A rapidly growing collection of historically important documents, photographs, uniforms, equipment, and ephemera primarily relating to the Glider Pilot Regiment
Leeds, England
Joined July 2018
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Setup for the VMGCRA Exhibition at Bisley under way ready for opening on Friday and running until Monday.
If you're in the vicinity this weekend, drop in to :
The Pavilion, Bisley Camp, Brookwood, Woking, GU24 0NY
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It's that time of year when many of reflect on Operation Market Garden and the men that fought to secure more than 20 bridges that XXX Corps needed to reach the prize of Arnhem road bridge. Personally, I will remember the Glider Pilots that I had the privilege to know as friends.
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Some Operation Market Garden ear food from an earlier episode of @RAFBomber_Pod ... Matt Yates tells the story of the Arnhem Glider Pilots and bomber tugs #Arnhem #MarketGarden
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Our presentation ‘The British Horsa Glider’ is now FREE to watch on our brand new YouTube channel:
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We're happy to share our video on the Horsa glider which was prepared for the National WWII Glider Pilots Symposium a few days ago.
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Found this great advert in a 1955 Eagle publication!
'Too ••• Dicey Up There' 😎
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Free to use 'Brief History of the Glider Pilot Regiment' in A4 format.
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Untitled pen and ink drawing of Horsa gliders, by Harold Hailstone.
© The rights holder (Art.IWM ART LD 6676)
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Very pleased to have this sent off to print and open up pre-orders. Head to our website and you’ll find it there ready to order for just £10.
It's 116 pages plus the cover so is the biggest of the Emma Gees Study Series that we have printed so far.
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British 1949 Pattern Battledress Blouse Middlesex Regiment coming up in my September Militaria sale
The invasion of Sicily, July 1943.
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#onthisday 1916 Private Andrew Sutherland of 56 Machine Gun Company, 19 Division was wearing this helmet when he received two bullets to the head at La Boiselle on the Somme. He survived and would go on to serve in the Royal Engineers and live until 1969.
Whitley Tugs and Horsas Training Photograph. Circa 1943.
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Look what arrived at @ChalkCollection in time for my birthday no less! @Barber1944
1/4 Something that we've been meaning to look into for some time is the probability of retrieving airworthy gliders after the airborne landings on D.Day.
The Horsa seems to get a misappropriated reputation for being a lumbering, flimsy, flying coffin...
3/4 …and overhead cover... but No.1 H.G.S.U. worked through all this to patch up and fly out complete gliders along with several thousand spare parts!
Note: these won't be our final findings, we're learning all the time so watch this space, and our Patreon patreon.com/thechalkcollecti…
