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    CONFLICT OF INTEREST

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    100 years ago this week - the end of the 151st

    6th - 12th June 1918 After their almost complete wipe out in the disastrous fighting on the river Aisne on 27th May, the remnants of the...

    31st May 1918 - UC-75 and HMS Fairy both sunk

    U-Boat UC-75 had been damaged by the depth charges which HMS Ouse had dropped in her vicinity in the early hours of 29th May. She had...

    29th May 1918

    Of the 37 ships of convoy TU26 which had left Leith the day before, 35 called in at Immingham on the Humber on the morning of the 29th....
    28th May 1918

    28th May 1918

    On this day 100 years ago, the 37 vessels of convoy TU26 set sail from Leith for Immingham on the Humber. Converted passenger ferry HMAPV...
    27th May 1918

    27th May 1918

    On this day 100 years ago my great-uncle Fred Cowling and his Battalion, the 1/5th Durham Light Infantry, along with the other soldiers...
    Links with Ukraine confirmed further

    Links with Ukraine confirmed further

    I have just had one of those moments where you realise ignorance has caused you to miss something really obvious... In my previous post I...

    General connections?

    A contact on Twitter has kindly promised more information on the Battalion my Austrian grandfather served with in World War 1. In the...

    Clues in a Royal Naval Reserve service card

    One of the more obvious places to go for information on service personnel is The National Archives. And although I had visited the site a...
    Scarborough sites and memorials revisited

    Scarborough sites and memorials revisited

    I had booked a stand-up comedy gig in Hull many months ago, not just because it looked fun to do but also because I realised it could...

    The Bankruptcy Register

    I was hoping to get more information on Fred Cowling's bankruptcy. The National Archives seem to point back to the Durham Records Office...
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