25 June 2018 From Silver to Gold, and back again! It's been 70 years since Jack Gregory and the rest of the 1948 British Olympic 100 meter relay team briefly won gold in London... Read More
25 June 2018 From Silver to Gold, and back again! It's been 70 years since Jack Gregory and the rest of the 1948 British Olympic 100 meter relay team briefly won gold in London... Read More
18 June 2018 Flying Lions: Rory Underwood Flying Lions: Rory Underwood First of a series of biographies by David Smith, covering some of the British & Irish Lions who served with the RAF. Read More
23 April 2018 Naval Special Ops - Arthur Harrison and the Zeebrugge Raid At midnight on the 22nd April 1918 Lieutenant Commander Harrison was in position outside the bridge on board the HMS Vindictive, as it floated silently towards the Zeebrugge Mole shrouded in smoke... Read More
22 April 2018 Clarrie Wallach - From Bondi to the Western Front By the end of the First World War, 35 Wallabies had seen active service. Ten did not survive. Clarence Wallach was one of these men. Read More
20 April 2018 Lest We Forget - Reginald Harry Myburgh “Reggie” Hands (England) 20/04/1918 Lest We Forget - Reginald Harry Myburgh “Reggie” Hands (England) 20/04/1918 Read More
02 April 2018 The Flying Winger As the Royal Air Force celebrates it's centenary we look back at one of rugby's most famous sons who precisely 100 hundred years ago was returning to the western front as a captain with 24 Squadron... Read More
24 March 2018 Lest We Forget - Harold Hodges (England) 24/03/1918 ...Hodges attempted to fight his way back out of the building with a handgun... Read More
09 March 2018 Dutour de France: A French debut at Twickenham England and France made history once more by meeting for the first time at England's new home of rugby, Twickenham Stadium. Read More
26 February 2018 The Remarkable Story of Humphrey Luya Both escapees were tall and blond, leading their ‘liberators’ to conclude that they were Nazis in disguise... Read More
25 February 2018 Lest We Forget - George Alexander Walker Lamond (Scotland) 25/02/1918 On February 25th 1918 Lieutenant-Colonel George Alexander Walker (Geo) Lamond died in the military hospital at Colombo in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) aged 39. Read More
29 December 2017 Lest We Forget – William Victor Edwards (Ireland) 29/12/1917 The last of the five Irish rugby internationals who lost their lives in action during 1917 was William Victor Edwards. Read More
14 December 2017 Lest We Forget – Philip Dudley Waller (Wales) 14/12/1917 Dedicated to former Welsh rugby international, Lieutenant Philip Dudley Waller. Read More