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Our February 2017 Newsletter

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  Welcome to the February edition of the Newsletter.  The topical photograph this month is of my great-grandfather John Welch (1876 – 1926), East Surrey Regt.  Unfortunately his records are lost but from family stories he went to France in January or February 1917 after suffering from Pleurisy whilst at Dover Castle.  In the summer of 1918 he w...

6 November 1914 Carl Hans Lody

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Carl Hans Lody was born in Berlin on 20 January 1877. Following the death of both of his parents before he was eight, he entered an orphanage and later became an apprentice in a shop in Halle. In 1893, aged 16, he joined a sailing ship as a cabin boy and later studied at the German maritime academy, before joining the Imperial German Navy. Lody...

Secrets in a Dead Fish

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By Melanie King Bodleian Library, 2014. ; £8.99, 102 pp, inc Glossary and Notes ISBN 978-1-85124-260-3 Book review by Barbara Taylor This small volume is sub-titled The Spying Game in the First World War. ‘Game’ might be a word that springs to mind when reading this book. To modern eyes, with Facebook, GPS devices and sophisticated digital means...

Death of a Spy: Charles Simon : 7 June 1915

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‘Project Hometown’ has brought to light many fascinating, tragic and sometimes uncomfortable stories. However, one of the most unusual cards is that of a civilian who received an award for gallantry and whose dependants were granted a military pension. Adam Charles Simon (who preferred to be known as Charles) was born in Bangkok on 4 June 1880...

'First World War Spies' with Roger Negus

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Roger Negus will be giving a talk on World War I Spies

The Forgotten Germans of the First World War

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Barry Kitchener's talk, ' The Forgotten Germans,' throws a spotlight on a little known and rarely mentioned aspect of the Great War. The British Government wanted to utilise the symbolic power that The Tower of London had become by executing eleven German spies convicted of espionage. A thought provoking story, not to be missed.