Stephen Chambers

1/2: Back from a magical 6 days with some of the SGWT team exploring Verdun & the Meuse-Argonne. Trenches were walked, bunkers explored, stories uncovered, steak enjoyed & perhaps the odd beer along the way.

Verdun - The scene of utter devastation

German bats in France

Bonsoir Verdun

Alpine 110 would look good on the drive … and to drive!

FACT OF THE DAY. 16 January 1957. The original Cavern Club opened at 10 Mathew Street in Liverpool as a jazz club. The club later became a centre for the Merseybeat boom of the early 1960s. The Beatles played regularly at the venue until 1963. The original club was demolished in 1973.

A surprising sunny day in Dieppe with a group as we study the disastrous 1942 raid and why it wasn’t going to be “a piece of cake"

Black and white photo, snow covered ground, troops huddled in group, horse drawn carts on road running between earth embankments, skeletal trees, buildings behind. Imperial War Museum Q 8356.

#OTD 20 December 1917. At the Menin Gate, later the site of the Memorial to the Missing, with the ruins of Ypres beyond, a group of soldiers warm themselves around a brazier. Photo by David McLellan. Source: www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...

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The First World War is never too far away, or that of the Crimean War. A Verdun sign in Mauritius 🇲🇺 … which is not too far away from a Balaclava

After 15 hrs of travel, it’s now beer o clock 🍻

I just finished recording with @battleguide.bsky.social on the fascinating evolution of historical military maps.

We talked about: "How digitizing trench maps can bring history to life and enhance our understanding of the battlefields."

Thanks Dudley Giles, for a great discussion

A black and white photo shows show British soldiers, wearing battledress and steel helmets, standing with their heads bowed. They are standing between rows of white headstones, with a Cross of Sacrifice and trees in the background.

Today in 1939, during the 'Phoney War' period of the Second World War, two British soldiers pay their respects to a casualty of the First World War, at an Imperial War Graves Commission cemetery in France. #WW2 #WW1 #History

Photo: Geoffrey Keating IWM O 207 / www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...

It’s in the splendid settings of the Cavalry and Guards Club in London

A beautiful painting of Noor Inayat Khan; also known as Nora Baker or ‘Madeleine’ her SOE codename. Sent to occupied France as a wireless operator Khan was betrayed, captured, and executed at Dachau in 1944. She was posthumously awarded the George Cross for gallantry #WAAF #SOE

Feeling dizzy 🥴

I missed the Ford Capri but the Hetzer did stand out

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War correspondent Alan Wood: "If in years to come any man says to you 'I fought at Arnhem', take off your hat to him and buy him a drink, for this is the stuff for which England's greatness is made".

The hotel put on a special screening of ‘Theirs is the Glory’ for the tour group, a special way to end the second day on the Arnhem and Oosterbeek battlefields

Beer o’clock 🍻 in Arnhem

It’s Tank time

First stop of the day. I do like this memorial and would love to assemble something similar in my garden. Anyone have a spare 6pdr or drop cannister? #Arnhem

The battle did leave its scars. They most certainly did as part of the air landing brigade, initially to protect the DZ/LZ’s of the 2/3 lifts. Of the individuals we are following, one died of wounds in the Tafelberg and the other was made POW following the White House fighting.

On my way for an Arnhem tour where we will be following in the footsteps of the KOSB’s … and a few others

It was nice to stop off at the Le Touret Memorial and Cemetery where we did a Christmas Truce stand for the school battlefield tour. Amongst the graves is Bill Bannister, one who didn’t get the chance to shake hands, exchange gifts or fraternise with the enemy on that Christmas day in 1914