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A toilet brush is born.
01.02.2026 08:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Feral agents
25.01.2026 16:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Deepening crisis re shoddy media reporting of events and failure to hold officialdom to account.
25.01.2026 15:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Frozen waistlands
24.01.2026 03:15 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I shall have to get a copy 👍
21.01.2026 06:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Sofa spits out furball
20.01.2026 04:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
snippet from film showing Archibald Wavell following behind Allenby entering Jerusalem. Full film clip reference IWM 13 at https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1060008299
Wavell on film following behind Allenby entering Jerusalem.
Lawrence in the group behind Wavell.
Clip Ref : IWM 13
www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
Wavell gets a mention in the Czar's British Squadron for helping negotiate a transportation issue with the Russians.
Wavell on his second posting to Russia at the time.
Excellent. Thanks for that.
14.01.2026 08:54 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Wavell's foreword of Ferguson's "Beyond the Chindwin" referencing back to Fox-Davies.
Wavell's foreword of Ferguson's "Beyond the Chindwin" referencing back to Fox-Davies.
Wavell's foreword of Ferguson's "Beyond the Chindwin" referencing back to Fox-Davies.
13.01.2026 16:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Fox-Davies mentioned in Bernard Ferguson's "Wavell Portrait of a Soldier"
Fox-Davies mentioned in Bernard Ferguson's "Wavell Portrait of a Soldier"
13.01.2026 16:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Military Cross write up for Harley Fox-Davies, 1/DLI, signed off by Archibald Wavell for a raid on 14/15th April 1941. Possibly against an infantry element of newly arrived 15th Panzer Division
MC for Harley Fox-Davies, 1/DLI, signed off by Archibald Wavell for a raid on 14/15th April 1941 near Sollum, Egypt.
Possibly against an infantry element of newly arrived 15th Panzer Division @crusaderproject.bsky.social?
rommelsriposte.com/2016/04/24/f...
Cover of latest Rolls-Royce armoured car book from the Tank Museum.
A previously unpublished picture of a Rolls-Royce armoured car in Dublin just after the #EasterRising made it into the latest Rolls-Royce publication from the Tank Museum, courtesy of @mof1916.bsky.social
tankmuseumshop.org/collections/...
A 1914 Pattern Rolls-Royce armoured car in Collins Barracks, Dublin, May 1916 pictured with some crew men from the Machine Gun Corps.
Some Machine Gun Corps men with a 1914 pattern Rolls-Royce armoured car sporting a Vickers MGs. Several cars sent to Ireland from Bisley just after the #EasterRising.
The Lord Lt in Dublin at the time of the Rising had been part of the team designing/developing the armoured cars.
a good listen.
Vickers MG (and Lewis guns) used during the #EasterRising
The Vickers team in the attached postcard captured on film (9 minutes in on the following clip) :
player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/wa...
Only know about Agnes Clerke through research on her cousin Henry Deasy and his involvement in the improvised armoured vehicles used during the #EasterRising
johnny-doyle.blogspot.com/2013/02/henr...
images of films credited to writer Henry Armitage Llewellyn Craig
Other grandson became a Communist organiser in Ireland.
Later a journalist and scriptwriter with some iconic films bearing his initials H A L
www.dib.ie/biography/cr...
One grandson served with the Malay Police during the Malayan Emergency operating against the Communist insurgents.
MC whilst serving with the 3/10th Baluch's during WW2.
Interview hosted by IWM (ref IWM 10175)
www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
Pension card and death registration for Henry Armitage Llewellyn, a Royal Irish Constabulary constable who retired in 1904 and died in 1911.
Royal Irish Constabulary pensioner Henry Armitage Llewellyn from Queen's County (now Laois) died in County Tipperary in July 1911.
www.findagrave.com/memorial/846...
Twin grandchildren born in County Cork in 1921 would take different paths.
Hoping to watch the presentation online.
06.01.2026 13:10 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Dogs breakfast of a Christmas tree
29.12.2025 04:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Death by Xmas tree needles?
26.12.2025 02:36 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0No footballs or truce in the air Xmas Day 1914 - a fleeting bombing raid on the UK
iancastlezeppelin.co.uk/24-dec-1914
Cover of Victoria Schofield's book "Wavell. Soldier & Statesman"
A good read. Lots to take in and think about.
22.12.2025 08:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It's grand as it is. No need to change it.
26.11.2025 06:47 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Heard the story on BBC Radio 2 - with added comments from Farage. So much unwarranted air time for this gobshite
09.11.2025 22:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0so much (rat-a-)tat appears each year.
Always thought we were missing a Supermerino Spitfire though. Would look good with an effigy of Squadron Leader Guy Fawkes at the steering column ready to do battle with the expected invasion of flying reindeer bringing their damned Easter eggs.
OTD 1918. Denis "Sonny" O'Neill discharged from the British Army.
Captured 25/1/18 with wound to right forearm. Repatriated by the Germans, he was admitted to the temporary King George Hospital, Stamford Street, London on 2/6/18 (originally a warehouse used by HM Stationery Office aka HMSO).
The first tanks appeared in Dublin in November 1917.
One of the tank commanders a Dubliner with his diary in the Tank Museum archives.
johnny-doyle.blogspot.com/2024/04/the-...
Heading to Bisley tomorrow for the Trafalgar Meeting.
Fitting to finish this little thread with Nelson up on The Pillar :
meshs-omekas.univ-lille.fr/omeka-s/s/im...
Still bits of the Pillar and Nelson in Dublin and Kilkenny
www.olddublintown.com/nelson-pilla...
