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I’m interested in WW1, particularly the Battle of the Frontiers (22/08/1914) and am a member of the Great War Group and Western Front Association. Outside of military history I like cycling and rugby
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This week’s podcast is on the Medway prison hulks and Deadman’s island
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#history #medway #navalhistory
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Today’s feature is up. It’s basically akin to a chapter in a book and you get at least one a month among all the other articles for just £5. This time, it’s the story of how there came to be a French Expeditionary Force in Italy in 1944…
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Christy Mathewson aka The Gentleman's Hurler was a professional baseball player. In 1918 he joined the newly formed Chemical Warfare Service & served in the AEF. He was possibly gassed in a trg incident in France in which 8 men died.
He died from TB on 7th October 1925. He is buried in Lewisburg.
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Since 1980, the ECHR has heard just 29 UK immigrant deportation case, and the UK won 16 of them. Quitting will make no material difference to immigration, just weaken protections for absolutely everybody in this country. But Farage and the Tories know that.
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Tomorrow, Tuesday 7 October I am speaking on I’M OUT: ESCAPE FROM GERMAN POW CAMP at Chesterfield WFA. Start at 7.30pm, the Labour Club, Unity House, Saltergate, Chesterfield.
It would be great to see my old chums!!!
New post to open the series on the Second Battle of Aachen 7/8-21 October 1944.
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Guy Prendergast was commissioned into the Royal Tank Corps in 1925 and was posted to 3 Armd Car Coy in Egypt. There he met Sapper officer Ralph Bagnold, an eager explorer, and in 1927 Prendergast joined him on one of the trips through the Sinai in a pair of Ford cars.
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Landing Craft Assault (LCA) training at the Combined Training Centre (CTC) in Kabrit, Egypt, where earlier in the war Nigel Willmott had been on the staff and had lobbied for the establishment of a permanent beach-reconnaissance unit.
🗓️ #OTD in 1942 – Nigel Willmott is in the Med with a thrown-together team doing beach recce ahead of Op Torch. In his absence, back in the UK his long-standing plea for beach recce to be taken seriously is starting to produce permanent results. (📸 IWM A 17721, illustrative) #NavalHistory 🧵
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🔬 Qualifiée par Albert Einstein de "femme scientifique la plus importante du XXe siècle", Lise Meitner a fait l'une des découvertes les plus marquantes du siècle dernier : la fission nucléaire ➡️ https://l.franceculture.fr/Lw4
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The Locarno Conference began on 5th October 1925. The main aim of the conference was to secure post Great War borders and normalize relations between Germany and other European nations.
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Our latest podcast has been released!
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@bylinetimes.bsky.social can now reveal that, during the crucial period when convicted Reform leader Nathan Gill was most active, working directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most senior ally in Ukraine, he was also one of Nigel Farage’s closest confidantes 1/12
Then & Now | Verdun & WWI battlefields in France 🇫🇷
From the ruined forts of Verdun to towns scarred by the First World War
See how they look 100+ years later.
📽️ Watch the full compilation on YouTube:
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This week’s somewhat rushed (and thusly) free feature is on the cruise of SMS Leipzig along the West Coast of the US and Mexico.
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How Canada reacts and the invasion scare
#ww1 #navalhistory
WWI Battlefields | what remains?
2 minutes of ideas of places to visit in France
Enjoy!
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Today’s feature is up on Substack. I’ve been obsessing over my Tank Memorial Book again, but this time I’ve put all of the citations in context. You get tanks, Canadians, and a bad few days for the German Army in 1918… achurchill.substack.com/p/full-featu...
03.10.2025 18:03 — 👍 25 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1I’m in somewhere called Allerton Bywater in Yorkshire (apparently) tomorrow talking about liaison between the #FWW British & French Armies on the Western Front & the role of interpreters in that. 12:30pm, I think. If you fancy coming to hear me crap on,details are on the Western Front Assoc website.
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The Franco-American attack towards Blanc Mont Ridge, On this day in 1918. Men of the US 2nd and French 151e Division advanced to contact under artillery fire.
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In this weeks podcast we answer listeners questions on a diverse range of topics ranging from the role of the Sanitary Officer, demarcation stones and some powerful but perhaps less well known personal narratives - out Sunday morning #WW1 #FWW
03.10.2025 12:02 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0@thegreatwargroup.bsky.social
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Another revisit to the men of the South Notts Hussars! They have moved to Mersa Matruh in Egypt and are facing the Italians! Please share! Thanks!
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