A Letter of Recommendation
Dear Colleagues, World War I Battlefields Experience As we approach the centenary of the First World War, great emphasis is rightly being placed upon students gaining a greater understanding of […]
WW1 School Tour – A Poetic Response
In October, I led a BFX four day tour of the WW1 battlefields for the Blessed William Howard School in Stafford. Mostly these were Year 11s but the group included […]
WW1 Resource – Shepreth Village Hall
Placed on a ledge, something or someone accidentally knocked it off and it was lost. Its recipient may have looked long and hard for it, or with a shrug of […]
School Battlefield Tours – WW1
As many regular readers know, I left teaching last year to create my own company, Battlefront Exploration, which delivers guided tours of the World War One battlefields. Previoulsy, I had […]
All Saints Church War Memorial, Northfleet
Below are the eighty names listed on the All Saints Church War Memorial in Perry Street, Northfleet. As of 4th July 2012, the fates of fifty-four of these men have […]
Rawlinson’s Congratulations to the 18th Division
This document is taken from the 12th Battalion Middlesex Regiment’s appendices to their War Diary for July 1916. The signatory is Henry Rawlinson, whom in 1916 was the commander of the British […]
34480 Sapper T.J. Downard
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) record 1200 burials of British and Imperial soldiers in Essex Farm Cemetery. Adjacent to the cemetery are the concrete remains of the Advanced Dressing Station […]
