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Following on from previous posts on Canadian soldiers who passed through Buxton, David Roberts considers Black-Canadian soldiers who passed through the Canadian Discharge Depot in Buxton

Following previous blogs on the British frontlines on the Asiago Plateau, David Roberts looks at how British troops arrived in Italy in 1917 and the hospitals and war graves in Bordighera

After looking at the Canadian hospitals in Buxton during the First World War, David Roberts looks at the Canadian Convalescent Officers Hospital in Matlock Bath, Derbyshire

Having been forced to leave out the story of Canadian Dentists from Maple Leaves in Buxton, David Roberts turns to the story of Canadian Dental Officers and men who served in Buxton during Word War One.

Some twenty thousand Canadians passed through Buxton during the first world War, one of these Oliver Martin became the most senior Indigenous officers in the Canadian Army

Following on from his new book "Maple Leaves in Buxton" , David Roberts looks at a few of the stories of Canadians in Buxton that he had to leave out. This is the story of Sapper John Boucher, Canada's oldest soldier who passed through the Canadian Discharge Depot in Buxton