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Retired armo(u)r Soldier • British-American • History nerd, esp. the WW1 BEF • No coffee too strong • Go Army! • Death before dismount • Yes Marmite
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Headstones at Railway Dugouts Burial Ground (Transport Farm), Ypres, this morning.
August 24, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Headstones at Railway Dugouts Burial Ground (Transport Farm), Ypres, this morning.
"A Tommy wearing rain cape and carrying picket posts," 1917 by Richard Tennant Cooper, 1918 © National Army Museum.
I love the atmospherics in this sketch. It hearkens to the labour that was a never-ending part of the soldier’s life in the #GreatWar. #LabourCorps #fwwhist #ww1 #WesternFront
I love the atmospherics in this sketch. It hearkens to the labour that was a never-ending part of the soldier’s life in the #GreatWar. #LabourCorps #fwwhist #ww1 #WesternFront
November 25, 2025 at 5:02 PM
"A Tommy wearing rain cape and carrying picket posts," 1917 by Richard Tennant Cooper, 1918 © National Army Museum.
I love the atmospherics in this sketch. It hearkens to the labour that was a never-ending part of the soldier’s life in the #GreatWar. #LabourCorps #fwwhist #ww1 #WesternFront
I love the atmospherics in this sketch. It hearkens to the labour that was a never-ending part of the soldier’s life in the #GreatWar. #LabourCorps #fwwhist #ww1 #WesternFront
You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are coming to rescue you. Who is coming to save you?
Answer: Alex Levy from The Morning Show
Answer: Alex Levy from The Morning Show
November 25, 2025 at 4:54 PM
You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are coming to rescue you. Who is coming to save you?
Answer: Alex Levy from The Morning Show
Answer: Alex Levy from The Morning Show
Reading about the #WW1 British Army, I see quote a few unit battalion designations like the one in this screen grab. What does a battalion numbered 2/15, 1/3, etc., mean exactly? @fourteeneighteen.co.uk @sommephantom.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Reading about the #WW1 British Army, I see quote a few unit battalion designations like the one in this screen grab. What does a battalion numbered 2/15, 1/3, etc., mean exactly? @fourteeneighteen.co.uk @sommephantom.bsky.social
Take a half hour out of your time to watch this short film about the young men who went to war in Bomber Command. I was more than misty-eyed by the end.
What really hit me was the comments. There’s still a well of sorrow for all of the brave young men who died in their heavies. #airwar
What really hit me was the comments. There’s still a well of sorrow for all of the brave young men who died in their heavies. #airwar
A Memory Owed || Short Film (2025)
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November 23, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Take a half hour out of your time to watch this short film about the young men who went to war in Bomber Command. I was more than misty-eyed by the end.
What really hit me was the comments. There’s still a well of sorrow for all of the brave young men who died in their heavies. #airwar
What really hit me was the comments. There’s still a well of sorrow for all of the brave young men who died in their heavies. #airwar
“Neptune’s Inferno” by the late James Hornfischer. One of the finest naval history books ever published. This story puts you on signal bridges, inside gun turrets, and deep in ships during some of the most desperate sea combat of #WW2. #booksky #USNavy #PacificWar
November 22, 2025 at 10:31 PM
“Neptune’s Inferno” by the late James Hornfischer. One of the finest naval history books ever published. This story puts you on signal bridges, inside gun turrets, and deep in ships during some of the most desperate sea combat of #WW2. #booksky #USNavy #PacificWar
It’s 1988 and you’re certified to plan and lead patrols on the East German border.
November 22, 2025 at 6:15 PM
It’s 1988 and you’re certified to plan and lead patrols on the East German border.
It’s been almost a year since I lost my best friend. Just yesterday I received the renewal for his licence for the county animal control authority. It brought back how much I miss him.
November 22, 2025 at 6:08 PM
It’s been almost a year since I lost my best friend. Just yesterday I received the renewal for his licence for the county animal control authority. It brought back how much I miss him.
This is US senator Mark Kelly. US Naval aviator 1986-2011. Desert Storm combat veteran. NASA astronaut 1996-2011. Four NASA missions, over 54 days in space. One of my heroes.
I’m. With. Him.
I’m. With. Him.
November 21, 2025 at 11:53 PM
This is US senator Mark Kelly. US Naval aviator 1986-2011. Desert Storm combat veteran. NASA astronaut 1996-2011. Four NASA missions, over 54 days in space. One of my heroes.
I’m. With. Him.
I’m. With. Him.
So the holidays are coming right up. Do yourself a favour. Either gift yourself these two books, or get somebody who loves you to get them for you.
The amount of information in “Zero Hour Z Day 1&2” is astonishing. If you’re interested in how the #BritishArmy fought on the #Somme, these are it.
The amount of information in “Zero Hour Z Day 1&2” is astonishing. If you’re interested in how the #BritishArmy fought on the #Somme, these are it.
November 20, 2025 at 10:09 PM
So the holidays are coming right up. Do yourself a favour. Either gift yourself these two books, or get somebody who loves you to get them for you.
The amount of information in “Zero Hour Z Day 1&2” is astonishing. If you’re interested in how the #BritishArmy fought on the #Somme, these are it.
The amount of information in “Zero Hour Z Day 1&2” is astonishing. If you’re interested in how the #BritishArmy fought on the #Somme, these are it.
This little gem popped up in the Washington Post today. My dad and countless military personnel from across the globe fought fascism, and now this. SMFH…
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U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
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November 20, 2025 at 9:54 PM
This little gem popped up in the Washington Post today. My dad and countless military personnel from across the globe fought fascism, and now this. SMFH…
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Battle of Cambrai, 1917.
“Through Mud and Blood to the Green Fields Beyond.”
“Through Mud and Blood to the Green Fields Beyond.”
November 20, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Battle of Cambrai, 1917.
“Through Mud and Blood to the Green Fields Beyond.”
“Through Mud and Blood to the Green Fields Beyond.”
Share a TV series you’ve watched from beginning to end more than once.
November 20, 2025 at 5:41 AM
Share a TV series you’ve watched from beginning to end more than once.
Royal Garrison Artillery Gunner F.J. Mears was an enigmatic artist with a unique vision of war. His stark and visceral paintings are a window into the #GreatWar combat experience. #fww #fwwhist #RGA #WesternFront
November 20, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Royal Garrison Artillery Gunner F.J. Mears was an enigmatic artist with a unique vision of war. His stark and visceral paintings are a window into the #GreatWar combat experience. #fww #fwwhist #RGA #WesternFront
There’s a good article about shell shock in vol. 4, iss. 20 of "Salient Points." I’m a bit confused about para 1. Is the author saying #WW1 shell shock was a different from PTS. I’ve read it through several times and that’s what I’m getting. Also, I think about TBI.
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November 19, 2025 at 5:47 PM
There’s a good article about shell shock in vol. 4, iss. 20 of "Salient Points." I’m a bit confused about para 1. Is the author saying #WW1 shell shock was a different from PTS. I’ve read it through several times and that’s what I’m getting. Also, I think about TBI.
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"With Manton's Guns, Hill 60, August 1917" by Will Dyson, #NMAH.
#Australian illustrator Will Dyson ranks among my favourite war artists. His drawings of the Australian Imperial Force on the #WesternFront are both evocative and powerful.
#Fwwhist #GreatWar #ww1 #trenchwarfare
#Australian illustrator Will Dyson ranks among my favourite war artists. His drawings of the Australian Imperial Force on the #WesternFront are both evocative and powerful.
#Fwwhist #GreatWar #ww1 #trenchwarfare
November 18, 2025 at 10:08 PM
"With Manton's Guns, Hill 60, August 1917" by Will Dyson, #NMAH.
#Australian illustrator Will Dyson ranks among my favourite war artists. His drawings of the Australian Imperial Force on the #WesternFront are both evocative and powerful.
#Fwwhist #GreatWar #ww1 #trenchwarfare
#Australian illustrator Will Dyson ranks among my favourite war artists. His drawings of the Australian Imperial Force on the #WesternFront are both evocative and powerful.
#Fwwhist #GreatWar #ww1 #trenchwarfare
What a powerful image. We can only imagine the story inside of this simple, yet heartbreaking painting.
November 18, 2025 at 10:04 PM
What a powerful image. We can only imagine the story inside of this simple, yet heartbreaking painting.
There’s a solid story this week in the Military Times about Sterling Morelock, an American soldier who won the Medal of Honor in France during #WorldWar1.
#milsky #AEF #pbi #BigRedOne
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#milsky #AEF #pbi #BigRedOne
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During the Meuse-Argonne campaign, this trench runner took initiative
Sterling Morelock advanced his company but paid a painful price.
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November 18, 2025 at 12:22 AM
There’s a solid story this week in the Military Times about Sterling Morelock, an American soldier who won the Medal of Honor in France during #WorldWar1.
#milsky #AEF #pbi #BigRedOne
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#milsky #AEF #pbi #BigRedOne
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I’m reading a fascinating book on my ipad about feeding the British Army in the #GreatWar. This was an incident that happened at Gallipoli on Christmas 1916. It’s a great illustration of what the troops thought of bully beef.
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November 17, 2025 at 11:09 PM
I’m reading a fascinating book on my ipad about feeding the British Army in the #GreatWar. This was an incident that happened at Gallipoli on Christmas 1916. It’s a great illustration of what the troops thought of bully beef.
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DSC winner Pfc Charles Cameron, Co B, 3d MG Bn, 1st Div, #USArmy. He earned America's second highest valor medal near Soissons, France on 19/7/1918. During a trench attack, he instrumental in securing the objective. Painting by Joseph Cummings Chase, 1919, #NMAH #GreatWar #AEF #WW1 #wwI #trenchwar
November 17, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Lest we forget.
Remembering my Grandfather, Ernest Renyard, who, on this day 85 years ago in 1940 was killed by a bomb while on duty as a Special Constable at Hardley, #NewForest. He was a #WW1 veteran and worked as a local blacksmith, having served as a #farrier in the Royal Field Artillery 1914-1921. #OnThisDay
November 17, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Lest we forget.
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'Victoria Station, 1918: The Green Cross Corps (Women's Reserve Ambulance), Guiding Soldiers on Leave' (1919) by Clare Atwood
Imperial War Museum
#WW1 #History #HistoryMatters #art #artgallery
Imperial War Museum
#WW1 #History #HistoryMatters #art #artgallery
November 16, 2025 at 1:01 PM
'Victoria Station, 1918: The Green Cross Corps (Women's Reserve Ambulance), Guiding Soldiers on Leave' (1919) by Clare Atwood
Imperial War Museum
#WW1 #History #HistoryMatters #art #artgallery
Imperial War Museum
#WW1 #History #HistoryMatters #art #artgallery
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Here’s a moving poem from the memorial card of 22515 Company Sergeant Major Henry Hopkins of the 13th Battalion, Welsh Regiment. Coy Sgt Maj Hopkins was killed in action on May 18th, 1916, at Festubert, France. He is buried in Rue-Du-Bacquerot Graveyard, Laventie.
#WW1 #FirstWorldWar #remembrance
#WW1 #FirstWorldWar #remembrance
November 15, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Here’s a moving poem from the memorial card of 22515 Company Sergeant Major Henry Hopkins of the 13th Battalion, Welsh Regiment. Coy Sgt Maj Hopkins was killed in action on May 18th, 1916, at Festubert, France. He is buried in Rue-Du-Bacquerot Graveyard, Laventie.
#WW1 #FirstWorldWar #remembrance
#WW1 #FirstWorldWar #remembrance
"Zero Hour" by James Prinsep Beadle, 1918, #IWM. Surrounded by his soldiers, a British platoon commander counts down on his watch. The seconds tick by until the fateful moment when they will go over the top. #westernfront #ww1 #GreatWar #BritishArmy #BEF #pbi
November 14, 2025 at 7:26 PM
"Zero Hour" by James Prinsep Beadle, 1918, #IWM. Surrounded by his soldiers, a British platoon commander counts down on his watch. The seconds tick by until the fateful moment when they will go over the top. #westernfront #ww1 #GreatWar #BritishArmy #BEF #pbi