We have uploaded to the World War One Roll of Honour a biography of James Anstee of the Swanbourne Ansteys, who enrolled for service with the Royal Marines at the outset of war, and was part of the Chatham Battalion which was deployed to Gallipoli, Turkey on 6 February 1915, fighting in some of the early battles of the Landing at Anzac Cove in April/May 1915.
Anybody who has information they would like to add to this biography please contact us at research@theansteystory.com.
Anybody who has researched their Anstey ancestors’ wartime heroics and wishes for their findings to be uploaded to the Anstey story project website, feel free to contact us.
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