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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 preserved …
17 May 1917 : Gnr Dennis Albert Holgate
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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 - both working in the quarry alongside Joseph. At the 1911 Census, now 13, Dennis was at school. As well as ten year…
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, espe…
'Tanks at Bullecourt' by David Brown
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Our April meeting will focus upon 'The Tanks at Bullecourt' and local member David Brown will be our guest speaker. David has undertaken a significant amount of scholarly and scientific work on the tanks that played a key role in the controversial fighting around Bullecourt in 1917 including studies on the material used to manufacture tanks and…