#MilitaryMonday. It may not look like much now, but these are the remains of the Chiseldon Camp Parade Ground in #Wiltshire - once an important training facility and staging area in both #WW1 and #WW2. You can find out more in my book: #WiltshiresMilitaryHeritage.

#CemeterySunday. Chatham Naval Memorial has the names of nearly 19,000 members of the Royal Navy who have no known grave from #WW1 and #WW2. This is one of three identical memorials: with Plymouth and Portsmouth having the same.

#SecondWorldWarSaturday is from one of the most brutal places on earth - Dachau Concentration Camp, just outside Munich in #Germany. This was the longest running camp of the regime, with an estimated 180,000+ inmates and over 40,000 estimated to have been killed here. #WW2

#50GemsFriday is the Jersey Museum, Art Gallery and Victorian House, which covers the entire rich heritage of Jersey, from 250,000 years ago when the first people arrived to modern day! andrewpowell-thomas.co.uk/50…

Always easy to assume that #WW2 simply happened 'overseas', without really considering the impact of the conflict at home. Pendennis Castle in #Cornwall for example, despite being originally built by King Henry VIII, served as a key coastal defensive position for Falmouth harbour

Researching the 36 @CWGC casualties buried at Bridgwater (Wembdon Road) Cemetery, #Somerset for a Primary School and public tour next year. If anyone has any details of the men there, then I'd love to hear from you!

Remembering Flight Sergeant Gilbert Cottrell on #CemeterySunday this week. His Lancaster was one of over 300 aircraft to attack German railway infrastructure on a night time raid on 15 June 1944. A native of #Bampton, #Devon, he is buried in Coxyde Military Cemetery in Belgium.

#SecondWorldWarSaturday is Batterie de Merville in #Normandy this week. British airborne troops were given the task of taking the site on D-Day. #WW2

#50GemsFriday this week is the stunning Osborne House on the Isle of Wight. Built between 1845 and 1851 for Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, it was used as a summer home and rural retreat. So much to see here. andrewpowell-thomas.co.uk/50…

Well this was surreal! At @TankMuseum today for their fabulous ‘On Track’ event for the wider armed forces community; and whilst hard at work talking to the public, the ‘Artist in residence to The Lord Lieutenant of Dorset’ painted me in a watercolour. 🎨 Picture perfect?!🤣

For those looking to support the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, there are volunteering opportunities on the website, as well as the Commonwealth War Graves Foundation online shop. foundation.cwgc.org/shop/

Research under way, putting the stories together of the 36 #WW1 & #WW2 casualties that are buried in #Bridgwater (Wembdon Road) cemetery, #Somerset, ready for a @CWGC tour in 2027, linking with a local Primary School to ensure their sacrifices are remembered. Public tour too.

#MilitaryMonday. Famed for being one of Europe's largest Iron Age hillforts, Maiden Castle in #Dorset covers an area the size of 50 football pitches! andrewpowell-thomas.co.uk/ca…

#CemeterySunday this week, is Exeter Higher Cemetery in #Devon. There are over 400 casualties here, and the Second World War plot, seen in the photo, contains over 50 war graves of other nationalities, most of them Polish and German aircrew. #WW1 #WW2

#SecondWorldWarSaturday. One of my favourite places: Arromanches-les-Bains in #Normandy. It was here, that a Mulberry harbour artificial port was installed, allowing the Allies to unload vast quantities of men, ammunition, food and resources after D-Day. #WW2

#50GemsFriday. Littlecote Roman Villa has some incredible mosaics and can be found in the east of Wiltshire. andrewpowell-thomas.co.uk/50…

The answer to #WhereIsItWednesday is Cawsand Bay - location of Cawsand Fort. Built because of a Franco-Spanish fleet anchoring in the bay in 1779, it was used as a military base up until the 1920s. It is now housing.

#WhereIsItWednesday? . . . Clue: . . . #Cornwall.

#MilitaryMonday. The Bridgwater & Taunton Canal in #Somerset, formed part of the defensive #TauntonStopLine in #WW2, with numerous pillboxes constructed alongside the canal. andrewpowell-thomas.co.uk/th…

#CemeterySunday. Lieutenant John Everard was 22 years old when he was killed in 1915. He is buried at Guards Cemetery, Windy Corner, Cuinchy, France. His name is on the war memorial inside All Saints Church, Otterhampton, #Somerset. #WW1