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Kjaerlighet Og Krig
Eighteen months ago, I had booked a trip on my own to Gallipoli to see and experience another area of the the Great War, I was hoping to see the Nek, Anzac Cove and Suvla Bay. Covid sadly put paid to that and due to circumstances out of my control the trip was sadly cancelled. […]
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Remember, Simply Remember
Just before I started this Blog I tested positive for Covid-19 three weeks ago, I want to thank everyone for their messages of support in what has been a very difficult and worrying time, It has been a very unpleasant few weeks but I am slowly and thankfully on the mend. Thinking of everyone who […]
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Cor Unum Via Una (One Heart One Way)
It is hard to believe that this farmer’s field was once a killing zone for British troops in early September in 1914. It was here also that the crystallisation of the Western Front began for the British Expeditionary Force (BEF), resulting in static trench warfare that would claim so many lives in the following four […]
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The Whistle has blown for Half Time,
On Monday I managed to hand in the third essay for my MA in Britain and the First World War.The essay was based on the technological cutting edge of artillery during the war. It was extremely hard going, and at times I found it extremely difficult. It is not a understatement when I say that […]
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‘Amid Death’s harvest on France’s Plain’
104 years ago this very evening in Picardy, a new and inexperienced British army marched towards the trenches of the Somme. This unique volunteer army raised by the Secretary of State for War Lord Kitchener was preparing for its first major battle of the First World War. They were waiting for the moment for which […]
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Memories and the Joy of Success
This week has been a a very mixed one. This Sunday I was supposed to be travelling to the Western Front for the annual family pilgrimage to the Battlefields of the Western Front. Not only with my Father but with my Brother in Law Justin on his first ever trip to the sacred fields of […]
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Passchendaele, Papa Bear and Me
It was three years ago today that myself and my father travelled to Flanders fields for our first ever trip to the Ypres Salient, the Salient which was to forever be immortalised by those men, British, French, Commonwealth and German troops who fought and died there. Having sailed from Hull to Zeebrugge on a nights […]
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‘A light in the unending darkness’
This years Palm Sunday dawn was very quiet, sombre and still. Walking through Barnsley town centre one would think of a scene of ’28 days later’ as opposed to a normal Sunday morning stroll to work. The silence was extraordinary and slightly disturbing. We are now in the third week of restrictions and it is […]
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The Indeterminable Agony of a Resit
I cannot believe that it is 3 months since I wrote on the page, unfortunately I have had a bit of trouble and difficulty. My first University assignment failed, I was 3 marks short of passing which in all honesty, could have been a lot worse. I felt extremely deflated, coupled with a bit of […]
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1917, The Review
The last Great War related film I went to see at the Cinema before 1917 was Peter Jackson’s ‘They Shall Not Grow Old’, however to me it is a documentary film and although it was a incredible experience to watch the new digitalised coloured clips and the generation of the Great War I dont class […]
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