The story of Frank Rodbourne and his time in the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force during the Great War.

This is the story of Victor Poxon and time in the Royal Navy during the Second World War on HMS Aurora and his life in Australia in the 1960s and 70s.

This is the story of Walter Pateman, a Gypsy who was born at Leg of Mutton Common, Farnborough, Kent in 1886 and who died in action during the Great War near Leg of Mutton Wood, Bouchavesnes, France in 1917.

This is the story of the 110 Canadian Great War soldiers who died at Orpington Hospital and / or were buried at Canadian Corner or All Saints, Orpington.

Exiting war explores a particular 1918–20 ‘moment’ in the British Empire’s history, between the First World War’s armistices of 1918, and the peace treaties of 1919 and 1920. That moment, we argue, was a challenging and transformative time for the Empire. While British authorities successfully answered some of the post-war tests they faced, such as demobilisation, repatriation, and fighting the widespread effects of the Spanish flu, the racial, social, political and economic hallmarks of their imperialism set the scene for a wide range of expressions of loyalties and disloyalties, and anticolonial movements. The book documents and conceptualises this 1918–20 ‘moment’ and its characteristics as a crucial three-year period of transformation for and within the Empire, examining these years for the significant shifts in the imperial relationship that occurred and as laying the foundation for later change in the imperial system.

This is the story of the twenty five men from Orpington who died in the Great War in 1915.

This is a record of my life in Thunder Bay during 2019, the places I visited including Ketchum, Idaho and Washington DC, and the conferences I attended.