Ben Mayne
@battlefieldben.bsky.social
Second World War Historian/Battlefield Guide. Director of Liberation Route UK @lre_foundation. Committee advisor & ambassador @TaxiCharity. Moto GP fan! My personal views.
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#OTD 22 August 1485 - 540 years ago, the #BattleofBosworth was fought
Why didn’t Northumberland not engage in the battle?
Listen to Mark and @battlefieldben.bsky.social thoughts and much much on an impromptu ep release today
Available wherever you get your podcasts
Why didn’t Northumberland not engage in the battle?
Listen to Mark and @battlefieldben.bsky.social thoughts and much much on an impromptu ep release today
Available wherever you get your podcasts
August 22, 2025 at 6:12 AM
#OTD 22 August 1485 - 540 years ago, the #BattleofBosworth was fought
Why didn’t Northumberland not engage in the battle?
Listen to Mark and @battlefieldben.bsky.social thoughts and much much on an impromptu ep release today
Available wherever you get your podcasts
Why didn’t Northumberland not engage in the battle?
Listen to Mark and @battlefieldben.bsky.social thoughts and much much on an impromptu ep release today
Available wherever you get your podcasts
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👋 A special week - we’ve had The Importance of the Wrist Watch to the #FWW / #WW1 but we’re also going to have a special anniversary episode for one of the most significant dates in British history!
An impromptu ep with @battlefieldben.bsky.social discussing The #BattleofBosworth!
Out tomorrow!
An impromptu ep with @battlefieldben.bsky.social discussing The #BattleofBosworth!
Out tomorrow!
August 21, 2025 at 6:43 PM
👋 A special week - we’ve had The Importance of the Wrist Watch to the #FWW / #WW1 but we’re also going to have a special anniversary episode for one of the most significant dates in British history!
An impromptu ep with @battlefieldben.bsky.social discussing The #BattleofBosworth!
Out tomorrow!
An impromptu ep with @battlefieldben.bsky.social discussing The #BattleofBosworth!
Out tomorrow!
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👋 For your Friday, why not learn about the lessons of #OpCHARNWOOD with @battlefieldben.bsky.social on this week’s ep? 🎙️
The urban has ramifications, but the 🇨🇦 perhaps adopt lessons for Ops in Falais later in #Normandy
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Have a fab weekend 👋
The urban has ramifications, but the 🇨🇦 perhaps adopt lessons for Ops in Falais later in #Normandy
🎧 on your platform of choice, review & subscribe 🙏
Have a fab weekend 👋
July 11, 2025 at 9:16 AM
👋 For your Friday, why not learn about the lessons of #OpCHARNWOOD with @battlefieldben.bsky.social on this week’s ep? 🎙️
The urban has ramifications, but the 🇨🇦 perhaps adopt lessons for Ops in Falais later in #Normandy
🎧 on your platform of choice, review & subscribe 🙏
Have a fab weekend 👋
The urban has ramifications, but the 🇨🇦 perhaps adopt lessons for Ops in Falais later in #Normandy
🎧 on your platform of choice, review & subscribe 🙏
Have a fab weekend 👋
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👋 9 Jul was the 2nd day of #OpCHARNWOOD during #SWW. An urban battle by the 🇨🇦 & 🇬🇧 divisions to liberate #Caen 🇫🇷 ⚔️
💬 @battlefieldben.bsky.social discusses the lessons learned on this this week’s pod ep 🎙️
#WW2 #Normandy
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📸 Eglise St-Pierre de Caen restored post-war
💬 @battlefieldben.bsky.social discusses the lessons learned on this this week’s pod ep 🎙️
#WW2 #Normandy
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📸 Eglise St-Pierre de Caen restored post-war
July 9, 2025 at 9:42 AM
👋 9 Jul was the 2nd day of #OpCHARNWOOD during #SWW. An urban battle by the 🇨🇦 & 🇬🇧 divisions to liberate #Caen 🇫🇷 ⚔️
💬 @battlefieldben.bsky.social discusses the lessons learned on this this week’s pod ep 🎙️
#WW2 #Normandy
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📸 Eglise St-Pierre de Caen restored post-war
💬 @battlefieldben.bsky.social discusses the lessons learned on this this week’s pod ep 🎙️
#WW2 #Normandy
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📸 Eglise St-Pierre de Caen restored post-war
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👋 This week: Op CHARNWOOD 1944 during the #WW2 / #SWW
⚔️ The Battle for Caen was pivotal on the Allied Eastern flank to enable break out towards Falais and then Paris 🇫🇷
💬 @battlefieldben.bsky.social discusses the op in detail. Release on Wed 🎙️
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⚔️ The Battle for Caen was pivotal on the Allied Eastern flank to enable break out towards Falais and then Paris 🇫🇷
💬 @battlefieldben.bsky.social discusses the op in detail. Release on Wed 🎙️
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July 7, 2025 at 11:23 AM
👋 This week: Op CHARNWOOD 1944 during the #WW2 / #SWW
⚔️ The Battle for Caen was pivotal on the Allied Eastern flank to enable break out towards Falais and then Paris 🇫🇷
💬 @battlefieldben.bsky.social discusses the op in detail. Release on Wed 🎙️
🎧 and subscribe at the 🔗 on the profile page
⚔️ The Battle for Caen was pivotal on the Allied Eastern flank to enable break out towards Falais and then Paris 🇫🇷
💬 @battlefieldben.bsky.social discusses the op in detail. Release on Wed 🎙️
🎧 and subscribe at the 🔗 on the profile page
Great to have Mark onboard the 7 Commando Operations tour. We shared some great discussions throughout the week.
Dieppe. You've somehow made it over the shingle to the sea wall. If you can get over it there is only 200 or so metres of open ground to cover before you reach the buildings. I'll leave that there. 19th August 1942.
May 4, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Great to have Mark onboard the 7 Commando Operations tour. We shared some great discussions throughout the week.
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You can't park that there, sir! The submarine Flore at Lorient. The SWW submarine pens have to be seen. @battlefieldben.bsky.social
May 3, 2025 at 10:29 PM
You can't park that there, sir! The submarine Flore at Lorient. The SWW submarine pens have to be seen. @battlefieldben.bsky.social
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I was genuinely shocked by the number of people visiting Point du Hoc last week. Most of the casemates and craters are fenced off and apparently a suspended walkway will be built soon. My first visit in 2003 seems like it was in another age @battlefieldben.bsky.social
May 3, 2025 at 10:05 PM
I was genuinely shocked by the number of people visiting Point du Hoc last week. Most of the casemates and craters are fenced off and apparently a suspended walkway will be built soon. My first visit in 2003 seems like it was in another age @battlefieldben.bsky.social
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Its so nice to come back to Ranville to pay respects to Frank Milburn, DCM. I snapped his headstone over 20 years ago and he's been a kind of talisman ever since. His dad was killed at Loos in 1915. At the end of a superb Leger tour led by Ben Mayne.
May 1, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Its so nice to come back to Ranville to pay respects to Frank Milburn, DCM. I snapped his headstone over 20 years ago and he's been a kind of talisman ever since. His dad was killed at Loos in 1915. At the end of a superb Leger tour led by Ben Mayne.
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Visiting Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp memorial site today, which was liberated by British troops in April 1945 and where tens of thousands died during #WW2 - among them Anne Frank and her sister Margot, whose memorial this is.
March 21, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Visiting Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp memorial site today, which was liberated by British troops in April 1945 and where tens of thousands died during #WW2 - among them Anne Frank and her sister Margot, whose memorial this is.
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Visiting some of the last casualties of the British Army in Europe in 1945 at Becklingen War Cemetery including Jake Wardrop whose diaries were saved and published for posterity.
March 20, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Visiting some of the last casualties of the British Army in Europe in 1945 at Becklingen War Cemetery including Jake Wardrop whose diaries were saved and published for posterity.
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We finished in evening spring light at Sage War Cemetery where British dead from actions as early as September 1939 through to April 1945 are buried.
March 19, 2025 at 5:39 PM
We finished in evening spring light at Sage War Cemetery where British dead from actions as early as September 1939 through to April 1945 are buried.
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We’ve moved into Germany now following 21 Army Group. Looking at the Ems Canal battle at Lingen this morning and doing some 1945 Then and Nows in the town. This shows troops from 3rd Division in the town in April 1945.
March 19, 2025 at 12:09 PM
We’ve moved into Germany now following 21 Army Group. Looking at the Ems Canal battle at Lingen this morning and doing some 1945 Then and Nows in the town. This shows troops from 3rd Division in the town in April 1945.
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Ended the day with @battlefieldben.bsky.social & @mrmarkallen.bsky.social at Holten Canadian War Cemetery to remember Canada’s sacrifice in the Netherlands and Germany 1945.
March 18, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Ended the day with @battlefieldben.bsky.social & @mrmarkallen.bsky.social at Holten Canadian War Cemetery to remember Canada’s sacrifice in the Netherlands and Germany 1945.
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Interesting morning with @battlefieldben.bsky.social & @mrmarkallen.bsky.social exploring the October 1944 battlefield at s’Hertogenbosch. This was in 1944.
March 18, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Interesting morning with @battlefieldben.bsky.social & @mrmarkallen.bsky.social exploring the October 1944 battlefield at s’Hertogenbosch. This was in 1944.
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Heading into the Netherlands and Germany with @battlefieldben.bsky.social & @mrmarkallen.bsky.social to look at some of the forgotten battles of 1945 on our new Last Days of #WW2 tour with Leger Battlefields.
March 17, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Heading into the Netherlands and Germany with @battlefieldben.bsky.social & @mrmarkallen.bsky.social to look at some of the forgotten battles of 1945 on our new Last Days of #WW2 tour with Leger Battlefields.
#Forrard Major Fitzwilliams Hyde was a highly respected officer who had shaped the ERY before he returned to 4/7RDG. He then returned to 1ERY and landed with them on D-Day. He is also remembered on the 4/7RDG memorial at Lepe, Hampshire.
February 6, 2025 at 9:42 PM
#Forrard Major Fitzwilliams Hyde was a highly respected officer who had shaped the ERY before he returned to 4/7RDG. He then returned to 1ERY and landed with them on D-Day. He is also remembered on the 4/7RDG memorial at Lepe, Hampshire.
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#Normandy Last week, we visited several WW2 underground bunkers/shelters in Le Havre. They were both civilians and military. And it was IMPRESSIVE !
A Thread for WW2 and bunker/underground enthusiasts🧵
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A Thread for WW2 and bunker/underground enthusiasts🧵
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January 15, 2025 at 3:07 PM
#Normandy Last week, we visited several WW2 underground bunkers/shelters in Le Havre. They were both civilians and military. And it was IMPRESSIVE !
A Thread for WW2 and bunker/underground enthusiasts🧵
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A Thread for WW2 and bunker/underground enthusiasts🧵
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Today’s research assisted by Milo….
January 15, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Today’s research assisted by Milo….
After a rough Christmas an new year which saw both of us ill, we have managed a 6 day break to Northumberland to see my parents. Some nice beach walks and undecided if these are SWW anti tank obstacles or sea defences! Possibly an old pillbox washed down as well…
January 11, 2025 at 2:36 PM
After a rough Christmas an new year which saw both of us ill, we have managed a 6 day break to Northumberland to see my parents. Some nice beach walks and undecided if these are SWW anti tank obstacles or sea defences! Possibly an old pillbox washed down as well…
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🚨NEW EPISODE NOW AVAILABLE ON SPOTIFY!! 🚨
We are joined by historian and battlefield tour guide Ben Mayne....
@battlefieldben.bsky.social
#hamandjampodcast #britishairborne #breville
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We are joined by historian and battlefield tour guide Ben Mayne....
@battlefieldben.bsky.social
#hamandjampodcast #britishairborne #breville
open.spotify.com/episode/1StD...
Episode.4 - The Battle For The Ridge.......
Ham and Jam - The WW2 British Airborne Podcast · Episode
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December 14, 2024 at 7:49 PM
🚨NEW EPISODE NOW AVAILABLE ON SPOTIFY!! 🚨
We are joined by historian and battlefield tour guide Ben Mayne....
@battlefieldben.bsky.social
#hamandjampodcast #britishairborne #breville
open.spotify.com/episode/1StD...
We are joined by historian and battlefield tour guide Ben Mayne....
@battlefieldben.bsky.social
#hamandjampodcast #britishairborne #breville
open.spotify.com/episode/1StD...
The reason why you should not use AI for research, stick to real people! spot the huge error in this....
Allied Ground Offensive (September 5–6, 1944):
The initial push began on September 5, 1944, when American forces, supported by Free French units, began advancing toward Le Havre…
Allied Ground Offensive (September 5–6, 1944):
The initial push began on September 5, 1944, when American forces, supported by Free French units, began advancing toward Le Havre…
December 12, 2024 at 6:09 PM
The reason why you should not use AI for research, stick to real people! spot the huge error in this....
Allied Ground Offensive (September 5–6, 1944):
The initial push began on September 5, 1944, when American forces, supported by Free French units, began advancing toward Le Havre…
Allied Ground Offensive (September 5–6, 1944):
The initial push began on September 5, 1944, when American forces, supported by Free French units, began advancing toward Le Havre…
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Excited to announce LRE UK's partnership with the University of Portsmouth!
After years of collaboration, students can now work with our UK branch as part of their studies! 📚
Read more about it! 👇 www.lre-foundation.org?p=3083&previ... @battlefieldben.bsky.social @uophistory.bsky.social
After years of collaboration, students can now work with our UK branch as part of their studies! 📚
Read more about it! 👇 www.lre-foundation.org?p=3083&previ... @battlefieldben.bsky.social @uophistory.bsky.social
LRE Foundation’s UK branch partners with University of Portsmouth, Hampshire – LRE Foundation
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December 9, 2024 at 3:08 PM
Excited to announce LRE UK's partnership with the University of Portsmouth!
After years of collaboration, students can now work with our UK branch as part of their studies! 📚
Read more about it! 👇 www.lre-foundation.org?p=3083&previ... @battlefieldben.bsky.social @uophistory.bsky.social
After years of collaboration, students can now work with our UK branch as part of their studies! 📚
Read more about it! 👇 www.lre-foundation.org?p=3083&previ... @battlefieldben.bsky.social @uophistory.bsky.social
Why do @BBCBreakfast persist with Normandy Memorial features? Why not focus on the @CWGC who have always remembered and commemorated our war dead. Men and women buried or remembered in Normandy at cemetery’s. The Normandy campaign is more than the beaches, we need to encourage people towards inland.
December 3, 2024 at 9:01 AM
Why do @BBCBreakfast persist with Normandy Memorial features? Why not focus on the @CWGC who have always remembered and commemorated our war dead. Men and women buried or remembered in Normandy at cemetery’s. The Normandy campaign is more than the beaches, we need to encourage people towards inland.
In the suburbs of the city at Pastorpl. 1, 52070 Aachen, during 1933-34, Anne Frank stayed here in a family home.
The Stolperstein (Stumbling Stones) now commemorate her and family members, victims of the Holocaust.
The Stolperstein (Stumbling Stones) now commemorate her and family members, victims of the Holocaust.
December 1, 2024 at 10:11 AM
In the suburbs of the city at Pastorpl. 1, 52070 Aachen, during 1933-34, Anne Frank stayed here in a family home.
The Stolperstein (Stumbling Stones) now commemorate her and family members, victims of the Holocaust.
The Stolperstein (Stumbling Stones) now commemorate her and family members, victims of the Holocaust.