It’s difficult to imagine the tales of heroism, anguish and horror which many faced during the fighting on the Western Front in the First World War without history being written down. One such story, recently come my way from Isobel Fleming is the story of Charles Frame, a postman from East Kilbride. Whilst this is […]
The Pals battalions of World War I were specially constituted battalions of the British Army comprising men who had enlisted together in local recruiting drives, with the promise that they would be able to serve alongside their friends, neighbours and colleagues (“pals“), rather than being arbitrarily allocated to random placements. Although the ideology wasn’t published, […]