Recent content by dhasdell

The easiest way to get the umlaut is by using Insert Symbol in Word etc. Otherwise you can use the number pad for individual letters: Alt148 should give you ö, for instance.

Just seen a TV item about a new film "Merry Christmas" about the 1914 truce, to be released in UK on Dec 16.

Daily Telegraph obituary: http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=SI4CQGUBZ1XXNQFIQMFCFGGAVCBQYIV0?xml=/news/2005/11/22/nvet22.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/11/22/ixhome.html

Well, it's not very helpful, I'm afraid, but it might be a start. the CWGC have an exccllent site.

Well, you could try the Imperial War Museum, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (if he was killed in the Great War) or there might be regimental records.

AEP for Forgotten Battles introduced the Spitfire V and, I think, IX. To run 4.01 with more variants you'll need Pacific Fighters as well.

Apologies if this has already been covered elsewhere, but I've just discovered "Tommy" by Richard Holmes, and so far it's as good as everything else he's done. It's £8.99, but Waterstone's have it as part of their current 3 for 2 offer. Something else which people might find useful is...

From today's Telegraph: Smiler Marshall's funeral. http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/05/25/nsmiler25.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/05/25/ixhome.html

Smiler Marshall, seen in many WW1 interviews, has died at 108. There was an obit in the Telegraph - here's a link which may or may not work! http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/05/20/nobit20.xml

Thanks for the welcome - I'm sure I'l be posting more in future. :)

Among the best books on the Somme battle and the Accrington Pals' part in it is "The First Day on the Somme" by Martin Middlebrook. One of the early Biggles books, "Biggles, Pioneer Air Fighter", includes a story "The Zone Call" which explains how the air to ground wireless system worked