For #FatherSDay and those who never returned Lc Corporal Charles Frederick bell died 2/2/1918 was 24 when he died - KIA.His wife,Cicely,never remarried and lived to be 89.The child who never saw her father, Joyce,was born in 1918 and also lived to be 89. Photo Alex Hup WW1 remembered

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Lt Geoffrey Van Klaveren's airborne unit, 2nd Oxford and Bucks LI, spearheaded the British D-Day assault with the glider landing at Pegasus Bridge. A week later, Geoffrey, who served with the Support Company's Pioneer Platoon, was killed in action. 📍Ranville War Cemetery 🇫🇷

In this latest Q&A episode, we explore German WWI Death Cards, the impact of the 1918 Flu Pandemic, the origins of the name "Pip, Squeak and Wilfred" for medals, and how soldiers dug trenches when the enemy was only yards away.

In Part One of our Anniversary Somme series we explore the fighting at Serre, Beaumont-Hamel and Thiepval on 1 July 1916, examining the battle, casualties and battlefield, ending with a virtual walk.

I am proud of finding this new postcard of Flers (c.1919-1923) because I spotted something special about it. If you look closely, the hut in the foreground has a tiny Imperial War Graves Commission sign over the door. The card was posted in 1923. @poppymercier.bsky.social

This came up today in farcebook memories. Me being held up by 2 landing craft veterans on the 60th anniversary of D Day. My dad was on a landing craft somewhere that day in 1944

Duncan McDonald served with the Non-Combatant Corps. Sadly, he was found dead on a railway line just five days after arriving in France. The Army's inquiry concluded that his death was accidental. He was the NCC's first overseas casualty of the WW1. 📍Calais Southern Cemetery 🇫🇷

Following on from the "Noon Platoon", I've just found an article about Rose Hannah Brown's seven sons fighting in WW2, with the eighth about to join. Weirdly, it joins dots with some previous research into the early Italian ice cream vendors who settled in Huddersfield. huddersfield.exposed/s/80050

I've also made a note to research the Noon family. John and Ernestine Noon of 59 Whitehouse Lane, Hillhouse, had 8 sons serving in various branches of the Army during WW2 and they were nicknamed "The Noon Platoon": Donald, William, Bernard, Frank, Sam, Jack, and twins Brian and Dennis.

Also, if you borrow an author's book from a library in the UK, that author gets more than 12 pence per loan in Public Lending Rights. Any author can earn up to £6,600 per year this way. That’s more than I’ve been paid by any publisher this year.

In the latest QnA Episode we examine: observation balloons, white feathers, mine fields in No Man’s Land and trench foot.

July walking tours. See first photo for details. Thanks.

Ten years ago today I took this photo in the #WW1 trenches of the Newfoundland Park on the Somme at Dawn. One of those moments where the past met the present.

An honour to lead this family to the graveside of their ancestor, Pte Charlie Adams. Saw action with the 19th London Regt on the Somme in 1916; then at Messines and 3rd Ypres, before he was wounded, captured and died during the German Spring Offensive. @sophie1wwtours.bsky.social #SGWT #WW1 #FWW

Looking for a special gift for that budding trench trekker? Have you thought about LinesMan? Visit our website for more information on this must-have GPS mapping companion. It’s more than just a map! Works on Windows, iPhone, iPad & Android - See: greatwardigital.com

In the footsteps of the Swedes - Taking friends to the Western Front. Read about my latest tour to the Ypres Salient. www.westernfront.se/2026/05/23/i...

A little piece of Great War history on Cannock Chase…

At Preston this morning with work & managed a quick look at the memorial to the Preston Pals on the station #ww1

Disaster at Gommecourt: the first of our #Somme110 films is now on #YouTube: youtu.be/wVfA9Fh80eI?...

Ascension Day. For anyone in or around Bruges today, this is well worth seeing. I expected a short procession but it is huge, scenes going through the Bible from Old Testament and New. Music and dancing. I’d love to see it again. www.visitbruges.be/en/whats-on/...

1/3 🧵May 11 1920, In Albert, France, Frédéric Gadmer takes these autochrome photos in their original colour 106 years ago. The pictures show the city's Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Brebières. During #WW1 German bombardment reduced it to ruins en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilic...

Remembering this #AnzacDay all those from those far off lands who volunteered to do their bit in the Great War & those who now lay forever thousands of miles from home #ww1 #WeWillRememberThem 🇦🇺🇳🇿

To The ANZACS What a day to remember And never forget! What a day to keep sacred For a hundred years yet! And let them know Of the sacrifice Made for Homeland Where right never dies. It was right against might, Because Anzac was right. Because Anzac was just. #AnzacDay #Australia #NewZealand

In this latest Old Front Line for ANZAC Day we ar joined by New Zealand playwright Arthur Meek to discuss his Voices of Gallipoli project and the men of the Otago Battalion.

In the latest Questions and Answers Episode: from the Ypres Salient headstones of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission to machine gun barrages, CCS burials Behind The Lines, and post-war land recovery in France & Belgium: we answer your questions.

On this day 114 years ago, at noon on 10 April 1912, Titanic began her maiden voyage from her home port of Southampton to New York. 1/12

109 years ago the Battle of Arras began. Terrible losses in horrendous weather conditions including blizzard conditions. Remembering all those who endured those conditions & those who never came home #WW1

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🧵On tomorrow's date, 7 April in 1739, Richard (Dick)Turpin, was executed in York. A violent criminal - not the romantic hero later legends made him out to be. Though often remembered as a dashing highwayman, Turpin was in reality a poacher, burglar, horse thief, and killer.

5 April 1944: the Japanese encirclement of Kohima is complete. Of the 2,500-strong garrison c.1,000 were non-combatant clerks, cooks, drivers etc, who picked up rifles to defend the position. Slim had expected a regiment to attack but a full Japanese division came instead. 📸IND3697 Kohima Ridge

The Wester Front Spring 1916: out latest Livestream over on the @oldfrontline.bsky.social #YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/live/QH9X6aS...

Corporal Herbert Easter, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, at rest in a cemetery on the Somme, France. 📍Connaught Cemetery 🇫🇷

50 Q&As in! This latest Old Front Line episode explores personal soldier stories, Light Infantry traditions, and battlefield memory, from Ypres to Gettysburg, ending with the reality of iron harvests, reburials, and a landscape that still gives up its past today.

Wow, like a ghost ship 114 years on, Belfast witnesses an incredible full-scale drone Titanic depart into the night once more.

A very wet miserable day but managed to get out for a few drinks in Halifax at Kobenhavn & then the wonderful Victorian craft beer cafe for probably THE best Belgian Tripel #beeroclock

In the latest @oldfrontline.bsky.social we examine Lieutenant Colonel Émile Driant and his stand in the Bois des Caures during the opening phase of the Battle of Verdun in February 1916. We also visit to the battlefield today, 110 years later. oldfrontline.co.uk/2026/03/28/c...

Do I know anyone heading to the National Archives before the end of the month at all? If so I have a little favour to ask pretty please.

Remembering my cousin Sjt James C Lucas 2/6 Lancs Fus. Died of wounds OTD 1918 at CCS after attempting to defend Templeux Le Gurerad against German Spring Offensive.Pre war he was Sjt in Church Lads Brigade in Middleton, Rochdale #ww1

In this latest Q&A episode, we ask could veterans ever be buried alongside their fallen comrades in official war cemeteries, what was the role of snipers on the Western Front, how did Stretcher Bearers cope in the conditions of Third Ypres and examine what books to read on this iconic battle?

21 March 1918, my 24 yr old Gt Uncle, Cpl Hugh Robinson, Lancs Fusiliers, was KIA on the opening day of the Spring Offensive. A Territorial, he left for Egypt in Sept 1914, was wounded at Gallipoli, fought at Passchendaele and must have seen so much horror. His mother always wore his photograph.

After so many years, its wonderful to finally put a face to a name. Frank Hayward was born in Bristol in August 1898 to Henry & Minnie. He attested into the 12th Battalion Essex Regiment in August 1916, around the time of his 18th birthday.

You know you've reached that point of no return when the first thing you think of when you see it's a warm sunny day is that you can put the washing out on the line 🌞

The Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial church. Badly damaged in air raids and the battle for the city. See first photo for more information.

A wet & blustery walk today in the local park. Noticed this tree & plaque planted by the Duchess of Albany at the opening of the park in October 1883. Sadly 5 months later in 1884 the Duke, Prince Leopold Queen Victoria's 8th & youngest child, would die after a fall whilst in Cannes #LocalHistory

I've finally updated my website* so if you want to find out more about me and my work, check it out: lucybetteridgedyson.com *please note I'm not a professional web designer and did this around entertaining my 7 month old and cooking dinner so, don't let me know if you think it's rubbish

Quote “This weekend DOVO Sedee in Meerdaal was called to a plane bomb that was found in the Kattenbos in Lommel.It was an American 500-pound bomb, which probably came from a crashed B-17 bomber.Because the bomb had not been dropped, the detonators were still intact & partially armed.” 📸DOVO Sedee

Gosling Press has just produced a volume with all 96 issue of peninsula Press, the newsheet produced during the Gallipoli Campaign. This is we believe the first time all issues have been available. For more information go to goslingpress.co.uk/peninsula-pr...

“As I lay in the trenches at Neuve Chapelle, Where the big guns barked like the hounds of hell, Sez I to mysel’, sez I to mysel’ - “Billy, my boy, here’s the end o’ you.” Remembering the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, 10th - 13th March 1915.

Have come across a curious case this morning. A man who died of wounds on 11 July 1916 while at a base hospital at Boulogne, yet has no known grave and is listed at the Thiepval Memorial. Not much more documentation to rely on. Yet another thing to do today.