Albert Dugdale and Diane Morgan’s “Who do you think you are?”
I love Diane Morgan. Her on-screen roles and writing as the hapless Philomena Cunk, jobless Mandy, girlfriend Donna in comedy “The Cockfields”, […]
Author: Chris Baker
After four years in France, soldier killed by a chicken bone
On Friday 7 February 1919, Corporal M2/053051 Walter Evans died at Derby Royal Infirmary. He was taken to his home at Colwyn […]
Army Service Corps home Horse Transport Depots
Horse Transport depots before the war The depots received new regular army recruits and provided them with training in riding, driving, wagon […]
Case submitted for recognition of a war grave: Albert Wheatley Thornton
I submitted this case for consideration by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission on 16 January 2025. Driver 32186 Albert Wheatley Thornton was […]
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 […]
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 […]