Every Christmas growing up my family received a greeting card from the Stingl family. I knew that my grandmother, mother,…
My father did not bring much back from his six years of war. He would have had his demob suit…
My uncle Lawrence Holford was killed by a Bristol Beaufighter. Maybe two. My father worshipped his older brother Laurie, and…
The Background One evening in the spring of 1919 a soldier in his uniform appeared at the front door of…
I was intrigued when I discovered that I am distantly related to the last person beheaded in England. The year…
My uncle - Geoffrey Nicolls - served with the 16th West Yorkshire Regiment in WW1 and in the same week…
1940 has been well served by blockbuster movies this past year. Last summer there was Dunkirk as legendary saga and…
Song of the Dark Ages We digged our trenches on the down Beside old barrows, and the wet White…
In Memory of Lance Corporal Frank Herbert Sims. Royal Army Medical Corps who died on 28 January 1919 Age 34 Son…
Ninety years since the end of the First World War. Passengers at Paddington station on Armistice Day, 11 November 1919.…