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Walter Daniel Tull and recommendation for the Military Cross
Many readers of this site will be aware of the recent campaign for a posthumous award of the Military Cross to Second Lieutenant Walter Daniel Tull. The campaign is based on documented evidence that Tull…
5/6th Royal Scots raid on Groote Bamburgh Farm
Night 11-12 September 1917 This article describes a trench raid carried out by the 5/6th Battalion of the Royal Scots (32nd Division), which was under command of Lieutenant Colonel J. A. Fraser. The raid was…
Two officers killed accidentally by sentry
Several newspapers included details of a tragic story from an inquest held at a Police Court on Monday 25 January 1915. This example is from the “Manchester Evening News”: Harris was charged with causing the death…
Lives lost from the “Manitou”, 16 April 1915
On 17 April 1915, the British ship “Manitou”, carrying 147th Brigade of the Royal Field Artillery and the transport section of the 2nd Battalion of the South Wales Borderers, was approached by the Ottoman Turkish…
Tragic incident at Crouy, 1 July 1918
This page records the events of a dreadful incident that occurred on 1 July 1918, many miles behind the trenches of the Western Front. It involves the 7th Cavalry Brigade. The case is also noteworthy…
An unknown soldier known once more
Missing in action Private 275314 William Neville Arthur of the 3rd Battalion of the London Regiment, who had been posted to serve with the 23rd (Service) Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers, was declared as “missing…
Clare Balding’s “Who do you think you are?” and Captain Malcolm Bullock
If you have watched the edition of “Who do you think you are?” that featured TV presenter Clare Balding, you will have met her great grandfather, the politician Sir Harold Malcolm Bullock. He married Lord Derby’s…
Ypres: murder, pure and simple. Why hold it?
“There is no doubt that the Salient at Ypres is simply an inferno. It is not war, but murder, pure and simple.” “The massacre which has been going on here since April 22 is not…
What were VDH and DAH?
VDH and DAH are two acronyms that are often seen in men’s army service records. They both relate to heart trouble. VDH means valvular disease of the heart. It is the more serious of the…