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Dan P @danieljphelan.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Flt Lt Richard Sherwood was killed when his Gloster Meteor crashed shortly after take-off from RAF Benson. In 1942, he became a POW at Stalag Luft III after his Bristol Beaufighter was shot down over the North Sea. 📍St Thomas of Canterbury Churchyard, Goring-on-Thames 🇬🇧

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Dan P @danieljphelan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

@sommephantom.bsky.social can you help with a query? In addition to the Medal Index Card and citation above, I have found the two cards below. Why would George’s number have changed? Is it usual for the TFE Medal to be awarded posthumously? What is the card on the right (with the word Operation)?

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Dan P @danieljphelan.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Serjeant George Bland of the Royal Army Medical Corps was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal in 1916 for gallantry while in charge of stretcher-bearers. He was later killed in Belgium on 9 October 1917, aged just 26. 📍Oxford Road Cemetery 🇧🇪

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Dan P @danieljphelan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Some of the many maple leaf-adorned headstones at Adanac Military Cemetery. Its name comes from reversing the word Canada. Sadly, more than half of the cemetery’s 3,187 burials are of unidentified soldiers. 📍Adanac Military Cemetery 🇫🇷

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Dan P @danieljphelan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Wilhelm Voecking died as a prisoner of war in October 1945, five months after the end of the Second World War. His final resting place is within the only German mausoleum in France, where 11,956 German dead of World War Two are buried. 📍Mont d’Huisnes German War Cemetery 🇫🇷

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Dan P @danieljphelan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The striking “Death or Glory” badge of the 17th/21st Lancers on the headstone of Major Desmond Miller. The 39-year-old Royal Armoured Corps officer was mentioned in dispatches for distinguished service in connection with operations in Norway. 📍Rugby (Clifton Road) Cemetery 🇬🇧

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Dan P @danieljphelan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I read that they were part of an order for 10,000 hand grenades, which were indeed intended for use at Gallipoli. These look very similar: www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...

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'Malta' Hand Grenade

grenadespherical hand grenade.

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Dan P @danieljphelan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

On 5 October 1915, sixteen members of the Royal Malta Artillery were tragically killed in an explosion while filling hand grenades at the Malta Dockyard. One of those killed was Gunner Carmelo Farrugia. 📍Malta (Capuccini) Naval Cemetery 🇲🇹

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Dan P @danieljphelan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The citation for Private Arthur Hutt’s Victoria Cross, as published in the London Gazette.

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Dan P @danieljphelan.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Visited Coventry War Memorial Park yesterday and stopped at the memorial to Arthur Hutt VC. It was 109 years ago today that Arthur’s bravery, initiative and leadership earned him the Victoria Cross, making him Coventry’s first recipient of the UK’s highest award for gallantry.

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Dan P @danieljphelan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Sister Mabel Grigson died at Bighi Naval Hospital, Malta, from gastric dysentery and cardiac failure. Aged 36, she was from Clacton-on-Sea and had joined the Queen Alexandra’s Royal Naval Nursing Service in 1915. 📍Malta (Capuccini) Naval Cemetery 🇲🇹

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Dan P @danieljphelan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Eighteen-year-old Charles Ash of the Hampshire Regiment was killed on this day in 1918. After the war, his body was moved from Gheluwe Road Cemetery to a much larger cemetery. I was amazed to see an address in my hometown mentioned in his epitaph. 📍Hooge Crater Cemetery 🇧🇪

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Dan P @danieljphelan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A Stolperstein is a small brass plaque set into the pavement outside the last known home of a person persecuted by the Nazis. The project was created by German artist Gunter Demnig in 1992. Each stone commemorates an individual, helping to remember the person behind the history. 📍Rotterdam 🇳🇱

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Dan P @danieljphelan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Embedded in the pavement is a Stolperstein, or “stumbling stone”, commemorating Heiman Hermer. A victim of the Holocaust, Heiman was deported from Westerbork and murdered at Auschwitz on 1 October 1942.

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Dan P @danieljphelan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Can you spot the memorial in the street photo below? (Answer below!)

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Dan P @danieljphelan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Acting Bombardier Frank Muir of the Royal Field Artillery is one of just five Commonwealth burials in this Somme cemetery, in the village of Martinpuich. The village was captured and recaptured several times during the Great War. 📍Martinpuich Communal Cemetery 🇫🇷

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Dan P @danieljphelan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Private Joseph Standing Buffalo, Canadian Infantry, was born in 3 June 1897 in Indian Head, Saskatchewan, son of Grand Chief Julius Standing Buffalo of the Fort Qu’Appelle Sioux Nation. He was killed in action on 29 September 1918. 📍 Bucquoy Road Cemetery 🇫🇷

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Dan P @danieljphelan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Thomas Bertie Beasley, from Hinckley, Leicestershire, was killed in Belgium on this day in 1918 while serving with the Lancashire Fusiliers. 📍Hooge Crater Cemetery 🇧🇪

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Dan P @danieljphelan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Lt Thomas Moore was killed on a night-time patrol in the Hébuterne sector. It was reported that he and a lance corporal were surrounded and killed. Buried by the Germans in Puisieux Churchyard, his grave was destroyed in later battles. 📍Serre Road Cemetery No. 1 🇫🇷

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Dan P @danieljphelan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Lt Col Norman Teacher was mortally wounded during an attack near Zonnebeke. Faced with an impassable swamp, his battalion came under machine-gun fire at Hill 40 as they attempted to go around it, leaving them without the protection of the barrage. 📍Ypres Reservoir Cemetery 🇧🇪

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Dan P @danieljphelan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

On 25 September 1915, the British first used chlorine gas during the Battle of Loos. Intriguingly, the remains of Corporal Moon, London Irish Rifles, and several others were found in a trench still wearing their gas masks. 📍Cabaret-Rouge British Cemetery 🇫🇷

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Dan P @danieljphelan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Staff Serjeant Ernest Baker, Army Air Corps, was killed by a sniper while dug in outside the 1st British Airborne Division’s HQ at the Hartenstein Hotel. He was posthumously awarded the DFM for gallant and distinguished services in Normandy. 📍Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery 🇳🇱

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Dan P @danieljphelan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Edward Morchonowicz served with the 1st Independent Polish Parachute Brigade and was killed during Operation Market Garden. For 78 years, his grave was marked as that of an Unknown Polish Soldier, until research finally identified him in 2022. 📍Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery 🇳🇱

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Dan P @danieljphelan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

On 22 September 1914, three Royal Navy cruisers were torpedoed and sunk by a single German submarine within 90 minutes. Of their combined complement of 2,250, more than 1,400 were lost, including Pte Albert Horton of the RMLI. 📍Noordwijk General Cemetery 🇳🇱

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Dan P @danieljphelan.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Coventry airman Sergeant George Hughes was lost when his Wellington bomber failed to return from a mission to attack the Hegyeshalom marshalling yards on the night of 20th/21st September 1944. Fittingly, the aircraft’s entire crew are buried together. 📍Budapest War Cemetery 🇭🇺

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Dan P @danieljphelan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Jamaican-born Pte Herbert Morris, of the British West Indies Regiment, was executed for desertion on this day in 1917. The real tragedy is that Herbert was just 17 years old, which was too young for overseas service. 📍Poperinghe New Military Cemetery

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Dan P @danieljphelan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Flt Lt David Lord was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for his supreme valour during a resupply mission supporting troops involved in Operation Market Garden. Flying at 900ft with a wing on fire, Lord refused to abandon his mission. 📍Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery 🇳🇱

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Dan P @danieljphelan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

L/Cpl Ernest Hookway was shot and killed after his harness became caught in a tree as he parachuted into Arnhem during Operation Market Garden. The 23-year-old from Barnstaple, North Devon, served with the Corps of Military Police. 📍Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery 🇳🇱

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Dan P @danieljphelan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Twin brothers Thomas & Claude Gronert served in North Africa and Italy before Operation Market Garden. At Arnhem, Thomas was mortally wounded. Claude ran to save him, but was also killed. The 21-year-old twins lie side by side. 📍Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery 🇳🇱

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Dan P @danieljphelan.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Private Daniel Barrow of the Newfoundland Regiment is buried a long way from home. Killed in action on this day in 1916, a little over a week later his mother received a very matter-of-fact telegram informing her of her son’s death. 📍Vlamertinghe Military Cemetery 🇧🇪

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Dan P @danieljphelan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Ngā Tapuwae translates from Māori as “in the footsteps”. This sign overlooks the Somme battlefield and is situated near Caterpillar Valley Cemetery, where 125 New Zealanders are buried and a further 1,205 are commemorated on the Memorial to the Missing. 📍Longueval 🇫🇷

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Dan P @danieljphelan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

particularly those whose sons, husbands and brothers had been killed overseas, their bodies never recovered and their final moments unknown. A fascinating story of loss, faith and spiritualism during the First World War. 📍Birr Cross Roads Cemetery 🇧🇪

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Dan P @danieljphelan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Sir Oliver’s book Raymond; or, Life and Death, published in 1916, explored his experiences of communicating with his son. Following the slaughter of the Great War, there was a surge in spiritualism as grief-stricken families sought contact and comfort from loved ones beyond the grave…

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Dan P @danieljphelan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Raymond Lodge’s father, Sir Oliver Lodge, was a renowned physicist and pioneer of spiritualism. His spiritualist beliefs are reflected in Raymond’s epitaph… “Raymond, who has helped many know that death is not the end.”…

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Dan P @danieljphelan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Wireless Operator Air Gunner Joseph Cote of the Royal Canadian Air Force was killed when the Wellington bomber he was aboard crashed in North Devon after a wing broke off in flight. 📍Heaton Punchardon (St Augustine) Churchyard 🇬🇧

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Dan P @danieljphelan.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Andrew Duncan was a member of the RNR who lost his life by drowning after the schooner Logwell was sunk in a collision at Boulogne in September 1918. The badge on his headstone is an unusual design that I’ve not seen before or since. 📍Terlincthun British Cemetery 🇫🇷

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Dan P @danieljphelan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

“He died that others might live.” Very heavy words, carved into the headstone of a soldier who was only 16 years old. A simple epitaph, but an extraordinarily powerful reminder of the sacrifice made by so many young men during the First World War. 📍Peronne Road Cemetery 🇫🇷

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Dan P @danieljphelan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The webpage below doesn’t give the exact evidence but says… “Following submission of research, including from the CWGC, that was considered by the MOD JCCC as the adjudicators, additional research by the team themselves and the NAM led to the four cases being confirmed.” www.gov.uk/government/n...

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MOD Honours the sacrifice of World War One soldiers during re-dedication services in Ypres

Four soldiers of the Great War have had their graves rededicated in the presence of their family earlier today (Tuesday 22 March 2022).

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Dan P @danieljphelan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

An extensive article in the Hinckley Times described L/Cpl Miller as “one of the most popular men in his regiment.” The officer commanding his company wrote to his parents, describing him as “a son to be proud of.” He was clearly a highly respected soldier and man. 📍 Ypres Reservoir Cemetery 🇧🇪

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Dan P @danieljphelan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

L/Cpl Miller, who came from Hinckley, Leicestershire, was killed by a German sniper on this day in 1915. In a letter to his bereaved parents, he was described as being “greatly loved and admired by all his many pals.”…

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Dan P @danieljphelan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

For over 100 years, Lance Corporal Horace Wilfred Miller, Leicestershire Regiment, was listed among the missing on the Menin Gate. In 2022, his grave was identified and rededicated with a new headstone bearing his name…

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Dan P @danieljphelan.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Trooper Arthur Ward, New Zealand Pioneer Battalion, was killed in action on this day in 1916. His records indicate that he was buried in ‘No Man’s Land’, half a mile from Fricourt. 📍 Fricourt New Military Cemetery 🇫🇷

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Dan P @danieljphelan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Lieutenant Edward Harvey’s Distinguished Conduct Medal and Military Medal show that he served in the ranks before he was commissioned in July 1916. The two awards were announced in the London Gazette just nine days apart in August 1916. 📍Albert Communal Cemetery Extension 🇫🇷

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Dan P @danieljphelan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Major Noel Money was attached to the 5th Battalion Connaught Rangers and saw action at Gallipoli. For his gallantry, he was awarded the DSO and Mentioned in Despatches. Sadly, he also received a shrapnel wound to the head which would prove fatal. 📍Pieta Military Cemetery 🇲🇹

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Dan P @danieljphelan.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Seaman Amir Ali was killed off the coast of Portugal when his ship, SS Manaar, was sunk by a U-boat. The ship was one of the first sunk during WW2 and is reported as the first merchant ship to open fire at an enemy submarine. 📍Lisbon (St George) British Cemetery 🇵🇹

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Dan P @danieljphelan.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The stark and unusual sight of a father and son buried side by side in a military cemetery. Tragically, Serjeant George Lee and his 19-year-old son, Corporal Frederick Lee, were killed on the same day, in the same incident, during the Battle of the Somme. 📍Dartmoor Cemetery 🇫🇷

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Dan P @danieljphelan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

A husband and wife killed together when an enemy raider dropped bombs on Torquay on 4th September 1942. The couple who had only been married three months were amongst 17 people killed in what was likely a hit-and-run attack. 📍Torquay Cemetery and Extension 🇬🇧

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Dan P @danieljphelan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Lt Cosmo Duff-Gordon of the Herefordshire Regiment was killed on 3 September 1916. He was the nephew of Sir Cosmo Edmund Duff-Gordon, an Olympic fencer who survived the sinking of the Titanic in 1912. 📍Delville Wood Cemetery 🇫🇷

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Dan P @danieljphelan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Alfred Reginald Fydo had a long military career, enlisting with the Royal Marine Artillery in 1911 and serving until 1932. During WW2, he served with the Royal Marine Police. Sadly, he died of illness on this day in 1945, aged 56. 📍Portland Royal Naval Cemetery 🇬🇧

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Dan P @danieljphelan.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Twenty-three-year-old Gordon Ebbage was a trooper in the Guards Armoured Division. He was killed as Allied forces liberated Albert in 1944. His grave is an example of a place where the First World War meets the Second World War. 📍Albert Communal Cemetery Extension 🇫🇷

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