This short account of Christmas 1916 comes from C.A. Rose. C.A. Rose M.C., was a member of the Royal Field Artillery and his book “Three years in France with the Guns: Being Episodes in the life of a Field Battery” is a record of the work of a...

This article entitled “My Three War Christmases In Flanders, Denmark, and Old England by Basil Clarke” comes from the excellent site “The Great War in A Different Light.” Christmas 1915 by War Correspondent Basil Clarke was spent in the North...

Over the last two years I posted many articles on the first two Christmas’s of the First World War. Christmas 1916 brought to the end a devastating year for the British Army. The Battle of the Somme begun on 1st July 1916 had finally come to a close...

This account of the Battle for the Suez Canal was published in ‘The Times’ on February 19th 1915. Interesting reading for the British public. Battle of the Suez Canal A First-Hand Account of the Unsuccessful Turkish Invasion ISMAILIA, Feb....

At the outbreak of war in 1914 Egypt, was ruled by the British, who had taken charge in 1882, but it was officially part of the Ottoman Empire. Free and secure access to the Suez Canal was vital to the British Empire. The most valuable parts of the...