Grafter. Proud Dad. IC #755. Slight obsession with the Battle of Arnhem, D-Day and everything around Second World War.
London, England
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#ThursdayThoughts 55,573 aircrew were killed in bomber command, RAF 38,462 (69.2%) RCAF 9,919 (17.8%). RAAF 4,050 (7.3%). RNZAF (3.0%), 1,679. Other allied air forces 1,463 (2.7%). They gave their today so we could have a tomorrow. We will remember them. #rememberthefallen #RAF – at Hammersmith, London
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During a silent patrol, the crew of a Royal Navy Amphion-class submarine investigates an unfamiliar sound echoing through the hull.
In the 125-year history of the Royal Navy Submarine Service nearly 6000 submariners and over 150 submarines never returned. Lest we forget.
Bugger. One of the good ones!
Legendary Star Trek actor Sir Patrick Stewart dies aged 86 bbc.in/3USsdyg
Going through some old photographs again from a school trip to the First World War and Normandy battlefields, Point Du Hoc, June 2010
The cost of war, Ypres-Roulers Line. Track looking towards Ypres from Zonnebeke, as reconstructed. 10. 10. 18 from the IWM archive.
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Just want to thank Millwall FC and all the fans for my loan spell, been very good to me and made it a great loan !
A very strong tash!
Captain Edward Graham Mylne MID. Unit: 1st Battalion, Irish Guards. Death: 12 June 1915 age at death 32. IWM Archive.
Trenches at Cuinchy showing a large crater formed 22nd April 1915, creating a threat to British saps. IWM archive.
A game of cat and mouse in the trenches from Lieutenant Kent’s diary. Fascinating. #GreatWar
Aerial photograph of Pozieres village taken on 16 July 1916 from the IWM archive, utter devastation. #GreatWar
Looking for some advice on researching ancestors military service records from the Great War Community on twitter, my great grandfather Joseph John Moss served in the British Army. All I have is this photograph below, I have searched on ancestry and there is nothing with his 1/2
Belgian Carabineers retreating to Antwerp on 20th August 1914. IWM archive.
I never knew they used dogs to transport machine guns… #GreatWar
A brew up on the western front, men of the 2nd Battalion, Scots Guards near the Ypres-Menin road, October 1914. IWM archive #57250. I wonder how many made it through the war….
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17 October 1940. A Hurricane pilot discusses his flight with the intelligence officer after returning from aerial combat.
I’m still gob smacked that I managed to get hold of a picture of my Great Uncle who was killed at the Battle of Loos, turns out he was part of the old pre war army and died as a corporal #WW1
Reading up on the battle of Loos tonight, my Great Uncle Alfred Rothery was killed on the 28th September and served with The first battalion Royal Berkshire regiment. His body was never found but is commemorated on the Loos memorial.
