Author Archives: Magicfingers

British Military Headstones – Personal Inscriptions No. 4

Posted on February 1, 2021 by Magicfingers

One final group of headstone inscriptions, for the moment, although I’ll show you some at a future date.

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The Men Who Came Home – A Memorial Part Eight – The Labour Corps

Posted on January 30, 2021 by Magicfingers

Another of those Daily Mail postcards I showed you during the daily/weekly postcard series of 2020, here we see a British labour battalion in action. 

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The Men Who Came Home – A Memorial Part Seven – The Royal Army Medical Corps

Posted on January 25, 2021 by Magicfingers

R.A.M.C. doctors drawing rations. 

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The Men Who Came Home – A Memorial Part Six – The Royal Regiment of Artillery

Posted on January 23, 2021 by Magicfingers

The Royal Regiment of Artillery in the Great War comprised three separate elements, and this post pays tribute to men from all three. 

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The Men Who Came Home – A Memorial Part Five – ‘Per Ardua Ad Astra’

Posted on January 20, 2021 by Magicfingers

‘Through Adversity to the Stars’.  Royal Flying Corps mechanics at work, 1915. 

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British Military Headstones – Personal Inscriptions No. 3

Posted on January 17, 2021 by Magicfingers

Mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers. 

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The Men Who Came Home – A Memorial Part Four – The Corps of Royal Engineers

Posted on January 16, 2021 by Magicfingers

Royal Engineers bridging a stream sometime in 1917.  Around 25,000 strong at the start of the war, the R.E. had expanded to well over 300,000 men by 1918. 

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