Life and Death on the North Sea during the First World War

Life and Death on the North Sea during the First World War

Perhaps the subtitle of this piece should be 'Just One Week', for that was the length of time one...

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John Christie Wright - Artist and Sculptor

John Christie Wright - Artist and Sculptor

Behind every name on a war memorial there is a story, but that of John Christie Wright, commemora...

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The Labyrinth and the 6th Seaforth Highlanders

The Labyrinth and the 6th Seaforth Highlanders

The Labyrinth was a maze of trenches at the southern end of the Vimy Ridge, north east of the vil...

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John Duxbury of 'The Miners Battalion'

John Duxbury of 'The Miners Battalion'

Many local organisations were motivated to assist the war effort. They did this by recruiting men...

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The Cavalry at Monchy-le-Preux

The Cavalry at Monchy-le-Preux

The Battle of Arras started on 9 April, Easter Monday,  1917. The most famous action in this batt...

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The Search for Daniel Lightfoot

The Search for Daniel Lightfoot

The search began with the war memorial on the wall of a former pub, the Dog & Partridge, 5 Ho...

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The first French observation balloon of the Great War shot down

The first French observation balloon of the Great War shot down

    October 9,1915; 7am on the Somme-Suippe-Perthe, Marne, Part of the champagne region. 20th co...

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Holzminden ‘Colditz’ of the First World War?

Holzminden ‘Colditz’ of the First World War?

The Second World War is probably more associated with escape exploits of prisoners of war, but th...

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Those 48 hours of torment

Those 48 hours of torment

James William Thornton was born in Bethnal Green London in 1895 and worked initially as an indoor...

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A German cemetery in the Vosges battlefield

A German cemetery in the Vosges battlefield

In the early days of the war, burials in the Vosges battlefields often took place in the forests...

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The Accrington Pals’ ‘Dug-Out’ of Distinction – Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Wilmot Rickman

The Accrington Pals’ ‘Dug-Out’ of Distinction – Lieutenant-Colonel Arthu...

On 16 October 1925, 51 year-old Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Wilmot Rickman had alighted from his ca...

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Devils in Skirts: The Story of George Findlater VC

Devils in Skirts: The Story of George Findlater VC

The tradition of pipers leading soldiers into battle was not a Great War phenomenon. It had devel...

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