Lost Tommy Research

25/12/2022

Just got the tree up. Better late than never! Happy Christmas all 🎄🎄🤶🤶🎁🎁

25/12/2022

Just put the tree up. Better late than never! Happy Christmas all 🎄🤶🎁

24/12/2022

Sunday morning giggles 😊

24/12/2022

True Story

21/12/2016

On This Day - 21 December 1916
Spotlights over ParisTheatre definitions: Western Front comprises the Franco-German-Belgian front and any military action in Great Britain, Switzerland, Scandinavia and Holland. Eastern Front comprises the German-Russian, Austro-Russian and Austro-Romanian fronts. Southern Front comprises the Austro-Italian and Balkan (including Bulgaro-Romanian) fronts, and Dardanelles. Asiatic and Egyptian Theatres comprises Egypt, Tripoli, the Sudan, Asia Minor (including Transcaucasia), Arabia, Mesopotamia, Syria, Persia, Afghanistan, Turkestan, China, India, etc. Naval and Overseas Operations comprises operations on the seas (except where carried out in combination with troops on land) and in Colonial and Overseas theatres, America, etc. Political, etc. comprises political and internal events in all countries, including Notes, speeches, diplomatic, financial, economic and domestic matters. Source: Chronology of the War (1914-18, London; copyright expired)

19/09/2016

14/09/2016

St.George's Chapel, Chichester Catherdral, Chichester.

Lists all the names of those who fell serving in the Royal West Sussex Regiment

08/09/2016

Western Front

Somme, enemy attack French, Berny to south of Chaulnes, no success.
From Vermandovillers to Chaulnes, Germans make four massed attacks; the French take 200 prisoners.
Marschall von Hindenburg reported visiting Western Front for first time.
Naval and Overseas Operations

British naval aeroplanes bomb aerodrome at St. Denis Westrem (5 miles west of Ghent).

23/07/2016

In this day 1916

Western Front

Second phase of Somme Battle begins.
Intense fighting in and round Pozieres; British recapture whole of Longueval, but Germans retake north end of village.
Outskirts of Guillemont twice change hands.

15/04/2016

9 A cross stands on the edge of the Lochnagar Crater on March 28, 2014 in La Boisselle, France. The crater was made when an enormous mine was detonated on the first day of the Somme offensive during World War One. (Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images) #

15/04/2016

An aerial view of the Franco-British memorial in Thiepval, northern France, on April 12, 2014. At 45 meters high, this is the largest British war memorial in the World, over 72,205 names of missing soldiers of the First World War, are engraved in the stone pillars. (Reuters/Pascal Rossignol) #