Tyneside

Deryk talks about Worth, another brother of the Wilson family to Bob, who he spoke about last year - Bob was ship's engineer on the undercover spy ship Sayonara. Samuel Worthington Wilson – was known in the family as Worth. He was in the Sea Scouts in Sunderland when war broke out - the Boy Scout movement began in Sunderland in 1908. Worth joine...

The story of Rev Robert Keable’s time in France as a chaplain to the appallingly treated men of the South African Native Labour Corps. It also records the writing, publication, and reaction to his scandalous semi-autobiographical bestselling war novel ‘Simon Called Peter’. What happened in France to lead a rising star in the Church of England to...

In 1914 most international communications went by telegraph cable. These were largely secure but without them, Governments were unable to communicate with their embassies in other countries. One of the first actions listed in the British ‘War Book’ was to order the cutting of German cables to force the enemy to use other less secure methods of c...