Tom Strickland, a former Territorial Army officer, is a faculty leader and head of History in a Secondary School in Wiltshire. He has a passion for history and the Great War and an interest in old MG cars. He has been taking groups of students and adults to the WW1 battlefields for nearly twenty years and has built up a large collection of notes that have formed the basis of this book. He lives in Wiltshire with Nancy his wife and two daughters, Claire and Millie.
