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074: September 2005
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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 e...
Albert Perkins - Who Do We Think He Is?
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Many members of The Western Front Association will no doubt enjoy watching the BBC’s long-running series ‘Who Do You Think You Are’ (WDYTYA) which is now into its 19th series. The research undertaken to unearth the stories of those relatives of the celebrities who served in the Great War is an obvious point of interest for WFA members. Probably...
‘Whatever Happened to Captain Maurice Francis Healy MC?’ by Denis Kirby
Maurice Francis Healy was born in Dublin on 16 November 1887, the eldest of the three children of Cork solicitor and later MP, Maurice Healy, and his wife Anne. A barrister, writer and occasional broadcaster on the BBC, Maurice Francis Healy is probably best known as the author of ‘The Old Munster Circuit’. Published in March 1934 the book is a...
An American in the British Forces: The story of Owen Cobb Holleran and his war
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Born in 1892 in Atlanta Georgia in the United States, Owen’s father, was Irish and his mother American. Owen was employed as a clerk in the Southern Bell Telephone Company in New York, and he was a lieutenant in the Georgia Regiment of the National Guard. In 1915 Owen and his close friend Iver Meredith Gray were determined to be part of what see...