Andy Arnold
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I've written a piece for the Write On! Magazine about my weekend with @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social last month and my first steps into learning to "do history". Please give it a read and let me know what you think..
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Thursday Connectors: The (R)evolution Of Stories – Pen To Print
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November 20, 2025 at 9:57 AM
I've written a piece for the Write On! Magazine about my weekend with @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social last month and my first steps into learning to "do history". Please give it a read and let me know what you think..
pentoprint.org/thursday-con...
#history #ww1 #writing #pentoprint #greatwargroup
pentoprint.org/thursday-con...
#history #ww1 #writing #pentoprint #greatwargroup
There’s something not quite right about this depiction of an officer, just can’t put my finger on it….
November 8, 2025 at 2:29 PM
There’s something not quite right about this depiction of an officer, just can’t put my finger on it….
Spotted in the grounds of the British Wildlife Centre in Lingfield recently
November 8, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Spotted in the grounds of the British Wildlife Centre in Lingfield recently
Fascinating talk by Dr Viv Newman at the Tank Museum this morning
October 29, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Fascinating talk by Dr Viv Newman at the Tank Museum this morning
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New poppymas/flying jacket chimera just dropped. The flag profile. The elbow patches. Good lord.
Ok...
What should it say across the back?
Go!
Ok...
What should it say across the back?
Go!
October 23, 2025 at 7:29 AM
New poppymas/flying jacket chimera just dropped. The flag profile. The elbow patches. Good lord.
Ok...
What should it say across the back?
Go!
Ok...
What should it say across the back?
Go!
Passed* the memorial to The Rangers this week, just off Tottenham Court Road
(*took a slight diversion from where I was supposed to be going….)
(*took a slight diversion from where I was supposed to be going….)
September 21, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Passed* the memorial to The Rangers this week, just off Tottenham Court Road
(*took a slight diversion from where I was supposed to be going….)
(*took a slight diversion from where I was supposed to be going….)
Got to love Ancestry family trees. People too often wanting to make connections without thinking…
September 21, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Got to love Ancestry family trees. People too often wanting to make connections without thinking…
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There's a few of you who might like this. Will explain in a thread for those who don't know about The Returned project we ran until 2018. Anyway Cheltenham Civic Soc have not only conserved and researched their collection of crosses, but have created a museum. cheltenham-battlefield-crosses.org
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August 7, 2025 at 8:51 AM
There's a few of you who might like this. Will explain in a thread for those who don't know about The Returned project we ran until 2018. Anyway Cheltenham Civic Soc have not only conserved and researched their collection of crosses, but have created a museum. cheltenham-battlefield-crosses.org
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Fancy a trip to Scotland? A warm welcome awaits in Bonnie Dundee. Our second national conference (1st was 2014). Some big names. Should be a great day and you get to see RRS Discovery. #wfa #FWW #GreatWar #FWW #wfatayside @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social
August 5, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Fancy a trip to Scotland? A warm welcome awaits in Bonnie Dundee. Our second national conference (1st was 2014). Some big names. Should be a great day and you get to see RRS Discovery. #wfa #FWW #GreatWar #FWW #wfatayside @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social
An honour to lay a wreath at the Menin Gate tonight, remembering my Great Great Uncle William MacDuff and the men of the 11th Border Regiment killed in action on 2nd December 1917
May 26, 2025 at 6:32 PM
An honour to lay a wreath at the Menin Gate tonight, remembering my Great Great Uncle William MacDuff and the men of the 11th Border Regiment killed in action on 2nd December 1917
Ypres Burger may no longer be with us, but I can highly recommend Leo’s Burger, up near the gate 🤤
May 26, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Ypres Burger may no longer be with us, but I can highly recommend Leo’s Burger, up near the gate 🤤
Not sure what was more terrifying today - climbing to the top of the bell tower at Messines church, or walking through a field with this beast in it to get to Torreken Farm cemetery!
May 26, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Not sure what was more terrifying today - climbing to the top of the bell tower at Messines church, or walking through a field with this beast in it to get to Torreken Farm cemetery!
The grave of Arnold Jacques Chadwick at Adinkerke. Flight Commander, DSC, and ace - all by age 21
May 25, 2025 at 6:59 PM
The grave of Arnold Jacques Chadwick at Adinkerke. Flight Commander, DSC, and ace - all by age 21
First stop today was Zuydcoote Military Cemetery. I paid my respects to Gunner Harry Wayman of Carshalton - 12 years ago I helped to reunite his death plaque with his family but this was the first time I had visited his grave
May 25, 2025 at 6:51 PM
First stop today was Zuydcoote Military Cemetery. I paid my respects to Gunner Harry Wayman of Carshalton - 12 years ago I helped to reunite his death plaque with his family but this was the first time I had visited his grave
Busy at the gate tonight
May 25, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Busy at the gate tonight
Paid a visit today to the grave of Barnes Wallis at St Lawrence's church, Effingham
February 2, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Paid a visit today to the grave of Barnes Wallis at St Lawrence's church, Effingham
December 9, 2024 at 9:22 PM
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Much more detail about the 119th Brigade is in my book 'No Bad Soldiers' (Helion)
November 23, 2024 at 10:19 AM
Much more detail about the 119th Brigade is in my book 'No Bad Soldiers' (Helion)
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OTD in 1917 119th inf brigade took Bourlon Wood ,key high ground dominating the north of the Cambrai battlefield, and held it for three days. They suffered horrendous casualties.
November 23, 2024 at 10:19 AM
OTD in 1917 119th inf brigade took Bourlon Wood ,key high ground dominating the north of the Cambrai battlefield, and held it for three days. They suffered horrendous casualties.
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Treading respectfully. 9/10 for effort. Bonus flag points, also.
November 7, 2024 at 8:56 PM
Treading respectfully. 9/10 for effort. Bonus flag points, also.