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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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
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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.
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Bernie Vincent and Martin Bull are restoring a rare WW2 Airspeed Horsa glider cockpit, a challenging project involving expensive, hard-to-source materials. Built at Cheltenham's H.H. Martyn factory, this example is one of 3,800+ used for 1944 invasions, including D-Day and Arnhem
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Join us at The Vickers MG Exhibition in October. Free entry and no need to book. More info available through our newsletter. Just over five months away! #militaryhistory
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On Monday evening (27 April) we will be at @GLiveGuildford to support @DavidOlusoga for his ‘A Gun Through Time’ stage show.
We had the opportunity to show the devastation of the #VickersMG a few weeks ago and the audience get to see this as part of the show.
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We’re pleased to have moved from the text drafting to the layout phase of our next book: The Bren Gun in North West Europe and at Home - Infantry 1938-41.
It’ll be ready in the next couple of months and probably in time for TankFest.
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Yesterday we were preparing for the @WeHaveWaysPod Fest next weekend.
One of the random ideas we had some time ago was how to represent the entire #VickersMG battalion and the complexity beyond the guns.
The only way was to turn to 3D printing. Yesterday we put it together.
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Ready for episode 4 of Dispatches from the Dugout? Watch Matt, Rich and Tom chat about the Vickers and the context of the 1940s. On YouTube Friday 29 August at 8pm with extending episode (with firing content) premiering on Patreon at the same time. #dugout #secondworldwar
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A remarkable set of papers accompanying an AB64 from Alistair Taylor’s legacy that we’re cataloguing and digitising at the moment.
James Pearson was an early Glider Pilot who ditched in Augusta Bay, Sicily, and became a POW.
All will be available on our Patreon.
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#otd1917 #machineguncorps #firstworldwar #militaryhistory #victoriacross
The first VC of the Machine Gun Corps (but not the first gazetted).
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The anniversary of the first #MachineGunCorps #VictoriaCross is this month. We are honoured to have access to the original medal and notebooks.
To learn more, you can purchase Lt Graham’s memoir in a limited edition publication from the VMGCRA for £25 plus postage. #FWWHist
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Another big Horsa just left the first stage paintshop. Note the magnetic removable tail
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Some of the images uploaded onto the VMGCRA Patron from the Alistair Taylor Collection in the last day. There are hundreds more to come. #SecondWorldWar #MilitaryHistory #FirstWorldWar