Scotland (Tayside)

The 2019 WFA Tayside  tour to the Western Front takes a look at the less visited and less examined parts of the British and Empire campaign that took place at the beginning and end of the Great War.  First, the period before both sides went to ground in the trenches in September 1914, and second the final months when troops left the trenches behind…

Ron Scrimgeor The story of the 'Unknown Warrior' has fascinated Ron Scrimgeour for more than forty years. His research began then with the Ministry of Defence and the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Military matters were not a high priority then and the Vietnam War summed up an unofficial attitude – that the military were a necessary evil and …

Taff Gillingham. Using his own experience of the television industry over the past 15 years, Taff looks at how The Great War has been portrayed on British Television over the past 50 years.   Suffolk-based Taff Gillingham is a phenomenon. He is a military historian specialising in the British and Commonwealth soldier, 1899-1960 and is an expert …