#Ypres

Matt Baker

MattBak63401251

#OTD 1940. During the night, 5th and 4th Divisions break contact from German IV Corps and withdraw through 50th and 3rd Division at Poperinghe. 5th Division takes up a new

Bryn Hammond

Brynley_H

I have been privileged to see the new CBH Board #FWW GCSE Exam questions. Try them yourself:Q1) In 1917, was Robert Nivelle the man who turned Champagne into real pain?

Francis Xavier Sowerby Thomas

FrankyBabes

My mum, @Northernlawyer, sadly died late on Wednesday night, surrounded by family. She succumbed suddenly to infection after two years with a ludicrously aggressive case of myeloma.When she was fit,

WarGravesCommission

CWGC

#OTD 80 years ago German forces invaded the Netherlands, Belgium and France. For Imperial War Graves Commission staff in these countries it was still business as usual – for now

Campaign to Stop Killer Robots

BanKillerRobots

Today the @UN Security Council will debate a new report by Sec-Gen @antonioguterres that urges states to protect civilians from serious threats raised by lethal autonomous weapons systems https://www.stopkillerrobots.org/2020/05/protect-civ

🇦🇺 Peter Wallace

PeterWallaceAU

On ANZAC Day 100 years ago, my grandfather, Private Laban Ernest William Wallace (Crab), was in France fighting the Germans on the western front. He enlisted in the New England

James Brun

LeBrunJames81

In honour of June being #IndigenousHistoryMonth in Canada, this space will highlight Indigenous Canadian veterans. I'll add to it throughout the month. Today was Onondaga long distance runner Tom Longboat's

Mike Bechthold

mike_bechthold

While we can't visit Vimy right now, we can take a virtual tour of the Canadian National Vimy Memorial. A Thread.#Vimy #VimyRidgeDay #WW1 #FWW [All photos taken by me unless

Carole Hope - Great War (Old) Gal

carole1418

1/18 The Easter Rising in Dublin lasted 6 days; within that timespan men of Irish regiments in France suffered heavy casualties from two chlorine gas attacks launched by the Germans,

Jo Hook

JoJohook2003

To all the guides & past passengers from our tours & possibly any future ones. As I sit in garden yesterday my thoughts turned to what I should have been

Bernard Lewis

BernardLewis8

Short thread on Christopher Tennant of Cadoxton, Neath. Killed in action 3 September 1917 while serving with the Welsh Guards in Flanders. The Tennant family arrived in Neath in 1816

Michael Bourlet

mbourlet

L’année dernière, j’ai acheté cette croix de guerre de la Première Guerre mondiale sur un petit vide grenier du centre Bretagne. On en trouve beaucoup de ces décorations isolées et

Ben Mayne

BattlefieldBen

A 3 hour walk around Hill 60, the Caterpillar, the Bluff and Palingbeek gave me a great chance to look in detail at the actions which took place around there.

El Rhodes

electra_rhodes

My grandad was only ever elderly as far as I knew him. A bit grumpy. Kind to me, his smallest grandchild. He was a man who felt like he’d never

Tunde Reid-Kapo

tundereidkapo

The Case For a 'Women's Israel'A Female-Only Sovereign State~It's a no brainer that if natal Women had full equality many impossible problems that are of men's making & tearing society

Steve Hunnisett

Blitzwalker

Greeting everyone and welcome to a scorcher in SE London. We're standing outside Woolwich Arsenal Station, originally opened in 1849 and rebuilt in 1906. Woolwich is a garrison town and