Going to the past…
We have been going to (mostly) French and Belgian battlefields for over 30 years, and […]
We have been going to (mostly) French and Belgian battlefields for over 30 years, and […]
I first heard the Last Post sounded at the Menin Gate at Ypres forty-five years […]
Only Tyne Cot Cemetery attracted coaches in the 70s. Lijssenthoek Cemetery, outside ‘Pop’, with its […]
Different nationalities tend to go to sites associated with their country (and their relatives), but […]
The inscription carved on countless headstones leaves a haunting impression of sacrifice and destruction. The […]
Antony Bird’s novel describes in great detail the events of 24th to 27th August 1914, […]
‘War is hell’, Sherman wrote. But it is not the complete picture. War is also […]
Capt. Sidney Rogerson of the West Yorks thought the Great War ‘the happiest period’ of […]
Maj-Gen Patrick Cordingley DSO DSc FRGS at the book launch of Tony (left) and Nicky […]
In 2009, just before the Ashes series, Nicky Bird guided the England cricket team around […]
