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FORMER gas jockey, stage hand, musician, photographer, geologist, software engineer, manager, musician again, astronomer, drinker, tweeter – now I do nothing. I like history.
210 years ago today, the Battle of Waterloo took place over this ground. The Butte du Lion was completed in 1826. Climb the 226 steps to the top for a view of the battlefield.
June 18, 2025 at 11:35 PM
210 years ago today, the Battle of Waterloo took place over this ground. The Butte du Lion was completed in 1826. Climb the 226 steps to the top for a view of the battlefield.
Initial amusement on seeing this headstone matured into curiosity about a man who gave his life. Private Alfred Deadman, 2nd Bn., Royal Sussex Regiment died on a Somme battlefield at 42 years of age, older than the typical serviceman. He was the son of John Deadman of Northfleet, Kent. #ww1 #somme
February 8, 2025 at 12:08 AM
From Asha Rangappa, asharangappa.substack.com/p/the-x-factor
February 3, 2025 at 12:55 AM
From Asha Rangappa, asharangappa.substack.com/p/the-x-factor
Fricourt German War Cemetery, France. Of the 11 million Germans mobilized in 1914, 100,000 were Jewish. They too fought and died for their country but received much of the so-called "stabbed in the back" blame by war's end. By 1935 all Jewish officers were purged from the ranks. #WW1 #Somme #history
January 6, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Fricourt German War Cemetery, France. Of the 11 million Germans mobilized in 1914, 100,000 were Jewish. They too fought and died for their country but received much of the so-called "stabbed in the back" blame by war's end. By 1935 all Jewish officers were purged from the ranks. #WW1 #Somme #history
Tyne Cot Cemetery (Passchendaele, Belgium), established during the 3rd Battle of Ypres in October 1917, is CWGC's largest. It holds 11,965 WW1 graves, 8,369 of which are unnamed. The stone wall surrounding the cemetery lists the names of the missing, some 35,000. #WW1 #Ypres #history
December 31, 2024 at 2:03 AM
The Last Tree, Battle of Delville Wood.
This hornbeam is the only surviving original tree, and the sole living witness to the struggle between South African and Scottish regiments with German army units that clashed here in the Somme valley, Jul-Sep 1916. #WW1 #Somme #history
This hornbeam is the only surviving original tree, and the sole living witness to the struggle between South African and Scottish regiments with German army units that clashed here in the Somme valley, Jul-Sep 1916. #WW1 #Somme #history
November 28, 2024 at 5:54 AM
WW1 shells near Mouquet Farm, France.
Driving along a farm road in the "red zone", we came upon these. Numerous unexploded shells are recovered yearly from WW1 battlefields during the "iron harvest". At the current rate, this is predicted to continue for the next several hundred years.
#WW1 #Somme
Driving along a farm road in the "red zone", we came upon these. Numerous unexploded shells are recovered yearly from WW1 battlefields during the "iron harvest". At the current rate, this is predicted to continue for the next several hundred years.
#WW1 #Somme
November 26, 2024 at 11:13 PM
Beaumont-Hamel Newfoundland Memorial, France.
At 09:15, 1 July 1916, men of the 1st Newfoundland Rgt advanced towards German machine guns and artillery. By 09:45 it became evident that the advance had failed. Of the 780 men who advanced, only 110 survived.
#ww1 #thesomme #history
At 09:15, 1 July 1916, men of the 1st Newfoundland Rgt advanced towards German machine guns and artillery. By 09:45 it became evident that the advance had failed. Of the 780 men who advanced, only 110 survived.
#ww1 #thesomme #history
November 24, 2024 at 3:49 AM
Vimy Ridge, September, 100 years after the battle.
November 23, 2024 at 1:15 AM
Vimy Ridge, September, 100 years after the battle.
Bois Jacques, late afternoon, October.
November 21, 2024 at 6:44 AM
Bois Jacques, late afternoon, October.