Alan Frazier
@alanfrazier.bsky.social
Dad, husband, Minnesotan, and Great War enthusiast. I love a good bourbon and am always contemplating new adventures. Post about history, hiking, and travels in Europe & Africa, with a little music sprinkled in.
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Decades on, as the world marked Remembrance Day to honour those who contributed to WWI & WWII efforts, a trove of records has revealed Kenya's forgotten World War soldiers:
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Remembrance Sunday: Honouring Kenya's forgotten World War soldiers
Thousands of Kenyans, who fought for Britain, are buried in unknown locations and were never commemorated.
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November 12, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Decades on, as the world marked Remembrance Day to honour those who contributed to WWI & WWII efforts, a trove of records has revealed Kenya's forgotten World War soldiers:
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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We Will Remember Them - sunset on the Somme at Courcelette British Cemetery. #RemembranceDay #RemembranceSunday
November 9, 2025 at 8:11 AM
We Will Remember Them - sunset on the Somme at Courcelette British Cemetery. #RemembranceDay #RemembranceSunday
Another great Q&A episode from @sommecourt.bsky.social ! The questions are so thoughtful and the answers always insightful.
Questions & Answers Episode 36: in the latest
@oldfrontline.bsky.social we answer questions about what happened to German forces at the end of the war, how the dead were buried, poison gas and the fate of all those War Horses at the close of the conflict.
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@oldfrontline.bsky.social we answer questions about what happened to German forces at the end of the war, how the dead were buried, poison gas and the fate of all those War Horses at the close of the conflict.
oldfrontline.co.uk/2025/09/20/q...
Questions and Answers Episode 36
In our first QnA Episode for Season 9 we look at what happened to the German forces when the guns went silent on 11th November 1918, discuss the use of poison gas and it’s legacy on the battl…
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September 20, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Another great Q&A episode from @sommecourt.bsky.social ! The questions are so thoughtful and the answers always insightful.
The Navy and Marine Memorial this evening. #HistoryHike @nationalparks.bsky.social
September 13, 2025 at 12:59 AM
The Navy and Marine Memorial this evening. #HistoryHike @nationalparks.bsky.social
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Tomorrow on the Old Front Line #podcast we have our fifth and final episode in the special Air War series looking at what we find of the RFC and RAF on the landscape of the Western Front today, and discover the story behind this plaque found in 2008.
August 15, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Tomorrow on the Old Front Line #podcast we have our fifth and final episode in the special Air War series looking at what we find of the RFC and RAF on the landscape of the Western Front today, and discover the story behind this plaque found in 2008.
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#OTD in 1952, USS Sea Poacher (SS-406) performed a unique submarine-to-airship rescue when it towed the disabled K-86 blimp and its 10-man crew for 40 miles to NAS Key West.
July 10, 2025 at 4:13 PM
#OTD in 1952, USS Sea Poacher (SS-406) performed a unique submarine-to-airship rescue when it towed the disabled K-86 blimp and its 10-man crew for 40 miles to NAS Key West.
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I’m pleased to say that tomorrow on the Old Front Line #podcast we speak to the MOD War Detectives about their work recovering the dead from the landscape of the Western Front.
June 13, 2025 at 11:30 AM
I’m pleased to say that tomorrow on the Old Front Line #podcast we speak to the MOD War Detectives about their work recovering the dead from the landscape of the Western Front.
PVT Albert Lentz was from Gettysburg and died in Cantigny, France in 1918 serving in the AEF during #WW1 just a month before the first US offensive in the #GreatWar there. Yesterday, I paid my respects to Albert, where he lies just yards from where Lincoln gave the Gettysburg Address. #History #NPS
June 7, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Today I walked the rolling hills, rocky outcrops, and fields of Gettysburg National Military Park in Pennsylvania. What an incredible and somber place. The #historyhike included The Angle, Little Round Top, Devil’s Den, and the Wheatfield, among other sites. #NPS #NationalParks #History
June 6, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Today I walked the rolling hills, rocky outcrops, and fields of Gettysburg National Military Park in Pennsylvania. What an incredible and somber place. The #historyhike included The Angle, Little Round Top, Devil’s Den, and the Wheatfield, among other sites. #NPS #NationalParks #History
Today’s #historyhike was a visit to the Manassas National Battlefield Park in Virginia. Sherman and I passed by “The Stone House,” which served as a field hospital during first and second Manassas. Soldier names can still be seen carved into the floorboards inside. #NationalParks #Hiking #History
June 1, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Today’s #historyhike was a visit to the Manassas National Battlefield Park in Virginia. Sherman and I passed by “The Stone House,” which served as a field hospital during first and second Manassas. Soldier names can still be seen carved into the floorboards inside. #NationalParks #Hiking #History
Nice morning hike in the Prince William Forest Park in Triangle, Virginia. Sherman approves. #Hiking #NationalParks
May 25, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Nice morning hike in the Prince William Forest Park in Triangle, Virginia. Sherman approves. #Hiking #NationalParks
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Today, the NPS and our Civil War battlefields face an existential threat.
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When Will the Civil War Community Wake Up?
Not too long ago, one of the biggest Civil War battlefield preservation challenges was the presence and expansion of a new body of water on the Gettysburg battlefield.
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April 27, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Today, the NPS and our Civil War battlefields face an existential threat.
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Summary of my first 3 days walking along the front
1 picture 1 location
Can you recognise the locations in this 🧵
1 picture 1 location
Can you recognise the locations in this 🧵
April 25, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Summary of my first 3 days walking along the front
1 picture 1 location
Can you recognise the locations in this 🧵
1 picture 1 location
Can you recognise the locations in this 🧵
Really enjoyed the latest @talesbattlefields.bsky.social podcast on the tanks of Passchendaele with battlefield tour guide Leen Van Meerbeek @ leenvanmeerbeek.be.
April 16, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Really enjoyed the latest @talesbattlefields.bsky.social podcast on the tanks of Passchendaele with battlefield tour guide Leen Van Meerbeek @ leenvanmeerbeek.be.
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The French Army used tanks for the first time #OTD in 1917 when some 129 French tanks like this Schneider tank attacked in support of the infantry on the Chemin des Dames. Many were destroyed or for bogged down on the battlefield and today this replica tank memorialises them on the battlefield.
April 16, 2025 at 4:35 PM
The French Army used tanks for the first time #OTD in 1917 when some 129 French tanks like this Schneider tank attacked in support of the infantry on the Chemin des Dames. Many were destroyed or for bogged down on the battlefield and today this replica tank memorialises them on the battlefield.
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Tomorrow on @oldfrontline.bsky.social we have another Questions and Answers episode where among other things we discuss the names given to German soldiers by the British and the role of Portugal on the Western Front.
March 28, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Tomorrow on @oldfrontline.bsky.social we have another Questions and Answers episode where among other things we discuss the names given to German soldiers by the British and the role of Portugal on the Western Front.
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Back on the Old Front Line at Hooge.
February 24, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Back on the Old Front Line at Hooge.
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FREE ARTICLE: The Battle of Verdun began 109 years ago today, and to mark it, I've compiled and translated a selection of eyewitness accounts, written by Schleswig-Danish soldiers fighting in the German Army.
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"Ragnarok" at Verdun, 1916-17 - PART I
The Battle of Verdun through the eyes of Schleswig-Danish soldiers in the German Army.
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February 21, 2025 at 7:26 AM
FREE ARTICLE: The Battle of Verdun began 109 years ago today, and to mark it, I've compiled and translated a selection of eyewitness accounts, written by Schleswig-Danish soldiers fighting in the German Army.
Please subscribe and share!
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Please subscribe and share!
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I'd be grateful if you could spread the news and give my new project @authorsofhistory.bsky.social #Podcast a follow. I'll be talking to authors of our favorite #History #books celebrating their work and talking to them about what motivates them to write. First epidsode Mon 24th February 2025.
February 15, 2025 at 5:34 PM
I'd be grateful if you could spread the news and give my new project @authorsofhistory.bsky.social #Podcast a follow. I'll be talking to authors of our favorite #History #books celebrating their work and talking to them about what motivates them to write. First epidsode Mon 24th February 2025.
Can’t wait to jump into this book recommendation from @sommecourt.bsky.social on the Canadian Corps and intelligence in the #GreatWar. Found it at Kisselburg Military Books. Check them out here: www.kisselburgmilitarybooks.com. #WW1
February 4, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Can’t wait to jump into this book recommendation from @sommecourt.bsky.social on the Canadian Corps and intelligence in the #GreatWar. Found it at Kisselburg Military Books. Check them out here: www.kisselburgmilitarybooks.com. #WW1
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Remembering William Noel Hodgson—his poem “Back to Rest”: behindtheirlines.blogspot.com/2015/10/back...
January 4, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Remembering William Noel Hodgson—his poem “Back to Rest”: behindtheirlines.blogspot.com/2015/10/back...
William Noel Hodgson was born on this day in 1893. A poet and a soldier in the 9th Devons, he lost his life on the first day of the Somme and is buried in Devonshire Cemetery. This book by Charlotte Zeepvat is an excellent chronicle of his short yet exceptional life. Rest in peace . #WW1 #GreatWar
January 4, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Visiting the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden adds some color and joy to an otherwise grey day. @exploreminnesota.bsky.social
December 26, 2024 at 9:48 PM
Visiting the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden adds some color and joy to an otherwise grey day. @exploreminnesota.bsky.social
Ypres: Christmas Truce 1914
YouTube video by Old Front Line - WW1 Battlefields
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December 25, 2024 at 7:04 PM
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