December 2014 – Doing Our Bit

Month: December 2014

By Jakealoo on December 23, 2014 ( Leave a comment )

Christmas at the Front – Merry Christmas 2014!

I’d like to wish all my readers and followers a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Please take a moment to count your blessings and to spare a thought […]

By Jakealoo on December 20, 2014 ( Leave a comment )

Christmas at the Front – The Listening Post

If a battered artefact such as this could speak I wonder what stories it would tell? I like to think this early trench newspaper was carried around in the haversack of a […]

By Jakealoo on December 11, 2014 ( Leave a comment )

Christmas at the Front – Pte. Thomas Harold Chapman, MM

Artist James Prinsep Beadle produced three wonderful Christmas cards for the 7th Division BEF during the First World War. The 1917 postcard pictured above was sent by Thomas Harold Chapman, […]

By Jakealoo on December 3, 2014 ( Leave a comment )

Chums in the Hut: The 16th Battalion at Lark Hill Camp

This is the seventh in a series of articles highlighting the experiences of Private John Denholm of the 16th Battalion (Canadian Scottish) during the First World War. Articles will be published on the 100th anniversary of each event […]