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After Amiens – 38th (Welsh) Division

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It happened in the barber’s where my mother had taken me when I was a young child. ‘Mummy, why is that man making funny noises?’ The wheezing, rattling and muted bubbling sound stopped briefly as he turned to look at me, expressionless, then nodded towards my mother and turned away. My mother gave a very, very sharp tug on my coat sleeve. ‘Shhh!...

10 July 1916 : 2/Lt. Cyril Arthur Charles Aitkens

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Born at Chislehurst, Kent on 28 June 1893, Cyril was the son of Albert John Aitkens, of Paddock Wood, Kent and Ada Louise (née Knight, daughter of the Lord Mayor of London). He was educated at Eversley School, Southwold and Eastbourne College Cyril was articled to the N.E.Marine Engineering Works for 5 years, but volunteered on the outbreak of...

‘The 38th (Welsh) Division at Mametz Wood, July 1916. The Reasons for adverse criticism in the early historiography’

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This article is derived from the research undertaken by Jon Williams' for his MA dissertation as part of the Britain and the First World War MA degree with the university of Wolverhampton for which he received a WFA MA Study Grant. Maps and photographs have been added.  Introduction The historiography of the Somme Offensive is replete with accou...