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Tag Archives: World War One
At the going down of the sun
World War One has been jogged back into the UK’s collective consciousness once more with the Third Battle of Ypres,aka Passchendaele getting its own Royal Command Performance on British TV. Two thoughts; one pretty much universal and the other pretty … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Squirrell, Bildeston Suffolk, first world war, Fred Squirrell, society, women, World War One
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Row, row, row your boat
It was January 100 years ago when things turned badly wrong for 28 or so British Antarctic explorers under the command of Ernest Shackleton. Nowadays people jog up Kilimanjaro for charity and text home while they are doing it, but … Continue reading
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Tagged Antarctic exploration, Edwardian heroes, Endurance, shackleton, World War One
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“Useful present for a soldier”
Napoleon called the British a nation of shopkeepers. As the first Christmas of the 1914-18 war neared, those shopkeepers of Britain were concerned the country might be distracted from being a nation of customers. To remedy it for that year … Continue reading
“War is no sport”
Inevitably there will be many more words written over Christmas about that unofficial truce during the first year of the First World War, when, to the dismay of their senior officers, British and German soldiers left their trenches swapped cigarettes … Continue reading
A million men died — and it wasn’t in World War One
A cynic could play cliché bingo in Britain today. “Ultimate sacrifice”, “pals’ battalion”, “over the top”, “the mud”, “No Man’s Land”, “over by Christmas”, “lions led by donkeys”, “four years of trench warfare.” We are treating 100 years’ tick tock … Continue reading
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Tagged 1814, 1914, 19th century, battle of Leipzig, battle statistics, casualties, deaths in battles, first world war, Leipsic, Lutzen, memorial, Napoleonic War 1813, World War One
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