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Lancashire North Despatch Issue 9: May 2012
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Lancashire North Despatch Issue 9: May 2012 The frontispiece group photo is of the staff at the Staff College, Quetta, India in 1913. According to Simon Robbins in his book “British Generalship on the Western Front 1914-18” such men and other officers with a Staff College background were the backbone of the BEF in the war years and enabled the war…
FREE EVENT 'War Horse' : behind the scenes with the film's technical advisor Any Robertshaw 25 August at 5:30pm
Andy Robertshaw, two men in a trench, the historian famous for digging a First World War trench in a neighbour's back garden, will be appearing at Riverside Caravan Park this Sunday to give a talk about the making of the Stephen Spielberg film War Horse. Andy worked as the a technical advisor on the set and has named the evening “My eight week h…
Don’t forget the ‘War Donkey’
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There are many books, dramas and films that have brought different aspects of the Great War to the fore over the years, but few have been as successful as ‘War Horse’. Having entered the popular consciousness as a children’s book by Michael Morpurgo in the early Eighties, it was its reworking as a stage production by the National Theatre in 2007 –…
The Roles Animals Played in the First World War Competition
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This year’s Western Front Association 'Project with Prizes' asks 12-14 year old secondary school students to think about the roles animals played in the First World War. Using examples from Michael Morpurgo’s War Horse as their starting point, students are invited to submit either: 1) One or two passages in which an animal describes their war…
'The Platoon in WWI' with Andy Robertshaw
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'The Platoon' is based on the military experience of Joseph Johns Steward from 1916 to 1919 written between the end of the Great War and the outbreak of WW2. Sadly the typescript was not published in his lifetime, but a copy was handed to Andy Robertshaw who, with the assistance of Steve Roberts, edited and annotated this first hand account on th…