Jun 22, 2025
“I noticed that the soldiers on the opposing sides had ways of playing games with each other. Thus an English machine gunner might rattle off a few rounds to the rhythm of Daa, Da-Dah, Dah and stop. Back immediately would come the answering close of the rhythm...
Jun 20, 2025
How an Irish ferry got tangled up with the Senussi of Libya. Become a member of Turtle’s History Library to access all areas, €12/year...
Jun 9, 2025
A study of the Micks first two years in action in the Great War, as seen through the eyes of Lord Desmond FitzGerald, an officer, with attention to key battles such as Mons, Retz, La Bassée Road, Neuve Chapelle, Givenchy, Festubert, and Loos. Also homing in on figures...
May 25, 2025
One of the most simple yet moving epitaphs that we found during our too-short visit to Gallipoli in May 2025 stood in the beautifully situated Beach Cemetery, near Anzac Cove. Inscribed on the headstone for Trooper Edward Whitaker Lowndes of the 3rd Australian...
May 14, 2025
General Sir Alexander Godley never really recovered his reputation after what happened at the Nek on 7 August 1915. For generations to come he would be held responsible for the debacle. Godley’s Abattoir, they called it. There were no excuses. He made the wrong call....
