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24 September 1917 : Petty Officer (Acting) Tommy Egdell, DCM
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One of ten children, of Robert (a labourer) and Thomasina (née Blyth) five boys and five girls born between 1875 and 1901 of New Row, Alnwick, Northumberland. Tommy married Alice Allan (July 1900). At the 1901 Census he was an engine driver in a stone quarry. Before the war they lived in at 277, Maypole Street, Ashington where Tommy was a m…
14 February 1916 : Lieut. Richard Gavin Brown
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Richard was the eldest of three children by Richard Brown MG Deputy Inspector-General RN (Ret) and Jessie (née McPherson). He was educated Aberdeen University where he graduated MB in 1903 and was subsequently in practice at Portsmouth. He married at St Philips, Buckingham Palace Road, London 23 November 1910 to Ruth (née Noble born 1887, H…
The Landings at Sedd-el-Bahr, Gallipoli
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One of the most difficult military operations that can be undertaken is that of an opposed amphibious landing on an enemy shore. When asked to give an example of this kind of operation, many people will automatically think of the famous and successful 'D-Day' landings in Normandy in 1944. However, April 2021 marks the 106th anniversary of an earl…
ONLINE 'Baptism of Fire! The New Zealanders at Gallipoli' by Chris Pugsley
About this talk: In 1914 the New Zealand Government placed its New Zealand Expeditionary Force (NZEF) under the British Army Act without really thinking through the consequences of what that actually meant in terms of its relationship to the NZEF that it was required to train and reinforce and to its public represented the hopes and dreams of its p…
18 December 1915 : Sergeant Horace Coe
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His parents were William (a bricklayer's labourer) and Clara (née Bosworth). Horace was the youngest of four children (all boys). Their mother Cara died aged 43 in 1891. By 1901, age 15, Horace was no longer living with his father and brothers. In 1909 he married Elsie and in October that year they were living at 79 Paddock Lane, Desborough. …
General Sir Ian Hamilton and the Gallipoli Campaign by Will Bryant
General Sir Ian Hamilton was born in Corfu on 16 January 1853. He saw extensive service in many parts of the British Army and he also took part in the Second Anglo-Afghan War, the Mahdist War and the First and Second Boer Wars. After Britain declared war on Germany in August 1914, he was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Home Army. In March 191…