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How the First World War affected families
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Joshua Wright Empson, a First World War Soldier

Joshua Wright Empson, a coal miner from Castleford, died in October 1918, leaving behind a widow, Mabel and daughter, Lucy, whose lives were dramatically changed by his absence

 

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