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Andy Arnold @ww1geekandy.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Out and about around Oppy, Monchy, and Wancourt/Heninel today

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Andy Arnold @ww1geekandy.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Spotted a few bangy things in today’s walks

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I'm confident nobody will share this.

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Keith Bonfield MstJ RN @bonfieldkeith.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

The Suffolk Regiment archives are now at The Keep Gibraltar Barracks 🏛 To unite the collection and archives is an amazing achievement by the trustees, curator and archivist 📃 The archives are open to the public for research & viewings 🏅 #Suffolk #LestWeForget #WW2 #archives #library #WW1 #heritage

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John Harris @thebattleguide.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Delighted to see this on a local news website.

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Mike Taylor @museummike.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

William Henderson Gibson, husband of my Gt Aunt Laura. Please in Labour Corps 1916-19. Painter and decorator. Killed by fall from scaffolding, Hanley, Stoke on Trent, 11 Nov 1940 . RIP Bill.

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Alan Owlport 🦉 🎃 @alanallport.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Battle of Hastings (colorised)

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Mike Taylor @museummike.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Remarkable paintings by Joseph Gray of 6th and 7th Bttns Cameron Highlanders at Loos. V privileged to see them in the flesh at Highlanders Museum last night. #WW1 #FWW #Loos #WFA #GWG

7th Bttn Cameron Highlanders on Hill 70 at Loos by Joseph Gray 1919

6th Bttn Cameron Highlanders Loos 26 Sept 1915 by Joseph Gray. Pointing figure at right is Lt Col Douglas Hamilton VC

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Mike Taylor @museummike.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Very excited to be part of the Great War Group Bristol conference. Oct 17th/19th. Do come. Lots of interesting speakers as well as a certain artillery nerd! #FWW #WW1

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Nick Reeves #FBPE #NAFO @nickreeves.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Please repost if you agree that British TV News is betraying our democracy by giving Farage what looks like more coverage than all the other opposition parties combined.

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Mike Taylor @museummike.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Really pleased to be at Clan Cameron Museum, Achnacarry (that's near Ft William)next Wednesday (27th Aug) to talk about this gem. Captured at Loos by 5th Bn Cameron Highlanders. If you're around do come along (11.00-15.00) - I'll be the lonely nerd standing by the gun. #FWW #WW1 #Greatwargroup #WFA

Grey German 77mm Field Gun with varnished wooden wheels against a background of greenery, beneath a fagpole flying a saltire.

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Mike Taylor @museummike.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

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Mike Taylor @museummike.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Really glad that Sharpe and his men didn't have to come up against this gun at Barossa! It's an 1880s German 15cm breechloader. Still in use during the Great War. Gun nerd 1 Publisher nil #FWW #WW1 @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social #WFA

Book cover with author's name 'Bernard Cornwell' and title 'Sharpes Fury' against an archway into a fortification. Large cannon (actually a First World War type) in front of the archway.

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Mike Taylor @museummike.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

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Peter Doyle @profpeterdoyle.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Great to see my 2012 book reissued in paperback - as with all the books in this series, it’s an introductory guide. Pleased that readers found it of value

Cover of my book on Loos, showing a soldier in a PH helmet

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Mike Taylor @museummike.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

www.facebook.com/share/1AvBPK.... Some info about the #FWW #WW1 career of the RRS Discovery - and our forthcoming conference!

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Mike Taylor @museummike.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Fancy a trip to Scotland? A warm welcome awaits in Bonnie Dundee. Our second national conference (1st was 2014). Some big names. Should be a great day and you get to see RRS Discovery. #wfa #FWW #GreatWar #FWW #wfatayside @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social

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The Great War Group @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Phil Watson giving his presentation “Lance -v- lance 1914 -The Last Lance Actions of the Great War” at the branch meeting of the WFA Tayside on Saturday afternoon

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Mike Taylor @museummike.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

@thegreatwargroup.bsky.social Great War Gp Trustee spotted in the wild in a not at all posed photo shoot for English Heritage.

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The Great War Group @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Just a reminder about our 5th birthday event in August - details of how to sign up for one of these trips on the photo below!

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Simon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Writer and historian Eric Linklater's steel helmet after he was wounded in the head in 1918. The entry and exit holes are visible, but he survived with a permanent indentation in his scalp. It's in the Orkney Museum with his Black Watch kilt.

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Dunkeld Community Archive and Chapter House Museum Trust @historicdunkeld.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Dale is here for the first of his weekly guided tours this July! Clan clashes, political plots and violent battles. Follow the life of a soldier through these trying times in Scottish history. ❗Starting today! ❗ ⏰11am and 2pm⏰ 💵£10 per ticket💵 🌟Kids under 16 go free (must be accompanied by an adult)

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The Somme & Great War Battlefields @thegreatwar1418.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Today we remember 1st July 1916 all those who fought and died on both sides of the wire

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Mike Taylor @museummike.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

On this day and always. More missed than you would have imagined.

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Dunkeld Community Archive and Chapter House Museum Trust @historicdunkeld.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

THE RETURN OF THE COLOURS June 1919, Blair Castle. Duchess Kitty can be seen tying wreaths to them with the Duke of Atholl.

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Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Congratulations to the Aviation Preservation Society of Scotland on the first flight of their replica Sopwith 1 ½ Strutter, 25 years in the making. 🛩️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #AvGeek #AvHist www.bbc.com/news/article...

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World War One replica takes off after 25-year labour of love

A dedicated group of aviation enthusiasts have recreated a plane that used to patrol the Forth coastline.

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Andy Arnold @ww1geekandy.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

An honour to lay a wreath at the Menin Gate tonight, remembering my Great Great Uncle William MacDuff and the men of the 11th Border Regiment killed in action on 2nd December 1917

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Scott Galloway @jscott-galloway.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

A member at my WFA Branch bought a copy of Before Endeavors Fade. Within it was this photograph. He'd like to return it. Does anyone recognse it? Please re-post.

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Mike Taylor @museummike.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

An additional day in the Salient thanks to striking Belgian air traffic control. Not so bad when the skies are this blue.

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Mike Taylor @museummike.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

On 11 April 1918 40th Division had been fighting for two days. Now 119 Bde and 120 Bde each consisted of a single composite battalion. During the day they withdrew a further 2km by stages and were relieved late at night. The division lost 4491 men, 1442 from 119 Bde. #FWW ##WW1 #bantams

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Mike Taylor @museummike.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

OTD in 1918 all hell let loose on the British 40th Division and Portuguese 2nd Division on the Lys. Fog, gas, smoke, communications severed, and confusion everywhere. And no, Brig-Gen Frank Crozier did not (probably) order the machine gunning of retreating Portuguese. #WW1 #FWW #WFA #GWG

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Mike Taylor @museummike.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

My latest article in the WFA's 'Stand To' has been published without the links to the endnotes! If you want a referenced version drop me a dm and I can send a Word doc. The photo by the way is not Crozier but Lt (later Captain) GV Jones MC, 18th Welsh #WFA #FWW #WW1

Title page of WFA article on Frank Crozier, machine guns, and the Portuguese with a portrait photo of Lt GV Jones MC.

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Mike Taylor @museummike.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Really pleased to be among the speakers at the Great War Group, Bristol, October this year

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Alex Churchill @alexchurchill.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Charles Rogers has been whitewashed off the DOD website because of abhorrent incels who fear their own insignificance. Please, share his face & his Medal of Honour citation far & wide. My substack tomorrow will be on minorities and women who have won it because I’m furious achurchill.substack.com

Charles Rogers has been whitewashed off the DOD website by abhorrent incels who fear their own insignificance. Please, share his face & his Medal of Honour citation far & wide. My substack tomorrow will be dedicated to minorities and women who have won it because I’m furious https://achurchill.substack.com

Image and citation from Wikipedia.

Citation reads:

For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty.
Lt. Col. Rogers, Field Artillery, distinguished himself in action while serving as commanding officer, 1st Battalion, during the defense of a forward fire support base. In the early morning hours, the fire support base was subjected to a concentrated bombardment of heavy mortar, rocket and rocket propelled grenade fire.
Simultaneously the position was struck by a human wave ground assault, led by sappers who breached the defensive barriers with bangalore torpedoes and penetrated the defensive perimeter. Lt. Col. Rogers with complete disregard for his safety moved through the hail of fragments from bursting enemy rounds to the embattled area. He aggressively rallied the dazed artillery crewmen to man their howitzers and he directed their
fire on the assaulting enemy. Although knocked to the ground and wounded (continued on next image)

by an exploding round, Lt. Col. Rogers sprang to his feet and led a small counterattack force against an enemy element that had penetrated the howitzer positions. Although painfully wounded a second time during the assault, Lt. Col. Rogers pressed the attack killing several of the enemy and driving the remainder from the positions. Refusing medical treatment, Lt. Col. Rogers reestablished and reinforced the defensive positions. As a second human wave attack was
launched against another sector of the perimeter, Lt. Col. Rogers directed artillery fire on the assaulting enemy and led a second counterattack against the charging forces. His valorous example rallied the beleaguered defenders to repulse and defeat the enemy onslaught. Lt. Col. Rogers moved from position to position through the heavy enemy fire, giving encouragement and direction to his men. At dawn the determined enemy launched a third assault against the (continued on next image)

fire base in an attempt to overrun the position. Lt. Col. Rogers moved to the threatened area and directed lethal fire on the enemy forces. Seeing a howitzer inoperative due to casualties, Lt. Col. Rogers joined the surviving members of the crew to return the howitzer to action. While directing the position defense, Lt. Col. Rogers was seriously wounded by fragments from a heavy mortar round which exploded on the parapet of the gun position.
Although too severely wounded to physically lead the defenders, Lt. Col.
Rogers continued to give encouragement and direction to his men in the defeating and repelling of the enemy attack. Lt. Col. Rogers' dauntless courage and heroism inspired the defenders of the fire support base to the heights of valor to defeat a determined and numerically superior enemy force. His relentless spirit of aggressiveness in action are in the highest traditions of the military service and reflects great credit upon himself. his unit. and the U.S. Army.

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Mike Taylor @museummike.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Lord Ninian Crichton-Stuart, Lt Col 6th Welsh. Kia Loos 5 Oct 1915. Statue in Cardiff. #FWW #GWG

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Mike Taylor @museummike.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Popped into St Marys Shrewsbury. This the war memorial...

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Mike Taylor @museummike.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

FWW memorial St Francis Church, Fort Cochin, Kerala. #FWW

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Mike Taylor @museummike.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

St Marys Church, Fort St George, Chennai - that's Mdras to us oldies. Robert Clive married here.

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The Great War Group @thegreatwargroup.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

🚨 The Great War Group’s series of free online talks starts again in February. These are open to all, not just GWG members, and feature a very wide variety of topics. Check out our website below for further details! greatwargroup.com/talk/

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Talk – The Great War Group

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Mike Taylor @museummike.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

This is Brig-Gen Frank Percy Crozier (as major 9th R Irish Rifles. "Not an easy man to like". The perception of him as an overbearing martinet is largely due to his own book 'Brasshat in no man's Land' which emphasised the beastliness of #FWW

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Mike Taylor @museummike.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

A very Happy New Year from north of the Border. Hogmanay celebrations in Edinburgh were cancelled because of bad weather forecast. BBC apparently had no plan B. Embarrassing.

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Mike Taylor @museummike.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

OTD in 1917 119th inf brigade took Bourlon Wood ,key high ground dominating the north of the Cambrai battlefield, and held it for three days. They suffered horrendous casualties.

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Simon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

Newspaper research throws up countless incidental but compelling stories. A pilot dies after crashing into his own house and his father tries in vain to save his life. (Leicester Daily Mercury, 30/4/1917) #WW1

Cutting from Leicester Daily Mercury, 30/4/1917, p. 5, via British Newspaper Archive: AEROPLANE CRASHES INTO A HOUSE. AIRMAN HELPED BY HIS FATHER.
While flying near Streatham Common about 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon Lieutenant F. A. Clark, of the Royal Flying Corps, had to descend to a low altitude owing to engine trouble. He tried to plana down to a field opposite Leighham Court- road, but his machine struck the top of a high tree, and before he could straighten out the aero- plane crashed into the gable of a house and fell on a garage. The machine immediately burst into flames and Lieutenant Clark was severely burned.
By a coincidence the house with which the machine came into collision was that of the airman's father, who, on hearing the crash, rushed out and rescued his son from the burning wreckage. Nothing but the steel skeleton was left of the aeroplane.
Lieutenant Clark died from his injuries last night in his own home.

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