www.cwgc.org/our-work/sus... This is important! No solutions yet, but good understanding of the cause, and on the hunt for a long-term, sustainable and ecologically friendly answer...

I know it is VJ day, but in 1940 the Battle of Britain was raging. Some local history - on 15 Aug 1940, two Junkers Ju-88 aircraft were shot down in a field barely half a mile away from us, and only 5 minutes apart... ½ www.ropleyhistory.org.uk/village-hist...

I am so proud to be a Burma Star Memorial Fund scholar & ambassador, because they work tirelessly to commemorate & educate on the war in the Far East 365 days a year, not just on #VJDay. Please take some time today to learn a little more about their work & archive burmastarmemorial.org

Celebrating Falkland Islands Day, remembering our many happy years living and working on the Islands, and of course thinking of our many Falkland friends on-Island and around the world on their adventures!

Today marks the 110th Anniversary of the 1/5th Battalion Norfolk Regiment going into action at Kuchuk Anafarta Ova & it's the subject of my next book which is out in November #WW1 #Norfolk #Gallipoli #history

Any Indian Army / Burma experts out there? I'm trying to track down the Mention-in-Dispatches & Citation for Conductor Walter Horace Swift, Indian Corps of Clerks, serving with HQ 71st Indian Infantry Bde during the Arakan Campaign Feb-Sep 43, then Chittagong Oct-Dec 43.. Thanks in advance!

I am in France to help raise some money in the fight against Prostate Cancer. We follow the route of the Tour de France Grand Depart. 115miles. Wish me luck, I am not well prepared in terms of miles in the saddle but I will get it done! Please help PCUK if you can www.justgiving.com/page/tony-lo...

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Today is the final day to grab a 20% discount on anything in my online shop and to get your name in the metaphorical hat to win a print of your choice. Why not take a look? #ww1 #ww2 #illustration

This offer and the competition runs until Monday. Why not take a look to see if there is something that takes your fancy?

One of our expert guides is taking history into the classroom with a Zoom lecture on the Battle of the Somme. We’re proud to support schools by bringing the stories, sacrifices, & lessons of the #FWW directly to young learners, making the past personal, powerful, & unforgettable.

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Our next tour is out today. SGWT expert Romain, is taking a British couple around Normandy for two days, following in the footsteps of our guests father who landed on Gold Beach. #2WW

Soldiers, Sailors, and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force! You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months... stevesmith1944.wordpress.com/2019/06/06/p...

Another successful tour through Verdun completed with 3 American guests who were quiet at the end. Verdun leaves people that way. The silence there isn’t empty, it forces you to think deeply about everything you thought you knew about the 1WW. It's a heavy place.

Our next tour is out today. We're honoured to support a journalist on a journey to the battlefields of the Somme & Ypres, seeking not only to walk the ground where history unfolded but to connect with the stories of the countless men who gave their lives there. #wewillrememberthem

110 years ago today, 30 April 1915, Private Edward Gregson Rust died of wounds. Lying in the care of the CWGC at Hazebrouck Cemetery, the unique detail of the epitaph on his headstone shows he was highly thought of by his colleagues for his bravery and devotion to duty. Never forgotten…

Where Wednesday: Waterloo, Belgium ✅Learn about the Battles of Quatre Bras & Ligny ✅Climb the Lion’s Mound - get amazing views of the battlefield ✅Walk to Hougoumont Farm ✅Visit the brilliant museum ✅Finish the day with a Waterloo Beer 📩[email protected]

Today is our final full day touring the Somme & we will be looking at a timeline between March & September of 1918 following the war for Edwin Byron Kelsey who served with the 7th Buffs. This is on a tour arranged by @sophie1wwtours.bsky.social #WW1 #FWW #Somme #history

Remembering tonight the crew of 83 Sqn Lancaster OL-B / ED313. They were returning from a raid over Stuttgart when intercepted and shot down. The Pilot, Flt Lt Norman Mackie DSO DFC & Bar, put up a determined evasion but the damage to the Lancaster was too great and he ordered the crew to bail out.

Well, I am finally over the hump of work in writing my next book, and I have found ways to offload a couple of other things in my life, so capacity has opened up again. My research work for private clients is back in business and open for orders! www.fourteeneighteen.co.uk

And we're off for 2025! Team member Francis has created a tailor-made tour of the West End of #London in the First World War, for two American guests today. #1WW #ExpertGuides

#OTD in 1916 just after 7am, the German artillery bombardment erupted, signalling the beginning of the First World War's longest battle. The landscape around #Verdun would never be the same again & more than 700k French & German men would become casualties.

An awful lot of time goes into planning, organising, researching & delivering a bespoke tour. Getting testimonials like this, make it all worthwhile. Shout out to Jo Hook on guiding this tour last year. Brief to Jo, bring to life the Great War for a 13 year old. Nailed it.

When you hear a witness, you become a witness. Please carve out some time to listen to the incredible testimony of Mala Tribich: vimeo.com/201856270

To my chagrin I’m a couple of days late remembering & honouring my cousin Lt Edward Lough Dees, 8th Bn Durham Light Infantry. Wounded and captured in the retreat to Dunkirk, Eddie was a POW at the Laufen camp when he was shot on 25 Jan 41 by a guard for “sketching at a window”. Always remembered..

Notable milestone day today - and first of my 2025 goals achieved too!

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Another brilliant choice, thank you Sophie!

This years advent calendar theme has been around individuals that have served and saved. There is no one else that fits the bill of service, than our late Queen. tinyurl.com/3mwncvru

Christmas Eve 1942. HMS BRAMBLE, commanded by Cdr Henry Thew Rust DSO RN (my 1st Cousin, 2 x removed), were 2 days out of Loch Ewe escorting convoy PQ18 rendezvoused with the main destroyer group off Seidesfjord, Iceland to continue passage to Murmansk....

Advent Calendar - Day 22 - Simon Wiesenthal Holocaust survivor and credited with 1000+ Nazis brought to justice. tinyurl.com/27wta38d

Advent Calendar - Day 19 - Frank Whittle Today we take a look at the work of a man who has influenced so much of our world today. Voted the 42nd greatest Briton in 2002. tinyurl.com/y84atjry

Advent Calendar - Day 20 - Albert Gill A Birmingham man that paid the ultimate sacrifice to save his comrades. tinyurl.com/2jr4rwax

Advent Calendar - Day 18 - Mary Elmes Ireland's first Righteous Among the Nations. Read more here: tinyurl.com/4pjwryzv

Advent Calendar - Day 16 - Airey Neave The first British officer to escape Colditz... tinyurl.com/4xdyx3xu

Advent Calendar - Day 15 - Edward Rust A personal one for us here at SGWT. A young promising life cut short by his desire to serve and save others. tinyurl.com/4ketdrj9

Advent Calendar - Day 14 - Frank Hurd A chance to reflect on those that had to brave bombs, falling debris and fire to save others, their homes and our country. tinyurl.com/yjbr52b8

Advent Calendar - Day 13 - Marie Moravcová Behind combatants are civilians that risk it all to help... tinyurl.com/2hh4bfdz

Advent Calendar - Day 12 - Norman Jackson An incredible action to save his comrades lives that resulted in the award of a Victoria Cross. Read the citation here: tinyurl.com/mr27scmc

Advent Calendar - Day 11 - Anne Frank Perhaps the most famous of individuals chosen this advent calendar. Anne's writing taught us so much. Never Forget. tinyurl.com/er8fyrrk

www.westernfrontassociation.com/world-war-i-... Hugely grateful to the Western Front Association for remembering my 1st Cousin, 2 x removed Pte Edward Rust, the Yorkshire Regt, in this article - he has the distinction of one of the longest inscriptions on his CWGC headstone at Hazebrouck...

Advent Calendar - Day 9 - Edith Cavell Read on to learn about the executed British nurse who helped many wounded soldiers escape occupied Belgium. One of only 3 Britons whose remains were repatriated. tinyurl.com/2deku5kb

Advent Calendar - Day 8 - Freddie Stowers A Medal of Honor recipient, 73 years after his death. Read on here: tinyurl.com/5et75wv6

7 December 1941 - the attack on Pearl Harbour. My Great Uncle, Pilot Officer Ralph Henderson DFM RAFVR was at finishing his pilot training at Turner Field, Georgia under the Arnold Scheme. I often wonder how the news broke out there, how he found out, and how it affected his training?

Advent Calendar - Day 6 - Noor Inayat Khan SOE's first female wireless operator dropped into France. Such bravery, please read on here: tinyurl.com/4rcfzmkf

Advent Calendar 2024 - 4th December Read on here to learn about Noel Chavasse and his two incredible Victoria Cross citations. tinyurl.com/3de7bjad

81 years ago, at 2010 on 22 November 1943, my Great Uncle Ralph Henderson and his brave crew of Lancaster JB424 / OL-B from 83 Sqn lost their lives over Berlin (crew names in Alt Text)

Remembering today Private Edward Rust of the Yorkshire Regiment - died 30 April 1915 and now lying in the care of the CWGC at Hazebrouck Cemetery. He has an extraordinarily unusual inscription on his headstone...