Andrew White: Fire-step to Fokker Fodder: From the Trenches to the Red Baron. The First World WarDiaries of William 'Jack' Lidsey. [2019] hardback IRISH Stumbling through the streets

Stumbling through the streets

and the people who have made their lives within sight of the waves

It covers both formal and social occasions

from bombing raids over London to jet fighter dogfights over Berlin

performers and companies

Andrew White: Fire-step to Fokker Fodder: From the Trenches to the Red Baron. The First World WarDiaries of William 'Jack' Lidsey. [2019] hardback IRISH Stumbling through the streetsJack Lidsey was one of the first to volunteer during the Great War, enlisting as a private soldier in his local regiment, the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, in August 1914. He was sent to the Ypres Salient in March 1915, experiencing trench warfare around Ploegsteert Wood before moving south to the Somme in France. Lidsey was sent home for commissioning early in 1916, re joining his battalion as a Second Lieutenant just in time for