Andy Saunders @1940andy.bsky.social · 02/01/2025A regular Yuletide ‘tradition’ is to visit this lonely grave at Battle, East Sussex, and leave flowers. At 16, she was the youngest female casualty of WW2 commemorated by CWGC. 071
Andy Saunders @1940andy.bsky.social · 01/01/2025No Northern Lights in the rain sodden SE tonight. Anyway… 020
Andy Saunders @1940andy.bsky.social · 18/12/2024When one realises that it is necessary to get out more. This is Queen Vic on St Leonards seafront with her usual Xmas finery - but with a German bullet hole in her skirts. Why do I need to get out more? I have a shortlist of Luftwaffe pilots who probably did it. 020
Andy Saunders @1940andy.bsky.social · 18/12/2024When Hastings Post Office closed few years back and moved to W H Smith I campaigned to have these memorials moved to the store. It didn’t ‘fit the corporate image’ of @WHSmith and so they are now hidden away and rarely seen by the public at the sorting office. 030
Andy Saunders @1940andy.bsky.social · 17/12/2024No 1 son (with London Fire & Rescue) was selected to receive his Coronation Medal at Buckingham Palace yesterday. Elderly relative: “How wonderful that they took him there in that carriage.” 040
Andy Saunders @1940andy.bsky.social · 14/12/2024Out with a bang! My last issue of ‘Iron Cross’ magazine under my editorship has landed from the printers. Handing over the editorial desk from this issue forward. On to other things for 2025! 010
Andy Saunders @1940andy.bsky.social · 13/12/2024Another of the Osprey titles that left my desk in 2024. Maybe you didn’t know all that you thought there was to know about the Bf 109 in the Battle of Britain? 😉 020
Andy Saunders @1940andy.bsky.social · 12/12/2024This new book in the Osprey Books ‘Duel’ series is now out. A few more will leave my desk in 2025 - all being well! 000
Andy Saunders @1940andy.bsky.social · 04/12/2024Having just signed off my very last issue of ‘Iron Cross’ magazine it is on to new projects once the desk is cleared. Major project next year is editing a re-worked and updated ‘Battle of Britain Then & Now’ 080
