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Tag Archives: Belgium
A British Tommy recalls Christmas Truce of 1914
Sergeant Alfred Anderson is believed to have been the last survivor of the Christmas Truce. He was aged 18 on 24 December 1914 and serving as a private in the Black Watch on the Western Front. Some 90 years later … Continue reading
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Tagged Belgium, Black Watch Highlanders, Christmas Truce 1914, France, peace, Western Front
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Ypres painting on show at IWM North to mark Centenary
A painting depicting wounded soldiers at Ypres during World War I has gone on show for the first time in almost a century. Ypres, 1915 by Gilbert Rogers is now on show at IWM North, part of Imperial War Museums, … Continue reading
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Tagged 1914, 1915, Belgium, British Red Cross Society, Crystal Palace, Gilbert Rogers, IWM North, Manchester, news, RAMC, World War I Centenary, Ypres
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Premier League to finance football pitch in Ypres
The Premier League is to build an all-weather football pitch in Belgium as part of World War I Centenary commemorations. The Daily Mirror reports that a high-tech ‘3G’ pitch will be opened in Ypres and will be the venue for … Continue reading
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Tagged 1914, Belgium, Christmas Truce, football, Iraq, Johnson Beharry VC, Menin Gate, Premier League pitch Ypres, VC, World War I Centenary, Ypres
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Welsh Memorial Flanders seeks completion funds
The campaign to create a memorial to the Welsh soldiers who lost their lives in Flanders during World War I has raised more than £30,000, but requires a further £60,000 to complete its plans. The monument will comprise a cromlech, … Continue reading
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Tagged 1916, 1917, 1918, 38th Welsh Division, Belgium, Flanders, Hedd Wyn poet 1917, Langemark, Mametz, Pilkem Ridge, Somme, Wales, Welsh Memorial Flanders, World War I Centenary
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Real life in the trenches of World War I
Lieutenant Hugh Butterworth, 9th Battalion, Rifle Brigade writes home on 10 June 1915. ‘Men look fearsome ruffians in the trenches. The water is bad for shaving, as if you cut yourself you may get a bit poisoned, so they mostly … Continue reading
Letter home tells of dangers of Ypres in 1915
A letter home from lieutenant Hugh Butterworth of the 9th Battalion, Rifle Brigade. In it, he displays a characteristic joviality and dry wit despite the dangers of his situation. Trenches Sunday, June 20th, 1915. 3.15am What a night! We left … Continue reading
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Tagged 1915, Belgium, centenary, Hugh Butterworth, memoirs, Rifle Brigade, Soldiers of the Great War, World War I language, World War I letters, Ypres
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Medal of Staffordshire Regiment soldier found in Midlands garden
A British gardening enthusiast has discovered two long-lost World War I medals in his potato patch. Roger Aston, of Smethwick in the West Midlands, found one German and one British medal. The latter was awarded to 33-year-old Private Francis Hubball, … Continue reading
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Tagged 1917, Belgium, centenary, Flanders, Hubble, lost, Medals, news, Private Francis Hubball, Smethwick, Soldiers of the Great War, Staffordshire Regiment, William Henry Chance
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Northampton soldiers honoured by local newspaper
The Northampton Herald and Post has published a list of five famous World War I soldiers from the town. Lieutenant Walter Tull was the first black officer in the British Army. From 1911-1914 he played 111 matches for Northampton Town … Continue reading
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Tagged 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, Arras Memorial to the Missing, Belgium, Captain Anketell Read VC, Captain Thomas Colyer-Fergusson, Footballers in World War I, France, German Spring offensive, Lance-Corporal Allan Lewis, Lieutenant Walter Tull, Middlesex Regiment, Northampton, Northamptonshire Regiment, Ronssoy, Sergeant William Boulter VC
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Queen Victoria’s Rifles HQ, 56 Davies Street, London
The badge of the Queen Victoria’s Rifles provides a reminder of World War I in one of London’s most well-heeled districts. It adorns the wall of 56 Davies Street, where the unit (officially the 9th County of London Battalion) was … Continue reading
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Tagged 1914, 1915, 9th County of London Battalion, Belgium, Bethnal Green, Davies Street, France, Hackney, Harrow School, Hill 60, lieutenant Geoffrey Wooley, London, Queen Victoria's Rifles, Royal Army Chaplains' Department, VC, Victoria Cross, WWI Centenary, Ypres
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First World War Centenary, 1914-1918 