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The Coldstream Guards and Irish Guards at Cuinchy 1915
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Cuinchy is a village astride the La Bassée Canal and is referred to by Robert Graves in his classic memoir Goodbye to All That: 'Cuinchy bred rats. They came up from the canal, fed on the plentiful corpses, and multiplied exceedingly. While I stayed here with the Welsh, a new officer joined the company... When he turned in that night, he heard a...
1 February 1915: 2nd Lieut. Harold Norton Clifton
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Harold was born on 7 May 1894 in Ashley Gardens, Westminster. He was the son of William Edward Clifton (architect and surveyor and Isabel Clifton (née Nelson) from Carlisle, living at 7, East India Avenue, London. In 1901, aged 6, he can be found on the census records living with his parents, a 1 year old sister and four domestic servants in Cam...
2 February 1915: Philip Arthur Blanshard
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Phillip was born on 18 September 1894 in Hull. His parents were Henry and Alice (née Hurdman). He was educated at Park Road Board School, Hull and employed in the Sanitary Department of Hull Corporation. Above: A street scene in Hull. (ww1hull.com/hull-before-1914/) At the 1911 Census, himself 16 years of age, he is given as a ‘general labourer...
Christmas Day 1914 – Goodwill to all men?
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Much has been written about the Christmas Day ‘Truce’ on 25 December 1914 – while the popular image of Christmas Day 1914 might be that ‘peace reigned’, this was not universal across the western front. Above: the Christmas Truce 1914 Indeed, the CWGC records the deaths of 78 men on the western front on 25 December 1914 – whilst just over 30 of...