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Matt Dixon @footstepspod.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

@debsadelight.bsky.social ill have to tell you Grandpa’s story - it’s quite remarkable - he ran away from a tiny Welsh mining village because he didn’t want to be a sheep farmer or coal miner and went to London with £5 in his pocket and a dream to become a doctor.

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Matt Dixon @footstepspod.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

My Grandfather serving as a Medical Officer taken at El Alamein in WW2. He was a very tall man who went on to be a GP in rural Oxfordshire for 35 years after the war. He was one of the first medical officers to arrive at Belsen.

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Matt Dixon @footstepspod.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Thoroughly enjoying this in the Mediterranean sunshine. Objective, meticulously researched and beautifully written - a change of war from my usual!

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Matt Dixon @footstepspod.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Delighted to have been sent a limited edition first print of a book by the author today - the cover design and binding are simply stunning. The picture doesn't do it justice.

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Matt Dixon @footstepspod.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Excited to be at Lords for the women’s T20 World Cup final - two best teams in the final so let’s hope for a good match

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Matt Dixon @footstepspod.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Ghastly by day, ghostly by night....the rottenest place on the Somme - High Wood. Our latest podcast is out tomorrow #WW1 #FWW

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Matt Dixon @footstepspod.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Beaumont Hamel - our latest podcast is out tomorrow morning #WW1 #FWW

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Matt Dixon @footstepspod.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

This is going down easier than a greased weasel in a drain pipe on a nice sunny afternoon

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Matt Dixon @footstepspod.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

I have reached peak middle age. Took the kids to a fun fair and instead of thinking “that looks fun” I’m thinking “I wonder that was last inspected for health and safety”. Where’s my pipe and slippers?

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Matt Dixon @footstepspod.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Just told my son he needs a shower and we're changing his bedclothes. You'd have thought I told him Xmas had been cancelled by his response....

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Matt Dixon @footstepspod.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Great nephew, great great nephew and great great great nephew at the grave of Lance Cpl William Thompson, 9th Lancers who died of wounds 6th November 1914 #WW1 #FWW

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Matt Dixon @footstepspod.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Off to HQ and the weather gods seem to be smiling on us #cricket #lords

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Matt Dixon @footstepspod.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Best day of the summer - TMS is back!

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Matt Dixon @footstepspod.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

From my collection - a 1917 Australian fundraising badge for the War Hospitals Benevolent Fund collections #WW1 #FWW

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Matt Dixon @footstepspod.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Two weeks ago I put TCP on a cut on my thumb. I’ve showered daily and washed my hands countless times and I can still smell TCP. That stuff would survive a nuclear holocaust I swear.

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Matt Dixon @footstepspod.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

From my collection - a workers canteen token from the National Shell Factory in Nottingham #WW1 #FWW

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Matt Dixon @footstepspod.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Come to a meeting and walked through this historically significant square - significant in London’s criminal history. Any guesses?

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Matt Dixon @footstepspod.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Went into the lake in my waders to rescue a duck that had been injured by a group of teenagers with stones and rocks. A wonderful lady from Swan Support UK has taken him into their care and I hope he recovers. What I’d like to do the youths isn’t publishable.

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Matt Dixon @footstepspod.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Was rummaging in the loft and found my first ever pay slip - one month of policing inner-city Birmingham - £805

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Matt Dixon @footstepspod.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

From my collection - a lovely French medallion to raise money for the families of the dead and wounded #WW1 #FWW

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Matt Dixon @footstepspod.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

From my collection - a lovely badge from the British Federation of Discharged Sailors and Soldiers #WW1 #FWW

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Matt Dixon @footstepspod.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

From my collection- a gold medal for vegetable growing at the BEF vegetable show held in Le Havre in August 1918 #WW1 #FWW

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Matt Dixon @footstepspod.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

@sommephantom.bsky.social is this an unofficial badge? It’s a small lapel stud

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Matt Dixon @footstepspod.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

In Japan it’s considered the height of rudeness to have a phone conversation on the train or public transport. Yesterday on the way back from London the whole carriage listened to a very loud conversation from a man who’d had an anal cyst drained that afternoon at hospital.

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Matt Dixon @footstepspod.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

From my collection - a French Verdun veterans badge #WW1 #FWW

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Matt Dixon @footstepspod.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

From my collection; a pin badge for the National Egg Collection for the Wounded #WW1 #FWW

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Matt Dixon @footstepspod.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

From my collection - a 1917 shell spanner, found in a skip on my road #WW1 #FWW

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Matt Dixon @footstepspod.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

I am pleasantly pissed. Not so pissed that tomorrow will be a write off, just pleasantly.

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Matt Dixon @footstepspod.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Sitting in my garden drinking a Negroni, watching my kids playing nicely for once, and listening to a woodpecker hard at work - life is good.

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Matt Dixon @footstepspod.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

A friend sent me this and I really like it - what I would do for a quiet day!

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Matt Dixon @footstepspod.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

My wife and I have managed to keep our daughter alive for 8 years. Haven’t we done well. Very pleased with her new rugby shirt to wear to training on Sunday

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Matt Dixon @footstepspod.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

One of the most poignant epitaphs I have seen #WW1 #FWW

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Matt Dixon @footstepspod.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

To my mind the finest war memorial on the Western Front. Haunting, poignant and enigmatic, it’s the war memorial of war memorials #WW1 #FWW

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Matt Dixon @footstepspod.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

One of my favourite pictures of all the ones I have taken on the battlefields. My son's first visit to the Menin Gate. I'd explained the size and scale of it, but he was genuinely amazed at how many names there are. #WW1 #FWW

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Matt Dixon @footstepspod.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

The podcast is back tomorrow with the first in a new theme entitled What really happened? We look in detail at the story of the Unknown Warrior, discover some of the variations on what happened and question why the tomb remains so significant to this day #WW1 #FWW

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Matt Dixon @footstepspod.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

What really happened? We’re launching a new theme on the podcast, beginning with two Great War questions long obscured by myth: the real origins of the Unknown Soldier and the truth behind Kitchener’s final hours - out Sunday #WW1 #FWW

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Matt Dixon @footstepspod.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

From my collection - a badge for the Sportsman’s Ambulance Fund dated 1916 #WW1 #FWW

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Matt Dixon @footstepspod.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

In our latest podcast we walk the battlefields from Ypres to Poelkappelle and discover the stories of the men who lie buried in this part of the Ypres salient - a tale of royalty, bravery and the dangers of camp fires. Out Sunday! #WW1 #FWW

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Matt Dixon @footstepspod.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

From my collection, a WW1 non-official badge for the Gas Light and Coke Company #WW1 #FWW

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