Shellfire over Sword Beach: HM Land Registry staff on D-Day, 6 June 1944
Two young men from HM Land Registry were among the British troops who landed in Normandy on D-Day 75 years ago today. Our amateur historian Peter Mayer tells their stories.
Peter Mayer
Operations Change Delivery & Support Executive and HM Land Registry amateur historian
Our war poet
...The Peace Cry he also foresaw that no lasting peace would arise from the Versailles Treaty: “Ye may seal and sign your parchments, your legions may disperse, Ye may strip...
A Land Registry lawyer on the Somme
...autumn. On 23 July Captain Lewis' battalion supported the Oxford regiment in taking German trenches at Pozieres under shell fire. Of the 650 who went into battle the battalion lost...