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Am feeling very lucky today. An opportunity came up to work with the team at Battle Honours Tours and I just could not pass it up! Very much looking forward to the trip! On our way down to the Somme, we've stopped at Etaples Cemetery, discussing Commonwealth War Graves, remembrance and the Mutiny (1/2)

Spot the dog?

Evening walk around Albert after dinner took us past the Albert memorial to its war dead. A beautiful piece of sculpture. Battle Honours Tours

Died on this date -(Aust) Driver James Reuben Howlett (b. 1892; SMythesdale, Victoria), Service number 3043, embarked from Melbourne, Victoria on HMAT Ceramic (A40) on 24 Nov 1915 with 5th Field Company Engineers. He embarked from Alexandria on 17 March, 1916 & disembarked at

2 June 1914 Charles Sorley compares English and German poets ‘They all write poetry and recite it with gusto to any three hours’ old acquaintance. We all write poetry too in England, but we write it on the bedroom wash-stand and lock the bedroom door '

2 June 1915 Patrick Shaw-Stewart recalls Rupert Brooke ‘He was a delicious companion, full of good jokes and perfect at other people’s. He held the most violent and truculent opinions, and with the gentlest manner you ever saw.'

5 pals and a shed

Died on this date -(Aust)Driver Leonard Baker (b. 1893; Sth Melbourne, Victoria) was taken on strength of 1st A.S.C. (Army Service Corps) on 27 Dec 1915 at Mahruh from 12th A.S.C. On 10 March 1916 he proceeded from Zeitoun to Alexandria. He embarked from Alexandria on

Knipton war memorial. Memorial Garden, Knipton, Leicestershire. First and Second World Wars. #LestWeForget

3 June 1916, Major-General Malcolm Mercer, i/c 3rd #Canadian Division, killed, possibly by friendly fire, aged 56, at Mount Sorrel. Buried Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery. Highest-ranked Canadian ever to be killed in action. Gifted trainer of recruits & efficient organiser. #WW1

3 June 1916 Isaac Rosenberg arrives in France and writes ‘The Troop Ship’ Grotesque and queerly huddled Contortionists to twist See the whole poem here oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collect…

3 June 1916 Arthur Graeme West writes ‘The serious defeat of the Fleet in the North Sea – as we believe it to be – has produced little effect in most men who talked loudly of national honour and prestige.’

3 June 1917 Siegfried Sassoon receives a letter from his friend Joe Cottrell informing him of the death of two more of his friends - T.R. Conning and E.L. Orme

3 June 1917 In the 41st Stationary Hospital, Wilfred Owen sends a postcard to his mother ‘Am not here—no move yet—quite happy—you have some erroneous ideas about my state of health! I have a chum here—glorious in my eyes for having hob-nobbed with Ian Hay'

4 June 1915 Isaac Rosenberg writes to Sydney Schiff ‘Hope you enjoyed your holiday. We just missed being blown to pieces by a bomb the other night, a factory near by was burnt to pieces and some people killed.’

4 June 1915 Denis Browne, a close friend of Rupert Brooke’s from their schooldays at Rugby, is killed when the Hood Battalion stormed a Turkish trench.

4 June 1917, George V established an honour known as The Order of the British Empire (OBE) to fill gaps in the British honours system & honour those who had served in a range of non-combat roles during #WW1. Dr Wilfred Balgarnie of British Red Cross Society was first recipient.

4 June 1916 Wilfred Owen is commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Manchester Regiment.

4 June 1916 Siegfried Sassoon describes the current bombardment then concludes ‘It will be my turn to go on a raid soon, I suppose!’

4 June 1916 Edward Thomas writes ‘Bright Clouds’ Bright clouds of may Shade half the pond. See the rest of the poem portal.sds.ox.ac.uk/articles/onlin…