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John Harris @thebattleguide.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Site of the Le Paradis Massacre, 27 May 1940. 97 men of 2/Royal Norfolks were murdered here by men of SS Totenkopf Division.

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John Harris @thebattleguide.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

German Military Cemetery, Lommel. Some 38.5k WWII burials here, plus around 540 from the Great War.

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John Harris @thebattleguide.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Some of the ordnance encountered on our recent Western Front jaunt.

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John Harris @thebattleguide.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Amberley (Gloucestershire) Churchyard. The grave of Major General Sir Fabian Ware, KCVO, CB, CMG, LLD, founder of the Imperial (later, Commonwealth) War Graves Commission. Pictured in 2019.

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John Harris @thebattleguide.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Kitchener keeps a watchful eye on Chatham from near the entrance to Fort Amherst.

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John Harris @thebattleguide.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Buffs South Africa Memorial, Dane John Gardens, Canterbury.

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John Harris @thebattleguide.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

A family trip to Bovington many moons ago.

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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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John Harris @thebattleguide.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Watson with (l - r) grenadiers of the 13th, 11th, 67th, and 3rd Regiments of Foot, their officers, and soldiers of 25th Regiment of Foot, circa 1771. Unsigned. One of a set of six oil-on-canvas paintings attributed to Giuseppe Chiesa (d 1789). National Army Museum.

An eighteenth-century painting showing, in the foreground. soldiers of the British Army in their red coats. The soldiers depicted include grenadiers, officers and, at right, a body of ‘hat men’. In the background is a harbour and beyond it, a port town and hills.

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John Harris @thebattleguide.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Some 28mm cowboys from Wargames Foundry arrived today. I’m looking forward to painting something larger than 15mm for a change - I’m sure my eyes will appreciate the break. 😂

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John Harris @thebattleguide.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Dunkirk 85th anniversary commemoration in full swing in Ramsgate this morning.

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Dunkirk 1940 Museum @dunkirk1940museum.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

We appear to be only 7 #short of our first #1000followers. We aim to be using this and closing, at least one, of our other antisocial media accounts; please help us to make this shift happen sooner!!

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COPP Survey @coppsurvey.uk · 17/01/2025

🗓️ #OTD in 1944 ⌚ 21:35 – 11 hours after leaving Gosport, X-20 is at position ‘AA’, just north of a German minefield, where it is due to ‘slip the tow’ from trawler Darthema. X-20 will head south through the minefield alone. #Postage #NavalHistory 🧵

Map showing X-20’s route across the English Channel. Between position 'AA' and position 'BB' the route goes directly south through an area marked as a minefield.

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John Harris @thebattleguide.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

I thought the BBC’s Christmas wallpaper could use a couple of mugs from @uk-tank-markings.co.uk

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John Harris @thebattleguide.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

In all the excitement today, I nearly missed #TankTuesday. Here’s Bovington’s Tetrach lurking in a Hamilcar section.

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John Harris @thebattleguide.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

12th Division Christmas card, 1916. Imperial War Museum, ref LBY K93/2045.

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John Harris @thebattleguide.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

This afternoon I will be mostly cutting out @geekvillain.bsky.social roads.

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toofatlardies.bsky.social @toofatlardies.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Just stitching this together. Over 200 pages of delicious Lard. Available soon. Perfect for that festive treat that you can eat between meals!

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John Harris @thebattleguide.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Christmas card made by Ronald Searle in Changi Gaol, 1944. Imperial War Museum, ref ART15334.

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Dr. Wendy Maddocks RN @nursinghistory.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Screen shot of a past presentation I gave about my #WW1 #nursing research. Venue is the historic Nurse’s Chapel in Christchurch. Some details of my presentations are on my blog site doctorwendy.blogspot.com?m=1 #HistNursing

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John Harris @thebattleguide.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

For #TankTuesday, a Centaur at La Brèche d’Hermanville in Normandy.

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John Harris @thebattleguide.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Christmas Truce 1914? I chanced upon this image in the other place. 🤦‍♂️ AI has a long way to go…

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John Harris @thebattleguide.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

A striking war memorial in Annan, Scotland. Pictured on a motorbike tour in 2018.

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John Harris @thebattleguide.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Apparently, it’s elf on the shelf season. I give you this in lieu…

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John Harris @thebattleguide.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Finished my latest 15mm Sarissa project today. Whither next?

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John Harris @thebattleguide.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Giving Gettysburg another airing this evening. Shaara’s ’Killer Angels’ is a great read IMHO.

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John Harris @thebattleguide.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Iron Mike at La Fière, one of my favourite Normandy memorials.

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John Harris @thebattleguide.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Happy Thanksgiving to American pals around the world!

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Huw J. Davies @huwjdav.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Generous review by Gavin Daly of Wandering Army in English Historical Review. “Engagingly written, well organised, rich in detail & source material, vast in geographical sweep, & long in its time frame, this book offers a major new interpretation of the development of British military leadership…”

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Battlefield Design @battlefieldgd.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

As its #tanktuesday here's a few of mine...

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John Harris @thebattleguide.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Some 15mm therapy from Sarissa Precision today.

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John Harris @thebattleguide.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

For #TankTuesday, a Panther in the Technik Museum Sinsheim. Destroyed by its crew near Cherkassy in 1944 when it had to be abandoned.

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John Harris @thebattleguide.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

At Fort Wellington, Prescott, ONT, with Tom Vilardi of the 22nd. Foot. This was in 1989, during my first venture across The Pond.

A re-enactment event at Fort Prescott in Ontario in 1989. Two redcoat officers bearing the colours of the 22nd Regiment of Foot. In the background are some soldiers tents with visiting members of the public exploring the camp. In the far background is the St. Lawrence River with the American shore beyond.

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John Harris @thebattleguide.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

A fascinating and informative thread with some interesting photos.

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Paul Reed @sommecourt.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Changing Battlefields - Tyne Cot Cemetery near Ypres in the mid-1980s. More densely planted, it had changed little in that respect since images I have of it in the 1930s.

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315e RI @ri315e.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

#nowandthen #beforeandafter Chateau de Tilloloy, Somme Winter 1914/15 v today Used as a first aid post for the 315e and very close to the the frontlines - note the shrapnel damage on the wall still

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John Harris @thebattleguide.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Another update to this starter pack. If you’d like to be included, please give me a nudge. If I’ve included you and you’d sooner I didn’t, please do let me know. go.bsky.app/PPG69HB

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John Harris @thebattleguide.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Today’s reading (actually, re-reading). Paddy was a lecturer on the War Studies BA I undertook at the University of Birmingham in the early 2000s.

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Henry Hyde @battlegames.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

There are still over 100 places left on my Historical Miniatures Wargaming Starter Pack 2, so if you’d like to be included as a gamer, painter, trader, model maker, writer, historian, podcaster, YouTuber etc, just ask! People find these packs helpful and get you more followers! go.bsky.app/CiHRRNj

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Nigel Atter MSc PgCert BA(Hons) @nigatt59.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

I’ll be speaking on 2nd Leicesters in Mesopotamia at Leicester WFA on Monday, 18 November The Council Chamber, Braunstone Town Council, Braunstone Civic Centre, Kingsway, Braunstone Town, Leicester LE3 2PP commencing at 7.30 p.m.

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John Harris @thebattleguide.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Just finished this lot off. 15mm garage building by Micro Art Studio. Walls, fences and shed by @sabotag3d.bsky.social. Garage bits and pieces from Peter Pig.

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John Harris @thebattleguide.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Nighttime Ypres, a few pics I’ve grabbed over the years.

High view of the facade of the Cloth Hall in Ypres. Pictured from a ferris wheel erected in the Grote Markt.

Ypres by night. The roof of the Cloth Hall in the foreground. The illuminated St. Martin’s Cathedral behind, with the lights of the town stretching to the horizon.

Belgian war memorial in Ypres. A nighttime pic of the illuminated memorial.

The illuminated Menin in Gate at night, a sculpted lion prominent in the foreground.

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John Harris @thebattleguide.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

go.bsky.app/PPG69HB Sharing this again, as I’ve added a few since last time.

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John Harris @thebattleguide.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

For #TankTuesday, IWM Duxford’s M3A5 General Grant II.

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