Military Monday:- Trans Tasman Anzac Day Blog Challenge review - roll of honour

The East Coast Bays Cenotaph Anzac Day for me, means Anzac Day services and family time. A time of commemoration of the fallen, and for thos...

ANZAC DAY 2013 & 1926

This ANZAC Day we remember all those who have fallen in war and pay tribute to their service They shall grow not old, as we that are left gr...

With the rising of the sun . . .

Where will you be commemorating Anzac Day this year? In Auckland, the biggest focus is always on the dawn service at the Auckland War Memori...

Annesley Hall and Church on BBC East Midlands Today, 23 April 2013

The east front of Annesley Hall in 2003. Tonight's edition of BBC East Midlands Today on BBC1 at 6.30 will feature Annesley Hall and ch...

Nottinghamshire's People events

The Nottinghamshire Ancestral Tourism Partnership has organised a programme of genealogical events and activities in the county throughout 2...

Our Anzac family – the Nelson Brothers of Ryde, NSW and Wellington, NZ

Their story as researched by the RGTW team In the previous blog post we have heard the wonderful story of the return of Henry Oscar Nelson’...

Tombstone Tuesday - the Ehrenfried family

Mike Coleman was recently in the Auckland City Harbour News . His ancestors headstones were one of the 20 recently vandalised in the Jewish ...

Irish Doctors in the First World War by David Durnin

‘The absence of conscription in Ireland leaves it open to young Irish practitioners to profit by the military service of English, Scottish a...

Another Useful Website

An excellent site for learning more about Canadian hospitals is the “Regimental Rogue.” If you need links to war diaries, information about ...

Remembering Addie Tupper, a "Royal" Nurse

Adruenna (“Addie”) Tupper came by her sense of adventure honestly. Her father was Capt. Rufus Trefry, a ship’s captain, part of an extended ...

Welcome!

Welcome to our new blog! This blog is a collaboration between the Centre for the History of Medicine in Ireland at University College Dublin...

Military Monday: World War One memorials in Symonds St Cemetery

Although Symonds Street Cemetery was closed to new burial plots in 1886, people continued to be buried there if they had family already the...