Today Gill and I drove down to Shoreham in Kent for a 7 mile Ordinance Survey Pathfinder circular walk starting in Shoreham. This was a lovely walk (there is also a railway station in Shoreham), with plenty of up and down rolling countryside but …Read more…
Private Thomas Highgate – the First to be Shot at Dawn (2020 update)
Early in 2014 I posted here on a controversy in the village on Shoreham in Kent on whether to add the name of Private Thomas Highgate to its War Memorial. 19 year old Thomas was the first soldier to be shot for desertion by the British army autho…Read more…