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28 November 1917 : James Metcalfe
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Age 17 James emigrated to Masterston, New Zealand. At the outbreak of war in 1914 he was employed as a labourer in Whakatane. He enlisted into the New Zealand Rifle Brigade on 12 October 1915 and embarked for Egypt on 5 February 1916. After several weeks in Egypt, he was transferred to the Western Front and was a participant in the Battle …
British Medical Casualties on the Western Front in the Great War Part 1: Dealing with Wound Related Trauma
British Medical Casualties on the Western Front in the Great War Part 1: Dealing with Wound Related Trauma by Dr David Payne (This article first appeared in Stand To! 83 August / September 2008 pp. 27 - 32) Introduction When confronted with the onset of the Great War in August 1914, the professional British Regular soldier, and his colleagues in…
21 July 1916 : Pte Thomas Rigby
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Thomas was the son of Thomas E Rigby (a farmer) and Ellen (née Nutter) At the 1901 Census, age 11, Thomas (junior) was on the farm with his parents, his five brothers, sisters and a general servant at Lawson's House, Sawley, Grindleton, Yorkshire. Ten years on Thomas was working on the farm alongside two of his brothers, while his sister Alice, …
Never Fired A Shot –The Story of William Coltman VC MM & bar, DCM & bar
Tim Coltman, great grandson of William Coltman VC, gives our next talk on the most decorated other rank of the First World War. William volunteered to help his country in the bloody conflict known as the Great War and would go on to become a hero whose great deeds are still honoured in his hometown of Burton over a century later. William, just 5ft …
A Voice from the Trenches 1914–18: From the Diaries and Sketches of Bernard Eyre Walker by Bernard Eyre Walker and edited by Sara Woodall
(Blackthorn Press, 2020), £18.00, paperback, 192 pages with illustrations ISBN 978–1–906–25958–7 Bernard Eyre Walker’s diary was lost – not recently, as it has been known to be in the Liddle Collection for many years – but during the great retreat caused by the Kaiserslacht. It was returned to him some years after the war ended as the German soldi…