Imagine you are sent to Malta as an RMS (‘Rendering Mines Safe’) and Minesweeping maintenance officer while war rages on. You are told that the
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In February 1941, the 1st Battalion of the Royal Hampshire Regiment in Marsa Matruh was busy signboarding mine-fields and barricading pillboxes as they prepared to
Read MoreThe ordeal of the air attacks over Malta in March and April of 1942 continued in subsequent months. At the same time, the lastingness of
Read MoreWhen writing about war it is very easy to describe losses in numbers. Perhaps, ships sunk or aircraft shot out of the sky. We might
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