Andrew Simpson

Now I like the way that stories grow and take on a new direction, so here is a post from Susan who took a brief piece on an autograph book ...

Now I wonder how many of our BHC recruits to the Canadian Expeditionary Force ever came across the poem Canada’s Word by Ralph Connor? ...

A story of British Home Children in just 20 objects which are in no particular order, have been selected purely at random and will reflec...

This is the grave of George Henry Longstaff who died April 29 1917 in Bradford Hospital and was buried in Prestwich Cemetery and given he b...

Now sometimes stories just have a habit of evolving and so it is with this one. Over the space of the last few days I have been moving ...

There is a story yet to be told about the twenty-six men of the Canadian Expeditionary Force who are buried here in Southern Cemetery. ...

The Kenora Great War Project ............. Susan Hillman Brazeau It started out in the late days of 2012 with three local organizations a...

There is a real sense of satisfaction at finding out something about a young man who would otherwise just be a name in a cemetery. And ...

This is the ongoing story of the men from Canada who enlisted to fight in the Great War and are buried in south Manchester. Private Tho...

Major Charron salutes the fallen Today’s ceremony of Remembrance was a moving tribute to the men who took part in the Battle of the Som...

Now here is a mystery to which at present I don’t have answer.  I had gone looking foe more British Home Children amongst the men of the Ca...

Now I don’t know where my great uncle is buried in Canada.   The grave of T Williams He was sent by the Derby Guardians in the care ...

He was always part of my life.  He is not laying in repose, nor displayed on bended knee, nor with his head bowed. Instead, he stands ato...

Well there is pretty much a finality in Andy Robertson’s latest picture of the Wagon and Horses in Sale taken earlier today on a grey and...

Now as we enter the first wave of media coverage of the Great War it is easy to forget those who volunteered from what are now the Commonwe...

The full century that has passed since the outbreak of the Great War has not been kind on the individual stories of the men and women who l...

I wonder just how much I will find out about Sidney James Luther who was born in Surrey in 1884, fought in the Canadian Expeditionary F...