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Steve Marsdin @stevemarsdin.bsky.social · 31m

@thegreatwargroup.bsky.social
#FWWhist #History #1GM #FWW #Grande-Guerre #WW1

Dan P @danieljphelan.bsky.social · 2h

Captain Clarence Jefferies VC was killed on 12th October 1917 leading an attack on a machine emplacement for which he was awarded his Victoria Cross. His body was initially lost but was recovered and identified in 1921.

📍Tyne Cot Cemetery 🇧🇪

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Parcours 14-18 @parcours14-18.bsky.social · 4h

Découverte d'un livre sur la #1GM proposant une vision mêlant Histoire, philosophie, mysticisme & œuvre littéraire. La guerre d’un fantassin en 41 thèmes par Fernand Pignatel.
L’Offertoire, trente scènes du calvaire du poilu illustrées par Pierre Gerbaud
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Couverture de l'ouvrage de PIGNATEL Fernand, L’Offertoire, trente scènes du calvaire du poilu illustrées par Pierre Gerbaud, Paris, Étienne Chiron, 72 pages.

Illustration de Pierre Gerbaud datée de 1918. Page 43.

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Debout les Morts ! @vingtfrong.bsky.social · 13h

#WW1 #FWW #FWWHist #History 🗃

Debout les Morts ! @vingtfrong.bsky.social · 1d

#OTDiH 1914: Death of Georges Alexandre (Alec) Carter, a hugely successful pre-war jockey. Born into a British horse racing family in Chantilly, he’d been maréchal des logis with 23e Dragons but died of wounds received while serving as agent de liaison with 226e Régiment d’infanterie. #1GM
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A French Newspaper article reporting the death of Alec Carter and his achievements as a jockey.

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Alex Churchill @alexchurchill.bsky.social · 16h

Today’s article is up and it’s FREE for all to read. Get your potted introduction to three of the leading French generals in #WW1 for starters:

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FREE ARTICLE: French Command, 1914-18

Today I thought I’d revert to what I love best - bludgeoning you with French history.

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Judith Jones @jellyjudith.bsky.social · 2d

Because every day is a mental health day…

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Steve Marsdin @stevemarsdin.bsky.social · 2d

@thegreatwargroup.bsky.social
#FWWhist #History #1GM #FWW #Grande-Guerre #WW1

D. Delavois @d-del.bsky.social · 2d

#1GM Marcel Georges Grospely (1893-1915)

Un instituteur de la classe 1913 tué le 9 mai 1915.

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Peter Hart @peterhart.bsky.social · 2d

We reach the Siege of Tobruk in the enthralling story of the South Notts Hussars (107 Regiment, Royal Artillery, 1939-1945. Our first ever series, full of the stories of the men who were there. Please share! And thanks! open.spotify.com/episode/4Zqi...

Spotify – Web Player

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Leah Feiger @leahfeiger.bsky.social · 2d

WIRED spoke with Mark Bray, the Rutgers historian trying to flee to Spain with his family after an online campaign from far-right influencers was followed by death threats. He was turned back from the airport on his first attempt.

read @davidgilbert.bsky.social:

He Wrote a Book About Antifa. Death Threats Are Driving Him Out of the US

Rutgers historian Mark Bray is trying to flee to Spain after after an online campaign from far-right influencers was followed by death threats. He was turned back at the airport on his first attempt.

www.wired.com

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Jill Blake @biscuitkitten.bsky.social · 3d

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund in Casablanca

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Steve Marsdin @stevemarsdin.bsky.social · 2d

@thegreatwargroup.bsky.social
#FWWhist #History #1GM #FWW #Grande-Guerre #WW1

Carla-Jean Stokes @carlajeanstokes.bsky.social · 2d

On October 11, 1918, Canadian official war photographer William Rider-Rider sent a telegram to the Canadian War Records Office in London. In it, he stated that he had just handed his negatives to the censor of photographs taken in the burning town of Cambrai.

Canadians entering Cambrai, October 9, 1918, William Rider-Rider, LAC MIKAN
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Jonathan Boff @jfb1066.bsky.social · 3d

DJT deserves the Nobel Peace Prize as much as Joe Stalin deserved it for his role in ending the Franco-German war of 1939-40

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Chris Sams @jerijerod14.bsky.social · 3d

This week’s free to read:

On 3 September 1939 the RAF’ first bombing raid was on standby to attack the Kriegsmarine in port on the first day of #ww2, but how did it go?

jerijerod14.substack.com/p/bombing-th...

#history #navalhistory

Bombing the Fleet

The RAF's first bombing sortie of World War Two

jerijerod14.substack.com

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Steve Marsdin @stevemarsdin.bsky.social · 3d

@thegreatwargroup.bsky.social
#FWWhist #History #1GM #FWW #Grande-Guerre #WW1

Carla-Jean Stokes @carlajeanstokes.bsky.social · 3d

I love reviewing Canadian official First World War photographs in real time. Fall is an especially great season for this.

👇Here's why.

Canadians looking at German trench mortar ammunition, William Rider-Rider, October 1918, Library and Archives Canada MIKAN 3397962.

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Steve Marsdin @stevemarsdin.bsky.social · 3d

@thegreatwargroup.bsky.social
#FWWhist #History #1GM #FWW #Grande-Guerre #WW1

Dan P @danieljphelan.bsky.social · 3d

Serjeant Jordan, a former policeman and reservist, went to France with the first expeditionary force in August 1914. He went through the retreat from Mons in early 1915 and, later that year, was awarded the Distinguished Conduct medal.

📍Ilfracombe (Holy Trinity) Churchyard🇬🇧

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Steve Marsdin @stevemarsdin.bsky.social · 3d

@thegreatwargroup.bsky.social
#FWWhist #History #1GM #FWW #Grande-Guerre #WW1

GD's Tales @tanktales.bsky.social · 4d

100 years ago today on 8th October 1925 the city of Belgrade was awarded the Czechoslovak War Cross 1918.

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Steve Marsdin @stevemarsdin.bsky.social · 3d

@thegreatwargroup.bsky.social
#FWWhist #History #1GM #FWW #Grande-Guerre #WW1

GD's Tales @tanktales.bsky.social · 4d

Vincenzo Peruggia stole the Mona Lisa from the Louvre in 1911. He served in the Italian Army in the Great War, was captured by AH troops, and spent two years as a POW.

He died 100 years ago today on 8th October 1925.

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Chris Sams @jerijerod14.bsky.social · 4d

This week’s podcast is on the Medway prison hulks and Deadman’s island

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/m...

#history #medway #navalhistory

Deadman's Island and the hulks

Podcast Episode · Maritime History with Chris Sams (live and unplugged) · 08/10/2025 · 25m

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Steve Marsdin @stevemarsdin.bsky.social · 4d

@thegreatwargroup.bsky.social
#FWWhist #History #1GM #FWW #Grande-Guerre #WW1

Indre Grandeguerre @jcharraud.bsky.social · 4d

#indre1418 #1GM Le Blanc (Indre), le départ pour l'inconnu.
Un dernier moment de camaraderie autour d'un quart de rouge, histoire de rassurer la famille à qui on enverra le cliché.
Les capotes BH du 68e sont toutes neuves, les cartouchières sont pleines, la musette garnie.
Advienne que pourra.

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Alex Churchill @alexchurchill.bsky.social · 5d

Today’s feature is up. It’s basically akin to a chapter in a book and you get at least one a month among all the other articles for just £5. This time, it’s the story of how there came to be a French Expeditionary Force in Italy in 1944…
achurchill.substack.com/p/full-featu...

FULL FEATURE: How the French fought in Italy in 1944

The story of the French in Italy in 1943-44 is pivotal in their history, not only because it marked such a seismic reversal for Hitler caused by the Allies, but ‘for France, it was a testament to the ...

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GD's Tales @tanktales.bsky.social · 5d

Christy Mathewson aka The Gentleman's Hurler was a professional baseball player. In 1918 he joined the newly formed Chemical Warfare Service & served in the AEF. He was possibly gassed in a trg incident in France in which 8 men died.

He died from TB on 7th October 1925. He is buried in Lewisburg.

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Steve Marsdin @stevemarsdin.bsky.social · 5d

@thegreatwargroup.bsky.social
#FWWhist #History #1GM #FWW #Grande-Guerre #WW1

Dan P @danieljphelan.bsky.social · 5d

Sick Berth Steward George Trolley was mentioned in despatches by Commodore Tyrwhitt, following a very early naval engagement that took place off Heligoland on 28th August 1914. The Daily Express gave an exciting headline to the battle.

📍Coventry (St Paul’s) Cemetery 🇬🇧

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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 6d

Since 1980, the ECHR has heard just 29 UK immigrant deportation case, and the UK won 16 of them. Quitting will make no material difference to immigration, just weaken protections for absolutely everybody in this country. But Farage and the Tories know that.

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Peter Hart @peterhart.bsky.social · 6d

Tomorrow, Tuesday 7 October I am speaking on I’M OUT: ESCAPE FROM GERMAN POW CAMP at Chesterfield WFA. Start at 7.30pm, the Labour Club, Unity House, Saltergate, Chesterfield.
It would be great to see my old chums!!!

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Dr Philip W Blood MBA @philipwblood.bsky.social · 6d

New post to open the series on the Second Battle of Aachen 7/8-21 October 1944.
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GD's Tales @tanktales.bsky.social · 6d

Guy Prendergast was commissioned into the Royal Tank Corps in 1925 and was posted to 3 Armd Car Coy in Egypt. There he met Sapper officer Ralph Bagnold, an eager explorer, and in 1927 Prendergast joined him on one of the trips through the Sinai in a pair of Ford cars.
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