Tommy and Dennis: A remarkable lady who fought in the Trenches
Paul Thompson
- Organisation:
- Guarderobe
- Region:
- Anywhere
- Notice Period:
- Short (maybe less than one month's notice)
- Type:
- Professional
- Fee:
- Paid: £80 plus travel
- Category:
- History
- Updated:
- 12th February 2026
- Tagged:
- Women At War | Family History
‘Tommy and Dennis!’ Find out the brief career of the only known British lady to fight in the British Trenches during WW1. Find out the daily life and equipment of the soldier at the Front that Dorothy Lawrence would have had to familiarise herself with and what happened to “Dennis Smith” once discovered. No slides, screen or projector. Costumed interpretation talk with lots of opportunities for handling original WW1 soldiers equipment.
Views: 10 | Enquiries: 0About Paul Thompson
Guarderobe offer professional Historical talks in costume with (sometimes original) replica objects from prehistory, Early Roman, Late Roman, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, Anglo Saxon, Vikings, Normans, early Medieval, 15th century, Tudors, The Gun Powder Treason, English Civil War, Victorian Surgeon, Victorian Life, WW1 In the Trenches, WW1 Home Front, and several WW2 topics including RAF, Army (Early War, D-Day, Far East) and Civil Defence. We do not use slides but do need some tables and an audience.
We are both archaeologists and have worked in museums and in the field for many years so bring much experience, knowledge and some humour to topics. We have been giving talks for over 30 years in the Midlands.
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- The Medieval Household
- The Medieval Household at Christmas
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- Burying your Anglo Saxon Ancestors
- Stille Nacht: 1914 Christmas Truce
- Keep the Home fires burning
- Border Reivers!
- The ABC of ARP
- Seen and not heard
- The Medieval Barber Surgeon
- The Tudor Barber Surgeon
- Medieval Death and Burial
- Bodices and Bloomers
- Robin Hood: fact and legend
- The Victorian way of death
- Beware the Resurrection Men
- The Greenfly and the Rose: SOE in WW2
- The Late Victorian Soldier
- Ancient Egyptian life and death
- Trouble and Strife. The English Civil War – in Coventry
- National Service
- Vikings: The Norse Code
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- Heavy Metal: Bronze Age Life
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- The Ancient Greeks: Part 2 Classical Period to 30BC
- The Ancient Greeks: Part 3 the Ptolemaic Period 332 to 30BC
- Armour through the Ages
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