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Ep. 30 – Joseph Steward’s Platoon – Andy Robertshaw

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Military historian Andy Robertshaw talks about the amazing account of Private Joseph John Steward’s military service in the 1/13 Battalion London Regiment during the Great War he edited (published by Pen & Sword, 2011). Your browser does not support the audio elemen...

21 December 1915 : Kenneth Cherry

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Parents Alfred (a draper and shopkeeper) and Florence (née Sampson). The family lived at 27 White Cliff Mill St, Blandford, Dorset and at the 1901 Census the family consisted of the parents, seven children and two domestic servants.  In December 1908 he was working as a Temporary Boy Clerk for the GPO in London and at the 1911 Census was livi...

'The Platoon in WWI' with Andy Robertshaw

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'The Platoon' is based on the military experience of Joseph Johns Steward from 1916 to 1919 written between the end of the Great War and the outbreak of WW2. Sadly the typescript was not published in his lifetime, but a copy was handed to Andy Robertshaw who, with the assistance of Steve Roberts, edited and annotated this first hand account on...

The Men who sailed on the Australind

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Michael Orr - The Men who sailed on the Australind On 26 October 1914 728 men of the 1st Battalion 28th London Regiment (the Artists Rifles) sailed for France. More than half of them had joined the Army after 4th August.  The battalion did not see front-line service until June 1917, but nearly a third of all ranks would die before the end of the...