Category: Articles

Quoting from the British Official History of Military Operations in Egypt and Palestine [with my bold, italics and parentheses] On the 28th […]

“V” Battery of the Royal Horse Artillery was stationed at Meerut in India when it was ordered to mobilise for service with […]

My new article “Ambulance Train evacuation of casualties from the Third Battle of Ypres” (link below) brings out some remarkable statistics. For […]

At 6.30pm on 17 August 1917, while the Third Battle of Ypres was in progress to the east, number 30 Ambulance Train […]

At 2.43pm on 3 October 1917, number 9 Ambulance Train departed from Grévillers (Somme), carrying sick and wounded soldiers who were bound […]

This article is based on research of Private 30864 Hugh Elliott that I carried out for a private client in 2018. He […]

The war diaries of infantry battalions are a wonderful resource for military researchers and family historians. They are held at the National […]

Here is an example: Walter Portwood, who after four years in the ranks of the West Yorkshire Regiment, was attending the training […]

Many years ago, I came across this memorial when it was on sale in a good but rather short-lived second-hand bookshop in […]

Ten men dead in horrific circumstances. The specific cause was never identified. Here is their story. Location of tragedy Fire All images […]