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                                                    Sgt Jez Doak RAF?MOD I often wonder about people who study the Great War.   On my Twitt...

One of the many standard media fillers these days is sentimental pictures of troops from the great war.  The DM of course knows its reade...

  I have spent much time avoiding the sun, head down over the laptop searching for dead men.  There are plenty around, in fact they are...

The Hancock programme last night got me thinking about the changes to society since that was broadcast in 1960.  Fifteen years before the...

With the arrival of temporary sunshine I took the opportunity to visit the cemetery and upgrade the fotos on the war memorials.  The ne...

It may well be that you have had your fill of D-Day commemorations.   I had the TV on since early morn watching  the BBC's covera...

Right, that's it, holidays are over, the kids are back to school tomorrow, you return to work, unless you are in Australasia wher...

gCaptain 'Gardyloo,' as you well know, was the exclamation shouted from old Edinburgh tenements when someone wished to empt...

Cynic that I am I was sent pondering this afternoon about our 'Hero's,' or at least our use of the term, for our soldier boys. T...