Cool #nowandthen photo from the Menin Gate, Ypres. The original was taken by a #WW1 veteran returning to the battlefields of the Western Front on the @PoppyLegion Great pilgrimage on 8th August 1928. pic.twitter.com/UFmqKYXeyA — Dan Hill (@DanHillHistory) January 26, 2020 RT @DanHillHistory: Cool #nowandthen photo from the Menin Gate, Ypres. The original was taken […]
I've just finished working on the York Zeppelin raid, made by L21 on the night of 2/3 May 1916. I created a map on Google Earth to help. Thought some might be interested. 1 killed in Nunthorpe Av, 2 in Up. Price St & 6 in St. Saviour's Place. Nunthorpe Hall was VAD hospital. pic.twitter.com/fDAr9EqfIo […]
Perhaps the most life-changing and influential ('fire fuelling') birthday present I ever received, this copy of 'Before Endeavours Fade' got some real hammer through the mid '80s. Full of my youthful annotations and additions, it's now an historical document in it's own right!😆 pic.twitter.com/q6QpL7l4WI — DOMara (@croonaert) January 25, 2020 RT @croonaert: Perhaps the most […]
A raiding party of the 10th (Service) Battalion, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) waiting in a 'sap' for the signal to go. Lt. John Warwick Brooke, the official photographer, followed them in and a shell fell short killing seven men. Near Arras, 24 March 1917. © IWM (Q 5098) pic.twitter.com/rtGex0xz1L — Doug (@colour_history) January 21, 2020 RT […]
For those of you who supported Dig Hill 80 a while back… https://t.co/0452SVypO6 — 1914-1918 War (@WW1TheGreatWar) January 22, 2020 For those of you who supported Dig Hill 80 a while back… https://t.co/0452SVypO6
By far the most powerful image from the Turner family album is this one of Mr & Mrs Turner visiting the grave of their son Harold in Bethune, France for the first time. Whenever I'm in the area I try to go and visit Harold's grave, and imagine them there every time. pic.twitter.com/p2zqASLP2Z — Dan […]
If you're in easy distance of Guildford tomorrow (21 Jan) and want to hear about Zeppelins in WW1, why not come to my latest talk, for Surrey Industrial Heritage Group at Church House Guildford, 20 Alan Turing Rd, GU2 7YF. Non members £5 on the door. Starts at 7.30pm pic.twitter.com/zZLBu3Dtcp — Ian Castle (@IanCastleRaids) January […]
Wonderful picture. That bike has a fabulous horn! https://t.co/YmPbvUg7B6 — 1914-1918 War (@WW1TheGreatWar) January 22, 2020 Wonderful picture. That bike has a fabulous horn! https://t.co/YmPbvUg7B6