Allan Douglas

And go after personal assets as they will undoubtedly close the company down to avoid paying.

After the Battle Magazine 1 - 130, Specials : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive After the Battle Magazine issues 001 (1973) through 130 (2005) and specials.

Courtesy of “Maureen” via The Great War Forum, a link to the Internet Archive of issues 1 - 130 of After The Battle Magazine. Lots of well researched reading to keep you busy.

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Picture of Sgt. Rounsley featured in local press. www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/2547637...

His picture in some of the local press, www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/2547637...

Just a reminder that Butch Cassidy’s mother was born in Brandling village, Jesmond, Newcastle. I’ll be boring people endlessly about this today.

Probably like every other prediction he’s made for gullible financial investors - absolute bollocks! However, those naive or stupid enough will believe his inane pronouncements , “a fool is easily parted………”

As my father used to say “never trust a flag waver, they tend to sit comfortable at home whilst voting to put others in harms way”.

Wonder if they’d be interested in “grid to mag -add” “mag to grid - get rid” , plotting grid references, bearings etc. Still use these occasionally just for the fun of it.

Or why he ditched his security detail before getting pissed at that particular party attended by said son of KGB officer?

Allan’s celebrating his 65th birthday by running the Great North Run in aid of Blesma. Help Allan Douglas raise money to support Blesma The Limbless Veterans

I’m celebrating my 65th today and later this year running the Great North Run in aid of Blesma, a charity providing help and assistance to veterans who have lost limbs. If you feel inclined to donate my Just Giving page is

Allan’s celebrating his 65th birthday by running the Great North Run in aid of Blesma. Help Allan Douglas raise money to support Blesma The Limbless Veterans

Allan is celebrating his 65th birthday by running the Great North Run this year in aid of Blesma. If you’d like to support this worthwhile cause my “Just Giving” page can be found here;

www.justgiving.com/page/allan-d...

Did contact CWGC some time ago to ask about their understanding of Lichens and Biodeterioration of stonework but unsurprisingly received no response. It’ll cost more in the long run to replace headstones damaged or made unreadable by lichen growth. Steam cleaning is a possible solution?

Would help if they stopped calling it Artificial Intelligence, it’s not intelligent, it’s a statistical guessing machine, which given evidence from numerous of my student’s reports is frequently wrong. However, if you’ve got investors to pay you have to push this nonsense as much as you can.

Just because……………..

Then and Now, China Wall #cwgc cemetery, initially a small cemetery containing 130 graves. Hugely enlarged after the armistice when graves from 30 smaller cemeteries were concentrated here bringing the total to 2791. Original autochrome September 1923, Albert Khan collection.

Wanting to visit the IWM Ashcroft collection to view a particular VC? Best make your visit before 1st June 2025 as IWM is closing the Ashcroft gallery, medals going into storage. Heard about this from a colleague at work and had to visit the “Dark Side” to confirm🤣

Crossed a bridge built in 1419 in Guardbridge, Scotland last week. Commented to my better half how many of our current constructions would still be in use in 606 years? Not many methinks!

P47 Thunderbolt covered in engine oil after being hit by flak.

Another image I had saved on an old drive. P-47 pilot Lt Edwin King and his flak damaged P-47. He landed safely, having to be guided down by others from the flight as he had zero visibility, despite losing most of the engine oil. Engine seized after landing apparently, Italy Jan 45

Brings to mind this image of 19 year old Lt. Edwin "Lucky" Wright showing an hole in the propeller of his Thunderbolt which was made by flak while on his 39th mission over Münster. He’s still smiling though!

Hill 60 Google Earth image.

July 1917 aerial image overlay on present landscape.

Lidar image of Hill 60 revealing the shell scape beneath the vegetation.

First overlay I’ve done on Bluesky.
Hill 60, July 1917 aerial showing the effect of shellfire and mines on the landscape. Hard to imagine when visiting the site today, but Lidar image shows the scars of battle remain beneath the vegetation.

Good plan, then at least we can avoid the hordes who rush round to just see this rather disappointing picture to do the compulsory “selfie”. Better still put it in a separate building!

Another private memorial from Bishopwearmouth cemetery Sunderland, 2nd Lt Christopher Binns, Royal Garrison Artillery,
154th Heavy Bty. Christopher was born on 17th January 1881, the youngest of the four children of Joseph John Binns and his wife Rosa. Buried in The Huts CWGC cemetery, Belgium.

If your annual Ancestry subscription is due try this link. Just obtained a years subscription for £59, less than half of my renewal fee.
www.ancestry.co.uk/checkout/mli...

Tommy in this morning’s sunshine which did not last for long after this!

The Bluff + Palingbeek, Ypres Salient, an area of intensive mining activity and both sites of continuous conflict from late 1914 to mid 1917. Only a very short distance from Hill 60 if you’re visiting the area and much quieter.

4. No 2 A.S.D. RAF refers to No.2 Aeroplane Supply depot, responsible for aircraft receipt, issues and repairs, based at Beck sur Mer at the time of Lt. Davidson’s death. An overview of the work of these units can be found here

www.crossandcockade.com/StOmer/TheAi...

3. A bit time spent trawling the Etaples graves registration reports on the #cwgc site found A446, Lt. James Thomas Gardiner Davidson, who died 5/7/18, aged 20. He died in an accident whilst test flying a new machine. Son of Mrs. and the late Mr. James W. Davidson, of 919, Ethel St., Verdun, Quebec.

2. Although not very clear I thought I could make out a “J” as the first initial followed by 2 unclear letters and a surname commencing “D”. Luckily however, the original grave registration marker of A446 is clearly visible.

1. In 1918, Olive Edis was commissioned by the Imperial War Museum’s Women’s Work Committee to photograph British women serving in France. One image shows workers tending graves at Etaples. A rather distinctive grave adorned with a propeller is shown.

From the Maurice Antony collection, a view of Larch Wood cemetery, 7th March 1920. Hill 60 would be behind you, with “The Dump” on your left. Note the newly constructed railway.