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CONTENTS.

	GREAT WAR NEWS AND INFORMATION
	Latest Great War News - Battlefields and Other Issues
	Hellfire Corner Services Directory
	Thinking of visiting the Battlefields of the Western Front Yourself?
	The best in recent Great War books - Hellfire Corner Bookshelf

	THE BATTLEFIELDS TODAY
	Tom Morgan - Tom Morgan's Ypres Battlefield Guide
	Tom Morgan - Tom Morgan's Somme Battlefield Guide
	Charles Fair - Charles Fair's Battlefield Guide
	Norman Thorpe & Tom Morgan - The Thankful Villages
	Tom Morgan - Decisions at Potters Bar - The L31 Crash Site
	Geoff Moran - The Gallipoli Campaign - Revisiting History
	Jacky Platteeuw - At the Going Down of the Sun....
	Jacky Platteeuw - The "Silent Cities" of the Ypres Salient
	SSgt. R. Longstaff - The Western Front Revisited
	WO2 R. Longstaff - Exercise Gallipoli Serpent
	Pat Raftery - A Walking Holiday in Northern France
	Maurice Alexander - A Visit to Verdun - 1998
	Maurice Alexander - 2002 - Verdun - The Return
	Ted Smith - Ypres Battlefields - Disappearance and Discoveries
	Mark Abercromby -   "Following in Australia's Footsteps" on the Western Front.
	WAR MEMORIALS  Ray Westlake's War Memorial Corner   Tom Morgan - UK War Memorials   Stacy Chambless - A Memorial in Scarlet The Poppy and the Ritual of Remembrance   Michael Farrier - Cemeteries and World War 1 Memorials  (Herts, Beds and Bucks) Terry Reeves - Triumph and Gloria -  a Coventry Memorial Christopher John - Royal Flying Corps Burials and Memorials   Christopher John - Erdington Churchyard, Birmingham

	EXTENDED SERIES OF ARTICLES - "Sites within a Site"
	Andrew Thornton - We had done All that was Expected of us     (7 articles)
	Tom Arnott - Canada (and "Red" Arnott) in the Great War    (9 articles)

	INDIVIDUAL LIVES - RESEARCH AND REMEMBRANCE
	John Guy Gillbert - A Month in Gallipoli   Written in 1964 and edited by Stephanie Horton, this is Lieut. Gillbert's memoir of his time in Gallipoli with the 6th Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment.
	Pat Phillips - One Son Died of Wounds, 1919   "One Son Died of Wounds, 1919" was a note beside a husband and wife's name on a handwritten family tree drawn up by Pat Phillips's grandmother.  This sad little note moved Pat to find out more about this forgotten relative.
	The Rev. Dr. Daniel Hörnemann, OSB - A Human Tragedy  Heinrich Plesker, buried in the German Cemetery at Langemark, was Daniel Hörnemann's Great-Uncle. Daniel's research led to this moving article.
	The Rev. Dr. Daniel Hörnemann, OSB- Found at Last The search for a German victim of World War 1
	David Bluestein -  Captain Roy Roswell Poulton    A very welcome account of the story behind another group of medals in David Bluestein's collection.
	David Bluestein -  Acting Major Charles Blair-Wilson     Research following the purchase of a soldier's medals resulted in this article written in memory of a young and highly-regarded officer of the 42nd Battalion Royal Highlanders Of Canada CEF, killed in Action September 15, 1916 on the Somme.
	Linda Preston - A Midnight Feast   How a young and hungry soldier "beat the system" and found his way to the hospital kitchen!
	Thomas Hutchinson - T.F.T. - Thomas Franklin Townsend   Completely re-written in the light of new research
	Bob Coulson - The Chaplain VCs of the Great War Bob Coulson tells the stories of the three "Padres" or "Sky Pilots" who won the VC during the war.
	Bob Coulson - The Nine VCs of the First Day on the Somme  Details of all nine VC winners and pictures of most of them.
	Conor Dodd - John Vincent Holland V.C.   The story of this officer, the Bombing Officer with 7th Bn. the Leinster Regiment, who won his V.C. at Guillemont during the 1916 Battles of the Somme.
	John Hartley - Thomas Brough - Private 9210    Pte. Brough served in "A" Company, 17th Battalion  The Manchester Regiment. John Hartley's research into the Great War serice of his Grandfather grew and grew until it had become an excellent account of his Battalion's service, too.
	John Hartley - An Unlucky Soldier   Details of the career of  Private Harry Eastwick, MS/1520 18th Anti-Aircraft Section, Army Service Corps
	John Hartley - Lost and Found   Until he found out quite by chance,  John Hartley didn't know he had a Great-Uncle who died in the war. The soldier didn't appear on any local war memorial, so he was almost lost for ever. But not now.
	Philip Eagles - The 8th August, 1918   In the early hours of the morning of the 8th of August 1918 a blanket of fog around the river Somme concealed a massive military force which was about to be unleashed. Two thousand British, Australian, Canadian and French cannon were deployed in a line stretching south-west from Hamel and north to and beyond the Somme.
	Philip Eagles - The Essex Regiment at Langemark  In this article, Philip Eagles tells the story of his grandfather, who was a 21-year-old Lieutenant with the 1st Battalion, the Essex Regiment.
	Philip Eagles - Alfred Lawrence Jessop   An article remembering Driver Jessop, of 101st Howitzer battery, Anzac Corps, written by his great-nephew, Philip Eagles.
	Kevin Johnstone - Private John Farrer Remembering Pte. Farrer, of the Londale Battalion - 11th (Service) Battalion, the Border Regiment - who was killed in Action near Thiepval on 1st July, 1916.
	Andy Fisk - Sgt William Falla, D.C.M.   This article is the result of Andy Fisk's research into the life of his relative Sgt. Falla, who served in the 1st Battalion, the Bedfordshire Regiment.
	Richard Racey - WW1 Escape Recipe   (Stealth, Torn Trousers and Skinny-Dipping in the Dark) This is Richard Racey's edited version of his Father's Great War Diary, telling a story of capture nearYpres, imprisonment in a sucession of camps and, finally, escape to neutral Holland.
	Ceris Schrader - "Lady Lost Five Sons"  with excellent news in an update added March, 2003 The fascinating results of Ceris Schrader's research into a photograph found in her uncle's album of photos covering his time in the Canadian Expeditionary Force. The lady in the photo was unidentified, apart from the caption - "Lady :Lost Five Sons."
	Mike Neal - In Search of a Lost Pal
	Private Frank Last (transcribed by Rick Riehl) -  My War Diary   Rick Riehl's transcription of Private Last' Diary. A most moving account of a very eventful time spent in battle and as a prisoner.
	Private Frank Last (transcribed by Rick Riehl) Fini La Guerre!   The story of Frank Last's journey home.
	Jon Toohey - Brothers in Arms The story of two brothers from Ireland, both of whome served in the war, and both of whom have no known grave. They are remembered on memorials to the missing, but a world apart.
	Andrew Wegg - Finding a Lost Soul The story of Andrew's research into the Great War service of his relative, Stanley Butwright, who was killed withing just a few weeks of his arrival in France.
	Chris Mills - Loose Ends The  charming story of Chris's journey in honour of his uncle, Pte. Ted Mills, of the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, along with his son - also called Ted Mills - to tie up some family Loose Ends.
	Chris Shepherd -   Hubert Gooding, M.M. - 1st Bn the Essex Regiment                                This is Chris Shepherd's article based on his research into the life (and death at Cambrai) of his grandfather's uncle.  Chris has used letters written home from the front to give a very moving insight into life at the Front.
	Andrew Thornton - There's a Long, Long Trail A-Winding The story of Company Sergeant-Major William Thompson M.M of the North Staffordshire Regiment, researched by his great-grandson, Andrew Thornton.
	Tom Morgan - At the Going Down of the Sun   Tom Morgan's article following research into the life Private Harry Woods, 1st. Bn. The Dorsetshire Regiment, who almost disappeared without trace in 1915. Just to show that you can't always find information, no matter how much you try!
	Earl Chapman - Jack Chapman 1897-1918 This is Earl's Memorial to his relative, who was born in England and who emigrated to Canada in 1911. Jack Chapman is one of more than 11,000 Canadians who have no known graves.
	Alex Deeley - Requiescat for Two Uncles In this article Alex Deeley, a young Australian, remembers his two relatives who died in the war, one serving in the British Army and the other in the Australian Imperial Force.
	Geoff Moran - The Diary of William Dick Stevens This is Geoff Moran's well-edited version of the diary of an Australian soldier, from his departure for the war in 1915 to the time of his death at Pozieres, Somme, in 1916.
	Glenn Hyatt - Ollie O.Olive Glenn Hyatt saw this striking name on his local war memorial in Fredericksburg, Virginia, and simply had to find out more. The result of his research was the Hellfire Corner Remembrance Article, November, 1996.
	Tom Oates - The Colonel's Runner
	John Wright - No Known Grave
	Chris Murphy - Albert Jacka  -V.C., M.C. and Bar
	Capt. Steve Newman, PPCLI - The Unknown Sergeant
	Capt. Steve Newman, PPCLI - The Unknown Lieutenant
	John Watts - Return to Cavalry Farm
	John Watts  & Martin Soilleux-Cardwell - "Striking I Defend"
	Kyle Tallett - Pte. John (Jack) Clegg - Royal Marine Light Infantry
	Peter Porteous - Transcription of the Diary of Private Harry Broun
	Nicholas Lovell - The Five Victoria Cross winners of Bromsgrove School

	GENERAL INTEREST ARTICLES
	John Duffell - A Town at War - Epping in 1915
	Tom Morgan - The Great Zeppelin Raid of January 31st/February 1st, 1916
	Tom Morgan - Three Great War Burials - April, 1998
	Tom Morgan -  The Burial of Pte. Russell Bosisto, 27th Bn. AIF
	Tom Morgan - The Christmas Truce - 1914
	Tom Morgan - A Glass Memorial
	Tom Morgan - HELLFIRE CORNER and the National Army Museum
	Tom Morgan -  Vimy Ridge - the 80th Anniversary
	Tom Morgan - The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (France)
	Tom Morgan - The German Cemetery on Cannock Chase, Staffordshire
	Phil Curme  & Tom Morgan - Original Battlefield Crosses in the UK
	Ian Livingston - North British Locomotive Company, Glasgow
	Robert Hoskins - Celtic Football Club and the Great War
	Ian Livingston - 3rd Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers Football Club
	Nicholas Saunders - Trench Art - Symbols and Memories of the Great War
	Gary Butler- I Have Seen Sights Which No Man Should See    Updated
	Harold Pollins - The Rothschilds as Recruiters for Buckinghamshire
	John Brandon - Private George Nugent - Discovery
	John Sheen - Private George Nugent - Identification
	Andrew Thornton - The Staffordshire Brigade at Wulverghem
	Taff Gillingham - The Christmas Truce 1914 - 1999
	Taff Gillingham - The Christmas Truce 1914 - 1999 - Major Update
	Kevin Patience - An East African Victoria Cross
	Judith Lappin - The Machine Gun Corps Old Comrades' Association Updated
	Paul Reed -  The Mark IV Tank discovered at Flesquieres   with 2 updates
	Terry Powell - Remembering July 1st., 1916, the Welsh at Mametz Wood
	Lt. Col. E. R. Pratt OBE, MC - The Origin of a Fuse
	Jack Cavanagh - Twenty Years on - Counting the Human Cost in 1938
	Steve Wilson - Pip, Squeak and Wilfred
	Tom Morgan - Who's Tom Morgan?
	Hellfire Corner Awards and Credits
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