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Divisional Memorials on the Western Front

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It all started with a conversation. Clive Harris, on one of the excellent battlefield tours run by Battle Honours was talking about Divisional Memorials, and speculated that the construction of these may have been funded by the sales of divisional histories, of which many were published in the 1920s. I thought this was an interesting point as I...


The Highland Soldier in the Great War - a talk by Tom Greenshields

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Tom Greenshields studied at Oxford and Durham Universities. He worked throughout his career in the Ministry of Defence - plus spent eight years in the Territorial Army, achieving the rank of Captain. For many years, Tom ran the living history group, "The Gordon Highlanders 1914-1918". His research into the Highland soldier during the First World...