In its more than 50 route miles the Central Line provides a wide variety of locations both in 'tube' and in the open air, and after more than a century of operation not surprisingly there are many 'past and present' contrasts. This title includes the preserved section now operated by the Epping Ongar railway.
Drawing on official records, memoirs, court martial transcripts, inspection reports, and unpublished letters, Riflemen recounts not only the campaigns in which the battalion fought, but also many personal stories of the soldiers who served with it.
This is an account of life and illness and death in and around the military training camp at Kinmel Park near Abergele in northern Wales that was set up in 1914. Soldiers were trained and detained there, and Conscientious Objectors found themselves based there. The camp had an effect on the surrounding area, too, with road accidents, burglaries, and musical entertainments being visited on the local population! The author Robert Graves was at Kinmel Camp for a time.This readable book is as much as anything the authors tribute to three members of his family who were involved in the First World War, including Robert Owen, who died aged eighteen before completing his initial military training at Kinmel Park Camp.
These stories are of Wales and its people in the tumultuous war years of 1914 to 1918, with the emphasis on the northern part of the country.
In this, his third First World War related book, with the emphasis on the northern part of Wales, Robert H. Griffiths provides fresh insights into a plethora of themes and topics which make for absorbing reading.
Kinmel Park Camp, north Wales, in late 1918 until Summer 1919, was a post-Armistice camp. It became a vast 'staging camp' for thousands of Canadian soldiers, including British and American born ones, all eagerly awaiting their return home. The riots here of 4/5 March 1919 by these frustrated young men were another tragedy which added to the waste of the World War. Five soldiers met violent deaths, many dozens were injured, and there was a bitter aftermath. A Victoria Cross winner and other highly decorated Canadian soldiers spent time at the camp. Highly decorated First Nations Canadians were here, and, sadly buried nearby at 'The Marble Church' are several young First Nations soldiers, who fell not in battle, but victims of the Spanish Flu. The only black Canadian battalion which had fought great prejudice to exist, and their famous black officer were here. Canadian nursing sisters, 'Bluebirds' as they were nicknamed, played a vital role at the camp's own military hospital. Thousands of British women, some local Welsh ones, married Canadian soldiers, a number from the camp, and began new lives in Canada. All their stories are fully explored in this book.
This book considers how principles derived from a theory of human behaviour - Perceptual Control Theory - can be configured to create mental health services that are more effective, efficient, and humane.