Just got my author copies! Out in all good bookshops from Thursday 9th April! @wiltonsquare.bsky.social Or you can order straight from the publisher’s website or all the usual.
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After relieving the 7th Norfolks, the Battalion moved on to old German trenches, located between Monchy-le-Preux and Guémappe (see map also c/o @jimsmithson.bsky.social). /7

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Speaking of #WW1, I've finally got to the part of my neverending book project where I tackle what happened to my man at the #BattleofArras.

I was in #Arras last year - first time visiting the Western Front. Here I am at the Arras Memorial, which pertinently lists the missing of the Border Regiment.

Private Duncan MacFarlane

Birth: 4 Aug 1890
Beith, North Ayrshire, Scotland

#Death: 26 Apr 1917 (aged 26)
Département du Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France

www.findagrave.com/memorial/244...

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This was where the 8th Cavalry Brigade had "taken it in the neck" (to quote the war diary) on 11 April 1917, suffering many casualties and their Brigadier General Charles Bulkeley Bulkeley-Johnson had been killed. (Photo courtesy of the Find A Grave website). /8

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For my own edification and particularly because I am struggling to write this chapter, I am going to copy over a Twitter/X thread I once wrote about the 1st Battalion of the Border Regiment at the #BattleOfArras in 1917.

See next post(s). ✍️

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