Somme – Caroline Davies

November 29, 2016February 16, 2018

Following in the footsteps of Sidney Greenfield, MC, 1/6th Northumberland Fusiliers

During this year’s battlefield’s tour with Jeremy Banning we went back to the area around the Wancourt tower above the river Cojeul. I had a vivid memory from a previous occasion of Jeremy reading Second Lieutenant Sidney Greenfield’s account of part of the battle of Arras and the capture of the tower. This October as…

October 31, 2016

Round-up for October 2016

October has been a busy and productive month with four readings, culminating in the launch event for the CEGC ‘Cultural Exchange in a Time of Global Conflict’ project in the Maughan libraryat King’s College London. I read three commissioned poems, inspired by the lives of Wanda Gertz and Frederik van Eeden. The other poets were…

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Following in the footsteps of Sidney Greenfield, MC, 1/6th Northumberland Fusiliers

Round-up for October 2016