Finding Sapper Clay
John Griffiths-Colby
- Region:
- Anywhere
- Notice Period:
- Emergency (maybe less than one week's notice)
- Type:
- Part time professional
- Fee:
- Paid: £120.00
- Category:
- History
- Updated:
- 15th March 2024
- Tagged:
- Historic | War | Online | World War 1
With the First World War centenary very much still with us, this is the story of how the chance discovery of a long-lost medal in a garden in Surrey triggered the search for an old soldier's family. Uncovering a remarkable series of coincidences, the resulting search for a living descendant would span 19th century brickmaking in Warwickshire, the Somme, Gallipoli, a disastrous gas accident, family and estrangement and bizarrely, would reach further back in time to connect with a landmark in women's literature - George Eliot's (Mary Anne Evans') first story collection published in 1857. And who was Sapper Clement Cecil Clay R.E. ? For this talk I donate £10 of my fee to the Poppy Appeal.
Views: 1513 | Enquiries: 1About John Griffiths-Colby
I have a wide-ranging background in Journalism, Business Consultancy, Public Speaking and as Funeral Officiant (Celebrant). I have written extensively for National and Regional magazines, providing satirical and lifestyle columns for the New Statesman and Italian Bike magazines respectively.
Professionally, as a Business Consultant, I deal in transformation and change and I see what works and what doesn’t, in life as well as in commerce.
All my talks are illustrated, just that; I talk and there are pictures which will illustrate and explain as a background to the subject. My talks are humorous, a little abstract and deliberately thought-provoking. I can adapt and tailor my talks to your audience as part of the fixed price. I also take commissions for specific material/audiences.
My aim is to engage and inform my audience without being too serious. This will be a sideways view of life and the audience will need to think a bit, laugh a bit and take a new thought away with them. My blog can be found at www.absurvd.com
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