I very much regret to tell you that Gordon died at the end of February 2026; the end of a well-lived, well-loved life, but now on his next great and glorious adventure.

Commissioned from The Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in 1962, Gordon Corrigan was an officer of the Royal Gurkha Rifles before retiring from the Army in 1998. He served mainly in the Far East, but also in Berlin, Cyprus, Belize and Northern Ireland. His last appointment was Commanding Officer of the Gurkha Centre in Hampshire. He then became a military historian. His television appearances included The Gurkhas, Napoleon’s Waterloo and Battlefield Detectives, and he presented five series on various aspects of military history. He conducted military history study tours in France, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Holland, Spain, Portugal, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Egypt, Libya and Tunisia and was a regular lecturer on cruises with Silver Sea and on rail journeys with Golden Eagle. He lectured in the United States and was an Honorary Research Fellow of the Universities of Birmingham and Kent, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a Member of the British Commission for Military History and a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Farriers. His hobbies were horses, long lunches and the Times crossword, not necessarily in that order.

He was the author of:

Sepoys in the Trenches, The Indian Corps on the Western Front 1914 – 1915 (Spellmount, 1999)

Wellington, A Military Life (Hambledon & London, 2001)

Mud, Blood and Poppycock: Britain and the First World War (Cassell & Co, 2003)

Loos 1915, The Unwanted Battle (Spellmount, 2006)

Blood, Sweat and Arrogance – And The Myths of Churchill’s War (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2006)

The Second World War – A Military History (Atlantic books, 2010)

A Great and Glorious Adventure – a Military History of the Hundred Years War (Atlantic Books 2013)

Waterloo: a New History of the Battle and its Armies (Atlantic Books 2014)

And a large number of E-books covering numerous aspects of military history.