Military Genealogist 馃 - Regional Manager South East UKNA with the CWGC - A Sapper - views my own
Hermitage, England
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Day 4 - A visit to @CWGC Haiderpasha Cemetery, wow a stunning & historically interesting site, we were generously hosted by Ibrahim & gave us welcome refreshments, before heading into Istanbul to reflect over a meal & few more beers....and plan the next trip Bastogne to Berlin
Day 3 - Our last night in 脟anakkale & finally met up with @bnbgundogan chatting about our shared @CWGC experiences over a fantastic meal, now off back to Istanbul to visit Haydarpasha.
Day 3 - Suvla, to visit the ground where Edwin fought his brief & tragic war. Visting Hill 10 & Azmak Cemetery where Edwin may well be buried as one of the many unknowns laid to rest...then battling the vegetation to get to the top between Jephson's Post & the pimple
Day 2 - Helles Memorial, perhaps the most poignant moment was Rich paying his respects to his Great Grandfather 18241 Pte Edwin Cooke, who landed on the 11th Sept 1915, to be killed in action on the 21st, the only casualty that day. Edwin was a miner & 41 when he volunteered.
Day 2... The afternoon was spent walking the ground at Cape Helles, which always feels like a postage stamp to land a Division on. Remnants of the campaign were found & left at X Beach, rum jar fragments, mule shoe, a spent cartridge..and what looked half a cigarette case.
Day 2, the morning was split by visting Kum Kale & the French diversionary attack, then onto ancient Troy.
Second trip to Gallipoli did not disappoint, revisted familiar sites & explored some new, this year accompanied with good friends, one whose great grandfather was killed in action with the 7th Btn South Staffs at Karakol Dagh. Day 1 was walking the ground in the ANZAC sector.
Out and about in East & West Sussex and Kent over the last two days..the sunny wearher obviously helps but great to see the plots being cared for by the @CWGC South East Hort Teams & coming to life with splashes of colour.... Gillingham, Hove Old, Brighton Bear Road & Tangmere
Thank John @thebattleguide , good to see you today & the @CWGC South East Team are doing a grand job at Gillingham, and the Volunteers really helped today with the mulching.
Back to Gillingham Woodlands Cemetery today to lead another cemetery tour. The place is looking immaculate thanks to a @CWGC crew and volunteers.
A great day yesterday at Shelsley Walsh Hill Climb with my old man....a real mix of cars trying to be the fastest & noisiest up the hill whilst being hampered by the rain showers...and pheasants on the track...馃毄
The iconic 拢200,000+ Aston DB2/4 was a little slugish tbh..
Not forgotten Pal!
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Ubique.
Remembering Sergeant Paul Fox, 28 Engineer Regiment Royal Engineers, killed in an IED blast while on a foot patrol in Southern Nad鈥檃li, Helmand Province, Afghanistan on the 26th February 2010 aged 34. Paul was born in Manchester & lived in St Ives with his family. #Afghanistan
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On 21 February 1917, the SS鈥疢endi tragically sank, resulting in the second-largest loss of South African lives in the First World War.
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Spending Xmas in Miserden,
Only one @CWGC grave in the churchyard, to a WO GW Stafford, who sadly took his own life due to his struggles with depression/neurasthenia & lit up for Project 71's Operation Candle light...& the war memorial designed by a certain Sir Edwins Lutyens
1. Some people do Crosswords, but unlocking a families WW1 puzzle is far more rewarding. So, a family request on the very active @RE_Hist_Society FB page to find anything about a Thomas Sullivan, lived in London, wounded First Battle of Ypres, born 1885'ish & wife called Magaret?
8. Nothing 100% as yet just a few strong coincidences & experience tells me in this field, is go with these coincidences...So we have one last place to look @Ancestry Pension Ledgers. There are two, and one has an address 39 Balmore Street, Highgate
