Good book, - has solved many a location problem.
Bit annoying when he was writing the tome though because rafts of trench maps "went AWOL" for periods from the map room at TNA Kew😒
Chris - I know we can speak English because of teachers, but we can't speak German (aka, don't have to) because of soldiers👍
Still can't find the start button though (& currently have no spare time to look for it as I'm battling with 200 pages of "claimed to be instructions" for new 'phone).
I'd love to know where the start starts🤔
I'm afraid that 5 years is the maximum jail time for CARELESS driving involving a death. Dangerous driving involving death could have gone to 11 years. He was uninsured, but regardless, he'll have severe difficulty ever getting car insurance in future so will be high-risk forever😒
Clay kicking spade & slanted board Er, how did that work, as drawn🤔
I like newspapers referring to "a spokesman", "a source close to the royal family", "a friend of the actress", etc etc etc ...
(aka - here's something I just made up😒).
I'm surprised Huntley lasted so long.
Oh dear oh dear oh dear - you ARE sailing close to the "I'm a racist" pedestal which so many will be clamouring to put you on😱
(But you will find "The Guardian" on the next door plinth😂).
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Same as that Rudakubana in Blackpool > www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
There are no errors in cwgc records. That is a very well known fact. which you should be aware of😇
(ID ?).
Worth reading in full
married to a man who has never been inside a supermarket."(Fergie).
"I admit fully that my judgment was probably coloured by my tendency to be too honourable,’ he said, to the disbelief of the entire world." (Andy to Emily Maitlis).
It's an enlightening read but it merely reminds the reader of what we already know, - & reinforces the fact that a huge proportion of the public are sycophantic to the N'th degree😒
Some lovely quotes though >
"‘You have to understand what I am dealing with here,’ she told a friend." "I'm >cont>
I think this is why DeGaulle hated to British & Americans so much, - embracement at so much French collaboration with the Germans during WW2.
The US electorate may not have a say if the Midterms are suspended in November, - & in any case the rednecks & hillbilies voted him in last time & may do it again.
"Epstein" has gone quiet, hasn't it🤔
"In terms if my own financial loss, no one comes close to Truss."
Commiserations. Truss already had a track record of course, - at the Environment Agency. Another place where the Public Prosecutor should have paid attention.
Whatever happened to Akwasi Addo Alfred Kwarteng, - Truss's numbers genius😒
"Noce won, but regretted it:"
The "treatment" of a huge swathe of Germans post WW2 was, I'm convinced, due to the onset of the Cold War & a fear of Soviet influence. National Socialism lived on in Germany way past 1945.
The naming of "Sanctuary Wood" goes way back to the fighting in that area during November 1914, & pre-dates the establishment of the cemetery there.
"... it may cost me more than Liz Truss did."
On the radio a couple of days ago I heard a British politician arguing for people who had been prudent & therefore had savings & assets at retirement age to NOT be eligible for a state pension.
Liz Truss was bad, but far from unique😒
Doomed to remain a mystery then🤔
The NZ cross at Factory Corner was derelict post WW1. The NZ gov't were asked if they'd like the cross returned to Aotearoa (at their cost), but they declined.
The cross was therefore burned & the ashes scattered in A.I.F. Burial Ground, Grass Lane. The Longueval site is topographically superior👍
The NZ Memorial at Longueval is "simple" but very elegant. Its position is to my mind the most relevant historically, & the choice of site makes it prominent from all directions. (The alternative was "Factory Corner"). I've always wondered though why they built it so close to those monstrous pylons🤔
If it was an artillery fuse I'd guess that he'd got an intact / unused HE fuse & had managed to set it off, - ie ignited the "gain". But then pulling a pin & a few minutes delay make no sense😒
Pulling a pin points to a grenade, but minutes delay = 😲, & if he was holding it he'd be mincemeat.
It is reproduced below.
“What A Tangled Web We Weave …”
"Marmion"; Sir Walter Scott,
there is no mention of a revolver incident.
The one & only first person statement is lengthy & was made to a Major & Corporal of the RAMC at 8th Western General Hospital, Newport, 21/7/16.
That statement was made by none other than Pte 15/323 Alan Fenton, 15th Bn W.Yorks Regt.
>cont>
he was carried in by stretcher bearers, & one says he was “hung up” on the German wire (he wasn’t). One statement claims a Pte Raynor said John had asked him to shoot him, & a statement by Pte 1111 Charles H Benson says his friend Pte Alan Fenton had written to him about John’s death, but >cont>
file initially appeared to be a researcher’s dream come true, - no less than 13 witness statements regarding his death*. That was short-lived when I read them. Of the 13 no less than 12 were heresay.
John is named on Thiepval, but three statements have him dying on a hospital train; one says >cont>
Pte 15/323 Alan Fenton, 15th Bn W.Yorks Regt. The statement above was made by “Pte Chivers” in hospital at Etaples 24/8/1916, - this can only be Pte 15/198 Herbert Chivers of 15th Bn).
23 yr old Lt John Gilbert Vause of 15th Bn, KiA 1/7/16 & researched for a future zerohourzday.com His service cont>
“Mr Vause got almost to the German wire, where Mr Vause was very seriously wounded in the leg. He then threw Fenton(*) his revolver and asked Fenton to shoot him. Fenton refused and just afterwards a shell came over and killed Mr Vause outright.”
(* I have established that “Fenton” was >cont>
Interesting. From the description - especially pulling a pin out, & then a delay of "a few minutes", i can't figure out what kind of device he is talking about🤔
"Wilfred Acey Nickerson was killed by a nose cap he picked up on the battlefield."
What's the source for that ?
Of course they are🤔
British politicians are probably mainly corrupt to some extent or another. That stretches through "expenses", allowances, PPE, etc etc etc, - right up to deputy PMs forgetting how many properties they own or whether they have paid more than a fraction of the associated taxes.
