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January 1916 and the Lincolnshire Regiment
It is now 110 years since 1916 dawned, the year of the Irish Easter Uprising, the opening of the Somme…
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4th January 1915, 16, 17, 18 and 19.
4th January 1915. The original BEF that landed in France in August 1914 comprised of two Corps and initially four…
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On This Day 16th December 1914
Ships of the German High Seas Fleet, in an attempt to lure out the Royal Navy, bombarded Hartlepool, Scarborough and…
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On This day 9th December 1917
After a hard fought campaign, General Allenby and his staff walked into Jerusalem as the Ottoman Turks vacated the city.…
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On This Day 22nd November 1915
Battle of Ctesiphon in World War 1 After a year of successes at Basra, Qurna, Shaiba, Amara, Nasiriyeh, and Kut, British forces suffered a major defeat…
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On This Day 11th November 2025
I had the great pleasure to attend the annual Service of Remembrance at the lonely war memorial sited at Thorpe…
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On This Day 24th October 1918.
As the Germans realised the war was lost, they attempted to pursue peace negotiations with the Allies and in particular,…
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On This Day 13th October 2025
Monday 13th October was the 110th anniversary of the bloody attack made by men of the 5th/Lincolns alongside the 4th/Leics,…
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On This Day 4th October 1917
Jo Stacey contacted me to say; ‘May I please request a mention in your weekly email, on the Sunday nearest…
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On This Day 15th September 1916
September 15th, sees the 109th anniversary of the first tanks in history going in to battle on the Somme. We…
Jonathan D’Hooghe – Lincolnshire based independent Great War Historian
