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Unknown New Zealander To Be Reburied at Messines
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission have announced on their website that the remains of an unknown New Zealand soldier are to be buried at Messines British Cemetery on 25th February 2013. The New...
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Post-War Pilgrimage Signage Found At Ypres
Local battlefield guides Iain McHenry and Chris Lock reported a few weeks ago about the discovery of some post-war battlefield pilgrimage signage found close to Ypres; seen in the image above. The...
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New Reconstructed Trenches at Zonnebeke
As the centenary of the Great War approaches new sites are beginning to open up on the battlefields in Belgium and France. At Zonnebeke the Passchendaele Memorial Museum will officially open a new...
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WW1 Books: A Tommy At Ypres
A Tommy At Ypres: Walter’s War by Doreen Priddey (Amberley Publishing 2011, ISBN 978-1-4456-0213-4), 351pp, illustrated, paperback £16.99. As we approach the centenary of the Great War a large amount...
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WW1 Books: Huntly Gordon – The Unreturning Army
Many years ago when I was a student I used to trawl the second-hand bookshops along the Sussex coast and one day chanced across a slim volume by an artillery officer called Huntly Gordon, relating his...
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An Old Soldier Remembers Armistice Day 1918
This interview comes from 1982; an old soldier of the King’s Own Scottish Borderers remembers when the end of the war reached his battalion as they were out of the fighting in the Belgium town of...
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WW1 Books: New Edition of A Tommy At Ypres
A new paperback edition of the superb A Tommy At Ypres has just come out published by Amberley Books. The book follows the memoirs of Walter Williamson who served in the 1/6th Battalion of the Cheshire...
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WW1 Books: 1914 – Voices From The Battlefields
1914 – Voices from The Battlefield by Matthew Richardson, with a foreword by Dr Peter Liddle (Pen & Sword Books 2013, ISBN 978-1-84884-777-4, 296pp, illustrated) The 1914 campaign witnessed the...
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WW1 Centenary Battlefield Trek by Mark Banning
The Royal Star & Garter Battlefield Trek Guest WW1 Centenary Blog Post by Battlefield Guide Mark Banning The Royal Star & Garter Homes provide excellent nursing and care within a friendly,...
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WW1 DVD: Mons 1914
The Battle of Mons is an iconic engagement of the Great War when soldiers of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) fired the opening shots in the west for the British Army. This 90 minute film follows...
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Exploring The Western Front From End To End
The Western Front, established following the end of the mobile war in 1914, stretched for more than 450 miles from the Belgian coast in north Flanders to the border of Switzerland in the Vosges, in...
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Book Review: New WW1 Guide Books from Pen & Sword
The Retreat From Mons 1914: North by Jon Cooksey & Jerry Murland (Pen & Sword 2014, ISBN 978 1 78303 038 5, 157pp, paperback, illustrated, £14.99) Jon Cooksey is editor of Stand To! and Jerry...
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WW1 Book Review: Latest Titles from Pen & Sword
The Home Front In The Great War by David Bilton (Pen & Sword 2014, ISBN 978 1 78346 177 6, paperback, 256pp, fully illustrated, £14.99) During the WW1 Centenary it is all too possible for the...
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BBC Our World War: Review of Ep1 – Mons
Having read a lot of negative press in the Great war Community about the BBC3 series Our World War, even before it was broadcast and no-one had seen it, I was very interested to finally watch it. With...
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Book Review: New Edition of Holts Battlefield Guides
Major and Mrs Holt have spent much of the past thirty years building a reputation as battlefield experts first with their battlefield tours and since they left that company, in the form of their...
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Book Review: Between The Coast & The Western Front
Between The Coast And The Western Front by Sandra Gittins (History Press 2014, ISBN 978 0 7509 5843 1, 96pp, paperback, fully illustrated, £16.99) The recent flood of books about the Great War have...
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WW1 Book Review: The Retreat From Mons 1914 – South
The Retreat From Mons 1914: South by Jon Cooksey & Jerry Murland (Pen & Sword Books 2015, ISBN 978 1 47382 336 5, 152pp, paperback, illustrations, maps, £14.99) Authors Cooksey and Murland...
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Book Review: New WW1 Titles From Pen & Sword
Dorking In The Great War by Kathryn Atherton (Pen & Sword 2015, ISBN 9781473825529, 192pp, illustrated, paperback, £12.99) This is in the Pen & Sword series ‘Your Towns & Cities in the...
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International Blacksmithing Event Ypres 2016
A fascinating WW1 Centenary event is scheduled to take place at Ypres in Belgium on 1st-6th September 2016 involving blacksmiths from around the world. The website of the event explains: In September...
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