The training of platoons for offensive action in 1917
The hard experience gained during the 1916 Battle of the Somme led to a revolution in the methods and training used by […]
Author: Chris Baker
The defeat of the Turkish attack on the Suez Canal, February 1915
Quoting from the British Official History of Military Operations in Egypt and Palestine [with my bold, italics and parentheses] On the 28th […]
Trench mortar accident strikes “V” Battery RHA before it has fired a shot
“V” Battery of the Royal Horse Artillery was stationed at Meerut in India when it was ordered to mobilise for service with […]
3,624 casualties evacuated from a single station on one day in 1917
My new article “Ambulance Train evacuation of casualties from the Third Battle of Ypres” (link below) brings out some remarkable statistics. For […]
Nothing but blue sky
Over the years I have found social media a valuable way to locate information, contact people with an interest in a particular […]
Heavy Labour Corps air raid casualties near Merris, 18 August 1917
At 6.30pm on 17 August 1917, while the Third Battle of Ypres was in progress to the east, number 30 Ambulance Train […]
Fatal accident to 9th Ambulance Train, Rouen Rive-Gauche, 3 October 1917
At 2.43pm on 3 October 1917, number 9 Ambulance Train departed from Grévillers (Somme), carrying sick and wounded soldiers who were bound […]
New article added to Gazetteer of the Western Front
New article added today is on Grand Porte Égal and the l’Épinette salient
14th HLI raid on “Farm Trench” Villers-Plouich on 28 July 1917
This article is based on research of Private 30864 Hugh Elliott that I carried out for a private client in 2018. He […]
The surefire way to locate an infantry battalion war diary
The war diaries of infantry battalions are a wonderful resource for military researchers and family historians. They are held at the National […]