This was an article from the WFA website on the Western Front Association Service of Commemoration at the Cenotaph 11 November 2017
Category: Article
CCB and the Third Battle of Ypres
Here is the text of an article I drafted for the Old Campellians’ Society as part of the project I’m doing at CCB. This was posted on their website.
One Parish at War – Lydbury North in the Great War
In Lydbury North’s parish church, there is an amazing publication titled ‘War Record’, produced by the parish after the Great War that sets out the military service of parishioners and the ‘war work’ local patriotic villagers undertook to support the war effort.
The Battle of the Somme: laboratory for final victory or ‘nothing achieved’?
This paper examines the effect combat experience, gained on the Somme, had on the military effectiveness of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) for the remainder of the war.
The Memorial at Holy Trinity Church, Prince Consort Road, South Kensington
Holy Trinity church in Prince Consort Road, South Kensington, London, has a striking war memorial to its 43 parishioners who fought and fell during the Great War. They were predominantly residents of the local area and were mainly drawn from the wealthier professional middle classes or minor aristocracy who lived in the South Kensington area […]