Tip of the Cap! Taff’s back with the first HutVent of 2025…👇

Trip to Hinckley guided by my friend Greg. The Greyhound is excellent and great VFM. Also these chaps - All from Hinckley … That’s a VC, three DCMs, MC, Croix de Guerre, Belgian Militaire and the best soldier in the Leicestershire Regt amongst them

Go on. You know you need to. #ww1 #genealogy #vlaanderen #wo1 uk.bookshop.org/p/books/from...

#OTD 21 Nov 1917 50413 Pte Lionel Calam Burgess C Sqn 1/1 East Riding Yeomanry died of wounds in 24 Stationary Hospital, Kantara, Egypt. He was wounded in the preceding days, possibly on the 16that Amwas (shell fire) or 17th at Ludd (MG fire) 1/3

Battle of Cambrai, 1917. “Through Mud and Blood to the Green Fields Beyond.”

"Through her eloquence and heartfelt storytelling, she brought the human dimension of the Kindertransport to life." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The Dover Patrol Memorial, Pas de Calais, France. This version inaugurated 1962, the German blew up the first memorial during the occupation of World War 2. Scattered along the coastline of the Pas de Calais are remnants of the Atlantic Wall built during the German occupation using forced labour.

Back for the day at the Old White House in Pops, always feels nice to be here especially after the frenetic days of Armistice.

A kid from my village in Ontario who never made it home. He died at a place called Vindictive 107 years ago today. Remember them.

Armistice 2025 took my friends out on a #Dunkirk trail, couldn’t fit all of the sites in too many and not enough time. Showed them the glass etchings that John Hutton had done at the Dunkirk Memorial & Cemetery from top to bottom depicting the RAF & German Stukas to the evacuation from the beaches.

Just 2 of those in my family who did not return from The Great War. Gt Uncle Arthur Coldstream Gds, lost between Metz & Gouzeaucourt Nov 1917, no known grave, he is listed on the memorial at Louverval. Also his cousin William RE, died in July 1917, buried at La Clytte nr Ypres. We do not forget.

Board left at Essex Farm showing the route for the evacuation of wounded soldiers from the frontline. If this belongs to any tour groups coming out from the UK please contact me. I shall place for safekeeping in my ‘battle’ van and then arrange for collection.

Great start...Artillery not the easiest at the best of times for research ...the exact three months that I'm looking for July, August & September 1917 and no surprise they're missing...what an absolute pain...

October 27th, 1918. Victoria Cross action of veteran Canadian pilot Major William Barker. Flying a Sopwith Snipe on a solo patrol, he shot down a Rumpler two-seater and was immediately attacked by 15 German Fokker D.VIIs. 📷 IWM Q 68086 🧵1/3

The realities of being in a Sanitary Section during the First World War: “In certain places decomposing dead bodies are exposed in the walls and the stench from these is very offensive AAA. They should be well sprinkled with Chlorine of Lime and covered with earth AAA.

I always think that this is a ‘slimmed down’ version of Tubby, short but not rotund 😄

Casualties from a working party in Belgium & part of France, July 1917. Covering areas with family descendants of Thomas Bragg, resting in Kandahar Farm Cemetery along with Lieut. Christensen & 3 O.R’s also killed.

Shrapnel from 1944 found along the edge of the fields at Hill 112 in Normandy this morning.

Not sure about this…I’m all for commemoration and remembrance but dare I say that this is a bit OTT?

#OTD 13 October 1915. An awful day for the counties of the North Midlands as their fathers, husbands and sons met a bloody repluse in their attack on the Hohenzollern Redoubt, a phase of the Battle of Loos. #ww1 #genealogy

Gunner Officer: Malcolm Vyvyan. In this latest Old Front Line #podcast we return to the memories of #WW1 veteran Malcolm Vyvyan MC, who served with 96th Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery on the Western Front from 1916. oldfrontline.co.uk/2025/10/11/g...

Restoration work being carried out on the Buttes in Polygon Wood therefore is currently off limits to the public walking up there. The cemetery is still accessible to the public.

Positive response to explanation of the Christmas Truce, we’re now going to insert into the tour a visit to the resting place of a footballer for the two teenage sons…

Oh dear, time to be a damp squid..."so we wondered if there is any way you could also incorporate the Christmas Truce football match site?"

On Friday we followed James Cormack of the 5th Cameron Highlanders & the Final Advance 28th September through to 27th October 1918. Starting off at the area of Bellewaerde, Frezenberg Ridges and Potijze, then advancing through areas such as MolenHoek Ridge, the Keiberg Spur & on to Waterdamhoek.

***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.

Out guiding and met Tonny one of the buglers from the Last Post Association, he very kindly gave a little impromptu talk about his role within the LPA. A nice surprise for my chaps from Leek in Staffordshire.

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-...

Today, I visited the British war cemetery in Stahnsdorf, where the remains of those who fell in Germany during the First World War are laid to rest. Among them is Thomas Colvill-Jones, an Anglo-Argentine volunteer and young RAF pilot who departed from Buenos Aires in 1917. #LestWeForget

From 27th September to the 30th November a 6.5 metered high figure known as The Hauntings will be placed near the Menin Gate Memorial in Ieper. Facing towards the memorial symbolizing all those that never returned home… 📸 Flanders Fields 14-18

Ahead of my guided tour yesterday for the Royal British Legion Gloucester City at Talbot House I read an article about TOC H where Tubby Clayton had been described as the “priest for the parish of the Ypres Salient” during the First World War.” A fitting and wonderful description I thought.

A boy soldier, enlisting at the age of 14 in 1905 having been born in Peshawar, India. Entered theatre of war 10th November 1914, described as: intelligent, hardworking, smart and trustworthy. Wounded in the areas of Barnsley Road and Post 28, resting in peace in Essex Farm Cemetery.

We first came to the burial ground of the Clan MacCrae around 23 years ago. Today we made a return visit, I’m so pleased we did as I missed so much information from my first visit, especially some that links back to my old Clan MacCrae book of those who died, fought and survived the First World War.

The Kohima Epitaph: ‘When you go home, tell them of us and say, For your tomorrow, we gave our today’ #VJDAY80 📸 Captain Edwin Alan Robert Syms saluting his fallen comrades at Taukkyan War Cemetery, Burma, in 2005.

Tonight we are staying just outside Tain where the hills to the rear of Tain were used by the Gordon Highlanders “U Battalion” (from University) for training a few days prior to the declaration of war by Great Britain to Germany. Little did they realise…

Well, this was a nice surprise to start the day, thank you TripAdvisor - As Jacques and I have always said "we're only as good as our last tour," something we firmly believe in even after all these years. Thank you also to all past & present customers who have placed their faith in us.

Pas-de-Calais: Farmer hits shell, young people exposed to phosphorus gas - #WW1 #FWW www.courrier-picard.fr/id646559/art...

1st Battle of El Alamein Introduction This is a new, small project, in which we are translating the daily reports sent by the HQ of the German-Italian Panzerarmee to Berlin. ULTRA Many, if not all of these reports were read in Bletchley Park, and the content communicated to Cairo to support…

A haunting sight of the skeletal ruins of Zonnebeke Church...1917.

Polderhoek Chateau and its contents went the way of all such things in the German war zone. The trees were whittled bare of branch and leaf, and the fields were no longer good to look upon. In all this region the Germans had made what in the language of the soldier are known as "strong points."

You've had a busy day and social media ain't what it used to be, but perhaps you could turn your thoughts to this chap, 15812 Pte HW Billy Disbrey of 11th 'Cambs' Battalion Suffolks, missing in action on the #Somme 1st July 1916. Missed this day and every day. Bugles still calling from sad shires...

Lochnagar Crater, 1st July 2025. #Somme

A telling collection of aerial images, moon cratered landscape from artillery bombardments during the First World War and zooming in marked areas highlighting concrete dugouts still standing. Unfortunately no mention as to whether it's in Flanders or France. #FWW #History #WW1

“Organised shell holes." Formed by artillery a moon cratered landscape, the choice of word "organised” used could possibly infer that these were deliberately linked to then fortify adapting them into some sort of defensive position.Sadly no mention of which battlefield sector these images apply to.

#TheSundayEpitaph Private S Nugent. Hermanville Cemetery. "Reunited With His Two Brothers. Eric, Lost At Sea 1940. James, Lost At Sea 1941." Eric: Plymouth Naval Memorial James: Portsmouth Naval Memorial

I'm particularly liking the two dogs acting as book ends to the group of airmen in this photo taken during the First World War.

Dranoutre - Wulverghem 1918: It was well known that this road passed under direct ballon observation, and as it was columns were not taken by surprise when high-velocity shells began dropping on their way.

#FWWhist #History #1GM #FWW #Grande-Guerre #WW1

The area between Polygone Wood & the Menin Road the most memorable, for all, for there lay a battered line of trenches held day after day by battalions reduced to the strength of platoons.

In August 1920 the widow of William Francis Carter received notification that her husband was resting in peace in Delsaux Farm Cemetery. His widow was one of the fortunate to learn this two years and 5 months after her husbands death, many others would still be waiting for years to come.