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

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

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

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.