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 […]
Merry Christmas and Best Wishes to Everyone in 2019
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 […]
“Best Christmas Wishes”
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 […]
Made-to-order: Valentine’s Post-War Christmas Dinner
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 […]
Christmas at the Front – Merry Xmas from Giessen Dec. 1915
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
Christmas at the Front – Merry Christmas everyone!
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 […]
Christmas at the Front – Rupert Henry Vaughan
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 […]
Doing Our Bit 