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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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