Category: WW1

Not for Ourselves, but for Others

Created with Sketch.

Schools pay tribute to South African WW1 soldiers at Tyne Cot

  Courtesy of Filip Debergh We previously posted a report on the reburial of three South African soldiers at Tyne Cot, and followed that up with a report on a…
Read more

In Flanders Fields

by Lt Col McCrae, MD: In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing,…
Read more

SS Mendi

On 21 February 1917 at 05:00, the SS Mendi was struck and cut almost in half by the Darro, South West of the Isle of Wight, causing the SS Mendi…
Read more