Angels in the Trenches

Spiritualism, Superstition and the Supernatural During the First World War

Angels in the Trenches

Angels in the Trenches: Spiritualism, Superstition and the Supernatural During the First World War by Dr Leo Ruickbie, available from Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk.

West Yorkshire Regiment

Saved by a Ghost at Ypres

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Did the Spirit of a Dead Soldier Save His Friends in the Ypres Salient? December 1915, in a frontline trench somewhere in the Ypres salient, Belgium, Second Lieutenant William M. Speight of the 3rd Battalion, West Yorkshire Regiment (Prince of Wales’s Own), sat in his dug-out. The First and Second Battles of Ypres had already […]

• 1915, Apparitions, Ghosts, Paranormal, Supernatural, West Yorkshire Regiment, Western Front, World War I, Ypres

Dr Leo Ruickbie, FRHistS, FRAI, PhD (Lond), MA, BA (Hons), Associate of King's College

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