Remarkable paintings by Joseph Gray of 6th and 7th Bttns Cameron Highlanders at Loos. V privileged to see them in the flesh at Highlanders Museum last night. #WW1 #FWW #Loos #WFA #GWG

Very excited to be part of the Great War Group Bristol conference. Oct 17th/19th. Do come. Lots of interesting speakers as well as a certain artillery nerd! #FWW #WW1

Please repost if you agree that British TV News is betraying our democracy by giving Farage what looks like more coverage than all the other opposition parties combined.

Really pleased to be at Clan Cameron Museum, Achnacarry (that's near Ft William)next Wednesday (27th Aug) to talk about this gem. Captured at Loos by 5th Bn Cameron Highlanders. If you're around do come along (11.00-15.00) - I'll be the lonely nerd standing by the gun. #FWW #WW1 #Greatwargroup #WFA

Really glad that Sharpe and his men didn't have to come up against this gun at Barossa! It's an 1880s German 15cm breechloader. Still in use during the Great War. Gun nerd 1 Publisher nil #FWW #WW1 @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social #WFA

Really glad that Sharpe and his men didn't have to come up against this gun at Barossa! It's an 1880s German 15cm breechloader. Still in use during the Great War. Gun nerd 1 Publisher nil #FWW #WW1 @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social #WFA

Great to see my 2012 book reissued in paperback - as with all the books in this series, it’s an introductory guide. Pleased that readers found it of value

Really pleased to be at Clan Cameron Museum, Achnacarry (that's near Ft William)next Wednesday (27th Aug) to talk about this gem. Captured at Loos by 5th Bn Cameron Highlanders. If you're around do come along (11.00-15.00) - I'll be the lonely nerd standing by the gun. #FWW #WW1 #Greatwargroup #WFA

www.facebook.com/share/1AvBPK.... Some info about the #FWW #WW1 career of the RRS Discovery - and our forthcoming conference!

Fancy a trip to Scotland? A warm welcome awaits in Bonnie Dundee. Our second national conference (1st was 2014). Some big names. Should be a great day and you get to see RRS Discovery. #wfa #FWW #GreatWar #FWW #wfatayside @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social

Phil Watson giving his presentation “Lance -v- lance 1914 -The Last Lance Actions of the Great War” at the branch meeting of the WFA Tayside on Saturday afternoon

@thegreatwargroup.bsky.social Great War Gp Trustee spotted in the wild in a not at all posed photo shoot for English Heritage.

Just a reminder about our 5th birthday event in August - details of how to sign up for one of these trips on the photo below!

Writer and historian Eric Linklater's steel helmet after he was wounded in the head in 1918. The entry and exit holes are visible, but he survived with a permanent indentation in his scalp. It's in the Orkney Museum with his Black Watch kilt.

Dale is here for the first of his weekly guided tours this July! Clan clashes, political plots and violent battles. Follow the life of a soldier through these trying times in Scottish history. ❗Starting today! ❗ ⏰11am and 2pm⏰ 💵£10 per ticket💵 🌟Kids under 16 go free (must be accompanied by an adult)

Today we remember 1st July 1916 all those who fought and died on both sides of the wire

On this day and always. More missed than you would have imagined.

THE RETURN OF THE COLOURS June 1919, Blair Castle. Duchess Kitty can be seen tying wreaths to them with the Duke of Atholl.

Congratulations to the Aviation Preservation Society of Scotland on the first flight of their replica Sopwith 1 ½ Strutter, 25 years in the making. 🛩️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #AvGeek #AvHist www.bbc.com/news/article...

An honour to lay a wreath at the Menin Gate tonight, remembering my Great Great Uncle William MacDuff and the men of the 11th Border Regiment killed in action on 2nd December 1917

A member at my WFA Branch bought a copy of Before Endeavors Fade. Within it was this photograph. He'd like to return it. Does anyone recognse it? Please re-post.

An additional day in the Salient thanks to striking Belgian air traffic control. Not so bad when the skies are this blue.

On 11 April 1918 40th Division had been fighting for two days. Now 119 Bde and 120 Bde each consisted of a single composite battalion. During the day they withdrew a further 2km by stages and were relieved late at night. The division lost 4491 men, 1442 from 119 Bde. #FWW ##WW1 #bantams

OTD in 1918 all hell let loose on the British 40th Division and Portuguese 2nd Division on the Lys. Fog, gas, smoke, communications severed, and confusion everywhere. And no, Brig-Gen Frank Crozier did not (probably) order the machine gunning of retreating Portuguese. #WW1 #FWW #WFA #GWG

My latest article in the WFA's 'Stand To' has been published without the links to the endnotes! If you want a referenced version drop me a dm and I can send a Word doc. The photo by the way is not Crozier but Lt (later Captain) GV Jones MC, 18th Welsh #WFA #FWW #WW1

Really pleased to be among the speakers at the Great War Group, Bristol, October this year

Charles Rogers has been whitewashed off the DOD website because of abhorrent incels who fear their own insignificance. Please, share his face & his Medal of Honour citation far & wide. My substack tomorrow will be on minorities and women who have won it because I’m furious achurchill.substack.com

Lord Ninian Crichton-Stuart, Lt Col 6th Welsh. Kia Loos 5 Oct 1915. Statue in Cardiff. #FWW #GWG

Popped into St Marys Shrewsbury. This the war memorial...

FWW memorial St Francis Church, Fort Cochin, Kerala. #FWW

St Marys Church, Fort St George, Chennai - that's Mdras to us oldies. Robert Clive married here.

🚨 The Great War Group’s series of free online talks starts again in February. These are open to all, not just GWG members, and feature a very wide variety of topics. Check out our website below for further details! greatwargroup.com/talk/

This is Brig-Gen Frank Percy Crozier (as major 9th R Irish Rifles. "Not an easy man to like". The perception of him as an overbearing martinet is largely due to his own book 'Brasshat in no man's Land' which emphasised the beastliness of #FWW

A very Happy New Year from north of the Border. Hogmanay celebrations in Edinburgh were cancelled because of bad weather forecast. BBC apparently had no plan B. Embarrassing.

OTD in 1917 119th inf brigade took Bourlon Wood ,key high ground dominating the north of the Cambrai battlefield, and held it for three days. They suffered horrendous casualties.

Newspaper research throws up countless incidental but compelling stories. A pilot dies after crashing into his own house and his father tries in vain to save his life. (Leicester Daily Mercury, 30/4/1917) #WW1