MANY of you were moved by our series of tributes to the brave men of Weymouth who were killed in the 100 days battle of the First World War leading up to Armistice Day.

It seems as though the leadership of Looking Back stretches as far as Exeter as Jackie Ranft got in touch to let us know that we had mentioned her grandfather among the Weymouth war dead.

6853 Corporal Percival Crouch of the Devonshire Regiment 8 Bn was Jackie's granddad.

Jackie tells us: "My father John Crouch lived in Weymouth and he was given an apprenticeship as a mechanic and he said he worked on Laurence of Arabia’s motorbike.

"He played rugby for Honiton and Exeter as my grandmother moved to Honiton where she remarried. Unfortunately I don’t know anything else about my grandfather as my father was a child when he was killed."

Jackie has discovered that her granddad died aged 32 and is the son of Mr and Mrs W Crouch of Weymouth and the husband of L Crouch. He is remembered at the Thiepval Memorial.

She said: "I have never seen a picture of him and wondered if you were likely to have any pictures of the men killed. I am also trying the Keep Military Museum."

We've put Jackie in touch with Weymouth historian Greg Schofield in the hope we may be able to update her with more information on her grandfather soon.

We also heard from John Dering who shared details of his grandfather, who was killed in 1917.

Private Edward Betts was in 2/4 Dorsetshire Regt and was a dispatch rider. He was wounded in Palestine and subsequently killed on November 22 1917 when the field hospital was shelled, aged 39.

Edward was a schoolteacher at Holy Trinity School in Weymouth. He was married to Maud Betts and father of Kathleen. He lived at 17 Newberry Terrace in Weymouth.

Our research from Greg tells us that Edward was only serving because he volunteered to take the place of another teacher who had heavier family responsibilities.

It was also lovely to hear from Roger Holehouse who has enjoyed our First World War series.

He writes: "The chaps breaking up the tank in the opening photo in the gallery seem from the height of the tracks to be working on a ‘gun carrier mk 1’ rather than a ‘mk 5’ battle tank like the one in the background.

"It was the world’s first attempt at a self-propelled gun. It wasn’t particularly successful due to the limitations of technology, like many other things in WW1, but I never cease to be amazed at how many clever military ideas that later became accepted standards of modern warfare were first thought of and tried in 1914-18. They certainly weren’t ‘donkeys’."