On the Road Again!

With the centenary of the end of WW1 coming very soon. I thought I'd post this little snippet from the KSLI Regimental Museum in Shrewsbury. It's filled in a few details of what little we know about William. "William died 99 years ago. He landed in France with the 2nd Battalion on 21-12-14, at some point moved to the 1st Batt., wounded with the 1st Batt. about 6th or 7th Jan 1916 while in trenches in La Brique left sector. I do not know when he joined the 7th Batt." As far as I know La Brique is on the Ypres Salient. I'll have to check the maps and the KSLI Regimental history book. P.S. It's 102 years now. Update 29/10/2018 This is from the KSLI website.  The 2nd Battalion arrival date at le Havre tallies with the above note from the museum's curator. https://www.shropshireregimentalmuseum.co.uk/regimental-history/shropshire-light-infantry/the-kings-shropshire-light-infantry-1914-1918/ As for being wounded whil...

This was written by my good friend Ivan Benda. I first met him through his love for Suzuki motorcycles when I joined the Suzuki Owners Club in 1978. At first it was exchanging letters as Czechoslovakia was still under Communist rule. I first met him in 1986 when my partner, Audrey, and I went to the FIM Rally in Hungary. We travelled through Czech and Slovakia to get to Budapest. We stayed with him in his flat in Bohunice and then he took us to a spa resort nearer the border with Slovakia. Obviously in those days there wasn't a real border. I went to the Czech Invader Rally a few times and over the years we have been many times. In 1992/93 I went to work at the grammar school in Zastávka near Brno. Ivan was a good friend and helped me settle in. And so to his email and picture: " I am sure you are informed my homeland celebrates 100 anniversary of foundation just now ( Oct 28th ), so I am sending you a critical picture of "Crying Thomas Garrigue Masaryk th...