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Search - List of Books by Peter Barton
Peter Arthur Barton (born 28 March 1955) is a First World War historian and author. His body of research includes finding hundreds of previously unseen panoramas, mass graves of soldiers and tunnel excavations. Mr. Barton’s research produced a panoramic collection that allows readers to view the battlefields from the Belgian coast and to the end of the British lines at the Somme.
With his colleague, Jeremy Banning, he has just released a book on the Battle of Arras. The book, Arras - The Spring 1917 Offensive in Panoramas including Vimy Ridge and Bullecourt was published in June 2010 by Constable. Together they are involved in many archaeological projects on the western front including the recent dig (May 2010) at Mametz for surviving pieces of a Livens Large Gallery Flamethrower. This project was undertaken for a television documentary to be broadcast in Spring 2011.
He is co-secretary of the All Party Parliamentary War Graves and Battlefields Heritage Group The Group consists of Members from both Houses and exists to support the work of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, to further educational programmes aimed at increasing knowledge of war heritage and battlefield sites, to support campaigners seeking to conserve and promote heritage sites, and to encourage best practice in multi-disciplinary battlefield archaeology.
He has worked alongside Glasgow University Archaeology Research Division (GUARD), with the work around locating and exploring the mass graves at the Pheasant Wood site at Fromelles.He has been commissioned by the Australian Government to carry out research into the identities of the casualties discovered.He was given access to Red Cross records at their headquarters in Geneva.There he was able to examine records that have lain virtually untouched since 1918, and estimates that there could be 20 million sets of details, carefully entered on card indexes, or written into ledgers.
With his colleague, Jeremy Banning, he has just released a book on the Battle of Arras. The book, Arras - The Spring 1917 Offensive in Panoramas including Vimy Ridge and Bullecourt was published in June 2010 by Constable. Together they are involved in many archaeological projects on the western front including the recent dig (May 2010) at Mametz for surviving pieces of a Livens Large Gallery Flamethrower. This project was undertaken for a television documentary to be broadcast in Spring 2011.
He is co-secretary of the All Party Parliamentary War Graves and Battlefields Heritage Group The Group consists of Members from both Houses and exists to support the work of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, to further educational programmes aimed at increasing knowledge of war heritage and battlefield sites, to support campaigners seeking to conserve and promote heritage sites, and to encourage best practice in multi-disciplinary battlefield archaeology.
He has worked alongside Glasgow University Archaeology Research Division (GUARD), with the work around locating and exploring the mass graves at the Pheasant Wood site at Fromelles.He has been commissioned by the Australian Government to carry out research into the identities of the casualties discovered.He was given access to Red Cross records at their headquarters in Geneva.There he was able to examine records that have lain virtually untouched since 1918, and estimates that there could be 20 million sets of details, carefully entered on card indexes, or written into ledgers.
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