by Brendan Jackson | Sep 1, 2025 | Sites of Memory
Cannock Chase Image: The remains of a rifle range from the First World War, Cannock Chase. Two huge military camps were built on Cannock Chase in Staffordshire during the Great War; Rugeley Camp in the autumn of 1914 and Brocton Camp in January 1915. These camps could...
by Brendan Jackson | Sep 1, 2025 | Sites of Memory
Avoncroft Living History Festival Image: Members of the Warwicks 1914-18 group demonstrating rifle drill at Avoncroft. Avoncroft Museum is home to over 30 historic buildings and structures, dating from the 13th century to the mid-20th century. Sited at Bromsgrove,...
by Brendan Jackson | Sep 1, 2025 | Sites of Memory
Anaria Fort Image: View from Mount Anaria, looking south towards the Chorokhi delta; the border with Turkey is on the other side of the mountain range. The ruins of Anaria fort can be found some 10 miles from Batumi, high above the coastline. It was once known as the...
by Brendan Jackson | Sep 1, 2025 | Sites of Memory
The Black Sea Image: The Black Sea, viewed from the hills above Batumi, 2025. The Ottomans called it called it Bahr-e Siyah or Karadeniz, where the waters of the Kuban, the Don, the Dnieper, the Dniester, the Danube, all gather. It is Marea Negara in Romanian, Chorne...
by Brendan Jackson | Sep 1, 2025 | Sites of Memory
Smethwick High Street Image: ‘Lions of the Great War’ memorial. Unveiled in November 2018, the war memorial ‘Lions of the Great War’ was commissioned by Guru Nanak Gurdwara in Smethwick to honour people from the Indian subcontinent who fought in the conflict....
by Brendan Jackson | Sep 1, 2025 | Sites of Memory
The Wellcome Museum Archive Image: Glass negative, circa 1919, showing a Royal Naval armoured ambulance breakdown in the Caucasus. This is one of a series of glass negatives collected by Surgeon Commander Montague Henry Knapp, Hon. Director of the Naval Medical...
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