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Off to kidnap a General next weekend. No better way to prepare for a visit to Crete than watching the classic Ill Met by Moonlight film #SOE #WW2 🇬🇷

If objects could talk. A relic German helmet from the ferocious fighting in the Falaise pocket, August 1944 #Normandy #DDay

The once illustrious Royal Navy looking in a sorry state. If every UK adult paid £10 pm that would plug the UK’s £28bn defence black hole. A tenner per month will get you more than a few tins of battleship grey paint! We need to plan to fight tomorrow’s wars, not last centuries.

Juno Beach 🇨🇦 in Normandy. Quite a contrast to the beaches at Gallipoli

Standing with Giants #DDay #Normandy

No better place for a beer whilst in sunny Normandy 🌞 🍻

A big thank you to all our speakers, organisers, volunteers, Portsmouth Grammar School, and those who travelled and length and breadth of the country to attend. Check out www.gallipoli-association.org for details of our September 5th, 2026 Annual Gallipoli Conference and other events.

Talks covered subject’s from the fledgling Submarine service, the RNAS, to daring deeds, precious family heirlooms, and insights into Gallipoli vs modern military doctrine.

The GA’s Portsmouth Regional Conference today was a glorious success. Seven excellent speakers delivered a mix of traditional long, and shorter ‘Twenty Minuter’ talks to a good crowd of around 50 delegates.

Wot No Rain! A good dry day spent at Bisley Camp thanks to the local WFA branch shooting some wartime classics

I grew up watching Secret Army on TV when I was a younger lad, the inspiration for the latter ‘Allo ‘Allo! comedy series. Looking forward to reading this 600+ page book about this classic series.

Looking forward to this as I battlefield guided one of the families being featured, an amazing story that tracks a soldiers story from the Christmas Truce to the 1st July 1916. @sophie1wwtours.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

Getting my armoured car presentation ready for next Tuesday’s Kent WFA zoom talk #WW1 @gallipoliassoc.bsky.social @rollsroycecars.bsky.social

Packing up another LinesMan2Go tablet for a new customer who is off to the Western Front next week. For more information please see our website: greatwardigital.com #WW1 #Trench #Maps

A Suvla and North Anzac day for the Gallipoli Association’s 2026 walking Gallipoli tour @gallipoliassoc.bsky.social

Walking Gallipoli

No guesses where

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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