Ashton-under-lyne (Lancashire) WW1 memorial was unveilled in 1922. Thirty eight bronze panels contain 1,512 names of local men who gave their life...
How many names do you think might have been omitted from your local WW1 War memorial? Ten, twenty, surely not as many as fifty? Well, here's the...
How could the British Grand Fleet have a destroyer with a name like that? The link explains all. HMS Kempenfelt, launched May 1915, armed with 4 x...
Now before you say VC, might some other medal be more apt? For example, Boxing fans might choose the Third China War Medal and fans of 1960's fashion...
From "THE SWELL" - The Regimental Rag of the 13 Battalion King's Liverpool Regiment - Jan. 1916 issue - written in the trenches ( editors Ptes P C...
Although only vague references were made in the local papers regarding the construction of aeroplanes, it was revealed after the war that a local...
Hello. There are quite a few free military e books available over the internet. Has anyone come across one for the Dorset or Hampshire Regiments?...
It was reported in a back edition of my local paper in 1916 that an Army pensioner from Bramley, near Rotherham, aged 67, sired 31 children and had...
Do citations exist for foreign awards such as the Croix de Guerre? I've an idea that I read that, on some occasions, a fixed amount of these awards...
Hello. I'm researching servicemen who were either born or who had connections to the Poole/Bournemouth area. My research, so far, has only uncovered...
Hello. I'm interested in Poole's role as a naval base during WW1. I've made enquiries at my local history centre and county records office but...
Hello. I'm researching servicemen who were either born or who had connections with the Poole/Bournemouth area. I'd love to hear from any descendants....
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