For Betty Campbell. Wales first ever black headteacher. What a wonderful tribute in Cardiff city centre.

In support of Ukraine. Cardiff city centre yesterday afternoon.👌

Came across this interesting headstone in Divisional CWG cemetery just outside Ypres this morning. Two brothers ages 23 and 17 respectively and only sons of their late father also a military man, Colonel W J Beninfield.

My wife Jill and I took time out to sign the book of condolence this morning in the Town Hall in Chesterfield, in memory of the victims of genocide and ethnic cleansing across the world and in particular to those who were the victims of the Holocaust in WW11 on this very important day.

Winter wonderland to wake up to at ours this morning.

My wife Jill and I were absolutely delighted to lay a wreath for the Chesterfield Association of Old Contemptible’s at the Menin Gate in Ypres this evening. Always a moving service of remembrance and our deepest thanks go to the Last Post Association for making this happen.

Paid our respects this morning to this brave fellow Captain Ackroyd. The attached sheet was in the Cemetery information box. Recommend on 23 separate occasions for the VC. Outstanding.

Have to say this one really caught my eye this morning. Such balance of colour between foreground and background is so striking.

A cultural diversion this morning taking in the magnificent Palais Beaux Des Arts Gallery in Lille. Pictured below is a copy of a bronze statue of four resistance fighters just before being executed by the Germans at the gates of Lille in 1915.

Took a slight detour on our way to Lille this afternoon to pay our respects to the 41 brave souls in Meharicourt Communal Cemetery, including this brave chap Pilot officer Andrew Mynarski. The only WW11 recipient of the VC to be buried on the former Somme battlefields.

Paid our respects to the many in Lonsdale CWG Cemetery today (adjacent to the Thiepval Memorial) including Sergeant J Turnbull VC, who gave his life with 20,000 others on the bloodiest day of the British Army, 1st July 1916.

Paid our respects this morning to three sets of brothers who lie in Flatiron Copse CWG Cemetery, including these two Lieutenants A & L Tregaskis who fell on the same day the 7th July 1916 and who died in each other’s arms.

An interesting selection of recruitment posters in the museum and exhibition centre just off Vimy ridge.

Absolutely haunting yet moving statue of Canada bereft, Walter Alwards masterpiece looking over the former coalfields at Vimy ridge where 60,000 Canadian troops perished during WW1.