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Lyn Edmonds

@edmondslyn.bsky.social

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Wife, Mum, Grandma; Lead of Away from the Western Front & formerly Lead of Gallipoli Centenary Education Project; retired Clinical Librarian - also posts @aftwf1418.bsky.social

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Away from the Western Front @aftwf1418.bsky.social · 1h

Remembering today, Pte Robert Henry #Edmondson 2nd Bn King’s Shropshire Light Infantry, of #Shipley, Yorkshire, died 11 October 1918; tragically, his mother took her own life because of his death

More info: bit.ly/2PxIx0m

#WW1 #FWW #KSLI #31DaysOfGraves #Day11Military

Robert Henry Edmondson's grave in Turin Town Cemetery, which is marked with a Commonwealth War Graves headstone showing his name, rank , regiment, soldier number, age and date of death, with grass and other headstones in the background

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Away from the Western Front @aftwf1418.bsky.social · 3h

#31DaysofGraves Day 11 #Military

A Loving Son
A Noble Pal

2nd Lt Sydney Frank #Norris, Royal Field Artillery, died 28 April 1919, 5 months after the Armistice on his way to Egypt; buried with 15 others named the ‘Turin Men’- most of whom like Sydney died from illness

More details: bit.ly/2IjNUj3

Sydney Frank Norris' grave in Turin Town Cemetery, which is marked with a Commonwealth War Graves headstone showing his name, rank , regiment, soldier number, age, date of death and epitaph, with grass and other headstones in the background

Lyn Edmonds @edmondslyn.bsky.social · 1d

Run don't walk! 🐶🐾

A special #FingerpostFriday for all our canine friends, in Wandlebury, Cambridgeshire

A wooden fingerpost with one directional sign pointing to the right which says DOG RUN, surrounded by grass with trees, bushes and a field in the background

Lyn Edmonds @edmondslyn.bsky.social · 3d

Boscobel®, a pink rose bred by David Austin and seen in the Rose Garden at Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire

Name inspired by Boscobel House, where Charles II hid there in an oak tree, whilst being pursued by Cromwell’s soldiers during the English Civil War

#RoseWednesday #BloomScrolling

Close-up of a pink rose flower in full bloom, surrounded by green leaves and other parts of the rose bush in the background

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Lyn Edmonds @edmondslyn.bsky.social · 3d

@kevvvvnnnnn.bsky.social, thank you for the repost 🍃

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@y-asmin.bsky.social, thank you for the repost 🍃

Lyn Edmonds @edmondslyn.bsky.social · 5d

@pamw143.bsky.social, thank you for the reposts! 🌺

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Away from the Western Front @aftwf1418.bsky.social · 5d

A Gold Medal Cyclist: the story of Sergeant Michael Henry Margiotta, who died on 6 October 1918, six days after the Bulgarian armistice; he is buried in Lembet Road Cemetery in Thessaloniki
#Salonika #WW1 #MiddlesexRegiment #ArmyCyclistCorps

More details:
awayfromthewesternfront.org/research/sol...

Sergeant Michael Margiotta’s grave in Lembet Road Cemetery in Thessaloniki, which is marked with a Commonwealth War Graves headstone showing his name, rank , soldier number, age and date of death, with grass and other headstones in the background (Photo: © Robin Braysher)

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Lyn Edmonds @edmondslyn.bsky.social · 5d

Flowerheads of the Dahlia, 'Hillcrest Jonathan' in shades of white, pink and magenta, seen in the Dahlia Garden at Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
#Dahlia #ColorADay #ColourADay #PinkMon #PinkMonday #MagentaMon #MagentaMonday #BloomScrolling @midsandeastnt.bsky.social

Flowerheads of the Dahlia, 'Hillcrest Jonathan' in shades of white, pink and magenta, which is ball-shaped and has similar blooms and leaves in the background

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Lyn Edmonds @edmondslyn.bsky.social · 5d

@wonkyeggs.bsky.social, thank you for the repost 🍃

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Lyn Edmonds @edmondslyn.bsky.social · 5d

@tinido.bsky.social thank you for the repost 🍃

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Many thanks!

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A 3-sided pod of Yellow Iris, Iris pseudacorus, that has split open revealing its many flattened red-brown seeds that have started to disperse into a nearby pond, seen in Wandlebury, Cambridgeshire
#YellowIris #Seeds #Autumn #WildflowerHour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

A dark brown seed pod from a Yellow Iris plant that has split open revealing many flattened red-brown seeds that have started to disperse; against a mainly grey blurred background

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Lyn Edmonds @edmondslyn.bsky.social · 5d

Corn Marigold, Glebionis segetum, lightly splashed with raindrops on its bright yellow ribbed petals and an unopened bud
#CornMarigold #WildflowerHour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Top-down photo of a flower with bright yellow ribbed petals, lightly splashed with raindrops, an unopened bud to the right; all surrounded by its slightly jagged edged green leaves below

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Lyn Edmonds @edmondslyn.bsky.social · 5d

Holly, Ilex aquifolium, with its dark green glossy leaves and bright red berries on a tree that was laden with this winter fruit
#Holly #WildflowerHour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Close-up of Holly with dark green spiky and glossy leaves with a small bunch of bright red berries in between the leaves; against a background of the tree and the ground beneath

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Away from the Western Front @aftwf1418.bsky.social · 6d

On 5 October 1915, 110 years ago today, Allied forces began landing at the port of Salonika (now Thessaloniki) , marking the beginning of the Salonika Campaign
#Salonika #WW1 #FWW

awayfromthewesternfront.org/campaigns/ba...

IWM (Q 13626) Salonika viewed from the deck of a British battleship; the city's numerous minarets and hilltop citadel are clearly visible

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Lyn Edmonds @edmondslyn.bsky.social · 6d

Wild Mignonette, Reseda lutea, from earlier this year (May 2025) to celebrate its #JacobinDay
#Mignonette #SundayYellow #WildFlowerHour

Yellow flowers on a green stem forming a conical shaped spike, against a blurred green background

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Lyn Edmonds @edmondslyn.bsky.social · 7d

A leafy green patch of Ivy-leaved Toadflax, Cymbalaria muralis, with its tiny flowers still growing strongly on a wall at Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire in the Autumn sunshine 🍃
#ColorADay #ColourADay #GreenSat #GreenSaturday #WallPlant #Ivy-leavedToadflax #WildflowerHour

A leafy green patch of Ivy-leaved Toadflax, with tiny purple flowers growing on a pale coloured brick wall in the Autumn sunshine)

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Lyn Edmonds @edmondslyn.bsky.social · 7d

Flowerhead of the dark red Collarette type Dahlia 'Mary Evelyn/Eveline', lightly splashed with raindrops, seen this week in the Dahlia Garden @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social
#Dahlia #BloomScrolling #FlowersOnFriday #FridayFlowers

Close-up of a dark red Collarette type Dahlia 'Mary Evelyn/Eveline', lightly splashed with raindrops, with part of a bud and leaf to its left side, against a blurred green and brown background

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Away from the Western Front @aftwf1418.bsky.social · 8d

#31DaysOfGraves #Day1Flower

Grave of Dvr John C A Taylor in Oulx Cemetery, Italy; he died in a tragic train accident on his way home in 1918

A local lady has regularly tended his grave with flowers

Read more about him here & in the Book of Remembrance: awayfromthewesternfront.org/research/sol...

The grave of Driver John C A Taylor in Oulx Communal cemetery in Italy with flowers and plants placed on the pebbles in front of the headstone; his grave has been regularly tended with flowers by a local Italian lady who has no family connection with him. There are extra flowers on this photo placed by Emma Pace who visited the grave and took this photo.

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Lyn Edmonds @edmondslyn.bsky.social · 9d

A very obliging Common Darter Dragonfly that was enjoying basking in the autumn sun on a wooden fence close to a pond in @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social
#BritishDragonflies #CommonDarterDragonfly #InsectThursday

A mainly reddish-brown coloured dragonfly resting on a wooden fence with its transparent wings outspread

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