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Jeremy Gordon-Smith
JGordonSmith1
Ivan Bawtree: βDuring my visit to our offices [after Armistice] I saw that the army order forbidding the use of cameras had been cancelled so I immediately ordered a quantity
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Jeremy Banning
jbanningww1
1. I've been moved to write a short thread on British casualties during the Second Battle of Ypres #WW1 #Ypres 2. Iβve been doing some work on 2nd Buffs during
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Paul Reed
sommecourt
#Ypres1940: Today in 1940 the fighting at Ypres was reaching its crescendo. A delaying action as the BEF pulled back to #Dunkirk, it was where #WW2 met #WW1 on the
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Peter Doyle
ProfPeterDoyle
Ypres: a city strongly held in the memory of all those who visited it in time of war, and of those who travelled there as pilgrims in its aftermath #WW1
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Jeremy Banning
jbanningww1
1/ A short thread on what seems to be a regular topic for me - 28th Division casualties at the Second Battle of Ypres in April - May 1915. Please
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Leicester Tigers History
HistoryTigers
46 TIGERS46 men who appeared for @LeicesterTigers lost their lives in the two world wars. Weβll take a little time to remember them. Sgt. JOHN TWIGGTigers Career: 1913-14Appearances: 37Tries: 2Points:
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Genevra Charsley
FlandersBTour
On Saturday 31st October 1914, Halloweens Day at 9.00pm, to the sound of loud cheers and band music playing the Germans attacked the front of the London Scottish at the
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Anne Louise Avery
AnneLouiseAvery
Ypres, Sunday 24th July 1927. Australian war artist Captain Will Longstaff, shaken by the unveiling ceremony of the Menin Gate Memorial to the 350,000 who had died in the Ypres
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Carla-Jean
CarlaJeanStokes
William Rider-Rider wrote*, "Passchendaele was a treacherous place for a cameraman--or anyone else, for that matter." How treacherous, you ask? Check out some photographs *He later claimed that this
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Joseph Castle
joseph_castle
Yesterday marked 103 years since Augustus Lauterbach, age 20, took part in the first day of the Third Battle of Ypres. Today he is remembered on the Menin Gate. He
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Lucy
LMBD1418
Equine veterans of the First World War, 'The Old Blacks', were a team of black gun horses originally of F Battery, Royal Horse Artillery who were based at St John's
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Gareth Davies
bermicourt
Fred Talbot was a regular soldier. He joined the Army in 1900 aged 16 and served with the KDG in South Africa, the Mtd Police in Egypt, and then with
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Canadian Forces in πΊπΈ
CAFinUS
Who among us has not missed the signature line target? Who among us was awarded two Distinguished Service Orders for gallantry in action during WWI?Who among us was awarded a
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Edward Madigan
MadiganEdward
On this day in 1922, Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson, Unionist MP and former Chief of the Imperial General Staff, was shot dead outside his home in Belgravia. His assassins,
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PainxPiss
I think imma start a thread of bands that I feel should be much larger but get overlooked by the majority of the Metal scene. First up, a band that
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Jerry Whitney
theharpoonman
The photograph is of a team of stretcher-bearers struggling through deep mud to carry a wounded man to safety near Boesinghe, on the 1st of August 1917, in the Battle
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