Old unhappy far-off things.
Men on horses.
The Battle of Beersheba.
Apparently it went quite well (for one side, at least) and you can read more about it in the oracle. No-one related to me was there, as far as I know. But in 1885 my great-grandfather (William Barwick) went with the NSW contingent to the Sudan to fight there. He also served with the Australian Bushmen during the Boer War where his horsemanship was useful. (William died in 1958, aged 95 years.)
Apparently it went quite well (for one side, at least) and you can read more about it in the oracle. No-one related to me was there, as far as I know. But in 1885 my great-grandfather (William Barwick) went with the NSW contingent to the Sudan to fight there. He also served with the Australian Bushmen during the Boer War where his horsemanship was useful. (William died in 1958, aged 95 years.)
 Kitchener, Jellicoe, Haig. |
 Courcelette, France. This battle was the one in which Walter Blythe, the brilliant handsome poet son of Anne of Green Gables, died. |
Jellicoe of Scapa
At the base of the Oamaru War Memorial
I have been given to understand that the deck armour should have been thicker, and that other mistakes were made. (The war was nearly lost in a day.) However, Jellicoe survived, and was Governor-General of New Zealand some years later.
I have a book called 'Jutland Cottage' by that prolific and highly entertaining author, Angela Thirkell. Thirkell adopted Trollope's Barsetshire setting and characters, but wrote in her own time and has thereby left an extraordinary (possibly) record of English life pre- and post-World War II. I don't suppose anyone reads her now, except as a curiosity. She also wrote 'Trooper to the Southern Cross'. That's about some other battles, also long ago.
I have a book called 'Jutland Cottage' by that prolific and highly entertaining author, Angela Thirkell. Thirkell adopted Trollope's Barsetshire setting and characters, but wrote in her own time and has thereby left an extraordinary (possibly) record of English life pre- and post-World War II. I don't suppose anyone reads her now, except as a curiosity. She also wrote 'Trooper to the Southern Cross'. That's about some other battles, also long ago.
