Post by gracierobinson2211 on Dec 16, 2009 18:35:39 GMT
Hi there,
i hope you are all well and having a nice evening. My name is Ayse, pronounced eyesha and im half Turkish, im 27 and ive been interested in The Great War and travelling to the battlefields for over 10 years now. I have been to Ypres and the Belgium area of the front about 27 times and to the Somme region about 15 times staying in many memorable places such as Avril's which im sure you are all familiar with lol. I am going to be specialising in FANY which Rob has been kind enough to help me sort out. I do have many pieces of period clothing already thanks to previous ventures.
I am currently doing my masters in historical research and obtained my degree a year ago in History, specialising in the Great War. I work at the tower of london as a warden and tour guide and have been involved in living history on a professional level before doing Tudor period pieces which was scary lol.
I am currently doing my masters dissertation piece on a soldier killed in the Great war called James Raper, a very interesting man who saw some very famous battles. He is the relative of a friend of mine and was killed in the battle of Cambrai 30/11/1917. Until recently he didnt even know james was his relative and we found out that he even trained at the tower as he was a fusilier. The most amazing thing of this is i was able to locate james' medals which Tom will soon have in his possession. so i guess as you can see the great war is really a very very big passion of mine.
i always put my all in everything i do and right now i am spending a lot of time on researching the FANY's so i can live my role i will take on to the best of my ability, as i do with living history in my job. i hope to one day spend a long time furthering my research in the area and i would love to eventually be a curator. heres hoping i guess lol.
Well thank you all for putting up with my rambling and i hope to see you all soon
Ayse x
i hope you are all well and having a nice evening. My name is Ayse, pronounced eyesha and im half Turkish, im 27 and ive been interested in The Great War and travelling to the battlefields for over 10 years now. I have been to Ypres and the Belgium area of the front about 27 times and to the Somme region about 15 times staying in many memorable places such as Avril's which im sure you are all familiar with lol. I am going to be specialising in FANY which Rob has been kind enough to help me sort out. I do have many pieces of period clothing already thanks to previous ventures.
I am currently doing my masters in historical research and obtained my degree a year ago in History, specialising in the Great War. I work at the tower of london as a warden and tour guide and have been involved in living history on a professional level before doing Tudor period pieces which was scary lol.
I am currently doing my masters dissertation piece on a soldier killed in the Great war called James Raper, a very interesting man who saw some very famous battles. He is the relative of a friend of mine and was killed in the battle of Cambrai 30/11/1917. Until recently he didnt even know james was his relative and we found out that he even trained at the tower as he was a fusilier. The most amazing thing of this is i was able to locate james' medals which Tom will soon have in his possession. so i guess as you can see the great war is really a very very big passion of mine.
i always put my all in everything i do and right now i am spending a lot of time on researching the FANY's so i can live my role i will take on to the best of my ability, as i do with living history in my job. i hope to one day spend a long time furthering my research in the area and i would love to eventually be a curator. heres hoping i guess lol.
Well thank you all for putting up with my rambling and i hope to see you all soon
Ayse x