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Escape from the Desert : October 1915
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This article could almost be taken from a 'Boy's Own' story of Great War adventures. It features a daring raid by one of the world’s richest men to rescue a group of sailors whose ship had been torpedoed and who had been handed over to a group of North African tribesmen, by whom they were held in deplorable conditions for over four months. At the …
The Action at Rafa: 9 January 1917
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The Battle at Rafa, (or more accurately the 'Action at Rafa') which took place on 9 January 1917, was a small affair that rarely receives any mention in accounts of the First World War. It was, however, a victory that ended the Sinai campaign of 1916. During 1916 British and Commonwealth forces under General Sir Archibald Murray began pushing east…
21 April 1917: Pte David John Rees
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David was the youngest son of Samuel Rees (a farmer in 1901 who died later that year) and Margaret (née Haries) Educated Mydrim Council School Age 19 in 1911 he’s working as a miner and living with his cousins (an entirely bilingual family) in Fronheulog, Tycroes, Pantyffynnon. He joined the Pembrokeshire Yeomanry in August 1914 and served w…
“He spent his dear boy’s life for England” - The tragic story of 2/Lt Stewart Ridley
Engine failure was a persistent hazard for fliers during the Great War, often with fatal consequences. Here we have the story of a gallant young airman who met his end in a dreadful way due to a malfunctioning engine. Stewart Ridley was born on 6 July 1896, the second son of Mr and Mrs T. W. Ridley of Willimoteswick, in Redcar, North Yorkshire, a…
Masters of Mayhem. Lawrence of Arabia and the British Military Mission to the Hejaz by James Stejskal
Casemate Publishers, 2018 £16-£20 HB 184pp b/w photos throughout ISBN 9781 61200 5744 Despite the title, the author James Stejskal says that Lawrence is not the ‘primary subject’ of the book, there being many such works on Lawrence and the Arab Revolt, but more an account of nascent combined special operations this example being one of, if…