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![Robert ‘Bobbie’ Loraine M.C. : Actor-Airman](/media/27827/screenshot-2021-12-17-at-052411.png?center=0.41050119331742241,0.39692307692307693&mode=crop&width=360&height=240&rnd=132847989685100000)
Robert ‘Bobbie’ Loraine M.C. : Actor-Airman
The once-renowned Robert ‘Bobbie’ Lorraine is now an obscure figure. Born on 14 January 1876 in...
Read More![Mervyn Johns, First World War RFC Pilot and film actor](/media/27829/screenshot-2021-12-17-at-053645.png?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=360&height=240&rnd=132844468089370000)
Mervyn Johns, First World War RFC Pilot and film actor
Mervyn Johns was born on 18 February 1899 at Pembroke. He was a medical student at a London Hos...
Read More![John Laurie : Shakespearean actor and Private Fraser in the BBC's Dads Army](/media/27858/screenshot-2021-12-21-at-060045.png?center=0.27676240208877284,0.31601731601731603&mode=crop&width=360&height=240&rnd=132845402864200000)
John Laurie : Shakespearean actor and Private Fraser in the BBC's Dads Army
John Laurie was born 25 March 1897 in Dumfries and was destined to be an architect before the Gre...
Read More![Ronald Colman : London Scottish, British Stage Actor, Broadway, Film Actor, Radio and TV Star](/media/27830/screenshot-2021-12-17-at-054206.png?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=360&height=240&rnd=132844468166400000)
Ronald Colman : London Scottish, British Stage Actor, Broadway, Film Act...
[This short profile of the actor Ronald Coleman first appeared in a piece by Mark Bristow titled...
Read More![Lieutenant Philip St John Basil Rathbone aka Sherlock Holmes](/media/27810/screenshot-2021-12-17-at-052305.png?center=0.30266343825665859,0.51508120649651967&mode=crop&width=360&height=240&rnd=132843615397700000)
Lieutenant Philip St John Basil Rathbone aka Sherlock Holmes
[This short profile of the stage, film and later TV actor Basil Rathbone first appeared in a piec...
Read More![Arnold Ridley aka Private Godfrey of Dads Army](/media/27803/screenshot-2021-12-17-at-054458.png?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=360&height=240&rnd=132843077718870000)
Arnold Ridley aka Private Godfrey of Dads Army
[This short profile of the actor and playwright Arnold Ridley first appeared in a piece by Mark B...
Read More![The strangest dog fight of the war?](/media/35818/re8-combat.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=360&height=240&rnd=133418421012300000)
The strangest dog fight of the war?
The German Albatros aeroplane shown here is preserved at the AWM in Australia. It was shot down d...
Read More![The First World War in the Classroom: Teaching and the Construction of Cultural Memory](/media/27764/screenshot-2021-12-16-at-051812.png?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=360&height=240&rnd=132841054981870000)
The First World War in the Classroom: Teaching and the Construction of C...
[This article first appeared in Bulletin 99 August 20214] Barely forty-eight hours into the firs...
Read More![Christmas Day 1914 – Goodwill to all men?](/media/27392/20111223095103andrew-and-grigg-new-years-truce-world-war-i.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=360&height=240&rnd=132826780428730000)
Christmas Day 1914 – Goodwill to all men?
Much has been written about the Christmas Day ‘Truce’ on 25 December 1914 – while the popular ima...
Read More![The Sinking of the RMS Apapa 28 November 1917](/media/27367/5adf00d0-96e8-4994-ad3a-c170c8c1aa41.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=360&height=240&rnd=132825698166030000)
The Sinking of the RMS Apapa 28 November 1917
It was towards 4 o'clock on the morning of 28 November 1917 with a choppy sea running - cold, dar...
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A Father’s Search
For many families of ‘the missing’, the absence of a known grave in the immediate aftermath of th...
Read More![RNAS Caldale, Orkney and the loss of two airships](/media/27157/pic-2-ssp4.jpg?anchor=center&mode=crop&width=360&height=240&rnd=132818117234830000)
RNAS Caldale, Orkney and the loss of two airships
Situated a couple of miles from Kirkwall on the island of Orkney in the Parish of St. Ola, Royal...
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