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The Cyprus summer of 1958
In this extract from his diaries of his National Service days, Roger Brown relives his time in the Army in […]
History
The Women’s Land Army
THE LAND GIRLS – FEEDING THE NATION THROUGH HORSEPOWER DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR · The Women’s Land Army, formed […]
Centenary of scuttling of German High Seas Fleet
100 years go today the German High Seas Fleet started to disappear from view after officers and sailors opened up […]
Can you help?
TMT occasionally receives requests for help in tracking down family members who had been in the Forces. In this case […]
Remembering the Forgotten Army of the Burma Campaign
By Bertie Lawson On the 15th December 1943, Lord Louis Mountbatten, the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in Southeast […]
In focus: HMS Protector – the Royal Navy’s Antarctic patrol ship
An excellent account of the recent comings and goings of the RN in Antarctica, provided by Save the Royal Navy. […]
D-Day succeeded thanks to an ingenious design called the Mulberry Harbours
Colin Flint, Utah State University When Allied troops stormed the beaches at Normandy, France on June 6, 1944 – a […]
The swamp incident, 1960
This is a true-life story of national servicemen called up and sent to the other side of the world into […]
A Cyprus Winter
In a second reminiscence of life as a National Serviceman in Cyprus in the 1950s, Roger Brown describes morning in […]
‘We would never see them again…………….’
Roger Brown, who is sorting though a number of diaries and accounts of National Service life in the British Army […]
National Service stories Part 1: Kenya
TMT is publishing a series of short, historical accounts of National Servicemen who were awarded the GSM while serving in […]
WW1 paintings by Sir Alfred Munnings at the National Army Museum
Exhibition of paintings at the National Army Museum. Although somewhat late in the day, TMT has visited the wonderful exhibition […]
The Stalingrad Cauldron 1942/43
As we reach the end of January and a band of snow moves across Britain, it brings to […]
The 100th Anniversary of a traditional Christmas Carol Service
2018 is the 100th Anniversary of the Christmas Service of The Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols sung by […]
Phantom armies – and military ghosts
Christmas is not a particularly spooky time of the year – but it is, of course, the season when […]
Christmas 1914: ‘Santa Claus ship’ arrives in Britain
‘Santa Claus’ ship USS Jason docked at Devonport just over a century ago to deliver presents to children whose fathers […]
Devon: Its part in the great land-war of 1914-18
The county of Devon was unusal, but not unique, in that not a single village survived the First War without […]
The one remaining British-built battleship left.
TMT has run pieces about former Royal Navy ships either in preservation or service overseas. There is one class that […]
Remember the Royal Navy
With good reason, it is the stoic soldiers who faced the mud and slaughter of the trenches who come […]
After the end of the Great War: late November 1918
In this piece, TMT has taken the account of a soldier waiting to be demobbed at the end of WW1. […]