Swear by the slain of the war that you’ll never forget

November 2008 marks the 90^th anniversary of the end of the First World War and it is on such milestones that individual stories of courage and self sacrifice deserve to be resurrected. To that end on a rainy, fog shrouded November day a week before Remembrance Sunday, I undertook a pilgrimage to the Thiepval Memorial to trace and honour the fates of three remarkable Old Marlburians who fought and died on the Somme. ...more»

Matt Gow