About the author

Matt Kersley

<p>Matt Kersley has been particularly interested in the First World War for as long as he can remember. In 2014 he began an extremely optimistic project to blog the events of the war day-by-day, exactly 100 years later. Now, because this is the future, that blog is becoming a series of history books. Today&#39;s entry is available at http://makersley.com ; you can also follow him on Twitter, @makersley.<br /> <br /> He lives in London with a fat cat and a lean bank account. It would be better if both of those things could change.</p>