FIELD NOTES / GALLUS ARCHIVE
Campaign history built to be read: political context, battlefield ground, commanders, first-hand service perspective and remembrance — connected rather than dumped into one feed.
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Every article belongs to a wider campaign space. Use the campaign links above for a guided reading order, or browse the archive below by publication date.
AFGHANISTAN
A biography of U.S. Navy SEAL Lieutenant Michael P. Murphy: Penn State, BUD/S, SEAL Delivery Vehicle Team 1, the four-man reconnaissance element in Operation Red Wings, the communications crisis on 28 June...
FIRST WORLD WAR
Biography of French campaigner Anna Guérin, whose post-war humanitarian fundraising helped bring the remembrance poppy to the newly formed British Legion in 1921.
AFGHANISTAN
Ryan Small’s first-person field guide to Kunar Province in 2005: mountain and valley terrain, the pre-election security campaign, 2/3 Marines and the structure of Operation Red Wings, Michael Murphy’s reconnaissance team, conflicting...
AFGHANISTAN
I look at the Warrior IFV in Afghanistan through my own infantry, reconnaissance and communications background and my HERRICK 10/11 service with 3 Platoon, A Company at Minden PB in Musa Qalah....
FIRST WORLD WAR
Biography of Reverend David Railton MC, the First World War chaplain whose experience of an unknown soldier's grave inspired the proposal for Britain's Unknown Warrior.
FIRST WORLD WAR
Biography of Sir Fabian Ware, who developed wartime graves registration and became the central figure behind the Imperial War Graves Commission, now the CWGC.
AFGHANISTAN
Ryan Small’s first-person field note on the Vallon detector and British foot patrols in Helmand: how IEDs changed movement, the burden on the lead search soldier, patrol pace and terrain, the wider...
FIRST WORLD WAR
Biography of Canadian physician, artillery officer and poet John McCrae: Second Ypres, the death of Alexis Helmer, In Flanders Fields and the poem's place in the development of poppy remembrance.
AFGHANISTAN
I served on HERRICK 10/11 with 3 Platoon, A Company, 2 Royal Welsh at Minden PB in Musa Qalah. This field guide uses that first-hand anchor to explain Helmand's Green Zone, compounds,...
AFGHANISTAN
I use this as the campaign spine for Britain's Operation HERRICK, from Kabul and the move into Helmand through platoon-house warfare, IEDs, protected mobility, the 2009 surge, transition and withdrawal. My own...
FIRST WORLD WAR
A complete field guide to how First World War loss became remembrance: battlefield graves, Fabian Ware and the IWGC, John McCrae and the poppy, the Cenotaph, David Railton and the Unknown Warrior,...
AFGHANISTAN
My first-person political road to the Afghanistan I later served in: Soviet intervention, the mujahideen war, civil war, the Taliban, al-Qaeda, 9/11, the 2001 intervention and the political order that eventually formed...
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