I don’t miss the place.
People will look back on Twitter like the Wild West days of social media.
Apart from there were no cool gunslingers & cowpokes.
Just tw**s & bigots.

Thank you for the repost @crusaderproject.bsky.social.

Interestingly I’ve been given a stern dressing down for posting this & other posts of remembrance in the past.
Disrespectful apparently.
But for all the research of my forebears war, it was the losses they endured that stick in my memory most.

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Great footage.

I’m sure @crusaderproject.bsky.social would concur that the efficiency of the Axis recovery units above the Escarpment during the springtime operations of 1941 gave them the upper hand in battle second only to the woeful Allied communications!?!

#VJDay80 obviously

So many great tips from some amazing presenters on here.
My growing fear for tomorrow nights @rehs-1716.bsky.social webinar is palpable, I’m up to my 4th hard edit and it’s still feeling too wordy for the time allowed.
Fingers crossed it’ll be alright on the night

Having just given this Thursdays Webinar a ‘hard-edit’ and read through, I was horrified to see it is still running 30 minutes over.
Time to take the chain saw to it and resign all that research to the cutting room floor!
It won’t be the same without every CRE etc but 5 years into 50 mins is tough.

‘Sapping the strength out of the river’ was right there!

Back to journalism school for those hacks!!

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So many creations of engineering ingenuity that came together to form the greatest logistical supply chain in history.
Meanwhile 8000 miles away, it was good old ‘stick & string’ doctrine that filled the void from lack of resources.

Not sure a bamboo dreadnought would fare well on the Channel mind?

Thanks RG.
It has been long neglected & I’ve many new research discoveries that need to be updated throughout the site. (And then there’s the part of me that want to pull it all down because of AI data farming etc)
A mini ‘virtual museum’ would be my preferred way to display the collection/stories!

If you expect to hear someone attempt to convert a man’s life & 5 years of conflict into 50 minutes of incoherent rambling, then you won’t be disappointed!

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Been absent of late but your threads are always a joy to return to, lots to think about.

Here’s a Battleaxe treat I cobbled together for a recent talk. (Also August 14th REHS webinar)

Can you imagine this lot trundling up the Escarpment?
What a sight/sound to behold.

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That’s a shame, missed you in Bilbao by only a few weeks.
Safe travels.

What a touching letter she wrote to the mother’s?

A reputation for bravery well earned. The first allied reinforcements to bolster the Canal Brigade in Oct 1939 with Neame’s 4th Indian Division.
Post Op Brevity in May 1941 their reputation truly cemented with exemplary conduct & courage under fire.

Remarkable indeed.

Like a recent connection with the Grandson of a local tribal leader that helped my Grandpa build the airstrips in the Naga Hills 80 years ago over 5000 miles away!
Also connecting with a dozen or so descendants of 4 Border men on social media. 💙

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The RAF were crucial in disrupting Axis supply lines & reinforcements, keeping the Luftwaffe away from the battlefield.
As the bombardment fell 12th Fld Coy RE moved up Halfaya with 4RTR 22 Gds Bde.

Allied communications continued to be their own undoing.

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