Remembering Ernest McDouall and his fallen colleagues on Armistice Day

Posted by: Gavin Curry, Digital Communications and Editorial Officer, Posted on: 8 November 2018 - Categories: Historic

Infantryman Ernest McDouall survived to see the Armistice which ended the First World War on 11 November 1918 – but is honoured today as one of the 14 HM Land Registry men who lost their lives as a result of the conflict.

Our war poet

Posted by: Peter Mayer, Posted on: 28 September 2017 - Categories: Historic

...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

Posted by: Peter Mayer, Posted on: 18 August 2016 - Categories: Historic

...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...