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Blair Swannell - Lion at War
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Over the years Stand To! editor Jon Cooksey has been involved in co-writing and producing several documentaries for the BBC in collaboration with BBC Senior Broadcast Journalist and Sports Editor Graham McKechnie. These have now been made available with permission for members during the period of lockdown. In the broadcast which we have made av...
Sergeant George William Hutson: A talented distance runner, Olympian and casualty of the Great War
George was born on 22 December 1889 in Old Malling, Lewes, Sussex. He was the eldest of four children of George Huston, a journeyman butcher, and his wife. On leaving school, George worked as an outfitter’s assistant. On 5th March 1908, at age 18, George enlisted in the 2nd Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment and was sent to Chichester for basic tra...
Jack Beresford: An Olympian at War by John Beresford
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The Cloister House Press, Gloucester, (2019) £14.99, hb, £11.99, pb, 124pp, 38 ills..ISBN: 978–190–946–589–3 [This review featured in the February 2020 issue of Stand To! No.117] I love the alliteration in the title of Amiel Price’s privately published book! The subject of From Handsworth to Hebron is the author’s grandmother, Amiel Robins, and...