SERGEANT EDWARD COOPER, VC KING'S ROYAL RIFLE CORPS The battle fought in the summer of 1917 which is known in the official history books as Third...
David Watts (14 March, 1886 – 14 July, 1916) was a Welsh international rugby union forward who played club rugby for Maesteg. He won four caps for...
Goldie, Claude John Dashwood. Adm. pens. at TRINITY, June 30, 1896. S. of John Haviland Dashwood (1868), of 26, The Boltons, Kensington, London....
Military records clearly indicate that the first of what came to be known as a 'rolling' or 'creeping' barrage was used by the Bulgarians in the...
Major-General Charles Howard Foulkes (1 February 1875-6 May 1969) was a Royal Engineers officer in the British Army and also a British international...
Obituary ..... TURNER, BRIGADIER ARTHUR JERVOIS, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O. and Croix de Guerre, who died at Graffham, Sussex, on September 8 1952 aged...
The 1907-08 New Zealanders, led by Albert Baskiville, who came over to England were real pioneers. Their inaugural Test Matches against the Northern...
Maurice-Paul-Emmanuel Sarrail (1856-1929) was a French general of the First World War. Sarrail endeared himself to the political elite of the Third...
....... who won the French Open four times between 1906 and 1925, the Belgian Open once and the Spanish Open three times. He also won the 1908 UK...
SCHLEICH, Eduard Ritter von. (1888-1947). Hauptmann. Victories = 35. Highest award = Pour le Merite (December 1917). Nickname = Black Knight of...
SMS Hindenburg sinking. Originally raised in 1926, a few days later she was sent back to the bottom by a gale, costing the salvage company £30,000....
Battle of Jutland Memoir Below is Chapter 14 from "Through the Hawse Pipe" which are the unpublished memoirs of Captain Alexander Grant CBE DSC....
The first HMS Zulu was an Tribal (or F-) Class destroyer launched September 16, 1909 at Hawthorn Leslie Shipyard and commissioned in March, 1910....
Thought this maybe of interest ! :) The man who is as much a part of French rugby as William Webb Ellis is to world rugby is known by the very...
Hope this helps somebody ! :) List of Merchant Seamen and Fishermen detained as Prisoners of War in Germany, Austria-Hungary and Turkey, 31st May...
Medal entitlement of Private William Jackson, 17th Bn ( New South Wales ) AIF Victoria Cross 1914-15 Star British War Medal ( 1914-20 )...
Henry Dalziel No. 1936 V.C. Henry (Harry) Dalziel was born on the 18-02-1893 at Ragged Camp near Irvinebank, after Harry’s schooling in Irvinebank...
A "complete" list of Aus & NZ inscriptions on Gallipoli can be found at http://www.anzacs.org/ New Zealand soldiers normally did not have...
Just look at how many British Fishing Vessels were lost at sea due to enemy action in August 1914 ! the numbers dwindled a little for the rest of the...
Prince Heinrich of Prussia (born Albert Wilhelm Heinrich, 14 August 1862 – 20 April 1929), sometimes known as Henry, was a younger brother of Emperor...
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