"Here we were laughing and talking to men whom only a few hours earlier we were trying to kill." This startling passage ...
The response from followers – including apologies and even shame at not knowing this history – has led me to write The ...
STUDENTS from The Skipton Academy have recently returned from Belgium and France where they visited several battlefields and memorials of the First World War.
Stephanie Yuill spent five weeks visiting First World War sites across Europe on a bike she bought from the grocery store.
In order to compete in the tournament, Premier League U12 teams are set three 'missions,’ on a different theme relating to the War each year. The theme for 2024 is 'Pals Battalion,’ celebrating a ...
Her album includes the eyewitness account of Corporal John J Ferguson of Second Seaforth Highlanders, who at Christmas 1914 was in a wet trench in Messines, Belgium. Noticing a lull in shooting ...
He was killed in Passendale on 19 November 1917. As he was missing Rfn Adams was commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial in Belgium. In 2018, the remains of a soldier of The Rifle Brigade were ...
It is among entries from wounded WW1 servicemen who contributed to the century-old book ... Private Ferguson, who was wounded at Messines, Belgium, on December 26, 1914, after celebrating Christmas ...
A war hero whose act of bravery saved his battalion during World War One has had a remembrance cross planted in his honour.