#CWGC

Neil York

johncopse

A misidentified grave in @CWGC Queens Cemetery, Bucquoy, Pas-de-Calais.Queens Cemetery was founded in March 1917 and following the Armistice it was chosen for the concentration of graves exhumed from battlefield

Helen Roberts

HelenR864

This week’s story relates to a @CWGC headstone I discovered in the quiet hamlet of Britford, Nr Salisbury. St Peter’s churchyard contains just the one war grave, that belonging to

Adil Rana Chhina

AdilRChhina

100 years ago #OnThisDay (3 Sept), a gallant last stand took place at a place called Samawa in Iraq. 30 Dogras of C squadron of 10th Hodson’s Horse were surrounded

Ravilious

Ravilious1942

Today is #VEDay when we remember the end of the war in Europe. Eric Ravilious never survived to see that Peace, & for his wife Tirzah, it left her a

Steven Bright

brightsteven22

OTD 80 years ago, PM King publicly announced in the House that had sent troops to . Members of Z Force had landed in Reykjavik 2 days earlier -

Helen Roberts

HelenR864

For my story about @CWGC headstone this week, I will take you to the Devizes Road Cemetery in #Salisbury. Sadly this week the story relates to a group of headstones

Alex Tijhuis

alextijhuis

#Thread As many of you know, I collect German photos from both the world wars. In that colletion, there is a small topic I tend to look out for and

Jonathan

3468marsh

#Arnhem76 Day One.Sunday 17th September 1944.A thread about 6 Platoon of B Company, 2nd Parachute Battalion. The 2nd Battalion, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel John Frost dropped on DZ X with

Amandeep Madra OBE

amanmadra

"In the last two world wars 83,005 turban wearing Sikh soldiers were killed and 109,045 were wounded."....Except they weren't. Unfortunately the facts in this quote don't add up at all.Following

Jonathan

3468marsh

#Arnhem76 Day 5. Thursday 21st September 1944.The 5th day and all resistance at the northern end of the Arnhem Road Bridge had ended. 1st Airborne Division have now gone on

Mark Barnes

mbarnesn16

#OTD in 1915 and 1940 two members of my family met with fate during #FWW and #SWW. Pix show my Great uncle Leslie Barnes and my uncle Edward Leslie Barnes.

Jonathan

3468marsh

#Arnhem76 Day Four. Wednesday 20th September 1944.Today we are looking at the story of the 4th Parachute Brigade commanded by Brigadier Shan Hackett. The Brigade, as we saw on Friday,

Jonathan

3468marsh

A thread with @Dunkirk_1940 on the massacre at Le Paradis. On 27 May 1940 Units of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) were desperately fighting to hold open a 'corridor' so

Lawrence

WW2Explorer

#Dunkirk80 - ‘Hold to the last round, to the last man.’ Like the Norfolk’s at Le Paradis only 24 hours earlier the 2/Royal Warwicks & gunners of the Royal Cheshire’s

Anne Louise Avery

AnneLouiseAvery

Ypres, Sunday 24th July 1927. Australian war artist Captain Will Longstaff, shaken by the unveiling ceremony of the Menin Gate Memorial to the 350,000 who had died in the Ypres

Mike Bechthold

mike_bechthold

#OTD in 1917, the Canadian Corps advanced into battle together for the first time and captured #VimyRidge. This decisive victory changed the course of the war and transformed Canada from