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
To mark National Poetry Day, HM Land Registry amateur historian Peter Mayer tells the story of lawyer, soldier, politician and poet Guy Kindersley.
A Land Registry lawyer on the Somme
Amateur historian Peter Mayer tells the story of Cyril Lewis, a Land Registry lawyer and infantry officer who became one of the million casualties of the Battle of the Somme a century ago.
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