Flanders Fields

Remembrance Day has assumed a more important place nationally and locally than ever.

From A to Z

“Stop the world I want to get off’ – it’s the title of a 1961 musical – and it’s what I’d like to do sometimes.

Allenby’s Entry into Jerusalem

I cannot improve on John D Grainger’s account of Allenby’s entry into Jerusalem extracted from The Battle for Palestine 1917, published in 2006.

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Three Irish Regiments

My Bellew grandfather told me he served in both the North Irish Horse and South Irish Horse in the Great War.

Conflict

Lunch at my club yesterday with David Petraeus and Andrew Roberts. If you don’t know them click the links to Wikipedia.

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