Paul Durham 🇺🇦 ⚫️⚪️
@milhistdiddy.bsky.social
Battlefield Guide with @sophie1wwtours.bsky.social and Adaptable Travel (https://www.adaptabletravel.co.uk/tour/ypres-and-somme-ww1-battlefields-tours). Military History and Newcastle United F.C. are my passions.
#FWW #WW1 #SWW #WW2 #NUFC
#FWW #WW1 #SWW #WW2 #NUFC
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Bill’s War
Erich Maria Remarque’s world-famous novel, ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’, begins with a short preface in which he states that his book will try to tell the story of ‘a ge…
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My Great Uncle Bill’s #FWW story. It’s quite a read.
#WW1 #Gateshead
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#WW1 #Gateshead
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Absolutely massive win for #NUFC - & thoroughly impressive display. 2nd goal changed game, they grew from that point.
So many encouraging displays, & changes largely all positive. Confidence-boosting for Elanga, Miley, Woltemade. Thiaw immense again.
Transformative?
#EVENEW
So many encouraging displays, & changes largely all positive. Confidence-boosting for Elanga, Miley, Woltemade. Thiaw immense again.
Transformative?
#EVENEW
November 29, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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The Telegraph, ladies and gentlemen.
November 29, 2025 at 8:39 PM
The Telegraph, ladies and gentlemen.
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30 November 1927 | A Belgian Jewish girl, Elisabeth Henrietta Bak, was born in Borgerhout. She emigrated to The Netherlands.
In September 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
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Children at Auschwitz: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/dzieci_EN/
In September 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
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Children at Auschwitz: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/dzieci_EN/
November 30, 2025 at 12:00 AM
30 November 1927 | A Belgian Jewish girl, Elisabeth Henrietta Bak, was born in Borgerhout. She emigrated to The Netherlands.
In September 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
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Children at Auschwitz: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/dzieci_EN/
In September 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.
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Children at Auschwitz: https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/dzieci_EN/
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This is one of the big accounts boosting Tommy Robinson, Farage and Reform and ‘English Patriots’.
It’s Russian.
It’s Russian.
November 24, 2025 at 9:29 AM
This is one of the big accounts boosting Tommy Robinson, Farage and Reform and ‘English Patriots’.
It’s Russian.
It’s Russian.
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John Shiwak was an Inuk soldier with the Newfoundland Regiment (later Royal Newfoundland Regiment).
Considered one of the best snipers of the war, he never made it back home.
This is his story.
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Considered one of the best snipers of the war, he never made it back home.
This is his story.
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November 21, 2025 at 4:01 PM
John Shiwak was an Inuk soldier with the Newfoundland Regiment (later Royal Newfoundland Regiment).
Considered one of the best snipers of the war, he never made it back home.
This is his story.
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Considered one of the best snipers of the war, he never made it back home.
This is his story.
🧵 1/6
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Ukraine is on the brink of an historic betrayal by Trump to Putin.
Keir Starmer must bring our European allies together to back Zelensky, starting by seizing frozen Russian assets to support Ukraine.
Keir Starmer must bring our European allies together to back Zelensky, starting by seizing frozen Russian assets to support Ukraine.
November 21, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Ukraine is on the brink of an historic betrayal by Trump to Putin.
Keir Starmer must bring our European allies together to back Zelensky, starting by seizing frozen Russian assets to support Ukraine.
Keir Starmer must bring our European allies together to back Zelensky, starting by seizing frozen Russian assets to support Ukraine.
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If Zelensky accepts this mediation, the Ukrainians will feel much as the Czechs must have felt after Munich. Despite its so-called guarantees, it will leave the country defenceless for the next Russian strike, which will not be long in coming.
November 21, 2025 at 5:22 PM
If Zelensky accepts this mediation, the Ukrainians will feel much as the Czechs must have felt after Munich. Despite its so-called guarantees, it will leave the country defenceless for the next Russian strike, which will not be long in coming.
St Margaret’s Church, Burnham Norton, #Norfolk.
A beautiful setting, with its 11th Century tower (probably Saxon, but possibly post-Norman invasion).
In any case, the final resting place of Maj David Jamieson VC, who earned his medal at Grimbosq, Normandy, in Aug 1944.
#SWW #WW2 #Normandy
A beautiful setting, with its 11th Century tower (probably Saxon, but possibly post-Norman invasion).
In any case, the final resting place of Maj David Jamieson VC, who earned his medal at Grimbosq, Normandy, in Aug 1944.
#SWW #WW2 #Normandy
November 21, 2025 at 5:27 PM
An innocuous looking agricultural field in north-west Norfolk, where once stood RAF Sedgeford.
It began life in 1915 as a #RNAS training station and night landing ground for Great Yarmouth, before the #RFC took it over for home defence use in 1916.
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#FWW #WW1 #SWW #WW2 #gwg
It began life in 1915 as a #RNAS training station and night landing ground for Great Yarmouth, before the #RFC took it over for home defence use in 1916.
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#FWW #WW1 #SWW #WW2 #gwg
November 21, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Today we remember Henry Moseley, the Oxford physicist whose X-ray spectroscopy work reshaped our understanding of the elements. He was killed in action at Gallipoli in 1915, aged just 27.
🔗 Learn more: https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/about-us/our-history/highlights-archive/moseley-and-x-rays
🔗 Learn more: https://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/about-us/our-history/highlights-archive/moseley-and-x-rays
November 19, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Lots of ways to be a man! Problems can lie in fitting into societal expectations of 'manliness', and men can be crap at dealing with that. I've never wanted to hurt myself, but many do, and a British man kills himself every two hours. It's why I support www.mensmindsmatter.org #InternationalMensDay
November 19, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Lots of ways to be a man! Problems can lie in fitting into societal expectations of 'manliness', and men can be crap at dealing with that. I've never wanted to hurt myself, but many do, and a British man kills himself every two hours. It's why I support www.mensmindsmatter.org #InternationalMensDay
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November 14, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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🔲 ANOTHER painful away defeat 😫
🔳 Soft underbelly 🐖
🔲 Goals a real issue 😬
🔳 Fundamental reset required? 🔍
🔲 Full-backs needed ASAP ‼️
🔳 Where is Paul? 👀
🎧 New free-to-listen Matchday @podonthetyne.bsky.social for Brentford 3-1 #NUFC w/ @georgecaulkin.bsky.social:
pod.fo/e/34f5fa
🔳 Soft underbelly 🐖
🔲 Goals a real issue 😬
🔳 Fundamental reset required? 🔍
🔲 Full-backs needed ASAP ‼️
🔳 Where is Paul? 👀
🎧 New free-to-listen Matchday @podonthetyne.bsky.social for Brentford 3-1 #NUFC w/ @georgecaulkin.bsky.social:
pod.fo/e/34f5fa
Pod On The Tyne: A show about Newcastle United: Matchday PotT: Brentford (a), Burn red card, everyone red-faced
It would be fair to say this isn't the way Eddie Howe would have liked to mark his fourth anniversary at Newcastle United.The manager who finally ended the club's trophy drought and brought top-tie...
pod.fo
November 9, 2025 at 10:29 PM
🔲 ANOTHER painful away defeat 😫
🔳 Soft underbelly 🐖
🔲 Goals a real issue 😬
🔳 Fundamental reset required? 🔍
🔲 Full-backs needed ASAP ‼️
🔳 Where is Paul? 👀
🎧 New free-to-listen Matchday @podonthetyne.bsky.social for Brentford 3-1 #NUFC w/ @georgecaulkin.bsky.social:
pod.fo/e/34f5fa
🔳 Soft underbelly 🐖
🔲 Goals a real issue 😬
🔳 Fundamental reset required? 🔍
🔲 Full-backs needed ASAP ‼️
🔳 Where is Paul? 👀
🎧 New free-to-listen Matchday @podonthetyne.bsky.social for Brentford 3-1 #NUFC w/ @georgecaulkin.bsky.social:
pod.fo/e/34f5fa
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#OTD 1918 The last major action for British forces in the Great War: the Battle of the Sambre #ww1 #genealogy Here's a snapshot of one part of the battle: see www.longlongtrail.co.uk/the-liberati...
The liberation of Landrecies - The Long, Long Trail
My first ever visit to this part of France was in 1991. I had been on a business trip to Brussels and […]
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November 4, 2025 at 7:24 AM
#OTD 1918 The last major action for British forces in the Great War: the Battle of the Sambre #ww1 #genealogy Here's a snapshot of one part of the battle: see www.longlongtrail.co.uk/the-liberati...
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Worst #NUFC display in a long time. No energy, direction or creativity.
Unsure how to explain that, even given poor away form.
Starting XI poor, but subs didn't bring about positive change either.
Damaging defeat in context of PL European race. Brentford very tricky next, too.
Unsure how to explain that, even given poor away form.
Starting XI poor, but subs didn't bring about positive change either.
Damaging defeat in context of PL European race. Brentford very tricky next, too.
November 2, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Worst #NUFC display in a long time. No energy, direction or creativity.
Unsure how to explain that, even given poor away form.
Starting XI poor, but subs didn't bring about positive change either.
Damaging defeat in context of PL European race. Brentford very tricky next, too.
Unsure how to explain that, even given poor away form.
Starting XI poor, but subs didn't bring about positive change either.
Damaging defeat in context of PL European race. Brentford very tricky next, too.
111 years ago today, the 2nd Bn Worcestershire’s stepped into a crisis at Gheluvelt and helped save the day (some have even gone as far as to suggest, the war).
This was certainly a very important day in the First Battle of Ypres.
#FWW #WW1 #gwg #Worcestershire #Ypres
This was certainly a very important day in the First Battle of Ypres.
#FWW #WW1 #gwg #Worcestershire #Ypres
October 31, 2025 at 10:06 AM
111 years ago today, the 2nd Bn Worcestershire’s stepped into a crisis at Gheluvelt and helped save the day (some have even gone as far as to suggest, the war).
This was certainly a very important day in the First Battle of Ypres.
#FWW #WW1 #gwg #Worcestershire #Ypres
This was certainly a very important day in the First Battle of Ypres.
#FWW #WW1 #gwg #Worcestershire #Ypres
Retracing the #WW1 footsteps of Rifleman Sidney Jenner, who was posted from 1/5 London Rifle Bde to 18 KRRC in 1917/18.
This afternoon I took his grandson to the spot where he was gassed, on 3rd Sept 1918, near Vierstraat. He survived the war, but only just.
@sophie1wwtours.bsky.social
#SGWT
This afternoon I took his grandson to the spot where he was gassed, on 3rd Sept 1918, near Vierstraat. He survived the war, but only just.
@sophie1wwtours.bsky.social
#SGWT
October 30, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Retracing the #WW1 footsteps of Rifleman Sidney Jenner, who was posted from 1/5 London Rifle Bde to 18 KRRC in 1917/18.
This afternoon I took his grandson to the spot where he was gassed, on 3rd Sept 1918, near Vierstraat. He survived the war, but only just.
@sophie1wwtours.bsky.social
#SGWT
This afternoon I took his grandson to the spot where he was gassed, on 3rd Sept 1918, near Vierstraat. He survived the war, but only just.
@sophie1wwtours.bsky.social
#SGWT
Privilege to be showing this gentleman where his grandfather fought in the #FWW, with the 1/5 London Rifle Bde, on behalf of @sophie1wwtours.bsky.social.
This afternoon I took him to where Combles Trench once stood, a position his grandfather helped attack in early Sept 1916.
#WW1 #SGWT
This afternoon I took him to where Combles Trench once stood, a position his grandfather helped attack in early Sept 1916.
#WW1 #SGWT
October 29, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Privilege to be showing this gentleman where his grandfather fought in the #FWW, with the 1/5 London Rifle Bde, on behalf of @sophie1wwtours.bsky.social.
This afternoon I took him to where Combles Trench once stood, a position his grandfather helped attack in early Sept 1916.
#WW1 #SGWT
This afternoon I took him to where Combles Trench once stood, a position his grandfather helped attack in early Sept 1916.
#WW1 #SGWT
October 29, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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1/5 Elon Musk’s Grokipedia is out.
It’s exactly what you would expect: unimpressive, biased, and built to serve Musk’s agenda.
He hates Wikipedia because he can’t control it. He hates facts.
Grokipedia is his attempt to replace truth with spin
It’s exactly what you would expect: unimpressive, biased, and built to serve Musk’s agenda.
He hates Wikipedia because he can’t control it. He hates facts.
Grokipedia is his attempt to replace truth with spin
October 28, 2025 at 6:25 PM
1/5 Elon Musk’s Grokipedia is out.
It’s exactly what you would expect: unimpressive, biased, and built to serve Musk’s agenda.
He hates Wikipedia because he can’t control it. He hates facts.
Grokipedia is his attempt to replace truth with spin
It’s exactly what you would expect: unimpressive, biased, and built to serve Musk’s agenda.
He hates Wikipedia because he can’t control it. He hates facts.
Grokipedia is his attempt to replace truth with spin
Final morning of this tour for @sophie1wwtours.bsky.social. It was concluded with a trip to Nieupoort to show three generations of this family where their ancestor, Major Malcolm Melvill MC, earned his medal in July 1917.
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#FWW #WW1 #SGWT
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#FWW #WW1 #SGWT
October 27, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Final morning of this tour for @sophie1wwtours.bsky.social. It was concluded with a trip to Nieupoort to show three generations of this family where their ancestor, Major Malcolm Melvill MC, earned his medal in July 1917.
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#FWW #WW1 #SGWT
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#FWW #WW1 #SGWT
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1/2: We've had another tour out this week, this time three generations from an esteemed military family, from Colonel to student. Today they’re following in the footsteps of their relative whose courage earned him the Military Cross close to Nieuwpoort.
October 27, 2025 at 8:19 AM
1/2: We've had another tour out this week, this time three generations from an esteemed military family, from Colonel to student. Today they’re following in the footsteps of their relative whose courage earned him the Military Cross close to Nieuwpoort.
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#OTD in 1914, the First Battle of Ypres opens.
'Favourite' is a difficult term to use sometimes when it comes to battlefields. What I mean by that in this case is, that I love taking guests to these early Great War engagements.
#OTD in 1914, the First Battle of Ypres opens.
'Favourite' is a difficult term to use sometimes when it comes to battlefields. What I mean by that in this case is, that I love taking guests to these early Great War engagements.
October 19, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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#OTD in 1914, the First Battle of Ypres opens.
'Favourite' is a difficult term to use sometimes when it comes to battlefields. What I mean by that in this case is, that I love taking guests to these early Great War engagements.
#OTD in 1914, the First Battle of Ypres opens.
'Favourite' is a difficult term to use sometimes when it comes to battlefields. What I mean by that in this case is, that I love taking guests to these early Great War engagements.