Merry Christmas and All the Best in 2020!
A very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all of my readers! I’d especially like to thank those of you who have helped keep this site going by […]
A very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all of my readers! I’d especially like to thank those of you who have helped keep this site going by […]
I’d like to wish all my readers a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! I look forward to sharing more information with you in 2019, including articles on […]
I’d like to wish all my visitors a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Posts have been thin on the ground lately due to other commitments but I […]
While most Officers did their best to provide their men with a filling Christmas dinner there was no substitute for family and a home-cooked meal. In this article I’m featuring two letters […]
As a Prisoner of War in the Giessen P.O.W. camp Sergeant Thomas Bramah Diplock was nearly 300 miles behind enemy lines when he posted this Christmas card 100 years ago. It was […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
A brief post to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year. Should you be looking for ideas on what to serve at your First World War […]
The artist of this wonderful pen and ink Christmas card is Rupert Henry Vaughan. Vaughan, a civil engineer, emigrated from England in 1908 and worked in Nelson, British Columbia before settling on Vancouver Island. He worked in the surveying department for the E&N Railway before joining the 1st Pioneer Battalion […]