The Cenotaph in Trinity, Newfoundland, Canada. A moving tribute to those lost while serving with the Royal Navy and in the Royal Newfoundland Regiment. @sommecourt.bsky.social

Questions & Answers Episode 36: in the latest @oldfrontline.bsky.social we answer questions about what happened to German forces at the end of the war, how the dead were buried, poison gas and the fate of all those War Horses at the close of the conflict. oldfrontline.co.uk/2025/09/20/q...

In our first episode for Season 9 of @oldfrontline.bsky.social we walk the battlefield at Gommecourt, looking at the fighting here on 1st July 1916. oldfrontline.co.uk/2025/09/13/w...

Every year on the Arnhem Anniversary I take this book off the shelves and give it a read: it’s one of my favourite memoirs of the battle, and I love the Prologue too and the introduction by Hackett, who I was lucky to meet several times.

#Arnhem81: today in 1944 Operation Market Garden began. The Air Armada took elements of three Airborne divisions deep into enemy territory and filled the skies as men dropped between Eindhoven & Arnhem, as seen in these private photos of the time.

In our first episode for Season 9 of @oldfrontline.bsky.social we walk the battlefield at Gommecourt, looking at the fighting here on 1st July 1916. oldfrontline.co.uk/2025/09/13/w...

Season 9 of @oldfrontline.bsky.social begins tomorrow with a walk at Gommecourt on the Somme. Lots more coming this season!

Where #WW1 met #WW2 - Field Marshal Montgomery visits the Canadian First World War memorial at Vimy Ridge #OTD in 1944. Monty had served at Vimy in 1916 as a Staff Officer.

In our final Bonus Episode from Season 8 of Old Front Line #podcast we visit the Menin Gate at Night. Season 9 begins in a week's time. oldfrontline.co.uk/2025/09/06/b...

Thanks to all who joined me for an Old Front Line #Podcast Supporters Evening talk about images of the Battle of Arras tonight. Great to see so many present!

In this second Bonus Episode to end Season 8 of Old Front Line #podcast we look at the subject of Great War veterans: in particular Malcolm Vyvyan who served as a Siege Battery officer in the Royal Garrison Artillery on the Somme, Arras & in Flanders. oldfrontline.co.uk/2025/08/30/b...

It's #InternationalDogDay - this Company Sergeant Major of the 16/Highland Light Infantry poses with his little friend just after #WW1 in occupied Germany. A long war together finally over?

Some clips from our 2001 Documentary ’Forgotten Battlefield’ have been added by the BBC to their YouTube channel, including this one: youtu.be/yKz2M5PcNjg?...

In the latest Old Front Line #podcast we have the first of three Bonus Episodes to end Season 8: we travel to Fricourt on the Somme and examine the journey to unveil a memorial to the 17th (Northern) Division in the church there in July 1938. oldfrontline.co.uk/2025/08/23/b...

As season 8 of the Old Front Line #podcast comes to an end, over the next three weeks there are some bonus episodes looking at a Divisional Memorial on the Somme, a #WW1 Gunner Officer and a visit to the Menin Gate at Night. The second Bulletin goes out on Sunday too.

Picked up a frame of the new @warlordgames.com 28mm British in Winter gear. Some interesting sculpts and kit but the figures aren’t as ‘heroic’ as the existing British 44-45, which I suspect restricts kit bashing? Seems a lost opportunity. (New ones on left)

Got a question on RAF Bomber Command for @jamesjhistory.bsky.social and I ? We're recording a new Q&A session for @nmtdambusters.bsky.social on Wednesday evening. Reply, DM, tag us or email, or hit the message button on the show notes (top of each episode).

Great to see my 2012 book reissued in paperback - as with all the books in this series, it’s an introductory guide. Pleased that readers found it of value

Goodbye to Terence Stamp, a man of so many roles, including David Audley, for those who remember. About time there was an Anthony Price revival.

#OTD in 1917, Pte. John Lambert was killed near Langemark. Being buried in the field his body was lost until 2016 when we discovered his remains together with 7 others. He was identified in 2020 and reburied @cwgc.bsky.social New Irish Farm Cemetery in 2022.

The first Old Front Line #podcast Bulletin went out today - it’s a free newsletter published every two weeks. Subscribe for free here: mailchi.mp/cf62f401e843...

Tomorrow on the Old Front Line #podcast we have our fifth and final episode in the special Air War series looking at what we find of the RFC and RAF on the landscape of the Western Front today, and discover the story behind this plaque found in 2008.

A bit late with the re-post, but why not give a listen?

Bless ‘em All: today is #VJDay when on #VJDay80 we remember the British & Commonwealth soldiers of the ‘Forgotten Army’, but how to even begin to describe what that campaign was like? This artwork by Frank Pash, Instead of Leave Kohima, perhaps says more than a photo ever could.

A good day around Ypres filming for the @oldfrontline.bsky.social #YouTube Channel.

The new Old Front Line #podcast Bulletin goes live next weekend! Stay in touch with what we do on the podcast in this bi-weekly newsletter. Subscribe for free here: mailchi.mp/cf62f401e843...

Did you know The Old Front Line #podcast now has an online shop? Check it out here: old-front-line-shop.fourthwall.com/en-gbp/colle...

Questions & Answers: RFC/RAF Special. In the latest Old Front Line #podcast in our Air War series we look at some questions submitted by listeners about the war above the battlefields of #WW1. oldfrontline.co.uk/2025/08/09/q...

First Day of the Somme Explained Through Rare 1916 Photos. The latest Old Front Line Video is out now: youtu.be/ZkW_XRcGmNQ?...

In the second of our special interviews for the Old Front Line #podcast War in the Air series, we are joined by historian and broadcaster Josh Levine to discuss the War in the Air in #WW1, based on his best-selling book 'On A Wing and A Prayer'. oldfrontline.co.uk/2025/08/02/a...

Chinese Labour Corps & Shot at Dawn: Poperinghe in #WW1. The latest Old Front Line video now on YouTube. youtu.be/veRYEnYpVOY?...

New Old Front Line video has just dropped on #YouTube: youtu.be/veRYEnYpVOY?...

Our 250th Episode went live today! The Old Front Line has come a long way since 2020! If you want to help the podcast and listen on Apple Podcasts then please do consider leaving a Rating & Review: it really helps!

Thanks to all who joined me for an Old Front Line #podcast Supporters Evening where we looked at Official Images of the Battle of the Ancre in November 1916.

Above the Battlefield: Royal Flying Corps & RAF in WW1: in the start of a special Old Front Line #podcast War in the Air Month, we begin with an overview of the RFC & RAF on the Western Front in #WW1. oldfrontline.co.uk/2025/07/19/a...

Tomorrow on the Old Front Line #podcast we are joined for our 250th Episode by @1940andy.bsky.social in our continuing Air War Series to discuss the life, death and burial of #WW1 Air Ace Mick Mannock VC. #OFL250

It’s that time of the month where I come into town for a decent coffee and to pick up the latest @wssmagazine.bsky.social.

Above the Battlefield: Royal Flying Corps & RAF in WW1: in the start of a special Old Front Line #podcast War in the Air Month, we begin with an overview of the RFC & RAF on the Western Front in #WW1. oldfrontline.co.uk/2025/07/19/a...

Air War Month starts this Saturday on the Old Front Line #podcast with an introductory episode followed by interviews with @1940andy.bsky.social & Josh Levine followed by a special QnA & an Episode looking at what we find of the RFC/RAF on the battlefields today. [click on image for schedule!]

In the latest Old Front Line #podcast we discuss schools battlefield tours, the Wiltshire Regiment in #WW1, what sources we can find for the German side of the conflict and what British veterans thought of their German foe. oldfrontline.co.uk/2025/07/12/q...

First World War biscuits, Reading Museum (Huntley and Palmer, who made the biscuits, were based in Reading). My photos.

Air War Month starts this Saturday on the Old Front Line #podcast with an introductory episode followed by interviews with @1940andy.bsky.social & Josh Levine followed by a special QnA & an Episode looking at what we find of the RFC/RAF on the battlefields today. [click on image for schedule!]

My good friend Dr Victoria Humphreys is giving a talk about her new book at Dorchester Library on 23 August. It’s free and you can sign up on Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-other-...

Another great weekend looking at the Secret War in #Paris in #WW2 with Dr Victoria Humphreys for a Leger Battlefield Tour - from Resistance Memorials to SOE Safe Houses to the story of the #Holocaust.

The Devonshires Held This Trench: the latest Old Front Line Video now on #YouTube: youtu.be/WOKVVBWy6C0?...

Questions & Answers Ep 33: in the latest Old Front Line #podcast we look at Stahlhelms on the Somme, how did Great War veterans feel about WW2, how were women who fell pregnant from British soldiers treated, and in the war cemeteries are we walking over graves? oldfrontline.co.uk/2025/07/05/q...

Next two weeks on Old Front alone #podcast we have two QnA episodes coming up and then we move into something new - War in the Air Month where we will look at the RFC/RAF during the Great War with a series of special episodes finishing in mid-August.

Remembering the Somme: a moment in time at the Sunken Lane opposite Beaumont-Hamel, men waiting to go into action at Zero Hour #OTD in 1916. A timeless, incredibly moving, sequence of film.

Thanks to all who joined me for an Old Front Line #Podcast Supporters Evening where we looked at the official photos of the 1st July 1916 and what they tell us about the First Day on the Somme.

Today is the Anniversary of the attack at Richebourg in 1916 when the South Downs battalions went over the top and it became ‘The Day Sussex Died’. More on the Old Front Line #YouTube: youtu.be/AE3Pfvz1wAw?...