This post has been updated and moved to HERE ################################################################################### Keeping with the current theme of the WWI commemoration I want to expand on an earlier post on WWI bridging, specifically looking at the Inglis Bridge. That should actually read,…
From the Commonwealth War Graves Commission website, WWI casualties by nation state. With the anniversary this year there will no doubt be many issues about ignoring the sacrifice of service personnel from Commonwealth nations in any commemoration, I think it…
Now the Poppy hubub has subsided I thought it might be a good time to share this Commissioned by the Not Forgotten Association and produced by David Tucker, read more !harry-patch-portrait/c1m2r
Today is the 95th anniversary of the start of the Battle of Amiens which marked the start of the Hundred Days Offensive that finally bought WWI to a close. Watch this great series… Combined arms manoeuvre perfected perhaps.
As the Boer War drew to a close most of the Royal Engineer units returned to the UK and a period of re-organisation followed that culminated in the formation of three bridging Companies, allocation of Field Companies to Divisions and…
Blatantly stolen from Rantin Rab who stole it from other people! [browser-shot width=”600″ url=”;] Are You Looking at My Pint? Germany, Austria and Italy are stood together in the middle of the pub, when Serbia bumps into Austria, and spills…
