Category Archives: 1918
In the Footsteps of the 1st Queen’s
At the end of May I ventured once more to the battlefields of Flanders. There was no specific reason for my trip, more a desire to return after nearly nine months away, for what might be my only visit this … Continue reading
Posted in 1914, 1917, 1918, CWGC, First Ypres, Passchendaele, Queen's Royal West Surrey Regiment, Remembrance, Research, Surrey Regiments, WW1, Ypres
Tagged 1st Queen's, Flanders, Gheluvelt, Langemarck, Meteren, Ypres
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He Made the Great Sacrifice for King and Country
So reads the epitaph on the grave of Second Lieutenant Alfred Claude Gant, 2nd Battalion King’s Royal Rifle Corps, who was killed less than a month before the war ended, aged 21. He lies in Busingy communal cemetery, about 15 … Continue reading
Posted in 1918, CWGC, Remembrance, Research, WW1
Tagged 2/KRRC, 2nd KRRC, AC Gant, Alfred Claude Gant, Gant, KRRC, KRRC Chronicle, Selle, Sneinton
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‘A Typical English Sportsman’ – Frank Brock and the Zeebrugge Raid
Today marks the 96th anniversary of the Zeebrugge raid, a daring but near-suicidal attempt by the British to block the canal entrance at the German-held port of Zeebrugge, to stop German U-Boats entering and exiting the canal into the north … Continue reading
Posted in 1918, Gallantry, Navy, WW1
Tagged Cheam war memorial, Frank Arthur Brock, RNAS, Vindictive, Zeebrugge
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