ianlyall9.bsky.social @ianlyall9.bsky.social · 25/11/2024"Would some kind hand in a foreign land, place a flower on my son's grave. My friend Paul does so .. 040 0
ianlyall9.bsky.social @ianlyall9.bsky.social · 24/11/2024Thanks Tom, that's very interesting, Got to last better than laminating paper 000 0
ianlyall9.bsky.social @ianlyall9.bsky.social · 24/11/2024Thats a good idea Tom, I'll keep that in mind for the future. 110 0
ianlyall9.bsky.social @ianlyall9.bsky.social · 24/11/2024The original cross placed in the Nab on July 1st. 1916. It "disappeared" , but the thoughts remain, and a new cross took its place 0121 0
ianlyall9.bsky.social @ianlyall9.bsky.social · 24/11/2024What do you do in cold winter weather, looking back, a cold day at Pheasant Wood. 030 0
ianlyall9.bsky.social @ianlyall9.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Sorry to read that Lucy, best wishes for the future. 000 0
ianlyall9.bsky.social @ianlyall9.bsky.social · 15/11/2024A kingdshilling and a Lincoln cap badge amongst the possessions of my great uncle in my care, I like to think this was his first kings shilling the first of many 020 0
ianlyall9.bsky.social @ianlyall9.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Thanks for that, I know last year there were signs of work down the track, great to know somebody thought enough to place back 110 0
ianlyall9.bsky.social @ianlyall9.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Happy anniversary Lucy , here's to many more ! 020 0
ianlyall9.bsky.social @ianlyall9.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Yes it does, that seems odd, where abouts is it down the pathway? Thanks 100 0
ianlyall9.bsky.social @ianlyall9.bsky.social · 14/11/20243 Crosses of 3 places that mean so much to me on my Somme visits, 140 0
ianlyall9.bsky.social @ianlyall9.bsky.social · 14/11/2024At the going down of the sun,,,,,, to the Lads 000 0
ianlyall9.bsky.social @ianlyall9.bsky.social · 19/02/2024Hi Tom, does he still have a "grave" in Authuille ? Interesting what you say regular burials there its the place I spend most evening when on the Somme. 110 0
ianlyall9.bsky.social @ianlyall9.bsky.social · 16/02/2024Can't say I have ever noticed that many rabbits In the area, deer yes, but not bunnies 120 0
ianlyall9.bsky.social @ianlyall9.bsky.social · 15/02/2024Like to walk from Blighty along the edge of the woods then through a great place to stop and reflect on the 1st. then to the back of Lonsdale, and across the Leipzig... 000 0
ianlyall9.bsky.social @ianlyall9.bsky.social · 15/02/2024I will say hello when in Blighty Valley this summer 110 0
Reposted by ianlyall9.bsky.socialGenevra Charsley, Flanders Battlefield Tour @flandersbtour.bsky.social · 12/02/2024One amongst the thousands, pondering at the scale of all that they gave. The going down of the sun on a Winter’s day at Tyne Cott. Cemetery. 071 0
ianlyall9.bsky.social @ianlyall9.bsky.social · 30/01/2024@ian-pegg.bsky.social interesting choice of subject Chaplin in WW2 can I ask why you chose it ? 000 0
ianlyall9.bsky.social @ianlyall9.bsky.social · 30/01/2024Of the many treasures in the case the one that got me the most was a simple diary, starting in Dublin, via a swim in the River Somme to standing by at Ramos farm, it lists 112 location, 111 visited, the last " on Anglu" I cannot find, before at Manacourt, after sunken Road Heudecourt. 010 0
ianlyall9.bsky.social @ianlyall9.bsky.social · 29/01/2024Hi Tom, yes it is, his parents, my great grandparents received notification of his death middle of November.... 110 0
ianlyall9.bsky.social @ianlyall9.bsky.social · 29/01/2024Thank you, Percy was a pre-war Special Reserve, landed with 2nd Lincolns in Oct. 14, wounded then Gallipoli with the 6th. Lincoln, 18 months in hospital, to Ireland, then back to France to join 7th. Lincols April 1918, KIA 20th Oct. 000 0
ianlyall9.bsky.social @ianlyall9.bsky.social · 29/01/2024Opening the case revealed things I knew nothing about, the medals I eventually had framed, and the research started until the point I had to go visit his grave. A family holiday to France, a drive to his grave at Inchy, a call at Thiepval, cemeteries, and a crater, and life changed 260 0
ianlyall9.bsky.social @ianlyall9.bsky.social · 29/01/2024It' some 40 years this case came into my possession following the death of my grandfather, all I knew about the man in the picture was "he was my brother Percy, killed in the Great War" It never crossed my mind how this case would change my life. 020 0
ianlyall9.bsky.social @ianlyall9.bsky.social · 28/01/2024 What its all about really, became *lost* in a another place X and need to remind what matters ! 060 0
