Fromelles is a small village in Northern France a few miles to the south of Armentières on the edge of the Lys basin. The village sits on the slope of the Aubers Ridge. In 1916 the front lines ran across the flat ground a mile below the village. On the...
Seventy four years to the day after the disastrous battle of Fromelles, on Monday the 19th July 2010, HRH Prince Charles dedicated the first Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery to be opened for fifty years. No one watching the television news reports...
Shortly before the ceremony, the BMMT were asked by the Ministry of Defence if they could arrange a display in one of the marquees to be put up on the site beside the cemetery. Ingram Murray and Dr. Mike Senior hastily assembled pictures and texts illustrating the...
1st November 2007 Prof Richard Holmes gave a superb and mesmerizing lecture on 1st November 2007 about the experiences of the Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment in Iraq to an invited audience, talking about the Regiment of which he is Honorary Colonel and the...
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