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News/ Latest Messages:

1.Hope you like the new look Home Page created in Dreamweaver. 09/12/02

2. Apologies for the recent problems on the Mini Pages, I had missed them being corrupted. Think they are fixed now 11/12/02

3. New contribution from David Blanchard on the Great War section about the Aisne Battles 11/12/02

4. German Trench Maps of the Great War CD Rom is in the Production phase. 12/12/2002.

5. I am looking for my old Mini, believed to be registred ABW 85H...Red White, last known owner, Brian Lewis, Sittingborne, ....Kent. any body out there know him? Found it thanks to this request and Nigel Tuck of the I.O.W. Mini Centre.

6. Recent updates include addition of the 5th Northumberland Fusiliers site contributed by Bill Henderson. My thanks go to him ....for many hours spent at the Public Records Office. 28/01/03

7. Addition of excellent photograph of Captain J.W. Merivale, and my thanks go to Kay Eason of the Newcastle Literary and ....Philosophical Society for the picture and much of the information.

8. If anybody has copies of the St. Georges Gazette for the Great War period, I would be interested.

9. My thanks go to John Ievers for sending me new Pictures of the 7th NF. 02/2004

10. My thanks also go to John Hardy, for his help with 7th NF research and numerous pictures. 02/2004

11 My Short Audi Quattro is now SOLD, and can be seen on the above link.

12. New Link to Neil Storey's excellent web site on the 4th Bn Northumberland Fusiliers http://www.4thbnnf.com. I can highly ....recomend this web site, Neil has done an extremely proffessional job, and it gets better as the weeks go by.

13. Check out 'We Like the Moon'! http://www.rathergood.com/moon_song ....Wow!

14. Check out this excellent on-line soaring game http://www.nvgc.org.uk/links.html scroll down and select it from the web page.

....left and right to choose your plane, Y to start, L and R to steer and SPACE to circle in a thermal. Make sure the sound is up to ....find lift!

15. (14/09/2004) Note; It would appear that my Domain diversion WORKSMINI.COM is no longer working. Despite having paid for it etc etc. It appears that somebody else has managed to register it (After I did) from somewhere in the US on the net. I have no idea what to do about it, as my registration Company UK2.net will not answer my e mails! Quite happy to take my money though!

The web site itself still works, however, as that is posted on Freeserve, and those good people have never asked for a penny!

15.(15/01/2005) Added a few pictures of Captain Basil Herbert Bright's WW1 Jacket. (See 48th Div above) More info to follow Soon. Goto Page

16. Updated with detals of Captain Odell's Batman in the Great War. Kindly supplied by Helen Charlesworth (His Gandaughter) Fabulous after all these years for the internet to make possible the continuation of this story of two men who became lifelong friends in such a conflict.. Thanks Helen Goto Page

17. (16th April 2005). Updated with New Page on Sir Raymond Priestley MC. BA (Major 46th Division, and wrote two Great War books; Breaking the Hindenberg Line, (1919) and The Signal Service France (1919) Goto Page, I started with just a name Major Raymond Priestley MC. 46th Division, and he has turned out with a little research to be an extraordinary character.

18. (16th April 2005) New Page on Captain Hal Armsrtong Completed. 6th May 2005 Goto page My thanks go to Charles Armstrong for supplying the bulk of this web page, and includes a long forgotten account of the battle of Rosieres in 1918.

19. (16th April 2005) New Improved page on catain Basil Herbert Bright now finished .Goto Page My thanks go to Penelope Wilkins for the wonderful detail about her Father.

20. (16th April 2005) I am thankful to Tom Dalley former RMC, USN, Denver CO USA, in a recent e mail, saying how he enjoyed my web pages. He sent me this inscription:

"When you go home, tell them of us and say

For your tomorrow...We gave our today"

Memorial to the British dead in Kohima, Burma

I think that sums up why I put so much time into this web site!

21.(11th May 2005) With the recent additions to the list of pages concerning officers in the Great War, and the excellent material that has been sent me by various individuals, these web pages are starting to take on the status of their own. I hope to gather information, that is both informative, of historical importance, and of interest. My speciality of researching individual officers, and their contribution, writings, and life stories seems to be well received.

22. (22nd October 2005) Web site updated with new web page on Lt Harry Wise RFC who died in a D.H.9 at Hendon in 1918. Here is his story, research that started with a walking stick bought from a Kingston antique shop, and led to tales of Gotha bomber raids on London Goto Page.

23. (12th December 2005) Within 2 weeks of posting a page requesting information on Great War Captain G.V. Lidbury RFA / RE. Information required on his background and whereabouts of his surviving family. I have been very kindly contacted by Dale Lidbury, not related, but very helpful nevertheless. Many thanks Dale. His new information is now on the page. Goto page The internet is amazing!

24. (12th December 2005) Paul Reed has contacted me with details of his new web site on the Somme, worth a read! Goto Page

Request. I am seeking information on the following three officers:

Great War VWWS Purcell (Victor) who wrote "The further side of No Man's Land", and was an officer in the 4th Green Howards, 50th Division. Last known of in Singapore. This is for a story, not yet written.

Great War Lieutenant Denys Armstrong, 1/5th Northumberland Fusiliers. D.O.W. 03/10/1916 Circumstances unknown, and no photo yet. This is to compliment my web page on his brother Capt Hal Armstrong.Goto page

Great War Captain G.V. Lidbury RFA / RE. Goto page Information required on his background and whereabouts of his surviving family.

25. My appologies, it appears that half of this site has fallen over! I am working on its re instatement, but I have lost the web space that it was loaded onto, Hopefully I will get it repaired soon, but I may have to move it. This applies to most of the Great War content. IT WILL BE BACK SOON!

I am struggling to get this done as I am flat out on the new GPS TRENCH MAP DVD ROM, which I think is more important to get finished. (8th May2006)

26. Updated Trench Map DVD 3D/GPS Page (14th May 2006) http://www.smithmaps.fsnet.co.uk/indexmap.htm

27. Great War web site now back online. Webspace restored courtesy of Wanadoo, sorry for the interuption....19th May 2006

28. New 3D screen shots added of the new GPS TRENCH MAP DVD. Exciting new glimpe of the functionality coming in 2006. http://www.smithmaps.fsnet.co.uk/thefuture.htm......10th July2006

I'm flat out on this new DVD, and it will be ready as soon as is possible. Unfortunately, the maps keep trickling in, and we don't want to cut the DVD until we are sure there are no more to be had. We have sourced another 150 aproximately in the last month. This product is revolutionary, and we are trying to make it as comprehensive as possible.......10th July 2006

I am so pleased with the look of this product, in it's 98% complete form, various people have had demos's and have all been stunned by the functionality, which is better than I ever expected when we started out. This product will blow you away. I am going to the National Army Museum on the 14th September, and it will be there if you would like to see it. Also I will be at and around High Wood on the 15th for the 90th Anniversary memorial service, and we will be around with GPS PDA's. We are so close to finishing now, and am so looking forward to being able to send out the first discs.....9th Sept 2006

29. New http://www.greatwardigital.com web site now on line. At last the system is practically finished, all available maps are registered in,the new map key is finished, and I can stop going to bed at 2.00 a.m.! We are still aiming for pre Christmas delivery. Please please register if you are interested in the trench map project. We need to know how many of these products we need to produce in the short term. If you register, there is less chance of us running out through demand.

30. Now shipping at last....Buy on line at http://www.greatwardigital.com Christmas day should be all about the Great War this year!....4th December 2006

31. I am now working on another product. a fantastic collection of maps, taken from the U-Boats that surrendered to British forces off Harwich in 1918. Some of the maps are marked with courses and the full operational orders for the day.

Guy Smith . . . e-mail me on guy@trenchmap.com