At the beginning on 2026 we will hold another of our popular Winter Lecture Series live on Zoom Head to our Event page to find the full details. WAL1-The Frasers and Unetts-and the Napoleonic Wars-Gareth Glover WAL2-The Seventh Division in 1812 – John Morewood WAL3-Nelson and the Slave Trade- Chris Brett WAL4-The Grand Battery at […]
by Elizabeth Lancaster On May 1st 1903, the Batley News published an obituary to my great grandfather, Armitage Colbeck, which stated, among other things, that the deceased’s grandfather had fought at the Battle of Waterloo. This was the starting point to my search for my soldier ancestor. War Office records yielded the information that a […]