Who were the Wolds Wagoners?
Background The primary driver of the establishment of what became the Wagoners Special Reserve was Colonel Sir Mark Sykes (1879-1919), a grandee […]
Category: Articles
Warwicks in Blyth drowning tragedy
On 24 August 1917, the British Expeditionary Force was heavily engaged in the Third Battle of Ypres in Flanders, while other British […]
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”, […]
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 […]