Escaping London
In the middle of the 19th century, Arthur Gibbs gives a Victorian view of dream of escaping London. London is becoming miserably hot and dusty; everybody who can get away…
On the Verge of The First World War
Now Thames is long and winds its changing wayThrough wooded reach to dusky ports and gray,Till, wearily, it strikes the Flats of Leigh,An old life, tidal with Eternity. But Fal…
The Life Expectancy Of A Junior Officer
There has been a common legend that the life expectation of a junior Officer in a front line battalion was only 3 weeks. While it is true that battalions suffered…
Arrested For Carrying a Camera
This article appeared in the West Wimmera Mail, Australia on August 28, 1914. Early in the war there was a lot of fear and suspicion, spies were found everywhere. Poor…
The Battle of The Boots
During the war friendly rivalries emerged over different styles and equipment between the allies. Bean in his official ‘Australia in the First World War’ mentions about the ‘Battle of the…
The Life Expectancy Of A Junior Officer
There has been a common legend that the life expectation of a junior Officer in a front line battalion was only 3 weeks. While it is true that battalions suffered…
Arrested For Carrying a Camera
This article appeared in the West Wimmera Mail, Australia on August 28, 1914. Early in the war there was a lot of fear and suspicion, spies were found everywhere. Poor…
The Battle of The Boots
During the war friendly rivalries emerged over different styles and equipment between the allies. Bean in his official ‘Australia in the First World War’ mentions about the ‘Battle of the…
Lord Kitchener's letter to the troops
Every soldier leaving for the front during 1914-15 received a copy of Lord Kitchener’s letter to the troops, it was a brief, soldierlike statement of the standard of conduct which…
Progressing Backward
In 1925 Gertrude Jekyll remarked about the roads… The road was a kind of world in itself, full of personnel incident and human story. Now nearly all of this is…