New Members
Jo Hook writes:
We welcome the following new members into the Guild:
·
Peter Sweeney from Australia joins. His
interests are Australian Military History
·
Peter White from Ramsgate Kent joins. His
interests are Western Front and Normandy
Ghosts on the Battlefield
Tonie and Valmai Holt write:
One of our old friends in the USA was at one time a guide at
the Gettysburg Battlefield – if you have not yet been try to go. However, he
turned his hand to writing and wrote a book about the Ghosts of Gettysburg. All
those of us who travel across battlefields come across ghosts in one form or
another but trying to pass that experience and feeling onto one’s groups is
extremely difficult. Now another friend has, in a phrase, ‘brought ghosts to
life’ and we felt that this technique offers the greatest advance we have ever
seen in the armoury that guides and travellers have in order to ‘know what it
was like’. This technique is so effective that we both felt somehow uneasy when
we saw the images but that feeling merely emphasised what a powerful tool this
is when used in the proper way.
You will see what we mean when you have a look at these
pictures and if you have a touch screen they are even more effective. Bob Wall
and Steve Grundy have done many excellent ‘The Camera Returns’ articles for the
WFA and their archive must be a natural resource for this new development. Will
be interested to learn of Members reactions.
Copy and paste this link and then hold the mouse button down
on one side of the screen and slowly drag it across to the other side
WFA Commemorations
Secretary writes:
I have received the following press release from the WFA
which may be of interest to members:
The Western Front Association (WFA) will soon commemorate
the deployment of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) to France in 1914 with
a dramatic series of transport-related events in the UK and in France. These
will begin in London on Sunday, 10 August, and culminate in France on
Wednesday, 13 August 2014.
On the morning of 13 August there will be a Memorial Flight
for the Royal Flying Corps over Amiens involving a replica BE-2c aircraft
(accompanied by aircraft from the De Havilland “Tiger” Moth Club). THe WFA will
also commemorate the first British pilot to land in France: Lt (later Major) H
D Harvey-Kelly, DSO, No 2 Squadron, RFC.
During the afternoon, a Service of Remembrance will be held
in Arras, again with the BE-2c followed by a Tornado flypast by the Royal Air
Force.
At the centre of the commemorations will be the movement
from London to France of 85 poppy wreaths which will reflect each of the land
and air units that made up the BEF in August 1914.
BBC News
·
WW1: Siegfried Sassoon's poem How to Die in
animation - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-28529823
·
The prisoners of war who made Little Britain in
Berlin - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-28420676
·
Pre-World War One sailing log found at yacht
club - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-28560978
·
WW2 weapons could be buried under Elgin school
grounds - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-28550221
Best Regards
Tony Smith
Guild Secretary
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