William Henry Johnston was a British soldier and recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
The Old Front Line (ISBN 0-85052-936-0) is a military history book by English poet John Masefield, first published in 1917.
Malcolm Pryce is a British author, mostly known for his noir detective novels.
Operation Goldeneye was an Allied stay-behind plan during the Second World War to monitor Spain after a possible alliance between Francisco Franco and the Axis powers, and to undertake sabotage operations. The plan was formed by Commander Ian Fleming of the Naval Intelligence Division (NID). No German takeover of Spain took place, nor an invasion of Gibraltar, and the plan was shelved in 1943. Fleming later used the name for his Jamaican home where he wrote the James Bond stories.
Hadley is a village and part of the new town of Telford in the borough of Telford and Wrekin and the ceremonial county of Shropshire, England.
Zillebeke is a village in the Flemish province of West Flanders in Belgium. It is a former municipality which is now part of Ypres.
Benedict Richard Pierce Macintyre is a British author, historian, reviewer and columnist for The Times newspaper. His columns range from current affairs to historical controversies.
Rear-Admiral Sir George Johnstone Hope, KCB, KSO was a British naval officer, who served with distinction in the Royal Navy throughout the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, including service at the Battle of Trafalgar. A close personal friend of Admiral Nelson, he received many honours following the battle, and later served as a Lord of the Admiralty.
No 620 Squadron was a squadron of the Royal Air Force during World War II. During its existence it served as a bomber squadron, airborne forces and a transport squadron.
Julian Putkowski is a British university teacher, military historian, researcher, and broadcaster. He has written extensively on military executions in World War I.
John Simon Fowler is an English social historian and author who lives in Kew, Richmond, London and is vice-chair of the Richmond Local History Society. He has written many books relating to family history and social history.
Paul McCue is a British military historian, researcher and author.
SS Levenwood was a Joseph Constantine Steamship Co Ltd vessel that sailed as a coaster along the North Sea coast of eastern England between 1924 and 1946.
Denis Leonard Ormerod CBE was a career soldier in the British Army.
The youngest authenticated British soldier in World War I was twelve-year-old Sidney Lewis, who fought at the Battle of the Somme in 1916. Lewis' claim was not authenticated until 2013. In World War I, a large number of young boys joined up to serve as soldiers before they were eighteen, the legal age to serve in the army. It was previously reported that the youngest British soldier was an unnamed boy, also twelve, sent home from France in 1917 with other underage boys from various regiments.
Ian Knight is a British historian and writer, specialising in Anglo-Zulu and Boers wars.
Marc Goosens was a Belgian mercenary who fought in the Yemeni Civil War and served in the army of Biafra during the Nigerian Civil War. He was killed by Nigerian forces in Onitsha during Operation Hiroshima.
Robert C. Campbell was a Captain in the British Army in WWI when he was captured and made a Prisoner of War held by Imperial Germany. After two years of captivity, he got word that his mother was dying. He wrote the German Kaiser and successfully petitioned that he be allowed to visit her. He was released from the POW camp, traveled to visit his mother and after 2 weeks returned to the German POW camp.
