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"Through her eloquence and heartfelt storytelling, she brought the human dimension of the Kindertransport to life." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Tributes paid to Holocaust survivor Vera Schaufeld
Holocaust survivor Vera Schaufeld is hailed for her
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November 19, 2025 at 9:41 AM
"Through her eloquence and heartfelt storytelling, she brought the human dimension of the Kindertransport to life." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The Dover Patrol Memorial, Pas de Calais, France. This version inaugurated 1962, the German blew up the first memorial during the occupation of World War 2. Scattered along the coastline of the Pas de Calais are remnants of the Atlantic Wall built during the German occupation using forced labour.
November 18, 2025 at 4:03 PM
The Dover Patrol Memorial, Pas de Calais, France. This version inaugurated 1962, the German blew up the first memorial during the occupation of World War 2. Scattered along the coastline of the Pas de Calais are remnants of the Atlantic Wall built during the German occupation using forced labour.
Back for the day at the Old White House in Pops, always feels nice to be here especially after the frenetic days of Armistice.
November 13, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Back for the day at the Old White House in Pops, always feels nice to be here especially after the frenetic days of Armistice.
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A kid from my village in Ontario who never made it home. He died at a place called Vindictive 107 years ago today.
Remember them.
Remember them.
November 12, 2025 at 11:35 AM
A kid from my village in Ontario who never made it home. He died at a place called Vindictive 107 years ago today.
Remember them.
Remember them.
Armistice 2025 took my friends out on a #Dunkirk trail, couldn’t fit all of the sites in too many and not enough time. Showed them the glass etchings that John Hutton had done at the Dunkirk Memorial & Cemetery from top to bottom depicting the RAF & German Stukas to the evacuation from the beaches.
November 10, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Armistice 2025 took my friends out on a #Dunkirk trail, couldn’t fit all of the sites in too many and not enough time. Showed them the glass etchings that John Hutton had done at the Dunkirk Memorial & Cemetery from top to bottom depicting the RAF & German Stukas to the evacuation from the beaches.
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Just 2 of those in my family who did not return from The Great War. Gt Uncle Arthur Coldstream Gds, lost between Metz & Gouzeaucourt Nov 1917, no known grave, he is listed on the memorial at Louverval. Also his cousin William RE, died in July 1917, buried at La Clytte nr Ypres.
We do not forget.
We do not forget.
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Just 2 of those in my family who did not return from The Great War. Gt Uncle Arthur Coldstream Gds, lost between Metz & Gouzeaucourt Nov 1917, no known grave, he is listed on the memorial at Louverval. Also his cousin William RE, died in July 1917, buried at La Clytte nr Ypres.
We do not forget.
We do not forget.
Board left at Essex Farm showing the route for the evacuation of wounded soldiers from the frontline.
If this belongs to any tour groups coming out from the UK please contact me. I shall place for safekeeping in my ‘battle’ van and then arrange for collection.
If this belongs to any tour groups coming out from the UK please contact me. I shall place for safekeeping in my ‘battle’ van and then arrange for collection.
November 8, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Board left at Essex Farm showing the route for the evacuation of wounded soldiers from the frontline.
If this belongs to any tour groups coming out from the UK please contact me. I shall place for safekeeping in my ‘battle’ van and then arrange for collection.
If this belongs to any tour groups coming out from the UK please contact me. I shall place for safekeeping in my ‘battle’ van and then arrange for collection.
Great start...Artillery not the easiest at the best of times for research ...the exact three months that I'm looking for July, August & September 1917 and no surprise they're missing...what an absolute pain...
October 28, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Great start...Artillery not the easiest at the best of times for research ...the exact three months that I'm looking for July, August & September 1917 and no surprise they're missing...what an absolute pain...
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October 27th, 1918. Victoria Cross action of veteran Canadian pilot Major William Barker. Flying a Sopwith Snipe on a solo patrol, he shot down a Rumpler two-seater and was immediately attacked by 15 German Fokker D.VIIs.
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October 27, 2025 at 4:47 PM
October 27th, 1918. Victoria Cross action of veteran Canadian pilot Major William Barker. Flying a Sopwith Snipe on a solo patrol, he shot down a Rumpler two-seater and was immediately attacked by 15 German Fokker D.VIIs.
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The realities of being in a Sanitary Section during the First World War: “In certain places decomposing dead bodies are exposed in the walls and the stench from these is very offensive AAA. They should be well sprinkled with Chlorine of Lime and covered with earth AAA.
October 23, 2025 at 10:10 AM
The realities of being in a Sanitary Section during the First World War: “In certain places decomposing dead bodies are exposed in the walls and the stench from these is very offensive AAA. They should be well sprinkled with Chlorine of Lime and covered with earth AAA.
I always think that this is a ‘slimmed down’ version of Tubby, short but not rotund 😄
October 21, 2025 at 9:04 AM
I always think that this is a ‘slimmed down’ version of Tubby, short but not rotund 😄
Casualties from a working party in Belgium & part of France, July 1917. Covering areas with family descendants of Thomas Bragg, resting in Kandahar Farm Cemetery along with Lieut. Christensen & 3 O.R’s also killed.
October 16, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Casualties from a working party in Belgium & part of France, July 1917. Covering areas with family descendants of Thomas Bragg, resting in Kandahar Farm Cemetery along with Lieut. Christensen & 3 O.R’s also killed.
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Shrapnel from 1944 found along the edge of the fields at Hill 112 in Normandy this morning.
October 16, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Shrapnel from 1944 found along the edge of the fields at Hill 112 in Normandy this morning.
Not sure about this…I’m all for commemoration and remembrance but dare I say that this is a bit OTT?
October 13, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Not sure about this…I’m all for commemoration and remembrance but dare I say that this is a bit OTT?
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#OTD 13 October 1915. An awful day for the counties of the North Midlands as their fathers, husbands and sons met a bloody repluse in their attack on the Hohenzollern Redoubt, a phase of the Battle of Loos. #ww1 #genealogy
October 13, 2025 at 8:44 AM
#OTD 13 October 1915. An awful day for the counties of the North Midlands as their fathers, husbands and sons met a bloody repluse in their attack on the Hohenzollern Redoubt, a phase of the Battle of Loos. #ww1 #genealogy
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Gunner Officer: Malcolm Vyvyan. In this latest Old Front Line #podcast we return to the memories of #WW1 veteran Malcolm Vyvyan MC, who served with 96th Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery on the Western Front from 1916.
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Gunner Officer: Malcolm Vyvyan
We return to the memories of WW1 veteran Malcolm Vyvyan MC, who served with 96th Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery on the Western Front from 1916, and then latterly the Royal Flying Corps and …
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October 12, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Gunner Officer: Malcolm Vyvyan. In this latest Old Front Line #podcast we return to the memories of #WW1 veteran Malcolm Vyvyan MC, who served with 96th Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery on the Western Front from 1916.
oldfrontline.co.uk/2025/10/11/g...
oldfrontline.co.uk/2025/10/11/g...
Restoration work being carried out on the Buttes in Polygon Wood therefore is currently off limits to the public walking up there. The cemetery is still accessible to the public.
October 11, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Restoration work being carried out on the Buttes in Polygon Wood therefore is currently off limits to the public walking up there. The cemetery is still accessible to the public.
Positive response to explanation of the Christmas Truce, we’re now going to insert into the tour a visit to the resting place of a footballer for the two teenage sons…
Oh dear, time to be a damp squid..."so we wondered if there is any way you could also incorporate the Christmas Truce football match site?"
October 7, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Positive response to explanation of the Christmas Truce, we’re now going to insert into the tour a visit to the resting place of a footballer for the two teenage sons…
Oh dear, time to be a damp squid..."so we wondered if there is any way you could also incorporate the Christmas Truce football match site?"
October 6, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Oh dear, time to be a damp squid..."so we wondered if there is any way you could also incorporate the Christmas Truce football match site?"
On Friday we followed James Cormack of the 5th Cameron Highlanders & the Final Advance 28th September through to 27th October 1918. Starting off at the area of Bellewaerde, Frezenberg Ridges and Potijze, then advancing through areas such as MolenHoek Ridge, the Keiberg Spur & on to Waterdamhoek.
October 4, 2025 at 6:32 AM
On Friday we followed James Cormack of the 5th Cameron Highlanders & the Final Advance 28th September through to 27th October 1918. Starting off at the area of Bellewaerde, Frezenberg Ridges and Potijze, then advancing through areas such as MolenHoek Ridge, the Keiberg Spur & on to Waterdamhoek.
***Take Notice***For anyone out guiding the Ypres Salient this weekend please note there is a burial service on Saturday 4th October at the German Cemetery at Langemarck, from what I understand it is going to be in the afternoon.
October 1, 2025 at 1:15 PM
***Take Notice***For anyone out guiding the Ypres Salient this weekend please note there is a burial service on Saturday 4th October at the German Cemetery at Langemarck, from what I understand it is going to be in the afternoon.
Out guiding and met Tonny one of the buglers from the Last Post Association, he very kindly gave a little impromptu talk about his role within the LPA. A nice surprise for my chaps from Leek in Staffordshire.
September 30, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Out guiding and met Tonny one of the buglers from the Last Post Association, he very kindly gave a little impromptu talk about his role within the LPA. A nice surprise for my chaps from Leek in Staffordshire.
This is exactly no one should EVER tamper with ordnance from First or Second World War, leave it to the bomb disposal units 👇
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Obus ontploft in centrum van Diksmuide: één zwaargewonde
Iets na elf uur is een obus uit de eerste wereldoorlog ontploft in het het centrum van Diksmuide. Daarbij is één gewonde gevallen.
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September 29, 2025 at 1:16 PM
This is exactly no one should EVER tamper with ordnance from First or Second World War, leave it to the bomb disposal units 👇
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Today, I visited the British war cemetery in Stahnsdorf, where the remains of those who fell in Germany during the First World War are laid to rest. Among them is Thomas Colvill-Jones, an Anglo-Argentine volunteer and young RAF pilot who departed from Buenos Aires in 1917.
#LestWeForget
#LestWeForget
May 31, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Today, I visited the British war cemetery in Stahnsdorf, where the remains of those who fell in Germany during the First World War are laid to rest. Among them is Thomas Colvill-Jones, an Anglo-Argentine volunteer and young RAF pilot who departed from Buenos Aires in 1917.
#LestWeForget
#LestWeForget
From 27th September to the 30th November a 6.5 metered high figure known as The Hauntings will be placed near the Menin Gate Memorial in Ieper. Facing towards the memorial symbolizing all those that never returned home…
📸 Flanders Fields 14-18
📸 Flanders Fields 14-18
September 15, 2025 at 10:26 AM
From 27th September to the 30th November a 6.5 metered high figure known as The Hauntings will be placed near the Menin Gate Memorial in Ieper. Facing towards the memorial symbolizing all those that never returned home…
📸 Flanders Fields 14-18
📸 Flanders Fields 14-18