Tyneside

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...

The German Army had undergone a battering in 1917: in the spring of 1918 it was time to get their own back. This talk looks at the “Georgette” offensive of April 1918 from the viewpoint of the Saxons of 32 Infanterie Division, and particularly that of the men of 103 Infanterie Regiment. It examines training and morale and covers the first few da...