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Genevra Charsley, Flanders Battlefield Tour @flandersbtour.bsky.social · 18h

Restoration work being carried out on the Buttes in Polygon Wood therefore is currently off limits to the public walking up there. The cemetery is still accessible to the public.

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Genevra Charsley, Flanders Battlefield Tour @flandersbtour.bsky.social · 4d

Positive response to explanation of the Christmas Truce, we’re now going to insert into the tour a visit to the resting place of a footballer for the two teenage sons…

Genevra Charsley, Flanders Battlefield Tour @flandersbtour.bsky.social · 5d

Oh dear, time to be a damp squid..."so we wondered if there is any way you could also incorporate the Christmas Truce football match site?"

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Genevra Charsley, Flanders Battlefield Tour @flandersbtour.bsky.social · 5d

Oh dear, time to be a damp squid..."so we wondered if there is any way you could also incorporate the Christmas Truce football match site?"

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Genevra Charsley, Flanders Battlefield Tour @flandersbtour.bsky.social · 7d

On Friday we followed James Cormack of the 5th Cameron Highlanders & the Final Advance 28th September through to 27th October 1918. Starting off at the area of Bellewaerde, Frezenberg Ridges and Potijze, then advancing through areas such as MolenHoek Ridge, the Keiberg Spur & on to Waterdamhoek.

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Genevra Charsley, Flanders Battlefield Tour @flandersbtour.bsky.social · 10d

Too busy thinking I’d have nightmares after going down there. Jacques and I were offered the opportunity once but we politely declined.

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Genevra Charsley, Flanders Battlefield Tour @flandersbtour.bsky.social · 10d

I think it was around the area of Hill 80, could be mistaken though.

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Genevra Charsley, Flanders Battlefield Tour @flandersbtour.bsky.social · 10d

I don’t envy the person who has to carry the box with remains down into the crypt…

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Genevra Charsley, Flanders Battlefield Tour @flandersbtour.bsky.social · 10d

***Take Notice***For anyone out guiding the Ypres Salient this weekend please note there is a burial service on Saturday 4th October at the German Cemetery at Langemarck, from what I understand it is going to be in the afternoon.

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Genevra Charsley, Flanders Battlefield Tour @flandersbtour.bsky.social · 11d

Out guiding and met Tonny one of the buglers from the Last Post Association, he very kindly gave a little impromptu talk about his role within the LPA. A nice surprise for my chaps from Leek in Staffordshire.

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Genevra Charsley, Flanders Battlefield Tour @flandersbtour.bsky.social · 12d

This is exactly no one should EVER tamper with ordnance from First or Second World War, leave it to the bomb disposal units 👇

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Obus ontploft in centrum van Diksmuide: één zwaargewonde

Iets na elf uur is een obus uit de eerste wereldoorlog ontploft in het het centrum van Diksmuide. Daarbij is één gewonde gevallen.

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María Inés Tato @mariainestato.bsky.social · May 31

Today, I visited the British war cemetery in Stahnsdorf, where the remains of those who fell in Germany during the First World War are laid to rest. Among them is Thomas Colvill-Jones, an Anglo-Argentine volunteer and young RAF pilot who departed from Buenos Aires in 1917.
#LestWeForget

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Genevra Charsley, Flanders Battlefield Tour @flandersbtour.bsky.social · 25d

They may decide to extend it…

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Genevra Charsley, Flanders Battlefield Tour @flandersbtour.bsky.social · 26d

From 27th September to the 30th November a 6.5 metered high figure known as The Hauntings will be placed near the Menin Gate Memorial in Ieper. Facing towards the memorial symbolizing all those that never returned home…

📸 Flanders Fields 14-18

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Genevra Charsley, Flanders Battlefield Tour @flandersbtour.bsky.social · 27d

Ahead of my guided tour yesterday for the Royal British Legion Gloucester City at Talbot House I read an article about TOC H where Tubby Clayton had been described as the “priest for the parish of the Ypres Salient” during the First World War.” A fitting and wonderful description I thought.

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Genevra Charsley, Flanders Battlefield Tour @flandersbtour.bsky.social · 29d

A boy soldier, enlisting at the age of 14 in 1905 having been born in Peshawar, India. Entered theatre of war 10th November 1914, described as: intelligent, hardworking, smart and trustworthy. Wounded in the areas of Barnsley Road and Post 28, resting in peace in Essex Farm Cemetery.

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Genevra Charsley, Flanders Battlefield Tour @flandersbtour.bsky.social · Aug 18

Congratulations!

Genevra Charsley, Flanders Battlefield Tour @flandersbtour.bsky.social · Aug 15

We first came to the burial ground of the Clan MacCrae around 23 years ago. Today we made a return visit, I’m so pleased we did as I missed so much information from my first visit, especially some that links back to my old Clan MacCrae book of those who died, fought and survived the First World War.

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Lucy Betteridge-Dyson @lmbd1418.bsky.social · Aug 15

The Kohima Epitaph:

‘When you go home, tell them of us and say,
For your tomorrow, we gave our today’

#VJDAY80

📸 Captain Edwin Alan Robert Syms saluting his fallen comrades at Taukkyan War Cemetery, Burma, in 2005.

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Genevra Charsley, Flanders Battlefield Tour @flandersbtour.bsky.social · Aug 7

Tonight we are staying just outside Tain where the hills to the rear of Tain were used by the Gordon Highlanders “U Battalion” (from University) for training a few days prior to the declaration of war by Great Britain to Germany. Little did they realise…

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Genevra Charsley, Flanders Battlefield Tour @flandersbtour.bsky.social · Jul 23

Well, this was a nice surprise to start the day, thank you TripAdvisor - As Jacques and I have always said "we're only as good as our last tour," something we firmly believe in even after all these years.

Thank you also to all past & present customers who have placed their faith in us.

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Genevra Charsley, Flanders Battlefield Tour @flandersbtour.bsky.social · Jul 19

Saw this on Faceache also 👍

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Genevra Charsley, Flanders Battlefield Tour @flandersbtour.bsky.social · Jul 19

Pas-de-Calais: Farmer hits shell, young people exposed to phosphorus gas - #WW1 #FWW

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Pas-de-Calais : un agriculteur percute un obus, des jeunes exposés à du gaz au phosphore

D’importants moyens de secours ont été mobilisés pour venir en aide à une dizaine de jeunes au nord d’Albert après la fuite d’un obus dans un champ à Bucquoy.

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The Crusader Project @crusaderproject.bsky.social · Jul 7

1st Battle of El Alamein

Introduction This is a new, small project, in which we are translating the daily reports sent by the HQ of the German-Italian Panzerarmee to Berlin. ULTRA Many, if not all of these reports were read in Bletchley Park, and the content communicated to Cairo to support…

1st Battle of El Alamein

Introduction This is a new, small project, in which we are translating the daily reports sent by the HQ of the German-Italian Panzerarmee to Berlin. ULTRA Many, if not all of these reports were read in Bletchley Park, and the content communicated to Cairo to support operations of Middle East Command. Due to the inevitable delay, they were rarely of tactical value in a fast-moving combat situation, but highly valuable in operational terms.

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Genevra Charsley, Flanders Battlefield Tour @flandersbtour.bsky.social · Jul 4

We are fab2lous x

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Genevra Charsley, Flanders Battlefield Tour @flandersbtour.bsky.social · Jul 4

A haunting sight of the skeletal ruins of Zonnebeke Church...1917.

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