This Intrepid Band

To everyone who has contacted me about the closure of the blog, thank you, but ...  it's not going to be deleted, just put into hibernat...

After seven and a half years and two hundred and forty-four posts, this is the last. Ten years ago I decided to try and seek out accurate...

Mary Watson was a trained nurse and member of the Territorial Force Nursing Service and was mobilised on the 13th August 1914 with her unit...

     Last week I was at the Royal College of Nursing in London listening to Professor Christine Hallett talking about her new book ‘Veiled ...

The 'Mauretania,' built for Cunard and launched in 1906, had a multi-faceted history during the First World War, some of which was a...

     I admit to not being a fan of Vera Brittain. Over the decades she has forged a prominent position both in biographies and items throug...

Gertrude Madley in France, 1919      Gertrude Madley was born in Wales in December 1892, living most of her early life in Llanelli.  H...