Quentin Holbert, Memorial University of Newfoundland
Quentin Holbert is an independent researcher currently completing advanced undergraduate studies at Memorial University of Newfoundland. His areas of specialization are modern military history, with a focus on First World War tactical doctrine, as well as war and memory in the British Empire. His current research focuses on peripheral fronts during the First World War, and he has written and presented work on the conduct of warfare along peripheral fronts. His honours thesis focuses on the lack of collective memory for British forces in East Africa during the First World War, and why this campaign is largely forgotten in British collective memory after the mid-1920s.