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Held every 25th of April, Anzac Day marks the first campaign in which major casualties were suffered by Australian and New Zealand forces during the First World War. The acronym ANZAC stands for Australian and New Zealand Army Corps and whose soldiers were known as Anzacs. Celebrated now as a day that remembers and honours all Australians and New Zealanders who have...

This past weekend we had the pleasure of taking two families to the battlefield of Arras to see where their relatives had fought and died during the battle of 1917. Our first family was following their uncle Captain Geoffrey Laird Jackson of the 1st Battalion Rifle Brigade (pictured left). Jackson was the eldest son of Brigadier General Geoffrey M. Jackson who had...

The Battle of Neuve Chapelle (10–13 March 1915) marks its 102nd anniversary this year. It took place in the Artois region of France (French Flanders). The battle followed the operations that had taken place over the winter months of 1914-15 and was to be the first large scale offensive launched by the British. With more Divisions arriving in France, the British...

The Bruneval Raid, code name Operation Biting, was a British Combined Operations raid that took place on the night of 27-28 February 1942 during World War Two and this year marks its 75th anniversary. The purpose of the raid was to capture German radar technology located near the French coastal town of Bruneval in Northern France. The Germans were improving their...

Not all who died in the Great War died in battle. Some died without the shot from a gun being fired or the thrust of a bayonet. Civilians were killed by bombs dropped from Zeppelins, some prisoners of war died in camps through poor treatment and illness and then there are those who met tragic ends. The sinking of the SS Mendi is one such story and considered to be...

January saw the inauguration of Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States. One of his election pledges was to build a wall between Mexico and the United States which has taken an awful lot of criticism. But perhaps had he been nominated in 1917 with the pledge, he would have been fully supported. Let me explain why. In January 1917, Germany had...