Quote: “In Wortegem-Petegem we have recovered around 350 shells over the past 3 days. It appears that this site was used as an ammunition depot during World War I. An impressive, but also confrontational reminder of our past.” 📸DOVO-Sedee

The only Victoria Cross ever awarded to a professional footballer has gone on display at the Green Howards Museum, Richmond, N. Yorks. 2nd Lt Donald Simpson Bell of Harrogate Syed for Bradford Park Avenue & died in WW1 in July 1916. 👇 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Is this someone's bad attempt at a copy, a fancy dress item or genuine? 🤷🏻‍♂️ #ww1 @greatwarhuts.bsky.social

Delighted to say that The Long, Long Trail will soon be hosting a database of men passing through No. 1 Canadian Casualty Clearing Station, on behalf of the British Isles Family History Society of Greater Ottawa. Watch this space! #ww1 #genealogy #cef #canada #BIFHSGO

Went to a gig last night at the gorgeous O2 Empire Shephards Bush & had to stop & view the war memorial in the park opposite #ww1 #ww2

Many people think of Nazi concentration camps as purpose-built institutions. But many of the concentration and internment camps in Germany and occupied countries were repurposed buildings: asylums, barracks, farm complexes, even hotels. former Ilag VIII internment camp, Toszek, Poland

Brilliant, two men joining others on my generic battlefield tour on Saturday, their relative is listed on the Menin Gate Memorial. I'm accessing the war diary and rather nicely their relatives name is listed as one of the killed on 14th February 1915 in the actions at St Eloi.

I have written a small article about the Swedish contribution to the rebuild of the French villages on the battlefield after the Great War. Read it through the link below: www.westernfront.se/2026/02/07/s...

Near this tree, nine men were killed in seconds in August 1940, and the tree still shows the scars. The men were members of the Essex Regiment, sheltering nearby while guarding North Weald aerodrome during a German air raid on 24 August 1940.

Questions and Answers Episode 46 In this latest First World War Q&A episode we tackle some of the most intriguing and overlooked questions about life, strategy and survival on the Western Front and after the guns fell silent. Why did the British Army so often attack on ground not of its own…

The horrific M62 coach bombing in West Yorkshire occurred OTD 4 February 1974 when an IRA bomb exploded on a coach carrying off-duty British soldiers and their families. Twelve people, including nine soldiers and three civilians, including children, were killed, and 38

Today 51 shells were collected in Zonnebeke. We suspect that someone has removed the copper pressing bands from the shells. This is really dangerous, at the end of last year someone was seriously injured after manipulating ammunition at his home. 📸DOVO Sedee

Australian focused tour France, a bit like Autumn with the Winter sun low in the sky the battlefields quiet in the slumber. A nice time of the year.

Join me on a quest for the Grail! I’ll be delving into the mystery and history, disentangling the myths and the facts… starting on Sky History just after Imbolc, on 3rd Feb! www.history.co.uk/shows/lost-g...

Truth or Treason worth watching, tells the true story of Helmuth Hübener who was the youngest German to resist Nazism, he was eventually arrested, tried & executed by beheading. He was only 17 years old, his two friends Karl & Robbe were imprisoned, Solomon his Jewish friend died in the holocaust.

Edward Balliol: The Pretender Who Retired to Doncaster - Edward Balliol (c.1282–c.1367) was a Scottish claimant to the throne during the Second War of Scottish Independence and the son of King John Balliol. Backed by England, he briefly ruled parts of Scotland after 1/3

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January 1749 The heads of Deacon and Syddall, displayed on spikes on Manchester’s Exchange, were stolen, and later buried, by a medical student. The Manchester men were executed for joining Bonnie Prince Charlie in the 1745 Rebellion.

THREAD/As mentioned earlier, today marks the 85th anniversary of the "Second Great Fire of London", an incendiary raid that started fires to spread over an area larger than the original Great Fire of 1666. It was raid that led to a change in the wartime legislation that enforced businesses...

So please take a moment of your time to watch this incredible film on YouTube. I believe it was crowdfunded as well as supported by the Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund, A fitting tribute to those of Bomber Command #WeWillRememberThem youtube.com/watch?v=PYtZ...

Those of you who came along to the 2024 Bellowhead tour will remember our wonderful helicon player and dear friend Ed Neuhauser taking centre stage for the introduction to Fire Marengo. What you wouldn't have realised is that Ed had been diagnosed with a brain tumour twelve months previously.

Merry Christmas to you all 🎄🎁⛄

Short of a gift? Need it before Christmas? We can email you a LinesMan Gift certificate / redeem code for our digital download GPS trench map product. Contact us as [email protected] Website: www.greatwardigital.com/products/lin...

“ 8 million euros is to be invested in WWI museums/sites in the Westhoek. 4 million euros will go to a complete renovation of In Flanders Fields Museum in Ypres. The remaining 4 million euros will be used to renew other WWI sites & museums”: focus-wtv.be/nieuws/8-mil...

In the latest @oldfrontline.bsky.social we return to a forgotten memoir of the Great War, 'The Years of Remembrance' by Harold Maybury who served with the 2/4th South Lancs in 1917-1918. oldfrontline.co.uk/2025/12/20/f...

If you watched "SAS Rogue Heroes" on BBC then you could almost imagine that his wonderful photo of Richard Lister (1918-1941) of Kirkburton was a publicity still for the series. He volunteered for the No. 11 (Scottish) Commando unit to help unleash Churchill's "reign of terror" upon the enemy.

On tomorrow's date, 16th December 1914, the Imperial German Navy launched a surprise attack on the British ports of Scarborough, Hartlepool, West Hartlepool, and Whitby. The unanticipated bombardments led to numerous civilian casualties and stirred public indignation in

In this latest @oldfrontline.bsky.social QnA Episode we look at #WW1 latrines, the work of the Military Police, whether German trenches were really stronger, and the stories of Boy Soldiers & how to research them. oldfrontline.co.uk/2025/12/13/q...

Things I did not expect to do when researching local WW2 deaths... I've just contacted a pub in Hull to ask if they still say "good night" to the ghost of air-raid warden Ivor Alfred Ellis when they turn the lights off and whether his plaque is still there. huddersfield.exposed/s/77428

I've been able to hold a physical copy of my new book today. It looks at the alleged disappearance of the 1/5th Battalion Norfolk Regiment at Kuchuk Anafarta Ova on 12th August 1915. It's on sale now & I've left a link to where you can get a copy in the comments. #WW1 #FWW #Norfolk #Gallipoli

A few updates to this page today: www.longlongtrail.co.uk/soldiers/a-s... #ww1 #genealogy

107 years ago today at 11am the guns fell silent. I remember all those who served & were affected by war & especially those who never came home including my 2 relatives #ArmisticeDay #WW1

Euston to Warren Street: A lost architectural world I’m still doing my walks but this one takes a look at the architectural glory that was once London’s Euston station youtu.be/MLRRfcGptoM

“The Wreck of the SS Rohilla” 🧵In the early hours of 30 October 1914, as war raged across Europe, the SS Rohilla steamed down the North Sea bound for Dunkirk, carrying medical personnel and supplies. Built for the British India Steam Navigation Company, she had been 1/3

Popped into Ranville Church this morning - in the heart of the Airborne Drop in 1944 and at the heart of post-war visits by veterans.

Not half bad Aldi version of Neck Oil 🍺

On this day in 1918 my great uncle, Private Edgar Wood, was killed at Villers-Outreaux near Cambrai while fighting with the Welsh Regiment. He was 20 years old. He is buried in the tiny cemetery of Moulin-de-Pierre with 47 others who died that day.

“I’m alright, Mother, cheerio.” The words selected for the epitaph of 22-year-old Lt Harold Hill, who was killed in an attack on the Passchendaele Ridge. Severely wounded, he was carried to a dressing station at Zonnebeke. 📍Buttes New British Cemetery, Polygon Wood🇧🇪

***Take Notice***For anyone out guiding the Ypres Salient this weekend please note there is a burial service on Saturday 4th October at the German Cemetery at Langemarck, from what I understand it is going to be in the afternoon.

St Patrick’s cemetery CWGC: French, German and British side by side. Now at eternal rest, RIP

My recent podcast on the Battle of Loos. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

This is exactly no one should EVER tamper with ordnance from First or Second World War, leave it to the bomb disposal units 👇 focus-wtv.be/nieuws/obus-...

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Remembering the Forgotten Front: in the latest @oldfrontline.bsky.social for the 110th Anniversary of the Battle of Loos we make an overview of the 'Forgotten Front' in Northern France and discover the history, landscape and stories of those who fought there. oldfrontline.co.uk/2025/09/27/r...

One of the things that first piqued my interest in the FWW was visiting CWGC cemeteries, and specifically, reading the personal inscriptions on the headstones. I haven’t been out to the WF in well over a year now and as I feel the ache of missing it, I wanted to share some old posts on the topic.

When you start a new research project for someone & the first thing you find is a photo!! #ww1

Can anyone help Robert pointing him in the right direction for possible research

Lovely day in Ypres Looked around a certain well known book shop and came out with a Belgium railway lamp and chemin der fare watch - photo taken by a convenient WW1 railway sleeper!

Great cast this looks like it could be good 🎥🎬 youtu.be/YzuHujdObTQ?...