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18 April 1915: Pte. Edward Dimmock

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Parents Jonathan (a general labourer) and Sophie (née Mann)  In 1881, Edward, the youngest of 4 children, lived in Greenwich at 8 Wood Wharf, with his parents and parental grandmother.  In 1891, now age 14, Edward was working as a general labourer.  Educated in Greenwich. After school he became a stevedore, unloading and loading boats at the doc…


The British Way of War: Julian Corbett and the Battle for a National Strategy by Andrew Lambert

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(Yale University Press 2021) £25.00, 533 pages, ISBN 978–0–300–25073–2 This is a weighty book in every sense. It is lengthy, not surprisingly, as it deals with a complex and important matter, but more significantly it deals with serious concepts which are all too rarely discussed. Andrew Lambert has, in many ways, been leading up to this volume ov…