The Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial church. Badly damaged in air raids and the battle for the city. See first photo for more information.
A wet & blustery walk today in the local park. Noticed this tree & plaque planted by the Duchess of Albany at the opening of the park in October 1883. Sadly 5 months later in 1884 the Duke, Prince Leopold Queen Victoria's 8th & youngest child, would die after a fall whilst in Cannes #LocalHistory
Now that would be my exact reaction as well 🤢😂
I've finally updated my website* so if you want to find out more about me and my work, check it out:
lucybetteridgedyson.com
*please note I'm not a professional web designer and did this around entertaining my 7 month old and cooking dinner so, don't let me know if you think it's rubbish
Quote “This weekend DOVO Sedee in Meerdaal was called to a plane bomb that was found in the Kattenbos in Lommel.It was an American 500-pound bomb, which probably came from a crashed B-17 bomber.Because the bomb had not been dropped, the detonators were still intact & partially armed.”
📸DOVO Sedee
Gosling Press has just produced a volume with all 96 issue of peninsula Press, the newsheet produced during the Gallipoli Campaign. This is we believe the first time all issues have been available. For more information go to goslingpress.co.uk/peninsula-pr...
“As I lay in the trenches at Neuve Chapelle, Where the big guns barked like the hounds of hell, Sez I to mysel’, sez I to mysel’ - “Billy, my boy, here’s the end o’ you.”
Remembering the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, 10th - 13th March 1915.
Have come across a curious case this morning. A man who died of wounds on 11 July 1916 while at a base hospital at Boulogne, yet has no known grave and is listed at the Thiepval Memorial. Not much more documentation to rely on. Yet another thing to do today.
Five Swedish born soldiers in NZEF during the Battle of the Somme - September 15-17, 1916. Feel free to read more through the link below 👇
www.westernfront.se/2026/03/06/s...
Out for drinks in Manchester last night & I had to pause at the #ww1 memorial in the now Britannia Hotel, back then it was a warehouse of S & J Watts.The 'Sentry',by Charles Jagger,stands opposite the memorial to those who fell during the war. Suspect many are 18th Manchester's Warehousemen & Clerks
Even Ellie takes time to sit & reflect
Lucky to live just 5 mins walk away from the local park, always take time to pause at these trees #ww1
In the latest Old Front Line Questions & Answers we ask how WW1 cemetery headstones are aligned, what happened to leftover artillery shells in 1918, who were Officers’ servants (batmen) in the British Army & discuss WW1 salvage.
Beautiful sunset last night in Huddersfield on our dog walk. Especially with the moon rising over the war memorial #WW1
‘Camouflage class in New York University... They make models from aerial photographs, re-photograph them, then work out a camouflage scheme and make a final photograph’, March 1943. Original colour photograph by Marjory Collins. Source: www.loc.gov/pictures/ite...
Some additional information for you Tom, only about a mile or so from me
huddersfield.exposed/wiki/Ravensk...
huddersfield.exposed/wiki/Legh_To...
In this episode, we explore the history of The Bluff, near Ypres. We look at the bitter fighting of February–March 1916, when British and German forces battled for control of the high ground overlooking Ypres, and walk the battlefield visiting the battlefield cemeteries.
The mad orange f*#ker is going to get us all killed! He's totally out of control
Quote: “In Wortegem-Petegem we have recovered around 350 shells over the past 3 days. It appears that this site was used as an ammunition depot during World War I. An impressive, but also confrontational reminder of our past.”
📸DOVO-Sedee
The only Victoria Cross ever awarded to a professional footballer has gone on display at the Green Howards Museum, Richmond, N. Yorks. 2nd Lt Donald Simpson Bell of Harrogate Syed for Bradford Park Avenue & died in WW1 in July 1916. 👇
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Link here about the camp, 2nd article
www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/5562/bu...
What's will the flame do? Or what am I looking to happen. Knowing my luck the whole thing will go up in flames 🔥 haha
Now you mention it ...where's my pen 😂 🖊️
Is this someone's bad attempt at a copy, a fancy dress item or genuine? 🤷🏻♂️ #ww1 @greatwarhuts.bsky.social
Delighted to say that The Long, Long Trail will soon be hosting a database of men passing through No. 1 Canadian Casualty Clearing Station, on behalf of the British Isles Family History Society of Greater Ottawa. Watch this space! #ww1 #genealogy #cef #canada #BIFHSGO
Went to a gig last night at the gorgeous O2 Empire Shephards Bush & had to stop & view the war memorial in the park opposite #ww1 #ww2
Many people think of Nazi concentration camps as purpose-built institutions. But many of the concentration and internment camps in Germany and occupied countries were repurposed buildings: asylums, barracks, farm complexes, even hotels.
former Ilag VIII internment camp, Toszek, Poland
Brilliant, two men joining others on my generic battlefield tour on Saturday, their relative is listed on the Menin Gate Memorial. I'm accessing the war diary and rather nicely their relatives name is listed as one of the killed on 14th February 1915 in the actions at St Eloi.
I have written a small article about the Swedish contribution to the rebuild of the French villages on the battlefield after the Great War. Read it through the link below:
www.westernfront.se/2026/02/07/s...
