Tag: Casualty

• ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade Fades to Nothing…’

  It was a warm summers day near Richebourg l’Avoué. That was the only redeeming feature of Tuesday 22nd June 1915. The rolling countryside and greenery that usually typified Northern France had been forcibly replaced with sandbags, muddy trenches and battle-scarred fields. Barbed wire stuck out of the ground in angry defiance: no rational man would…

  Sheldon K Goodman

  August 11, 2014

  Family, Military, People, War

  Casualty, First World War, France, Inverbroom, Montague Fowler, Scotland, Soldier