Same handle at the place of bluer skies. Man of (touching) the cloth: #ChelseaFC #Harlequins #history and 11th Suffolks in #WW1.
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For all that this platform continues to be largely an unmitigated sh*tshow - it never ceases to be humbling when, on their own initiative, friends on here take time out from their busy schedule to do this…
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You've had a busy day and social media ain't what it used to be, but perhaps you could turn your thoughts to this chap, 15812 Pte HW Billy Disbrey of 11th 'Cambs' Battalion, Suffolk Regiment, missing in action on the #Somme 1st July 1916. Bugles still calling from sad shires...
Not expecting this to get much attention, but... today 80 years ago, a blurry photo captures a blonde haired toddler, my aunt, raising a chubby fist in a mock Nazi salute to ridicule a stuffed straw effigy of Hitler, destined to burn amid celebrations that night! #VEDay80 #VEDay
ALT A stuffed straw effigy of Adolf Hitler - with 'Adolf' embroidered across its chest (to avoid all doubt!) - prepared as part of the VE Day celebrations in the village of Barton, Cambs, 8 May 1945.
This is Mr May’s version of that ‘I failed all my A-levels and look at me now’ tweet. It so *isn’t* that simple…
‘Unnamed’ highly likely - ‘undiscovered’, less so I imagine (but a case of not letting the facts mar a good story, I suppose…
Great article on the work of @CWGC in Prima magazine featuring Claire Horton CBE @dgcwgc PEC Elaine Edwards @Elaine35501158 & EOHO volunteer Claire Davies @ElizbethjmSmith.
“Every grave represents a person who never got to realise their dreams.”
Hi @LondonWaterloo - not sure if you’re already aware, but as of yesterday, one of the two Union Flags that you have flying above your main entrance is upside down (the one on the right as you face the entrance). Unless it’s meant as an unofficial distress signal (hopefully not)?
A time machine where everyone has the complexion of freshly sliced Spam…
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I get what he means, but IMHO this is incorrect.
Did more in the summer of 1940? Very likely.
But a greater contribution than the Spit in the Second World War overall? Demonstrably not, I would aver.
How many marks of Spit up to 1945? And how many of Hurricane?
I rest my case.
The shameful, cringe-worthy spectacle of Tango Hitler and JD Sports ganging up to publicly bully the beleaguered President Zelensky. How did we ever get to this?! Sheesh!
Wishing a very merry Christmas to the good folks on here! Image shows 'Christmas day behind the firing line', courtesy of @salvationarmyuk My Great Grandad (9th East Surrey), would always donate to the Sally Ann because, he said, they were the ones found nearest the front line.
In my family (and, I know, many, many others) every day since 1st July 1916 has been #RemembranceDay
ALT Remembering 15812 Pte HW 'Billy' Disbrey of 11th 'Cambs' Suffolks, killed in action near LaBoisselle, Somme on 1st July 1916.
Pretty sure (delighted to be corrected) that these gents are, from right to left; Maj James Lumley (holding M1 carbine, wearing a vest) Lt Col Freddie Shaw, who is partially obscured by Brig Mike Calvert (slung SMLE) after the capture of Moguang, June 1944…
Towards war's end 'Mad' Mike Calvert DSO and bar (right, below), took over command of the SAS, fresh out of General Orde Wingate’s Chindits, waging war deep in the Burmese jungle. With a wartime career replete with daring feats behind the lines, most notably fighting the Japanese, Calvert had also run the Burma-based Bush Warfare School, training Chinese troops for guerrilla-style operations against the Japanese. Upon his appointment to SAS command, Calvert – unorthodox, driven, a rule-breaker through-and through - addressed the men with striking clarity and humility: ‘I am glad and proud to take over such a fine command as that of all SAS Troops. I will try and do justice to this appointment. You are special troops and I expect you to do special things in the last heave against the Hun. There will be plenty of worthwhile jobs to do.’ There were. Join Calvert, Blair Paddy Mayne's 1 SAS and the warriors they commanded, as the 'last heave against the Hun' - bloody, bruising, desperate - got underway, as told in my new book, SAS Daggers Drawn, out 24/10/24. (Photo Calvert - IWM MH 7287).
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‘Arrow-man-cheese’!
Reminds me a lot of my Great Granddad talking about the hell holes of his early manhood, when I was a nipper - Fry-court Ridge, Larbar-zelle, Pose-ears!
Inky Bill is an interesting one. An officer in his Division noted that some of the men ‘hooted with derision’ on hearing the news of his death, amidst rumours that he had been out souvenir hunting!
Always extraordinarily touching when good friends - and even people on here who I have never even met - visit my relative who is remembered on @CWGC Thiepval Memorial: 15812 Pte HW ‘Billy’ Disbrey of 11th ‘Cambs’ Suffolks, killed on 1st July 1916 and who has no known grave.
'Very blue eyes'. On #BattleOfBritainDay remembering Old Pharosian P/O Keith Gillman, Hurricane pilot, 32 Sqdn #RAF lost over the Channel some 3 miles south of his home town of #Dover His bereft father sent a description of Keith to the War Office, noting his *very* blue eyes...
