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Keeping the Old Flag Flying: The World War I Memoir of Kenneth Basil Foyster - Canadian, Prisoner and Internee.

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By Mike Richardson  Book Printing UK (2019), £12.99 (Amazon), 328pp, pb, 28 in page ills, 3 maps, sources, ISBN: 978–191–269–439–6 There is very good material in this well– presented account of Kenneth Foyster’s war. I was particularly interested in his account of his time on Salisbury Plain in 1914–15. Certainly, I cannot recall many individual...


Mutiny in North Russia 7 July 1919

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In the early morning of 7 July 1919, four British Officers were killed by men in their battalion – one further officer subsequently died of his wounds a few days later. All were serving in Dyer’s Battalion of the Slavo-British Legion in the North Russian Expeditionary Force and are now buried in Archangel Allied Cemetery. Above: Archangel Alli...