This was the route we climbed. left to right in the distance. Photo taken from Quinn’s Post. #Gallipoli #WW1 #Anzac 🇹🇷 @istoriatravel.bsky.social @seaspitfires.com @danielmcandrew.bsky.social @peterhart.bsky.social

Rounding things off above Anzac today, here’s a view towards Suvla Bay and the Salt Lake from the Nek. #Gallipoli 🇹🇷 #WW1 @seaspitfires.com @peterhart.bsky.social @istoriatravel.bsky.social

Day 3 proper and we’re back at Helles , specifically Pink Farm Cemetery to see a chap researched by @neilpuds.bsky.social #Gallipoli 🇹🇷 @istoriatravel.bsky.social @seaspitfires.com @peterhart.bsky.social @danielmcandrew.bsky.social

Now it’s on to X Beach - which was defended by 12 Turks. Because who in their right mind would try and land troops on this tiny little strip of land… #Gallipoli 🇹🇷 #WW1 @nationalwwimuseum.bsky.social @istoriatravel.bsky.social @danielmcandrew.bsky.social @peterhart.bsky.social @seaspitfires.com

Today on the @istoriatravel.bsky.social Gallipoli tour was all about terrain. Deep gulleys, imposing cliffs & plenty of inescapable high ground made moving across the peninsula punishing. It could never have been as easy as the plan demanded. With @alexchurchill.bsky.social & @peterhart.bsky.social

After a well deserved rest, we spent the rest of the day exploring the French sector, where I got to bang on about France for a bit 🇫🇷 🇹🇷 @seaspitfires.com @istoriatravel.bsky.social @danielmcandrew.bsky.social @peterhart.bsky.social

Long overdue tidy-up and clarification of the 1917 renumbering of the Territorial Force infantry. #ww1 #genealogy see www.longlongtrail.co.uk/soldiers/a-s...

#OTD in 1917, Lance Corporal Joseph Handel Stringer was killed by a shell whilst training with 1st/7th Bn Worcestershire Regiment near Fremicourt. An Iron Chain Maker before the war, Joseph was 23 years old at the time of his death and was buried in Grevillers British Cemetery.

The Red Arrows were based at Brize over the weekend. In and out several times so plenty of photo ops. Spot the one taken from our house in Witney, around 4 miles from the base!

My online talk for the Great War Group, "War on the Water", which is about the Belgian sector on the River Yser 1914-1918: Youtibe version at youtu.be/VyAbeWxNgYI?... #WW1

If anyone knows this family, they’re in block 531 probably row 32 I’d really love them to get this picture #cpfc

Can highly recommend’Ring of Fire’ by @alexchurchill.bsky.social and @pikegrey1418.bsky.social They did a heck of a lot of research and it shows. A great account of the early days of WW1 by those it impacted upon.

Mrs P @loupuds.bsky.social has possibly implied this might be something I should consider...at least I think that was the gist of the conversation 😬 @paulbezza57.bsky.social are you still a possible maybe?

Today’s substack is up. I’ve not done a lot of British content lately, so here’s something with a twist. What did the Battle of the Somme look like in the British Sector, to a French observer? achurchill.substack.com/p/article-a-...

Ages ago, in that other place we've all abandoned, some one recommended the Mark Hollis album, possibly @uppertiersteve.bsky.social (apologies if wrong). Not what I expected at all, it's astonishing! Stripped back, emotion laden angst but incredibly powerful stuff from the main man in Talk Talk.

Struggled recently to find the time to listen to albums, recently but, 2 got a spin today. I'm quite familiar with the Alan Parsons Project 'Tales...' and, while it was good to hear it again perhaps it's not aged that well? 1/2

A few of our book covers, streaming graphics and logos #graphicdesign

Palace 2 (9men) Brighton 1 (10men), mad game & I've aged about 10 years!! #cpfc 🦅🦅

Trump's foolishness has presented the perfect opportunity for cats and penguins to sign a trade deal - the fish will be ours!

Something a bit different for #FindsFriday! ‘Peckham Rock’ hoax cave art with authentic-looking label, installed without permission in the British Museum in 2005, by the street artist known as #Banksy ‘Found’ 3 days later in the Roman Britain gallery! 😳 Marker pen on lump of concrete! 😁 📷 me

An elusive Water Vole, an unexpected sighting in the scrub by the River Windrush in Oxfordshire 🙂

It's been a tough winter for the old girl but, finally, she's starting to pick up. 5 weeks to first game, no pressure 😬

When Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett met the British Prime Minister to discuss #Gallipoli he gave an account, "which was not altogether agreeable." That's British official-speak for disaster. I'll be covering this in my talk to @gallipoliassoc.bsky.social on 25th March.

A couple of interesting visitors to RAF Brize Norton today. Fast then slow flypast from a Typhoon, then the same from a F-35.

Arrived today! The latest edition of @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social quarterly journal, Salient Points. 100 plus pages of fascinating content, with a specific focus, in this issue, on the Battle of Loos. Looking forward to settling down with this over the weekend 🙂

👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼📚🎙️💥🤓 General sale tickets now available for the whole weekend… greatwargroup.com/product-cate...

Good to see the Manadarin Duck of Ducklington Village back today :) Made the 'get away from all the rubbish going on in the world' walk well worth it!

On 15 March 1939 Hitler and his deputy summoned the Czech President to Hitler’s residence in Berlin and then bullied him to submitting to a German invasion of his country. They drove him to the point of physical collapse, threatening him until he eventually signed his country’s death warrant.

MARB11 B52H (60-0044) heading into the setting sun about 3 miles out from RAF Fairford, this afternoon. Taken from the Thames Path just south of Lechlade.

The Ring Necked Parakeets are now a common sight around Oxford and, the Redwings are a regular winter visitor.

Egret and twig and their reflections

Remembering Lt. Col. John Wilfred Stokes RAMC, former pupil of St. John’s School Leatherhead, who died on 10 February 1916. A pre war Territorial, the outbreak of hostilities saw John promoted to Lt. Col. & given command of 3rd West Riding Field Ambulance. 1 @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social #WW1 #FWW

I don't really collect Nazi stuff but this PoW currency is interesting. I don't know much about these notes and would welcome any insight 4/

Physical copy. In. My. Hand. @pikegrey1418.bsky.social @donaldwin.bsky.social @headofzeus.bsky.social @watsonlittle.bsky.social @iainmacgregor1.bsky.social Preorder here: UK: geni.us/RingOfFire USA: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/ring-of-fi...

Here's the #WW1 story of Lance Corporal Raymond Douglas Tilbrook. Born and lived #Keighley, he was a Cooperative Society branch manager. He met, married Sarah McKechnie and lived at Cross Roads before the war: www.menofworth.org.uk/research/cro... He was shot whilst fetching the food for the lads.

Sarah Hart's sister Dorothy Maud, a munitions worker, died at work but was not entitled to a CWGC headstone.So her parents added her name to her sister's memorial, who was. This must be a very rare, if not unique example, of the words "munitions worker" inscribed on a CWGC grave. #womenshistory #WW1

6.2.16 I thought I would send a note today, these days are long so long for me especially today. This afternoon, we were supposed to have a concert as I told you but it was changed, we had a movie instead which was not too bad. Nothing new, I think we will go back to the trenches & in the same place

No longer on X so I’ll try to post as many of these edited biographies of St. John’s School Leatherhead boys who fell in the Great War, on the anniversaries of their deaths. It appears the School & its Archives haven’t moved here yet, so no tags. Comments welcome & hope you find them of interest. 1

Only 162 days until RIAT 2025, which is slightly worrying as I am still dipping back into the 2024 photo files and editing! Results for a rank amateur like me were pretty good to be honest but, still much to learn! Anyway, here's a few Eurofighter/Typhoon shots :)

Today’s FREE article is up and it’s a preview of a new book looking at a touchy subject. How friendly were Germany’s former royal family with the Nazis? Find out how one historian has dug to the very bottom of their potential collaboration… achurchill.substack.com/p/free-book-...

Sometimes, when the world weighs heavy on your shouldets, only a slice of lush 'Progressive Rock' will do. That the 5.1 mix takes this album into the stratosphere is glorious extra: Big Big Train-The Likes Of Us

A short thread remembering Lt. Ashton Morgan RFC who died this day, 4 February 1918, along with his Observer Flt. Sgt. Lester Rowan, after their F.E.8 aircraft crashed when returning to their base at Netheravon, Wiltshire following a two day training sortie away from the airfield. 1

Last call for our fabulous book launch conference from 18.30, 7 February at the Constitutional Club in East Finchley. Features talks by me, Gary Bain, Alex Churchill & Taff Gillingham! Get your ticket today! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/launch-con...

Can't emphasise how important it is, for mental & physical health, to be able to get out, lugging the camera, on a gorgeous day like yesterday! Very lucky to have some lovely places to walk, teeming with wild life, on my doorstep. First up then: Tufted Ducks, a Dunnock, a Robin & a pair of Shovelers

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Watch this. And share it widely. It is very, very important. Very. And *Please* R/T. #Holocaust What Happened at Auschwitz: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m00276pg via @bbciplayer

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