About Paul Reed

Paul Reed is a leading military historian, who specialises in the two World Wars. He has been visiting battlefields all over Europe for nearly thirty years, and has lived on the Somme for over a decade. He has worked as a researcher and Battlefield Guide, and is the author of several books on WW1 - including Walking The Salient in the popular Battlefield Europe series. Paul also regularly contributes to BBC TV programmes, such as Timewatch and Meet The Ancestors and appeared in the groundbreaking BBC documentary 'Forgotten Battlefield', by John Hayes-Fisher, which looked at the work of the Belgian Archaeologists, The Diggers.

Paul's Great Uncle, Private William Walter Adams ('Bill'), 6th Battalion Northamptonshire Regiment attached 144th Company Labour Corps, died of wounds in hospital at Le Treport on 18th October 1917, after having been wounded at Ypres. Several other relatives also served at Ypres in 1917, and it is for this reason, and the memory of all those who fought and died in the Salient in 1917 that Paul started this website.

Email: info@ypres-1917.com

Paul's other websites are:

Old Front Line

Somme Battlefields

Silent Cities: Cemeteries of WW1

Battlefields of WW2

D Day Ancestors

WW2 Cemeteries

Passchendaele Remembered website  ©Paul Reed 2006-2008
Site Last Updated - 02 January 2008