Adrian GregsonAdrian Gregson grew up on the Fylde coast in Lancashire and then studied firstly History and then Archives at Leicester and Liverpool Universities. His PhD thesis "The 1/7th Battalion King's Liverpool Regiment and the Great War - the experience of a erritorial battalion and its Home Towns" was awarded in 2004 from the University of Worcester (Coventry). Adrian is also a local politician, twice being elected Leader of Worcester City Council. Adrian has written articles on the 55th West Lancashire Division and also on the British League of Help for Devastated Areas of France. He is currently Archives Policy and Collections Manager for Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service, and Worcester Diocesan Archivist, based at the Hive in Worcester. In 2014 he co-authored the book Worcestershire's War, with Dr Maggie Andrews and Dr John Peters, Amberley Publishing 2014.Adrian contributed a chapter to the 2015 volume Courage without Glory: The British Army on the Western Front 1915, edited by Spencer Jones, Helion 2015. From 2013-2019 Adrian is Project Manager for the Heritage Lottery Funded Project Worcestershire World War One Hundred www.ww1worcestershire.co.uk This is his first book. Read More Read Less