by Ian Andrew | Nov 13, 2016 | Fiction, Places, War, WWI
Sixty-six years of death in twenty-four hours… and one man in particular. One hundred years ago today, on the 13th November 1916, exactly three thousand five hundred British military died[i]. It is a surprisingly precise, neat number given the unprecise,...
by Ian Andrew | Jul 14, 2015 | Fiction, Northern Ireland, War, WWI
In memory of my Great, Great Uncle who died of wounds on the 14th July 1916. Although I haven’t traced the exact circumstances yet, it is most likely he was wounded on the 1st of July as the 12th Battalion of the Royal Irish Rifles went over the top on the...
