Over the coming weeks and months I will be building various medal guides for both the Second and First World Wars and uploading them to Slideshare.net Here is the first one – A guide to British and Commonwealth Campaign Medals of WW2. I hope you like it and find it of interest!!   WW2 British [...]

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The countdown is well and truly on for our bike ride for the Legion. Here is a quick rundown of the schedule for those that are interested… Day 1 – We start on the Franco Swiss border at Pfetterhouse and cycle north(ish) through Seppois, Largitzen, Hirtzbach, Carspach, Altkirch, Aspach, St. Bernard, Balschwiller, Aspacht before arriving [...]

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After the assassination of the Archduke there began a period of political bicep flexing and a flurry of pacts, friendly handshakes and aggressive finger pointing as the major (and some of the not so major) powers of Europe shuffled themselves into two distinct sides ready for an August face-off. On the 6th July, Germany put [...]

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