Showery. Heavy shelling. Fatigue up com trench. Dugouts sodden. More on the #LiverpoolScottish 110 years ago on the 1915 #WW1 #WesternFront at georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2025/12/07/7...

Very wet. Left Reninghelst at 1.30am. Arrived T7 7.30 wet through & muddied everywhere. Trench in bad state. 6 in wet ?? dugout fit for ? Resembles the Black Hole of Calcutta. More on the #LiverpoolScottish in 1915 #WW1 at georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2025/12/06/6...

Some things never change. Seeing that photo brought back memories. In Iraq we cooked in .50 caliber ammo cans. We would mix a bunch of MRE main courses and crumbled up crackers and make mulligan stew.

Church service at YMCA. Wet afternoon. Fine supper. Chops chips onions and beans (loot) cooked over brazier. More at georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2025/12/05/5...

Very wet. Digging fatigue at Grenade School. More on the #LiverpoolScottish in 1915 #WW1 including a letter written by one of the Scottish on the eve of his death, at georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2025/12/04/4...

Very wet. Pictures in evening. More on the #LiverpoolScottish in 1915 #WW1, including Captain Bryden McKinnell and Jim McLachlan, at georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2025/12/03/3...

Digging fatigue at Grenade School. YMCA in evening. Div. Band playing. Wet evening. More on #WW1 grenade schools, and the perils of letting dogs get involved at georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2025/12/02/2...

Visited YMCA. More on the Reninghelst YMCA 110 years ago on the 1915 #WW1 WesternFront at georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2025/12/01/1...

We feed in [?] shacks at Reninghelst. 18 [?] camp. Very wet all day. More on the #LiverpoolScottish 110 years ago on this day on the 1915 #WW1 #WesternFront at georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2025/11/30/3...

Very wet. Relieved by LRBs. Sergt. Major Belcher V.C. in charge. No wash for 7 days. Very badly in need of shave. Long weary march. More on the #LiverpoolScottish 110 years ago on the 1915 #FWW #WesternFront at georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2025/11/29/2...

Whizbangs active. Saxons throw parcels of fags across. Cold & frosty. Interview with Saxon. Corporal educated Dresden University. Only for war would have been at Cambridge. More on this temporary #WW1 truce on this day 110 years ago in 1915 at georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2025/11/28/2...

Very frosty & cold. Whizbanged in afternoon. Saxons 187 quiet. Photo from corporal. Give anything for bulley New draft of 80. More on the #LiverpoolScottish and this unofficial truce 110 years ago on the 1915 #WW1 #WesternFront at georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2025/11/27/2...

Wet day. Very muddy. Saxons in front. Very quiet. Meet our boys in crater. Prussian artillery very active. Little snow & plenty of rain. More on the Saxons and the #LiverpoolScottish 110 years ago (map from Royal Saxon Army site) georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2025/11/26/2...

Wet day. Moved up to T1 trench. More on the #LiverpoolScottish 110 years ago on the 1915 #WW1 #WesternFront at georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2025/11/25/2...

Fatigues up com. trench. Wet day. Heavy shelling by both sides. More on the #LiverpoolScottish 110 years ago on the #WW1 #WesternFronte and the loss of Adam McGregor during the June charge at Hooge at georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2025/11/24/2...

This has lost me thousands of pounds (not to mention book sales) and put me in a state of terror and panic. I urge anyone thinking of moving their list from Substack, or wanting to know more about how Substack works, to read it....

Liverpool Scottish soldiers wearing kilts represented on the cenotaph

T7 trench. Very wet & in need of repairs. Plenty of rats & mice. Belgian battery fires into our trench. 3 spies caught. More on rats in the trenches on the #WesternFront during #WW1 at georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2025/11/23/2...

Over the flat slopes of St Eloi A wide wall of sand bags. Night, In the silence desultory men Pottering over small fires, cleaning their mess-tins: To and fro, from the lines, Men walk as on Piccadilly, Making paths in the dark, Through scattered dead horses [...] www.poeticous.com/t-e-hulme/tr...

Very foggy. Move off to trenches at 2.30 p.m. Pass through Oiderdom & Dickebush. Relieve North Staffs. Very frosty night. More on the #LiverpoolScottish 110 years ago on the 1915 #WW1 #WesternFront at georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2025/11/22/2...

Frosty. Leave Winnezeele at 8.15 a.m. on billeting party. March about 12 1/2 Miles to Reninghelst. Pass through Steenvoorde & Abeelé en route. Feet bad. Billeted in tents. Very cold. No blankets More on the 1915 #FWW #LiverpoolScottish at georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2025/11/21/2...

It’s collections week at the Archives We’ve begun cataloguing the records of W Clarke, Masons of Llandaff. Along with administrative records of the business, the collection includes many plans and photographs. Including this one showing the unveiling of the war memorial at Llantwit Major in 1921.

Hello Milton Keynes! I’m visiting you tomorrow evening to give another Western Front Association branch talk on Underground Warfare 1914-18 at 7.30pm, Friday 21 November. All welcome (see alt text for venue details).

Very frosty. Parades as usual Steenvoorde in evening. More on the #LiverpoolScottish 110 years agoon the 1915 #WW1 #WesternFront and on #prisonersofwar at georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2025/11/20/2...

Clip - Tessa Munt MP opens the #MECFS debate, noting ~400,000 have ME in the UK, & the total could be much higher including people with with long COVID. She highlights decades of substandard, sometimes harmful care, pitiful funding, and the outdated view of ME as psychiatric.

Route march past Cassel. More at georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2025/11/19/1...

Fine day. Poperinge hornbeit [?]. Dental parade. More on dental parades on the #WesternFront during #WW1 at georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2025/11/18/1...

Fine day. Steenvoorde & pictures. More on #cinema on the #WesternFront 110 years ago during 1915 #WW1 at georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2025/11/17/1...

Fine day. March past Gens Plumer & Haldane. Next Yorkshire place of lines. More on the #LiverpoolScottish 110 years ago in 1915 #WW1 at georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2025/11/16/1...

Fine day. Parades. Steenvoorde in evening. Fine walk back by. moonlight. Haircut and shave by Mademoiselle. For more on the #LiverpoolScottish, #moustaches and #shaving 110 years ago in 1915 #WW1 #Movember see georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2025/11/15/1...

Lovely day. Service in morning. Colonel just returned from Blighty. Gave us his ‘good news’. Recruits pouring in. Batt. soon at full strength again. More on the #LiverpoolScottish on this day 110 years ago in 1915 #WWI at georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2025/11/14/1...

Wet day. Give Lincs send off who joined 21st Div. at Bailleul. More on the #LiverpoolScottish 100 years ago in #1915 #WW1 at georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2025/11/13/1...

Wet day. Steenvoorde in evening. More on the #LiverpoolScottish 110 years ago in 1915 #WW1 at georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2025/11/12/1...

Fine day. Route march in full marching order round Cassel & through Ryvelde. Fine view from Cassel (2nd 9 HQ). More on the #LiverpoolScottish in 1915 #WW1 at georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2025/11/11/1...

Wet day. Concert in village hall at night. More on the #LiverpoolScottish and concerts for soldiers 110 years ago during 1915 #WW1 at georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2025/11/10/1...

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

Wet day. X v Z 6 –0 More news of the sporting accomplishments of the #LiverpoolScottish in and before 1915 #WW1 at georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2025/11/09/9...

Usual parades. Fine evening with Cheshire REs at Steenvoorde. More on the #LiverpoolScottish on this day 110 years ago in 1915 #WW1 at georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2025/11/08/8...

Usual parades. Steenvoorde in evening More on the #LiverpoolScottish 110 years ago in 1915 #WW1 at georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2025/11/07/7...

Fine day. General holiday. Final of Football cup. RFA beat RS 1 – 0. Co of 3rd Zouaves decorated by Gens. Foch & Haldane Gen Foch decorated Staff of 3rd Div. & Gen. Plumer. Prv Short received the Croix de Guerre. More #WW1 #Liverpool Scottish at georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2025/11/06/6...

Glorious day. Pictures at Steenvoorde. Supper at No 1 Grand Place. Roast mutton, chips, salad, etc. 15frs for 5. More on the #LiverpoolScottish 110 years ago in 1915 #WW1 at georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2025/11/05/5...

Shifted to Winnezeele about 18 mls. Billeted in barns. Not quite as big as Godewaersvelde nearer Steenvoorde. Supper in village. More on the #LiverpoolScottish on this day 110 years ago in 1915 #WW1 at georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2025/11/04/4...

More rum. Baths. More on the #LiverpoolScottish 110 years ago in 1915 #WWI at georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2025/11/03/3...

Heavy rain all day. Lecture by Coy. SM on trench work. Visited neighbouring farm for Dinner. More on the #LiverpoolScottish on this day 110 years ago in 1915 #WW1 at georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2025/11/02/2...

Dirty wet day. Sports at night. Dick champion on greasy pole fighting. More on the #LiverpoolScottish 110 years ago in 1915 #WW1 at georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2025/11/01/1...

If you're a National Trust member, it's that time of year again: Midnight tonight is the deadline. It's a shame people have to keep doing this to keep a toehold on historical truth in this country, but here we are. Voting link: www.nationaltrust.org.uk/who-we-are/a...

Church parade. Showery Today marked the end of a full year since the Liverpool Scottish had first sailed for France on the Maidan on 1 November. George had been 21 when war was declared; he was now just 23. More at georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/3...

Lecture by Bat. SM. Visit Steenvoorde & Pictures More on the #LiverpoolScottish 110 years ago in 1915 #WW1 at georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2025/10/30/3...

Hd. Qtrs guard. Very wet. More news of the #LiverpoolScottish on this day 110 years ago in 1915 #WW1 at georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2025/10/29/2...

Lecture by Batt. SM. In charge of Hd Qtrs at Goedwaervelde. More on the #LiverpoolScottish 110 years ago – and on funding for medical care of #WW1 soldiers at georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2025/10/28/2...