Adam Brown
@adbrora.bsky.social
Non-native Edinburgher. Here for the history.
I don’t know. It may be genuine but it just doesn’t feel right to me. I can’t put my finger on it. As for weapons…😉
November 18, 2024 at 2:58 PM
I don’t know. It may be genuine but it just doesn’t feel right to me. I can’t put my finger on it. As for weapons…😉
Are these re-enactors? Looks like a modern photo with ageing effects to me
November 18, 2024 at 1:24 PM
Are these re-enactors? Looks like a modern photo with ageing effects to me
Gravelines’ Vauban fortifications helped stop 1st Panzer Div roll into Dunkirk in May 1940
November 17, 2024 at 12:17 PM
Gravelines’ Vauban fortifications helped stop 1st Panzer Div roll into Dunkirk in May 1940
No other word for it. Stops you in your tracks
November 16, 2024 at 10:23 PM
No other word for it. Stops you in your tracks
A small canine clue just out of shot there, Mark
November 29, 2023 at 4:21 PM
A small canine clue just out of shot there, Mark
I came to my blows with my brother when we were much younger over the pronunciation of Navarone. Like Duncan I insisted it was Navaronee.
IIRC Alistair MacLean was one of three foreigners allowed to own a holiday home in Tito’s Yugoslavia. Fitzroy MacLean was another.
IIRC Alistair MacLean was one of three foreigners allowed to own a holiday home in Tito’s Yugoslavia. Fitzroy MacLean was another.
November 16, 2023 at 10:26 PM
I came to my blows with my brother when we were much younger over the pronunciation of Navarone. Like Duncan I insisted it was Navaronee.
IIRC Alistair MacLean was one of three foreigners allowed to own a holiday home in Tito’s Yugoslavia. Fitzroy MacLean was another.
IIRC Alistair MacLean was one of three foreigners allowed to own a holiday home in Tito’s Yugoslavia. Fitzroy MacLean was another.
Verneuil also saw the destruction of the Scottish contingent which had won plaudits from the French after Baugé.
November 15, 2023 at 7:14 PM
Verneuil also saw the destruction of the Scottish contingent which had won plaudits from the French after Baugé.
HMS Ulysses. It wasn’t filmed. There was discussions about using HMS Belfast but it came to nothing.
October 21, 2023 at 8:02 PM
HMS Ulysses. It wasn’t filmed. There was discussions about using HMS Belfast but it came to nothing.
The spring offensives get little attention but March and April 1918 finished off many of the pre-war TF who were still at the front line.
October 20, 2023 at 7:17 AM
The spring offensives get little attention but March and April 1918 finished off many of the pre-war TF who were still at the front line.
HLI were there in 1897 during the international occupation.
October 19, 2023 at 11:12 AM
HLI were there in 1897 during the international occupation.
I love Cornwall’s description of Graham at the top of the hill in Sharpe’s Fury.
He couldn’t stand kicking his heels when the 90th LI were not campaigning. Always wanted to be in the thick of it taking the fight to the French.
He couldn’t stand kicking his heels when the 90th LI were not campaigning. Always wanted to be in the thick of it taking the fight to the French.
October 19, 2023 at 7:56 AM
I love Cornwall’s description of Graham at the top of the hill in Sharpe’s Fury.
He couldn’t stand kicking his heels when the 90th LI were not campaigning. Always wanted to be in the thick of it taking the fight to the French.
He couldn’t stand kicking his heels when the 90th LI were not campaigning. Always wanted to be in the thick of it taking the fight to the French.
Could be. Maybe he’s waiting for him to catch up so they’d be together. It’s too blurry to tell.
October 17, 2023 at 11:40 AM
Could be. Maybe he’s waiting for him to catch up so they’d be together. It’s too blurry to tell.
And you have a couple of motorised troops on the left in their M35 helmets.
October 17, 2023 at 10:20 AM
And you have a couple of motorised troops on the left in their M35 helmets.
I can see one British helmet in the first photograph.
They do look like Luftwaffe uniforms in the second photograph.
They do look like Luftwaffe uniforms in the second photograph.
October 17, 2023 at 10:07 AM
I can see one British helmet in the first photograph.
They do look like Luftwaffe uniforms in the second photograph.
They do look like Luftwaffe uniforms in the second photograph.
So many lives were lost in those last few months of the war (and the few weeks after) for no good reason. Sickening.
If he was captured at Besançon, I wonder if he had been in 9th Salvage Unit ROAC left behind with the K6 lads when 51st Div moved to the Somme?
If he was captured at Besançon, I wonder if he had been in 9th Salvage Unit ROAC left behind with the K6 lads when 51st Div moved to the Somme?
October 15, 2023 at 10:12 AM
So many lives were lost in those last few months of the war (and the few weeks after) for no good reason. Sickening.
If he was captured at Besançon, I wonder if he had been in 9th Salvage Unit ROAC left behind with the K6 lads when 51st Div moved to the Somme?
If he was captured at Besançon, I wonder if he had been in 9th Salvage Unit ROAC left behind with the K6 lads when 51st Div moved to the Somme?
An image search came up with this magazine cover from what looks like the same visit but a different AFV. Maybe it was a tank graveyard in Libya?
October 14, 2023 at 9:51 PM
An image search came up with this magazine cover from what looks like the same visit but a different AFV. Maybe it was a tank graveyard in Libya?
I guess that the Guinea Bissau mail service has recognised that Nazi memorabilia sells and it’s the same for numismatics as it is for books, models, movies etc.
October 14, 2023 at 9:42 PM
I guess that the Guinea Bissau mail service has recognised that Nazi memorabilia sells and it’s the same for numismatics as it is for books, models, movies etc.
One has more chance of coming out the other end relatively unscathed than the other.
October 14, 2023 at 9:39 PM
One has more chance of coming out the other end relatively unscathed than the other.
The boy at the window. I didn’t get to sleep that night and tbh now I’ve remembered it I’ll probably not get to sleep tonight.
October 14, 2023 at 7:52 PM
The boy at the window. I didn’t get to sleep that night and tbh now I’ve remembered it I’ll probably not get to sleep tonight.
The Victor and the vanquished. Both look exhausted.
October 14, 2023 at 7:49 PM
The Victor and the vanquished. Both look exhausted.
The only reason I can think of was that the French 5e DIC had two West African infantry regiments (42e and 53e RICMS) nearby along the Somme and both were completely destroyed during that period in 1940. Are there other stamps in a series?
October 14, 2023 at 7:45 PM
The only reason I can think of was that the French 5e DIC had two West African infantry regiments (42e and 53e RICMS) nearby along the Somme and both were completely destroyed during that period in 1940. Are there other stamps in a series?