Newsletter

A monthly read featuring insights into the ongoing research and news of upcoming events and publications.


RAF Museum Story Vault; East Boldre deaths; a busy month

Shared knowledge; triple headstone; Volume 3 launch

Putting faces to names; How did my relative die?; and Drummer Malcolm Vacher

Mells, Private Mees, and Thank you Mister Bosh

Highgate Cemetery, a village in mourning and Private Shelbrooke

Gone too soon and Fireman Arthur O’Keefe

Lost in translation, research requests and Driver Griffith Williams

VE80 commemorations, non-British graves and Private John McKinnon

Beyond grief, ANZAC Cemeteries, Private Walter Watson

Victorian and Edwardian jobs, Engineroom Artificer George Bowerman

Family losses, Redlynch chapel, Sergeant George Constable

YouTube Channel, festive deaths, Private and Lance Corporal Alfred King


Chatham Drill Hall, talks, Private Harry Fletcher

British Newspaper Archive, Woodlands Cemetery, Fireman Robert McQueen

Long, Long Trail, Oldway Mansion, Private Joseph Viles

Forces War Records, appropriate names, Pioneer Wilfred Ansfield

Ancestry.com, Great Uncle Harry, Private Robert Templeton

Findagrave.com, Reassessing, Boatswain James Kirby

CWGC website, recent regiments, Rifleman Conrad Bedford

Locksbrook Cemetery, unknowns, Private Joseph Curtis

Books, siblings, Pioneer Patrick Craven

A surprising find, new regiments, Private Thomas Besley

Events, relatives, Serjeant George Bartraham

Photographs, Private Edward Browning


Talks, ages, Private Bertie Parsons

Revisiting, Private Gilbert Drew

September travels, ranks, Bandsman Clifford Alway

August wanderings, graveyards, Officer’s Steward Sidney Gordon

Unknown graves, regiments, Driver W Steer

Celebrity graves, women, Clerk Mary Harris

Hidden gems, names, Private Mark Ford


Commemorating the fallen of the First World War who are buried in the United Kingdom.