Today is the anniversary of the R101 disaster. I’d like to tell you a bit about a chap called Thomas Arthur Auckland […]

A True Resistance Hero Gustave was born in 1904 in Waterloo. In 1942 he was a farmer in the village of Le […]

I wrote a post about this on the same date last year. You can find it here and it mentions the danger […]

I will not be going to the Remembrance Service at our local War Memorial today. I rarely do. Not because I don’t […]

Today I am remembering Arthur Herbert Furnell. He was a 2nd cousin twice removed to my wife. When I researched him a […]

I am writing about a different kind of hero today. Norman Arthur Falkner. He was born in Saskatoon, Canada in 1894. When […]

This tale, one not often told, is the story of one aircrew’s adventures on the first 1000 bomber raid to Cologne on […]

This is another short extract from ‘Just A Forgotten Hero’ and recounts the story of Florentino’s last trip. Once more it highlights […]