First Day of the Somme Explained Through Rare 1916 Photos. The latest Old Front Line Video is out now:
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15 July 1916, the 1st S.A. Infantry Brigade, incl men from Kaffrarian Rifles, ordered to clear the wood at d'Elville, north-east of the village of Longueal, France - Delville Wood
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#DelvilleWood #WeWillRemember

At the going down of the sun ...

5 Apr 1942 // Heavy cruisers HMS Cornwall and HMS Dorsetshire were attacked and sunk by Japanese dive-bombers south-west of Ceylon. 424 men from the two ships died and 1122 were rescued. (Imperial War Museum: HMS Cornwall FL 8539, HMS Dorsetshire FL 2120) #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory

OTD Cousins at the Battle of Ceylon (the 'Easter Sunday' raid)

William Henry Emberton KIA 5.4.42 on HMS Cornwall
Spencer 'Teddy' Peacock-Edwards DFC, 258 Sqn RAF, shot down 5.4.42, survived

(During BoB Teddy was "One of The Few" with 253 Sqn)

#WeWillRemember #LestWeForget

OTD
1 April 1932

The police, civil & military branches of the Northern Rhodesia Police were separated and in April 1933 the military branch formally became the Northern Rhodesia Regiment (now Zambia Regiment)

“Diversi Genere Fide Pares - Different In Race, Equal In Fidelity.”

William Colcutt – Sgt XXXth Regt Crimea War

Died OTD 19 November 1910

Crimea Medal (Alma, Inkerman, Sebastopol); Turkish Crimea Medal; Canada General Service Medal (Fenian Raid 1866); LSGC Medal; MSM

#WeRemember
#30thRegt “Spectemur Agendo - By Our Deeds We Are Known"

#OTD in 1917, Delville Wood, France. A South African nurse (identified as Mildred Atherstone Fynn) placing a wreath on her brother's (Private Dudley Beresford Hoole Fynn). #WW1 #HISTORY

#OTD in 1918, Delville Wood, France. Nancy, springbok mascot from South African 4 Regiment. #WW1 #HISTORY

The climb from the Kloppershoekspruit/river up Mavis Bank on the Rhodes Trail Run is a classic ‘conversation stopper’
 
#RhodesRun aptly called the #BreathtakingTrailRun

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In this latest Old Front Line Battlefield Vlog we walk along Maple Avenue, through Sanctuary Wood to the crest of Hill 62 where the men of the 3rd (Canadian) Division fought in the Battle of Mount Sorrel in June 1916.

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Walking Ypres: Bellewarde Ridge. In the latest of our Old Front Line Battlefield Vlogs, we continue with our walks at Ypres discussing Noel Chavasse VC & Bar and seeing the mine craters which scar this battlefield of more than a century ago.

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Battlefield Vlog: Ypres - Private WW1 Memorials. In the first of some Old Front Line Vlogs recorded at Ypres we walk the ground at the Frezenberg Ridge and look at some private memorials to men who were missing there in 1915.
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OFL2023 - it’s been a busy year on the Old Front Line podcast. We topped a million downloads, and also started the first of our Vlogs, with more coming in 2024. Do have a look at our YouTube channel and enjoy this Somme vlog: youtu.be/lS2wXPrdNx0?...

Courcelette British Cemetery in the snow, Somme battlefields, January 2019.