From the Western Front to Salonika

What's new

This page describes the latest updates to the site.

Latest Changes

30 July 2001
Link added to Graham Gower's site, "Ammunition Run". Graham's homepage includes a transcript of his grandfather's diary, kept while serving with the 1st Brigade RFA, 27th Division during the first few months of the war.

24 December 2000
Investigation into the accuracy of disembarkation dates as shown on the Medal Index Card.
Order of battle of the 27th Division.
Drop shadows added to pictures. Works best with 16-bit, or higher, colour depth (as does the rest of the site).

9 December 2000
Photographs of the Menin Gate and Tyne Cot cemetery.

6 September 2000
Life at Morn Hill camp as published in the Hampshire Observer.

12 August 2000
Pop-up information added to home page. At present it only works with IE 4 or higher.
Photograph of the British Salonika Force memorial, Macedonia.

11 June 2000
27th Division's brigade commanders and general notes.

13 March 2000
List of commanders and senior staff officers of the 27th Division.

16 January 2000
Service records of Alfred Allen, Harry Bertram and Robert Smith. Three RFA soldiers from the 27th Division who were gassed at the Second Battle of Ypres.

21 November 1999
Disembarkation dates for some of the other gas casualties at Ypres to help determine what happened.

4 November 1999
Site can now be accessed from www.armyservice.co.uk . Please use this URL in future.

24 October 1999
A look at the artillery war diaries of the 27th Division during the Second Battle of Ypres.
Drop shadows added to home page.

26 September 1999
An overview of the Second Battle of Ypres.
18 July links (below) now call up the correct menu titles (Research instead of World War 1).

18 July 1999
The initial search that showed Herbert Halliday was gassed at the Second Battle of Ypres.
Casualty list showing Herbert Halliday.
Menus now scroll to position when links are accessed from here.

27 June 1999
Two pages showing Herbert Halliday amongst the men listed in the Rossendale Free Press during October 1915 and January 1917.
A short history of the British 27th Division added to "World War 1" section.
Frame colour scheme changed (only visible for 16bit colour (or greater) and browsers running JavaScript1.2 (or higher)).
Menu frame width increased by 5 pixels to work more consistently with Netscape.
Medal index card page updated to maintain layout when it is unable to fit the page.

13 June 1999
Further evidence to suggest that Herbert served with the British 27th Division.
Acknowledgements and sources added to Links( & Credits) section.
Bug removed from JavaScript in the research menu.

23 May 1999
Description of how my grandfather's date of disembarkation is used to determine the division he served with.
Extract from a war diary page showing disembarkation on 20th December 1914.

16th May 1999
Brief description of the structure of the British Army during the First World War added to "World War 1" section.

9th May 1999
Transcript of a page from the Silver War Badge roll.

2nd May 1999
Transcript of a page from the 1914-15 Star medal roll.
Transcript of a page from the Victory and British War medal roll.

5th April 1999
Medal index card page added in "Research" section.

29th March 1999
Home page and photographs updated to fit on an 800 x 600 display.
Menu system updated to be more consistent across the site.
Discharge certificate corrected.