News
20th February 2010
It is 95 years to the day that my Gt Uncle Pte Patrick Thomas Staunton was killed at 'The Bluff', cross left at the Menin Gate on behalf of my family.
25th November 2009
FOUND SOLDIERS FROM WW1
Remains of 15 British Tommies found in France
The Tommies have been identified as volunteers of the York and Lancaster Regiment killed between October 18 and 20, 1914.
24th November 2009 Waiting List
Please note that there is now a 2 ~ 3 month waiting time for any new portraits or commissions due to demand at present, apologies for any inconvenience.
24th November 2009 New Book Release Illustrated by Soren Hawkes
Men, Horses, Mud And Stew: The Little Fusilier's Great War
Click here to buy the book from Tommies Guides only £14.95!
With beautifully illustrated chapters that capture the atmosphere and spirit of the era; Men, Horses, Mud And Stew is an exceptional read. This is the story of Wilfred Cook who volunteered for the army at the age of eighteen and left his home in Leeds in March 1915. After initial training in Whitley Bay he was transferred to the Northumberland Fusiliers (known as the Fighting Fifth). He then recounts how they were equipped and sent to the battlefields of France and Flanders to reinforce the regiments already fighting there; and in evocative detail, we are immersed in the narrative from how they arrived first at Poperinghe and from where they marched by night to join the battalion entrenched at St Eloi on the Ypres Salient. This is an account of an ordinary fusilier who saw great suffering but kept his sense of humour and made some wonderful pals, many of whom died in the mud of Flanders fields. Illustrated by Soren Hawkes, British Artist living in Ypres