Today is the 81st anniversary of the Liberation of Brussels by the Welsh Guards. W01 RSM Christoper Greaves (pictured) and Regimental Adjutant Lt Col Guy Bartle-Jones presented a new hand-made uniform to the city for the Manneken-Pis. The little boy can now say he is taking a leek

Top 10 WW2 escapes www.wwiimemorialfriends.org/blog/top-ten...

Two 5-star reviews for my book (and not provided by me) www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...

🚨 The King Baudouin Stadium in Heysel, home of Belgian football for almost a century, may have hosted its last ever game for the Red Devils It needs major repairs and may be torn down - with new sites already being considered Me with @dennisabbott.bsky.social: www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/1653...

Creator of Battle of Waterloo's most popular painting remembered www.theoldie.co.uk/blog/the-sol...

Staying in Liège, @dennisabbott.bsky.social meets the Dardennes brothers, whose award-winning movies, mostly set in the Seraing neighbourhood, have shone a light on gritty personal dramas - including the recent Jeunes Mères www.brusselstimes.com/magazine/160...

Looking fwd to the #SmurfsMovie premiere in #Brussels & esp Smurfette #Rihanna. Here's my take on the empire of the #Smurfs, their 🇧🇪🇬🇧 creator #Peyo & his wife Nine who made em blue brusselstimes.com/499686/empir...

Eoghan moans a lot but he's an exceptional writer. Here are his thoughts on the heatwave

First edition copies of my book about life as a media ops officer in Basra (Operation Telic & the Liberation of Iraq) are still available. Check out this video from the launch event www.bruzz.be/en/videoreek...

Our next commemorations take place on 4 May at Hotton War Cemetery (11.15am) and the 51st Highland Division memorial at La Roche. Why not join us?

Andrée ‘Nadine’ Dumon was a Belgian Comet Line courier, helping Allied airmen escape during the World War II. @dennisabbott.bsky.social looks at her legacy. Alice Austen’s new novel, 33 Place Brugmann also features the Nazi occupation. She tells Alia Papageorgiou why wartime history matters today.

'The problem is that the radical people aren't sensible, and the sensible people aren't radical' shorturl.at/bDLLa

Andrée 'Nadine' Dumon, one of the great heroines of the Ligne Comète, helped many allied airmen & soldiers to escape from occupied territory to Gibraltar during WW2 fb.watch/xsR5xH9YT_/

On Christmas Eve night… A story about the Christmas Truce 110 years ago and how we now definitely known that Indian soldiers were a part of it Spice tins given to Germans prove Indians were at Christmas truce www.thetimes.com/article/0550...