Getting ready for my third battlefield trip this year to Gallipoli. Hopefully I can leave behind the RAB jacket 🌧️ and pack the sunglasses 😎 this time

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Proud to lay the Gallipoli Association wreath with Sergeant Ron Green BM ES at the Lone Pine commemoration event today. I also paid my respects to several fallen men including Lt-Col Richard Nelson Bendyshe, RMLI #Gallipoli #anzacday @gallipoliassoc.bsky.social

With the Aussie group at Anzac yesterday, paying our respects at Beach Cemetery, Gallipoli … and got in the news!

Rooftop views of Istanbul

Gallipoli book exchanges with the one and only Haluk Oral

Had a good week walking Gallipoli with a group following in the footsteps of the 54th East Anglian Division, in particular the Norfolk and Suffolk regiments

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Next stop Constantinople, or is that Istanbul

It was good to present a talk about Orlo Williams ‘Inside GHQ’ Gallipoli Diary today. “The history of the Gallipoli campaign rich in military lessons, should also serve as a general warning to all who at crises place undue confidence in Cabinets.’ littlegully.com/books/inside...

Lessons from Gallipoli have been resurfacing in recent weeks. History shows us that narrow waterways cannot be captured by force alone. The Dardanelles is an example that should not be ignored otherwise the Gulf of Hormuz will be another naval graveyard #diplomacy

A worthy Gallipoli Association project to map the Helles battlefield. Please watch, subscribe to the GA channel, and consider a donation @gallipoliassoc.bsky.social youtu.be/Ph7QbqeUyag

With the school group we explored the hills of northern Greece today from Roupel gorge to Lake Doiran #Salonika 🇬🇷🇲🇰 🇧🇬

We visited the grave of a Limerick lad, Private Patrick Joseph Downey, who was 18 when he enlisted. He survived the Gallipoli campaign to be shot at dawn in Salonika for “disobedience.” Downey had refused to put on his cap #StPatricksDay ☘️ #RIP

Exploring the British Birdcage trenches and bunkers in Salonika today. The school group loved getting off the beaten track 🇬🇷

Off to Greece 🇬🇷 Macedonia 🇲🇰 to visit the Balkan/WW1/WW2 battlefields

My kids were in for a real treat last night and surprisingly voted the film an average of 8.5 out of 10. Of course I rate it higher. Now to read ‘Fifty Men in the Valley of the Shadow’, the making of The Wild Geese

110 years ago, Émile Driant and thousands of others were killed in the opening days of Verdun. To mark the anniversary, I’ve reworked my short film on the battle, told in 5 minutes. If you cant name the 4 men pictured...then you need to watch! ▶️ Verdun 1916: 300 Days of Hell youtu.be/GoE6datjY4Q

#OnThisDay in February 1916 the battle of Verdun began. The longest battle in modern history - Ils ne passeront pas #OTD #History #Verdun

Some superb First World War aerial photos and trench maps. It’s like being a kid in a sweet shop 😁

1/2: Back from a magical 6 days with some of the SGWT team exploring Verdun & the Meuse-Argonne. Trenches were walked, bunkers explored, stories uncovered, steak enjoyed & perhaps the odd beer along the way.

Verdun - The scene of utter devastation

German bats in France

Bonsoir Verdun

Alpine 110 would look good on the drive … and to drive!

FACT OF THE DAY. 16 January 1957. The original Cavern Club opened at 10 Mathew Street in Liverpool as a jazz club. The club later became a centre for the Merseybeat boom of the early 1960s. The Beatles played regularly at the venue until 1963. The original club was demolished in 1973.

A surprising sunny day in Dieppe with a group as we study the disastrous 1942 raid and why it wasn’t going to be “a piece of cake"

#OTD 20 December 1917. At the Menin Gate, later the site of the Memorial to the Missing, with the ruins of Ypres beyond, a group of soldiers warm themselves around a brazier. Photo by David McLellan. Source: www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...

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The First World War is never too far away, or that of the Crimean War. A Verdun sign in Mauritius 🇲🇺 … which is not too far away from a Balaclava

After 15 hrs of travel, it’s now beer o clock 🍻

I just finished recording with @battleguide.bsky.social on the fascinating evolution of historical military maps. We talked about: "How digitizing trench maps can bring history to life and enhance our understanding of the battlefields." Thanks Dudley Giles, for a great discussion

Today in 1939, during the 'Phoney War' period of the Second World War, two British soldiers pay their respects to a casualty of the First World War, at an Imperial War Graves Commission cemetery in France. #WW2 #WW1 #History Photo: Geoffrey Keating IWM O 207 / www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...

A beautiful painting of Noor Inayat Khan; also known as Nora Baker or ‘Madeleine’ her SOE codename. Sent to occupied France as a wireless operator Khan was betrayed, captured, and executed at Dachau in 1944. She was posthumously awarded the George Cross for gallantry #WAAF #SOE

Feeling dizzy 🥴

“A Rebellious, paranoiac adventure about political corruption and impending catastrophe” … what better way to spend a Sunday afternoon by watching Twilights Last Gleaming (1977) youtu.be/HxzJIz-yRU8?...

Worth a watch. A little slow but probably the most accurate film on D-Day I have seen. Overlord (1975) Film in English, Tom, Brian Stirner & Davyd Harries as J... youtu.be/UtS5KCKahC8?...

‘Inside GHQ’ is a crucial, deeply researched, and authoritative piece of scholarship. It will prove essential reading for historians of both the First World War and the Gallipoli campaign littlegully.com/books/inside...

War correspondent Alan Wood: "If in years to come any man says to you 'I fought at Arnhem', take off your hat to him and buy him a drink, for this is the stuff for which England's greatness is made".

The hotel put on a special screening of ‘Theirs is the Glory’ for the tour group, a special way to end the second day on the Arnhem and Oosterbeek battlefields

Beer o’clock 🍻 in Arnhem

It’s Tank time

First stop of the day. I do like this memorial and would love to assemble something similar in my garden. Anyone have a spare 6pdr or drop cannister? #Arnhem

On my way for an Arnhem tour where we will be following in the footsteps of the KOSB’s … and a few others

It was nice to stop off at the Le Touret Memorial and Cemetery where we did a Christmas Truce stand for the school battlefield tour. Amongst the graves is Bill Bannister, one who didn’t get the chance to shake hands, exchange gifts or fraternise with the enemy on that Christmas day in 1914

Vimy Ridge - the cloaked female figure ‘Canada Bereft’ overlooking the battlefield. Her head bowed, her eyes cast down, and her chin resting in one hand, Mother Canada mourns her #WW1 dead.

German Infanterie Regiment 164 memorial at the Neuville-St. Vaast German War Cemetery #WW1

The Menin Gate where our school group paid their respects to their #WW1 forebears