Stuart Hadaway: 4 books
Tracing Your Great War Ancestors: The Egypt and Palestine Campaigns
A Guide for Family Historians
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Tracing Your Great War Ancestors: The Egypt and Palestine Campaigns is the first book explicitly aimed at helping the descendants of those who fought in this part of the Middle East find out more about their ancestor’s actions, experiences and achievements. Their wartime lives were very different...
From Gaza to Jerusalem
The First World War in the Holy Land
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
The first comprehensive history of one of the most successful British campaigns of the First World WarThe 1917 Palestine campaign saw Britain's Army rise from defeat to achieve stunning victory. After two failed attacks on Gaza using tactics employed on the Western Front, a new commander was appointed....
Pyramids and Fleshpots
The Egyptian, Senussi and Eastern Mediterranean Campaigns, 1914 - 16
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Personnel serving in Egypt in World War I often complained that the popular impression of the campaigns, still widely held, was that it was a sideshow, with troops enjoying a holiday among the pyramids and the "fleshpots" of Cairo. Actually they faced appalling heat, abrasive sand, poor...
Missing Believed Killed
The Royal Air Force and the Search for Missing Aircrew 1939-1952
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2008
During the early years of WW2 it soon became apparent that the system for tracing the remains of R.A.F. aircrew deemed Missing Believed Killed was totally inadequate. The Missing Research Section (M.R.S.) of the Air Ministry was set up in 1941 to deal with this problem. It collected and collated intelligence...