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Ember A LAND FIT FOR HEROES For many of those that had returned from the War it would take more than a few months t…

BRING THEM HOME - THE CAMPAIGN FOR THE REPATRIATION OF THE WAR DEAD The Armistice and the Versailles Treaty were just s…

REMEMBRANCE For the last four years I have featured in the November Issue of Brumration those men from Sutton Coldfi…

LAST OF THE CENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARIES - THE SINKING OF THE GERMAN HIGH SEAS FLEET Last month we, and most others, overlo…

Who controls Modlin, Controls Warsaw and Poland” (Bonaparte) Booking a Ryanair flight from Birmingham to Warsaw lands y…

THE “SCENE IS SET” In this current era, we are familiar in both Military and Political circles of the term “mission …

D DAY 6TH JUNE 1944This month’s Brumration is something of a departure from the norm as both my themes relate to World W…

WAR GRAVES I have previously written about War Graves in Sutton Coldfield in relation to commemorating those men whose …

THE HOME FRONT Newspapers were pleased to report in January 1919 that in their localities there had been no new repo…

ESCAPERS ALL My thanks to those of you who came to February’s meeting and heard my talk ‘Escapers All’. It is still…

RETURNING PRISONERS Returning prisoners had from as early as 1914 been an important source of information. In 1914 …

A belated Happy New Year to you all Looking at Newspapers for December 1918/January 1919 there were many familiar stori…