“In the good old days, when the studio factories stretched across Los Angeles under an achingly blue unsullied sky, the end of production of one film was barely distinguishable from the last hours of the [more…]
“Show me a Hero & I will write you a Tragedy, wrote F. Scott Fitzgerald. Since Harry had joined up in 1914 with the South Wales Borderers, he had seen almost continual action through to [more…]
“Whilst his Brother Harry remained in the Trenches with his South Wales Borders, George Pike had transferred out of the Army & entered the Senior Service. Far from the heat & dust of the Middle [more…]
My Great Uncle George Pike took the Kings Shilling in 1914, joining the Gloucestershire Yeomanry as a Trooper in 1914, in the initial surge of jingoistic patriotism that convinced many that having dusted off the [more…]
The Great War started for my Great Uncle Harry Pike upon enlistment into the 2nd Battalion South Wales Borderers at Newport in 1914. Subsequently, he was posted to the Rugby in January 1915. On 17 [more…]
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