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Fix Bayonets 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺🇩🇰 @fixbayonets.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I'm almost finished with the brilliant memoir "Over the Top" by Arthur Lambert. This is an amusing vignette he relates about a prisoner in the Italian campaign that occurred in the autumn of 1918. It speaks for itself. Enjoy! #History #WW1 #FWWHist #Italy #HAC ##BEF #booksky

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Fix Bayonets 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺🇩🇰 @fixbayonets.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I’m not completely sure this meme applies to your post, but it was an excuse to use it. In any event, I wish you were wronger in your opinion. Or maybe it’s I wish you (and Marx) were less right.

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Fix Bayonets 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺🇩🇰 @fixbayonets.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

My wife and I took the dogs out during the gloaming this evening. This was the view from my front yard. Oregon is such a beautiful part of the world. #PNW #photography #sunset #Oregon

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Fix Bayonets 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺🇩🇰 @fixbayonets.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

"Storming Machine Gun" by George M. Harding, 1918, US Army Art Collection. Combat artist George Harding created stunning art based upon personal observation right up on the front lines in 2918. He provided a vivid record of #Yanks on the #WesternFront. #History #FWW #doughboys #tank

"Storming Machine Gun" by George Harding, 1918, US Army Art Collection.

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Fix Bayonets 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺🇩🇰 @fixbayonets.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Neuve Chapelle, 1915. Rushing the German Trenches by Fred Roe: study for one of four pictures painted for the officers' mess of the Royal Garhwal Rifles. See alt text for more details. #IWM #IEF #FWW #WesternFront #India #IndianArmy

Illustrator Fred Roe completed this study for a large painting of the Royal Garhwal Rifles on the first day of the Neuve Chapelle attack on 10 March 1915. Two battalions of the Garhwals participated in this operation, boith in the Meerut Division. Although I can't be sure, I believe the original painting resides today in a battalion officers' mess of the 39th Garhwal Rifles, Indian Army.

Here is an excerpt from Sir James Willcocks' book "With the Indians in France." Published in 1920, the book details the exploits and history of Indian Expeditionary Force A. Sir James focussed on the years 1914-15 in his history. This extract is from pp. 210-11.

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Fix Bayonets 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺🇩🇰 @fixbayonets.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I'm currently listening to the audible version of #RotK, narrated by the great Andy Serkis. This is one of my favourite passages in #LotR. I've read it so many times, yet am still deeply moved by the reunion of two soldiers after battle. Pp. 892-93 of the 1991 edition. @gracekhuri.bsky.social

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Fix Bayonets 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺🇩🇰 @fixbayonets.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I recently picked up a copy of “Over the Top” by Arthur Lambert. The author served with the HAC on the Western Front. My copy originally belonged to Horace G. Sennitt, who was in the same unit. He carefully made notations on the margins throughout the book. #WW1 #FWW #WesternFront #BritishArmy

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Fix Bayonets 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺🇩🇰 @fixbayonets.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This was the view through my windscreen driving west at sunset. Just a beatiful evening! #Oregon #PNW #sunset

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Fix Bayonets 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺🇩🇰 @fixbayonets.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"At Rest" by Matt Gauldie, 2006, NZ National Army Museum. This striking yet somber piece shows a modern soldier with child at the National War Memorial (NewZealand) in #Wellington, #NZ. The simple and austere composition speaks to how we remember the fallen. #WW1 #GreatWar #combatart #kiwi #war

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Fix Bayonets 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺🇩🇰 @fixbayonets.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"Mud Road to Passchendaele" by D.W. Culham, 1917, #CanadianWarMuseum collection. This magnificent piece depicts the 3rd Canadian Division Ammunition Column moving towards the front at night. #WW1 #FWWHist #History #Canadians #CEF #arty #artillery #ammunition

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Fix Bayonets 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺🇩🇰 @fixbayonets.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I’m gonna stick my neck out here. This dude’s not really wrong. I mean, he’s kinda righter than I wish he was. You see this being manifested in most NTC rotations, to cite one example. Anyway, I’ve got my k-pot close, just in case…

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Fix Bayonets 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺🇩🇰 @fixbayonets.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Here is an outstanding essay that a soldier wrote to "The Nation." It was published in the 21/10/1916 issue on pp. 104-106. This was a frank and realistic oped from the trenches to the living rooms of British homes. #WW1 #FWW #WesternFront #BritishArmy #Tommy #History

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Fix Bayonets 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺🇩🇰 @fixbayonets.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I belong to the Freedom From Religion Foundation. #FFRF has a great monthly newspaper and they publish the crankmail in every issue. Here are a couple of gems from the 9/26 issue that I couldn’t resist sharing. #freethought

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Fix Bayonets 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺🇩🇰 @fixbayonets.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Here's an Autochrome of me last weekend out in my trench section behind my house. I built this section with about 500 sand bags and it's for a video project I'm working on.

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Fix Bayonets 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺🇩🇰 @fixbayonets.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I'm about 300 pp. through "Vain Glory," a brilliant anthology of #GreatWar literature published in 1937. The editor included excepts from both sides, and the balance of air, land, and sea is well done and balanced. It's a great book and extremely readable. #booksky #History #WW1 #FWW

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Fix Bayonets 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺🇩🇰 @fixbayonets.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

"Highlanders Resting at the Front" by John Singer Sargent, 1918, Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge. Here is another of J. S. Sargent beautifully expressive paintings of British soldiers on the #WesternFront. #History #combatart #WW1 #GreatWar #Jocks #Tommy #highlanders #kilt

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Fix Bayonets 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺🇩🇰 @fixbayonets.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

"Poperinge: Two soldiers" by John Singer Sargent, 1918, Museum of Art in Boston. The artist ranked amongst the most noted portraitists of his era. In 1918 he toured the #WesternFront and created a group of beautifully composed pieces for Britain's Ministry of Information. #BEF #Tommy #WW1 #History

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Fix Bayonets 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺🇩🇰 @fixbayonets.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Just a simple snapshot of my meadow this morning. The big deal is that it’s raining here where I live in Oregon. This is the first rain we’ve had in months. The wave of petrichor through my open windows is marvellous! #PNW

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Fix Bayonets 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺🇩🇰 @fixbayonets.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This is a powerful story about a #Canadian soldier who was finally granted the honour he so richly deserved. My mate was part of the funeral and was happy to share these photos from Sentaro Omoto's funeral a few days ago. @avidgenie.bsky.social #WW1 #FWW #History @canvmilitarymuseum.bsky.social

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Fix Bayonets 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺🇩🇰 @fixbayonets.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

If you see this post your getaway vehicle. (Mine would be the tank…)

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Fix Bayonets 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺🇩🇰 @fixbayonets.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

"Saving the Guns at Le Cateau." Under Captain Douglas Reynolds, VC, gunners of the 37th Battery, Royal Field Artillery rescue a howitzer under heavy German fire at Le Cateau, France on 26 August 1914. Never forget, Mark Note: see alt text for more information #WW1 #LeCateau #VC #History #FWWHist

"Saving the Guns at Le Cateau" by Bryan de Grineau, ca. 1916, Alamy Image Library.

In this dramatic illustration, gunners of the 37th Battery, Royal Field Artillery rescue a QF 4.5-inch howitzer under heavy German fire at the Battle of Le Cateau, France on 26 August 1914. Captain Douglas Reynolds and a team of volunteers valiantly retrieved one of their artillery pieces, resulting in the award of three Victoria Crosses.

Captain Reynolds VC was later promoted to major, and died in February 1916 from wounds received in a gas shell explosion. He is buried in the Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery at Etaples, France.

This portrait of Captain Reynolds VC is part of the National Army Museum collection.

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Fix Bayonets 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺🇩🇰 @fixbayonets.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

These views are from near my place on the western side of Fern Ridge Reservoir. The high Cascades are about 60 miles east of here. We can frequently see the mountain peaks on clear days. But not now… #Oregon #PNW #wildfire #climatechange

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Fix Bayonets 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺🇩🇰 @fixbayonets.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

These are some of my pictures from Reforger 86. I gunned for a platoon leader that year and our heater was inop. I was wearing about six layers of snivel gear.

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Fix Bayonets 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺🇩🇰 @fixbayonets.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I miss the old comic strip "Pogo" by Walt Kelly. Here's a famous phrase that Walt created for Earth Day in 1970. IMHO, it's as topical today as ever. #History #comicstrip #comic #pogo #PogoPossum #WaltKelly

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Fix Bayonets 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺🇩🇰 @fixbayonets.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

"Sniper in the Cemetery, Neuville-Vitasse" by Alfred Bastien, 1918, #CanadianWarMuseum collection. This vivid piece shows a #sniper at work in, of all places, a graveyard on the #WesternFront. I imagine that the irony of this scene was foremost in the artist's mind. #WW1 #FWWHist #History #CEF

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Fix Bayonets 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺🇩🇰 @fixbayonets.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

"Canadian Snipers, Beaurain-En Artois" by Alfred Bastien, 1918, Canadian War Museum. Alfred Bastien# ranks amongst my favourite artists from the #GreatWar. He used colour and light masterfully, creating many enduring images that capture the viewer's imagination. #fwwhist #history #sniper #CEF #BEF

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Fix Bayonets 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺🇩🇰 @fixbayonets.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

I scored a copy of the great #AvalonHill game #StarshipTroopers! It’s unplayed and still in the original packaging. Rico’s Roughnecks here we come! #doyouwanttoknowmore?

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Fix Bayonets 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺🇩🇰 @fixbayonets.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Wer hätte das gedacht? Der Dalai Lama ist Panzer-richtschütze!

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Fix Bayonets 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺🇩🇰 @fixbayonets.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

This will be hard to believe, but I've found a non- #GreatWar book to read. I bought "The Horse" as a gift for my wife, who found it boring. I thought, "Why not give it a try?" Luckily, it's a brilliant dive into history of #humans and #horses. Highly readable and entertaining. #history #booksky

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Fix Bayonets 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺🇩🇰 @fixbayonets.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

"In 10th Avenue. Philosophe" by Paul Sarrut, 1916, National Army Museum. Paul Sarrut was a French liaison officer with the British Expeditionary Force in the #GreatWar. This is one of his many pieces that captured British and Empire soldiers on the #WesternFront. #history #combatart #fwwhist

'in 10th Avenue. Philosophe', 1916. Pen and ink drawing on paper by Paul Sarrut (1882-1969), dated 25 July 1916. Image credit: National Army Museum.

"'in 10th Avenue. Philosophe', 1916A thoughtful British soldier leans against a trench wall with his rifle close at hand. '10th Avenue' was the nickname of a trench in the Vermelles area, in the Pas de Calais. Philosophe, near Marzingarbe, is now the site of a British war cemetery. Text from the National Army Museum website.

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Fix Bayonets 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺🇩🇰 @fixbayonets.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

"The Runner" by James Fraser Scott, 1919, Australian War Memorial. Runners performed an absolutely vital function in the #GreatWar. Facing danger at every turn, they delivered vital information back and forth from the front lines. Never forget, Mark #fwwhist #history #trenches #WorldWar1 #BEF

"The Runner" by James Fraser Scott, 1919, Australian War Memorial.
Communications in World War I were not nearly as advanced as the weaponry employed by the combatant nations. Runners performed an absolutely vital function in combat. Facing danger at every turn, they delivered vital information back and forth from the front lines.

Here we see a runner on a wet night, likely heading back towards his headquarters with an update. Passing him is a working party carrying duckboards. In the distance, an artillery barrage brackets the trenches with fire. This was a scene that occurred countless times on the Western Front during the Great War.
Never forget, Mark

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Fix Bayonets 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺🇩🇰 @fixbayonets.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I've been searching a long time for "Leadership in the Trenches" by Professor Gary Sheffield. One of my key interest areas is the relationships between soldiers in the #GreatWar. This is a fantastic book and belongs in every #WorldWar1 collection. @profgsheffield.bsky.social #BEF #fwwhist #history

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Fix Bayonets 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺🇩🇰 @fixbayonets.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Hopefully, your buddy is running in the same meadow as my best friend Putzi. I lost him at Yuletide 2024 and think of him every day. Condolences to you and your family.

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Fix Bayonets 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺🇩🇰 @fixbayonets.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

"Bombardment of Pozieres, July 1916" by Frank Crozier, #AustralianWarMemorial. Frank Crozier was a combat artist with the #AIF in the #GreatWar. He created this impressive piece from eyewitness observation during the pre-attack bombardment of German positions. #WesternFront #ANZAC #diggers

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Fix Bayonets 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺🇩🇰 @fixbayonets.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

"Bombardment of Pozieres, July 1916" by Frank Crozier, #AustralianWarMemorial This stunning work shows the ferocious barrage that preceded the assault on German defences around Pozieres, #France in the summer of 1916. #history #WW1 #fwwhist #ANZAC #Digger #Australia #WesternFront

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Fix Bayonets 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺🇩🇰 @fixbayonets.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

"Canadian Snipers, Beaurain-en-Artois" by Alfred Bastien, 1918, #CanadianWarMuseum The artist was a serving officer in the Belgian Army in the #GreatWar. Amongst his many outstanding pieces is this stunning painting. @canvmilitarymuseum.bsky.social #history #milhist #fwwhist #Canada #CEF

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Fix Bayonets 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺🇩🇰 @fixbayonets.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

This amazing image purports to show #soldiers of the 1st US Infantry Division attacking at #Cantigny, France on the morning of 28 May 1918. If it's true, this would be among the very first photos of Yanks in actual combat during the #GreatWar #McCormickCenterCollection #history #USArmy #infantry

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Fix Bayonets 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺🇩🇰 @fixbayonets.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

I'm currently reading "The Weary Road" (1929) by Charles Douie, an infantry subaltern on the #WesternFront. It's a beautifully composed & poignant book. Here's an excerpt describing an interminable night march to an unknown destination. Highly recommended! @sommecourt.bsky.social #history #fww

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Fix Bayonets 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺🇩🇰 @fixbayonets.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

"The Taking of Vimy Ridge, Easter Monday 1917" by Richard Jack, #CanadianWarMuseum. Noted painter Richard Jack was Canada's first official war artist. He completed this magnificent piece based upon first-hand observations of this pivotal battle in Canada's history. #fwwhist #history #Canada #Vimy

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Fix Bayonets 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺🇩🇰 @fixbayonets.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

This long exposure photo depicts a night time scene on the Western Front in 1917-18. The original caption states that a British Army photographer took this shot in a training exercise behind the front lines. #IWMcollection #history #fwwhist #BEF #starshell #BritishArmy

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Fix Bayonets 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺🇩🇰 @fixbayonets.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

“The Doughboy” by Kerr Eby, 1937, #USArmy Art Collection. Kerr Eby served as a combat artist with US forces in both world wars. He drew fighting men with graphic and evocative power. #history #fww #fwwhist #doughboy #soldier #pbi #WesternFront #AEF #Yanks

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Fix Bayonets 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺🇩🇰 @fixbayonets.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

“Going Up” by Will Dyson, 1920, #AustralianWarMemorial Will Dyson’s #GreatWar artwork is stripped bare of adornment. He presents the viewer with powerfully evocative scenes of the #WesternFront. #history #fww #fwwhist #ANZAC #diggers #Australia #AustralianArmy #pbi

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Fix Bayonets 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺🇩🇰 @fixbayonets.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Noted equine artist Lionel Edwards created this impressive painting of British horse-drawn artillery in the #GreatWar. The depiction of a night march is especially vivid. Image credit: Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum #gunners #BritishArmy #combatart #fwwhist #history #GreatWar #artillery #horses

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Fix Bayonets 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺🇩🇰 @fixbayonets.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Happy birthday to the 3rd Cavalry Regiment, U.S. Army. Formed on 19 May 1846, the Brave Rifles have served continuously for 180 years. Their motto "Blood and Steel" is more than just words. #USArmy #cavalry #ifyouaintcav #troopers #bloodandsteel

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Fix Bayonets 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺🇩🇰 @fixbayonets.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Thanks to Paul Reed (@sommecourt.bsky.social), I've been delving into first-hand #GreatWar accounts published long ago. Many of these lost books are absolute masterpieces. I'm currently reading "Four Years on the Western Front" by Aubrey Smith. This is an absolute gem of a memoir. #booksky #history

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Fix Bayonets 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦🇩🇪🇪🇺🇩🇰 @fixbayonets.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Plenty of soldiers wrote all sorts of poetry in the Great War. I recently picked up a copy of “Soliloquies of a Subaltern.” It’s a brilliant little collection with poems of a different sort from some of the better-known wartime wordsmiths. #GreatWar #fww #fwwhist #BritishArmy #history #poetry

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