T11:50:30","slug":"great-grandfathers-wartime-story-is-published","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/great-grandfathers-wartime-story-is-published","title":{"rendered":"Great-Grandfather’s Wartime Story Is Published"},"content":{"rendered":"

Exciting news! I was recently invited to write a few articles about my family history research for the Discover Your History<\/em> magazine, a brand new publication due to be launched on 5th September. Published each month, the magazine will focus on family and social history and all aspects of heritage.<\/p>\n

My first article is appearing in the first issue and tells the story of my great-grandfather, Henry James Weaver<\/a><\/strong>, who was accidentally killed during the First World War. Henry was married to Florence Smale<\/a><\/strong> and was my maternal grandmother’s father. He came from Curry Rivel in Somerset and spent a few short weeks serving in the Oxford & Bucks Light Infantry before he died in September 1916, ten days before Florence gave birth to my gran.<\/p>\n

Henry is buried in Merville Communal Cemetery Extension in France and is also commemorated on the War Memorials in Curry Rivel and the town of Tavistock in Devon, where Florence was from.<\/p>\n

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Discover Your History Magazine – In Search of Henry Article<\/p><\/div>\n

The article can be purchased in my E-Shop<\/a><\/strong> for a small fee.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Exciting news! I was recently invited to write a few articles about my family history research for the Discover Your History magazine, a brand new publication due to be launched on 5th September. Published each month, the magazine will focus … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1528,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[40,18],"class_list":["post-1526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sharing-memories","tag-smale","tag-weaver"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t