The site of the fighting at Beaumont Hamel was later purchased by the Newfoundland Government and is now a Memorial Park. Volunteers will show...
Several points to make on this: The largest loss of life at sea was the sinking of the liner Wilhelm Gustlaff in the Baltic in January 1945, by a...
This chap actually used his Geography degree!
Vaterland became the United States Lines Leviathan after the war. She and her sister Imperator were the largest ships in the world at the time -...
Thanks, great work. In the case of Brian, I see one account says he was in a "practice dogfight"; the other implies that it was a "friendly fire"...
It must have been tragic to lose three brothers. From the CWGC website, they were all younger than him. F/O Brian Herrick was lost on 24/11/40,...
Looks like your reproduction of this has mangled some of it! Liddell was flying an RE5 aeroplane, which accounts for the RES/KES. The ? before...
Buster Thanks for all these. I toured the battlefields a couple of times a few years ago and visited several of these places, so the photos bring...
I'm not quite sure what they are on about - "restoring" this aircraft. She has been on display for years, and I very much doubt if they are...
A sad reason to be remembered, but do casualties of merchant vessels sunk in war count as "killed in action" rather than "lost on active service"?...
Keith I don't know if it was anything that I said that upset you, but you can be certain that I have nothing but respect and admiration for our...
On one hand, the bloke was a basically a communist, and I wonder if I would have had any regard for him if he was not also a Bomber Pilot (not since...
They seem to be a similar concept to our Coastal Motor Boats - but with the torpedoes in a more sensible postion (in a CMB, the torpedo was in a...
Yes I have seen Rosebud and spent many late nights looking at it! I suspected your photos of unfortunate aviators came from there, even before I...
The Zeppelin concerned was L53. AFAIK it crashed into the sea, so I don't think the photo here can be of that vessel's wreckage. Culley's Camel...
From the shape of the fin I would say the aircraft was an RE8 .... which is about as useful as saying the pilot was probably right-handed. If it...
Ok, a rather more honourable figure than Richard III I imagine! As a grandson of Queen Victoria, this would have been the equivalent of Prince...
He wasn't a member of the British Royal family! He never knew that his sister would become Queen; she was 15 when he was killed and 23 when she...
Well, the Japanese couldn't have managed it without Britain! Their aircraft carriers and Naval Air Force were largely developed with British...
No, but it doesn't surprise me!
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