When deciding on illustrations for my previous post, ‘The Battle of Riby Gap (1645),’ one of my selections was the well-known painting by William Frederick Yeams, titled ‘And When Did you Last See your Father?’ Had I been restricted to using only one picture in that post, in which I told of a minor civil …
“Every war is ultimately a civil war for we are all brothers and sisters, one to another.” Dillon Burroughs When I was a lad in my early to mid teens I would regularly obtain books from the village’s lending library. These were novels, mainly. Of the few non-fiction books I borrowed, there was one I …
Forward view from the conning tower of HMS TRIBUNE running on the surface in Scottish waters. Prior to writing my post, ‘Six Weeks Silent Service,’ it was necessary for me to to obtain details of life aboard a World War Two submarine. This meant accessing a number of useful websites. Information from these sites enabled …
My December 5 post, ‘HMS Alliance’ is a pictorial account of my family’s visit to the Royal Navy’s only remaining post-war ‘A’ Class Submarine. This is the main exhibit of the Submarine Museum at Gosport, Hampshire. The visit, made in 2014, had been planned to include attractions in and around Winchester and Portsmouth and included …
From little towns in a far land we came, To save our honour and a world aflame. By little towns in a far land we sleep; And trust that world we won for you to keep! Rudyard Kipling Several years ago I began researching my family history. Whilst thoroughly enjoyable, the hobby was one which …
HMS Alliance, Gibraltar This post is intended as a footnote to the one of November 30, titled ‘Six Weeks Silent Service’, in which I wrote of my father’s brief experience as a reluctant submariner during 1941. As with all my posts, I included several illustrations to support the text - after all, ‘a picture paints …
I have already declared on here that I’m an avid reader of novels. Of those I’ve read over the years, I’m sure I could count on one hand the number that were written by women. That statement may be interpreted as sexist, but it is in no way meant as such. I’m not discrediting female …
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