I am a proud Welshman coming from Wrexham. I am a avid Wrexham AFC fan going to matches as and when I can. I spent 12.5 years in the Military – Royal Welch Fusiliers – and was present in Berlin when the Berlin wall came down. After leaving the Army I put myself through Law school and got my degree. I am a member of the Western Front Association and…
David Rushton spent his career in Air Traffic Control, mainly at London Centre, with the last 12 years as an Operations Manager. During this time he gained his pilot’s licence and worked closely with the RAF. A family historian for 40 years, his lifelong interest in military history grew when researching his father’s experiences in WW1 and has since acted as battlefield guide on several tours of the Western Front.…
John Sheldon is an Honours graduate of the University of Manchester, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and a Trustee of the Bucks Military Museum Trust. He lives in Stewkley, Buckinghamshire, and retired in 2009 as CEO of a division of the John Lewis Partnership. In retirement he has written two books about the Stewkley men who fell in the Great War and in WWII, the research for…
Mike is proud of his military heritage despite only pushing a pen during his working life. In WW2 father was in the RAF Regiment whilst mother was a WRAF. One grandfather spent his career in the Royal Navy, having joined aged 16, and the other served with the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry in the Great War. Grandmother’s brother began the Great War in the Queens Own Oxfordshire Hussars and…
