Kimberley John Lindsay Posted 15 August , 2015 Share Posted 15 August , 2015 Dear Mark (aka Gardnerbill), I applaud the clarity of your website: well done! Needless to say, I found the research regarding the vigorous Commanding Officer, with portrait, especially interesting, and was amazed that he should have died at such a relatively young age. Personally, I would have written it all in the Past Tense - especially as it happened a hundred years or so ago, but you are the boss... The ASC was, most unfairly, much looked down upon: moreover, Salonika was the Sideshow to end all Sideshows. Therefore, many thanks for putting 801 MT Coy on the map! Kindest regards, Kim. Kimberley John Lindsay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gardenerbill Posted 15 August , 2015 Author Share Posted 15 August , 2015 Algernon3 and Kim, Thank you for your kind words of encouragement, it is good to know that my efforts are appreciated. Mark PS More to come. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenman126 Posted 15 August , 2015 Share Posted 15 August , 2015 Enjoyed the website - I have a distant relative who fought in the Campaign with The Royal Welsh Fusiliers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gardenerbill Posted 16 August , 2015 Author Share Posted 16 August , 2015 I have just published a page on the XVI Corps Cyclists. The information came from an article in the 'New Mosquito' magazine of the Salonika Campaign Society, but it doesn't cover the advance into Bulgaria, hence my next post....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gardenerbill Posted 20 August , 2015 Author Share Posted 20 August , 2015 New page under History covering the period Feb 1918 to April 1918 added. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gardenerbill Posted 23 August , 2015 Author Share Posted 23 August , 2015 New page under Units for Royal Engineers (143 and 287 AT Coys) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gardenerbill Posted 23 August , 2015 Author Share Posted 23 August , 2015 On the subject of past versus present tense, for academic work one would use past tense, on my website I am trying to make it a narrative and in doing so may have fallen between two stools: 'In April 1917 the 801st start supplying the 143rd AT Coy RE' Or 'In April 1917 the 801st were supplying the 143rd AT Coy RE' I may review this at some point? What do forum members think? As always I value your opinion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kimberley John Lindsay Posted 25 August , 2015 Share Posted 25 August , 2015 Dear Mark, Although I have already commented, en passant - I was glad that you raised the subject of past tense, contra present tense, again. As I see it, this business of relating something that happened ages ago in the present tense, to pep it up, make it more exciting or immediate, is an Americanism. I feel sure that my Headmaster (Cranbrook School, but Bellevue Hill, Sydney - not Kent) would not have approved. Moreover, surely past tense is not only the domain of something academic. Quite apart from the fact that the collective efforts of the GWF could be classed as being in the academic sphere of things... Kindest regards, Kim. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gardenerbill Posted 29 August , 2015 Author Share Posted 29 August , 2015 I have started Motor Lorries page 2 with Daimler information under vehicles.Karrier and FWD will follow shortly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gardenerbill Posted 31 August , 2015 Author Share Posted 31 August , 2015 Motor Lorries page 2 now complete with information on the Karrier and FWD Motor Lorries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gardenerbill Posted 7 September , 2015 Author Share Posted 7 September , 2015 New page for Casualty Clearing Stations added under Units Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gardenerbill Posted 10 September , 2015 Author Share Posted 10 September , 2015 Information on Lieutenant Gordon Percival Hunt added to the commanding officers page 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gardenerbill Posted 15 September , 2015 Author Share Posted 15 September , 2015 New page for 1917 added under campaign Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gardenerbill Posted 22 September , 2015 Author Share Posted 22 September , 2015 Brief profiles of Lieutenant Alexander Frank Creedy and Lieutenant Richard Clement Hocken added to the 'Lieutenants 1' page under company. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gardenerbill Posted 24 September , 2015 Author Share Posted 24 September , 2015 Brief profiles added to the Lieutenants page for Lieutenants N. J. D. Martyn and W. W. Waithman. I hope to add more detail to these profiles in the future when time allows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Mackenzie Posted 24 September , 2015 Share Posted 24 September , 2015 Mark A nice simple layout for your site makes it easy to find the information. I am not keen on the light text on the green background to be honest - black text on a light background is always more readable. This website discusses the issue:- http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200608/light_text_on_dark_background_vs_readability/ The white text on the Home page does tend to 'disappear' into the photograph where the background is light as well - as it is in parts on the lower left hand side. Best wishes developing your site. Neil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gardenerbill Posted 25 September , 2015 Author Share Posted 25 September , 2015 Neil, I take your point about the home page, it's a photoshopped image so I may change that. All the text is large font on a light back ground not white on black, it would take some time now to change it all and would change the look and feel of the site. I will certainly think about it though. I notice on the site you linked to the text is in a seriffed font (new times roman or similar) ironically these fonts have been shown to be more difficult to read than unseriffed fonts such as arial, particularly on small screens. I notice that Google have changed their logo to a a font with no serifs for exacltly the same reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gardenerbill Posted 5 October , 2015 Author Share Posted 5 October , 2015 I have added a new page for May to July 1918 in the Company History section. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old_timer Posted 20 October , 2015 Share Posted 20 October , 2015 Great site. Having just published a book on military motorcycling I am intrigued by your Triumph motorcycle which seems to display the first example I have seen of some sort of Screen or even map holder? above the handlebars. The Brodie helmet on the rack would make it a later photo after photography was banned, but he appears to be wearing a camera. Do you have any further information about the photo or the man in it. PS. WARBIKE: British Military Motorcycling 1899-1919 is now available via http://militarymc.blogspot.co.uk/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gardenerbill Posted 20 October , 2015 Author Share Posted 20 October , 2015 Hi old_timer, sorry I can't tell you anything other than I copied it from a thread on this site: Triumph PS your book looks interesting I might just get myself a copy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
genegwf Posted 21 October , 2015 Share Posted 21 October , 2015 Nice site, I enjoyed your hard work. I did not know the Americans supplied so many trucks for the British Army. Gene Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gardenerbill Posted 21 October , 2015 Author Share Posted 21 October , 2015 Nice site, I enjoyed your hard work. I did not know the Americans supplied so many trucks for the British Army. Gene Gene, Thank you it is always good to know that your efforts are appreciated. I too was surprised at the number of vehicles supplied by the US, in addition to the trucks mentioned on my website Ford supplied a large number of vans, I have come across British Motor Transport companies in Mesopotamia and in Salonika that used exclusively Ford vans for supply. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gardenerbill Posted 21 October , 2015 Author Share Posted 21 October , 2015 Two more images added to the motorcycle page. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gardenerbill Posted 29 October , 2015 Author Share Posted 29 October , 2015 I have added the 1918 page to campaign (up to Bugarian armistice) this page is written in past tense, I am coming round to the idea that it reads better. Let me know what you think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kimberley John Lindsay Posted 29 October , 2015 Share Posted 29 October , 2015 Dear Mark, Good work, bringing us all up to 1918. Apropos work: it works better in past tense! I am particularly alive to the problems of the MT Coys inasmuch as I am currently researching Lt Patrick John (irritatingly also shown as John Patrick) O'Shea, IARO. He was attached 1024 (Burma) Coy RASC in Kurdistan, 1919 - No. 2 Ford Van Company. A brother-officer, Lt C. F. Pyett, IARO, got the MC... Kindest regards, Kim. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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