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Brothers In War by Michael Walsh
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ISBN: 978 0 09 190884 3 SB426pp £7.99 Published by Elbury Press. Edited by Michael WalshThis book follows the lives of the eight Beechey brothers, sons of a Lincolnshire vicar and his wife. The boys were part of a family of 14 children. The book is based around letters sent to their widowed mother by the boys, the letters having been preserve...
17 May 1917 : Gnr Dennis Albert Holgate
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Born in Draughton, Yorkshire in 1898, Dennis was the son of Joseph Holgate (a limestone quarryman) from Yorkshire and Elizabeth. At the 1901 Census three-year-old Dennis was living with his parents in Draughton, North Yorkshire with his 9 month old brother Frederick and two boarders who both worked in the quarry alongside Joseph. At the 1911 Ce...
ONLINE: Bullecourt, staff planning processes for the Australian operations in April and May 1917 by Dr Meleah Hampton
The presentation will be live and online. Dr Meleah Hampton, the Australian military historian and researcher at the Australian War Memorial, will present a talk on how the two Australian battles that we call 1st and 2nd Bullecourt were planned and executed. Based on her analysis of Australian corps and divisional archives, Meleah will look...
Of No Earthly Use. The 2nd Line Territorial Force Divisions and the Western Front 1914–18 by K W Mitchinson
(Helion, 2021) £29.95, paperback, 301 pages inc maps, index, notes and refs. plus 18 pages full colour photographs. ISBN 978–1–914059–95–7 Buy a copy now > https://bit.ly/3OpHctp Since 1995, Bill Mitchinson has been producing meticulously researched books on some of the less fashionable units of the British Army in the early 20th century, es...
The Invisible Corps - ASC by Roy Larkin
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The talk originally planned and promoted for April has had to be postponed to 2025. Therefore, Roy Larkin has kindly offered to stand in and make another visit to the branch to speak about The Invisible Corps (ASC) Roy's note on his talks says: "A brief look at the Army Service Corps 1914-18 revealing a story of evolution, passing the buck and m...
Tanks at Bullecourt
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Our speaker at the November 2024 meeting will be local member David Brown who will share the output of his scholarly work on Tanks at Bullecourt. The fighting at Bullecourt in 1917 has been explored by various historians with some very good works available but the battles contained controversial elements such as the performance of the tanks. Var...