Peter Doyle

Great cover!

I certainly did that day, and for everyday since!

German #WW1 Fokker D.VII fighter planes from Royal Prussian Jagdstaffel 73. #HISTORY

It was also a dangerous one, as I had to escape the advancing tide. I never forgot that lesson!

Ammonite, Dactylioceras tenuicostatum from Whitby. Collected by me as a young teenager

Snake stone. How wonderful is this? Nature, eh

Check out the call for papers for this exciting conference in beautiful Boulogne-sur-Mer in March next year on 'Women in War in France, Britain and Ireland'. It should be a fascinating event. femmescombattantes.univ-littoral.fr/en/call-for-...

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Crossed laid at the Menin Gate

Crossed laid at the Menin Gate

Crossed laid at the Menin Gate

A single cross, a single flower

At the Menin Gate. The desire to connect with those lost a century plus ago is strong, the gate such a focal point. And rightly so.

Crosses of remembrance laid at the Menin Gate

The Menin Gate, just last week. Now divested of its shrouds, once again the Gate becomes a focal point for the curious, or for those seeking names or leaving remembrances. All this while pedestrians move through its arches, just as soldiers once passed though its rubble, to the sound of the guns

Lumberjill

This is my favourite FWW forester image

Home Guardsman; ARP Warden in civvies; ARP warden in uniform; RAF airman

Faces of the Second World War #VEDay

Four servicewomen of the Second World War, WAAF and WRNS

Faces of the Second World War #VEDay

Perfect! Sorry to be late to the party!

Portrait photographs of four British soldiers of the Second World War, c1940-1945

Faces of the Second World War #VEDay

Four portraits of British soldiers in uniform, c.1940-42

Faces of the Second World War #VEDay

Remembering Ottoman bravery and resistance at Gallipoli: the Ottoman War Medal: TL, original painted version; TR, BB&Co enamel version; BL, re-enamelled in green; BR, unfinished version

110 years. Today. #Gallipoli

Map of Anzac Cove, Gallipoli, with Australian charity button badges to provide for wounded heroes

110 years. Today. #Gallipoli

Map of the Gallipoli peninsula in 1915, with medals of a Lancashire Fusilier at W Beach and of a French soldier who landed at Kum Kale

110 years. Today. #Gallipoli

Scratchbuilt Dreadnought model, c.50mm

Pocket battleship (a Dreadnought, if you will)

It was used in Belgium, you see.

1960’s Lesney Matchbox B-Type bus painted in ASC colours. Base model a gift of Mike Stockbridge. Thanks Mike!

Pint-sized B-type

Lovely, and no, I guess this was meant to be some kind of carry rings. I can see your thinking, though!

Bolsover’s impressive War Memorial. Many local miners & farm workers volunteered for service in the First World War. @profpeterdoyle.bsky.social @britwarmemorial.bsky.social #LestWeForget #FirstWorldWar #Bolsover

Verdun In A Day In the latest of our series of Battlefields in a Day, we travel to Eastern France and look at the Battlefields around Verdun. Verdun was the longest single battle of the Great War, lasting some 300…

The Battle of Verdun began #OTD in 1916. To discover more about the longest battle of #WW1 have a listen to this episode of Old Front Line #podcast:

oldfrontline.co.uk/2023/08/05/v...

The north Staffordshire decoy sites that fooled Hitler's bombers Researchers inspect WW2

Starfish! Great to work on this project with my wondetful colleagues at Keele www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Looks interesting!

Thank you, it was a deep shock

Thanks Wayne, it came as a huge shock

Image from Doyle & Foster, Remembering Tommy: a miners cottage at Beamish, depicting a Manchester Pal’s home in 1914-15

Remembering Tommy: Remembering Chris. My mate Chris Foster passed away last week, leaving a huge hole. This project was beloved by both of us: this is for you, my friend