Home News Articles Events Competitions New Releases Reviews Gallery About Us Contact Us Privacy Policy Cookie Policy
Home News Articles Events About Us Privacy Policy
Competitions New Releases Reviews Gallery Contact Us Cookie Policy
Warfare in News
Posted on Tuesday 8th May
A £10,000 6 ft Doulting Stone memorial to the last fighting Tommy, Harry Patch, has been unveiled on the lawn of Wells Cathedral, Somerset.
Harry Patch was conscripted into the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, aged 18 and was the last British survivor of the First World War, having fought in the Battle of Passchendaele in 1917. He died in 2009 aged 111.
A friend of Harry Patch launched a campaign in February to get the memorial built in the town where Harry lived.
The 6 Rifles Band and Bugles played on the Cathedral Green at the unveiling ceremony.
A £10,000 6 ft Doulting Stone memorial to the last fighting Tommy, Harry Patch, has been unveiled on the lawn of Wells Cathedral, Somerset. Harry Patch was conscripted into the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, aged 18 and was the last British survivor of the First World War, having fought in the Battle of Passchendaele in 1917. He died in 2009 aged 111. A friend of Harry Patch launched a campaign in February to get the memorial built in the town where Harry lived. The 6 Rifles Band and Bugles played on the Cathedral Green at the unveiling ceremony.
Author signed copies of Britain's Last Tommies
by Richard van Emden
The First World War as a living history is to all intents and purposes over. As of today February 2009, there are only two veterans from six million alive who served on the Western Front. Richard has spent the last 20 years interviewing and carefully recording the memories of over 270 veterans and this book is a culmination of his 20 years of work. The book will be an extraordinary collection of stories told by… Read more...
Of further interest...
Britain's Last Tommies at Passchendaele
Tue 31st July
Final memories from soldiers of the 1914-1918 war in their own words. Extracted from Britain's Last Tommies by Richard van Emden, Read article...
Richard van Emden on The Great War - Why We Should Remember
Thu 15th May
A column by First World War author and historian Richard van Emden on veterans of the Great War and his experiences of meeting and interviewing them over the past two decades. Read article...
Author talk: Richard Van Emden
Wed 6th April
As his latest work, The Somme, is released, we chatted to best-selling Great War author Richard Van Emden about his career, Harry Patch and the Somme centenary Read article...
Ypres - The Fall of Passchendaele
Wed 31st October
A look at the fall of Passchendaele and the end of the Third Battle of Ypres, extracted from Passchendaele – The Fight for the Village by Nigel Cave. Read article...
Wannsee Conference
Held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee on 20 January 1942, the purpose of the conference was to inform heads of German Government Departments that had responsibility for various policies relating to Jews of Reinhard Heydrich's appointment as the sole executor of the "Final solution to the Jewish question", and to obtain their agreement to subordinate their policies to him.
The Gestapo
(Hardback - 352 pages)
by Jacques Delarue
'This book won't let the world forget . . . It details the background of this terror organization and its formation, the personalities who created it – the Goerings, the Himmlers, the Heydrichs – and how each added to its refinement as an instrument of torture.' – New York Daily… Read more at Pen & Sword...
Only £19.99 at Pen & Sword Books.
Read more from this day...
Barnsley News from Barnsley Chronicle