Gallantry and bravery medals and other awards are comparative rarities and they are well documented. If the soldier you are researching won such an award, your chances of finding something about his service from the…
Pre-war training for the infantry Recruits of the regular army trained for three months at their regimental depots before being posted to whichever of that regiment’s battalions was on home service at the time. Regulars…
British forces involved in Mesopotamia in 1914 (Mesopotamia Expeditionary Force / Indian Expeditionary Force “D”) Indian Expeditionary Force “D” 16th Indian Infantry Brigade 2nd Bn, the Dorsetshire Regiment 20th DCO Infantry (Brownlow’s Punjabis) 104th…
The eighth Despatch of Field Marshal Sir John French, Commander in Chief of the British Armies in France and Flanders. Printed in the Second Supplement to the London Gazette of 10 July. It dealt with…
The sixth Despatch of Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, Commander in Chief of the British Armies in France and Flanders. This was a very long despatch covering the winter operations preceding the German offensives, the…
This article was written by Peter Hodgkinson for the University of Birmingham’s Journal of First World War Studies and is reproduced here with his kind permission. It examines the process of the clearance and burial of…
I wrote this as long ago as 2003! If I remember correctly it was for someone who was writing a biography of the author, C. S. Lewis. It is very easy to find references to…
Background See this general history of the RE Railway Construction Companies Imperial War Museum photograph Q10336. Construction work at the Locomotive Depot at Rang-du-Fliers, 25 June 1918. Raising of the companies A meeting took place in…
Courage, Sacrifice and Betrayal: the story of the Victoria Rifles of Canada – 60th Battalion in the First World War by Richard R. Pyves published by Helion & Company in 2018 Hardback ISBN 978 1…
V Corps was formed in England on 8 January 1915 and the headquarters arrived at Le Havre in France two days later Headquarters locations 13 January 1915: Hazebrouck 4 February 1915: Poperinghe 26 April 1915:…