My Dear Chan, So sorry I have not answered your letter before, but since the 10th of March we have been passing through such stirring times that I...
I have in my bits and pieces a letter, written by Lt. Charles Pennefather of the 2nd RB addressed to Lt. Chan Hoskyns who had recently left the 2nd...
Annie, I see that you have a thread on Daniels as well. I will place the bits and pieces I have on both on here but place the personal details of...
Annie, Cecil Reginald Noble, #3697, 2nd Rifle Brigade. Harry Daniels and Cecil Noble were close friends in the 2nd Rifle Brigade. They both...
Hi Jon, Good to see you on here and with your knowledge of McCudden I am sure you will be able to enlighten this forum. Andy
Spidge, On the 2nd July he had a meeting with Hughes which did not go down well by all accounts. "If Monash was not challenged enough by this, he...
No problem Pierre, we will just have to agree to disagree. Nice site by the way. My information all comes from Corps, Division and Battalion diaries...
Adrian, A great man, visited the airfield he took off and crashed from on the 90th anniversary of his death and went to pay our respects at his...
I have a few Annie and some personal accounts from the action where the men were on the right side of the crater, witnessed about 200 Germans coming...
I believe there has been some misconception for some time as to where the Hooge Crater actually was. With modern mapping methods it is showing a...
Pierre, Not 100% sure I would agree with your positioning of the Crater having studied the area with 1915 trench maps and Linesman. The Hotel would...
Considering that on the 3rd July 1918 Rawlinson had to step in after a statement by Monash saying that "No Australian would ever fight beside an...
Hi Annie, No problem and that's why I placed it on the forum. Very few people seem to actually realise what an atrocious act these women actually...
As quintessential noncombatants and as the conflict's apparent political and economic beneficiaries, women, as feminist historians have noted, became...
Backhaus's impression is not exceptional. Earnest Barnby also believed that such a gesture resulted in the premature loss of his brother who, in...
In stories like these the uniform becomes to the body what language is to meaning - an inadequate approximation of a vast complex of suffering that...
Michael MacDonagh's "well authenticated" version of the most famous of white feather stories vividly illustrates the way women's patriotic actions...
White Feathers and Wounded Men In spite of the extravagent promotion of gendered patriotism in wartime popular culture, historical understanding...
Although white feather giving is generally remembered as an event that excited enormous hostility, it is thus possible that at the time women like...
Sex, romantic love, heroism, and cowardice are all entwined in this story of misidentification. The girl's patriotism and bravery win her the...
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