Between the Lines - April/June 2026

1 April 2026

Branch Newsletter Number 87

In this edition we have articles as follows:

Valmai Holt awarded MBE in the 2026 New Year’s Honours List

Cemeteries that may have passed you by - Part One

Rudyard Kipling and the Minesweepers of the Dover Patrol

Crested China Models of Minesweepers

The Dover Patrol Monument at St Margaret’s-at-Cliffe

Old St Mary’s Churchyard, Walmer

The war-time slogan: Are we downhearted? No!

The Story of Neuve Chapelle - in Mementoes of the Great War

“Keep the home fires burning till the boys come home”

Take me back to dear old Blighty

Remembering HMS Tiger

Remembering HMS Queen Elizabeth

More Ship-Timber Souvenirs - but are they Trench Art?

The Canadian Mother’s Cross

The Canadian ‘brooding soldier’ Memorial at St Julien, Ypres

A selection of Canadian Great War Mementoes - including some badges