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Andrew Robertshaw

BA CNAA, MA Leicester, PGCE York
(Imperial War Museum)

Email: andy@dtsmail.net

Andrew Robertshaw

Andrew Robertshaw is Curator/Manager of The Royal Logistic Corps Museum in Deepcut. He was previously Head of Education at The National Army Museum.

During his career Andrew has lectured to international audiences on many aspects of British military history including Leadership at the Staff College, Shrivenham, infantry history at the Infantry Training Centre, Catterick, and twentieth-century military medicine at the Wellcome Trust, London. An Honorary Lecturer at University College London, he is also a consultant to the CWGC and the Belgian Association for World War Archaeology on various aspects of the identification of Great War casualties.  For the past fifteen years Andy has been involved in conducting archaeological projects on the Western Front. He is the Honorary President of the archaeological group ‘No Man's Land’, which he helped establish.

Over the past twelve years he has regularly appeared in the battlefield archaeology series such as Two Men in a Trench, the BBC series Ancestors and Time Team. He is currently lead historian for The Trench Detectives: Finding The Fallen series. His publications include various articles and essays, three books on military history for young people including A Soldier's Life, Heinemann 1997. Somme 1 July 1916: Tragedy and Triumph was published by Osprey in 2006. A joint work with David Kenyon, ‘Digging the Trenches: The Archaeology of the Western Front’, will be published in the shortly.

Andy’s current projects include working with a small team to analyse aspects the documentary film ‘The Somme’. This will be used in a new publication and in the viewing notes to accompany the Imperial War Museum DVD.