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Somme and Ypres

Tony and Nicky Bird guided the Windlesham and Camberley Camera Club around Ypres and the […]

Mons and Le Cateau

Antony Bird, foremost authority on Le Cateau, led a fascinating tour in April to Mons […]

A Good Guide

I first heard the Last Post sounded at the Menin Gate at Ypres forty-five years […]

Guided tours

Only Tyne Cot Cemetery attracted coaches in the 70s. Lijssenthoek Cemetery, outside ‘Pop’, with its […]

A Soldier of the Great War:

The inscription carved on countless headstones leaves a haunting impression of sacrifice and destruction. The […]

Before the Harvest

Antony Bird’s novel describes in great detail the events of 24th to 27th August 1914, […]

‘War is hell’

‘War is hell’, Sherman wrote. But it is not the complete picture. War is also […]

The Great War

Capt. Sidney Rogerson of the West Yorks thought the Great War ‘the happiest period’ of […]

All in the planning

People nowadays want pre-tour briefing notes on what they’re going to visit, detailed historical background. […]

Voices from the Front Line

Maj-Gen Patrick Cordingley DSO DSc FRGS at the book launch of Tony (left) and Nicky […]