1st Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle Corps football team 1905

Last year I digitised and OCRd two runs of regimental chronicles. These were the Rifle Brigade Chronicle (1890-1920) and the King’s Royal Rifle Corps Chronicle (1900-1920). These books are extremely useful and I had been very fortunate in winning a couple of auctions which, for a time, threatened to swamp my house with all things […]

Remembering the Allvey brothers, Albert Hazlehurst and Sidney Newham

Every day on the British Army Ancestors Facebook page I take time to commemorate a British soldier. This post will look at three of the men I have remembered recently; from left to right: the Allvey brothers from Bow, Albert Hazelhurst and Sidney Newham. Charles, George and Henry Allvey The Allvey boys all joined the […]

Remembering Alexander Best, Alexander Neave, and Frank Johnson

Every day on the British Army Ancestors Facebook page I take time to commemorate a British soldier. This post will look at three of the men I have remembered recently; from left to right: Alexander Best, Alexander Neave, and Frank Johnson. Lieutenant Alexander Archie Dunlop Best Alexander Best of the Gordon Highlanders was killed in […]

Remembering Arthur Wake, Lavell Leeson, and Paul Kenna

Every day on the British Army Ancestors Facebook page I take time to commemorate a British soldier. This post will look at three of the men I have remembered recently; from left to right: Arthur Leonard Wake, Lavell Hall Leeson, and Paul Aloysius Kenna. Arthur Leonard Wake 6685 Corporal Arthur L Wake of the 18th […]