I’ve been adding photographs from the Birmingham City Battalions Book of Honour. Published in 1919, the book features photos taken at platoon level of officers and men of the 14th, 15th and 16th Battalions of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment; also known as the 1st, 2nd and 3rd City Battalions or, more colloquially, the Birmingham Pals. […]
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Football battalions The Middlesex Regiment raised two football battalions during the First World War. The 17th Battalion at Fulham town hall on the 12th December 1914 and the 23rd Battalion a few months later in June 1915. The notion of a footballers’ battalion had sprung from the belief that the young men who kicked a […]
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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, brothers William Holman, Thomas Holman and Arthur Holman. William Holman When the 1911 census was taken, the Holman family was living […]
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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: Edward Wyndham Tennant, Adrian Carton de Wiart and Victor White. Edward Wyndham Tennant The poet Edward Wyndham Tennant was killed in […]
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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: Percy Jeeves, Cyril Lowe, and James Smithwick. Percy Jeeves P G Wodehouse’s famous butler Jeeves was based on the real-life Percy […]
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This photograph shows the sergeants – and two officers – of 317 Brigade, Royal Field Artillery in Audregnies in February 1919. This crop is from a larger mounted image which bears the stamp of the photographer, DELISSE of 15, Rue de l’abattoir 7380 Quievrain, Belgium. On the reverse of the photograph is a hand-written message […]
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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: Oliver Brooke, Henry Williamson and William Newby. Oliver Brooke Adverts for Phosferine ran in various publications during and after the First […]
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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: Alastair Innes-Ker, Edgar Willson and James Hattersley-Smith Alastair Innes-Ker This photograph of Lord Alastair Innes-ker of the Royal Horse Guards was […]
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There’s an estimate of £6000 to £8000 on this impressive group to Captain and Adjutant Edgar T Paul of the 1st Somerset Light Infantry. Formerly RQMS and RSM, the group comprises an MC and bar, DCM, QSA with clasps for Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladsymith, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, and Transvaal; KSA, 1914 Star […]
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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: John Ralphs, David Crowther and John McConnell. John Ralphs The man with the fine moustache is John Ralphs who, when this photograph was […]
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