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Military Historian, Author, Battlefield Guide: specialising in the First World War & #WW2. On your TV sometimes. Host of the #WW1 podcast @OldFrontLinePod. 🇫🇷
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Jun 13, 2020 6 tweets 3 min read
Some days the world seems unrecognisable to us, and so it’s good to retreat in our minds to those places that mean the most, even if we can’t visit yet. For me it will always be the battlefields of the Great War, the #OldFrontLine. Image Having spent most of my life walking them, it’s easy for me to close my eyes and be back there again. Something I’m enjoying verbalising each week via the #OldFrontLine podcast. Image
Jul 6, 2019 14 tweets 8 min read
#DDay75: the role of the British & Commonwealth Medical Services in the #Normandy campaign is an important part of our understanding of events that summer 75 years ago. [thread] 1/14 #DDay75: When a soldier was wounded on the battlefield the first level of medical treatment was from Regimental Stretcher Bearers. These were infantry soldiers posted to the Stretcher Bearers section. As such, despite the myth, they were not Conscientious Objectors. 2/14
Jun 23, 2019 14 tweets 9 min read
#DDay75: the role of the Royal Engineers (RE) on D-Day & in the #Normandy campaign is another aspect of the #WW2 British & Commonwealth story that deserves more focus. On most beaches the RE were among the first to land, clearing the beaches making the assault possible. 1/14 #DDay75: Assault Engineers hit the beaches in LCAs & cleared smaller obstacles, also supported by Assault Squadrons RE equipped with Churchill Tank Armoured Vehicle Royal Engineers (AVRE) designed to destroy obstacles & bunkers with their Petard Mortar. 2/14
May 29, 2019 12 tweets 12 min read
Travelling to France for #DDay75? Fancy seeing some lesser-known locations connected to #DDay & the Battle of #Normandy? Then I hope this is of interest! No 1: 50th (Nortnumbrian) Division Memorial, Bayeux. This division landed on Gold Beach on D-Day & pushed inland, fighting at Tilly and Hottot. The memorial is on an old convent wall, opposite the cathedral & easily missed. #DDay75
Nov 15, 2018 10 tweets 5 min read
I’ve been lucky to be able to take thousands of battlefield photos during the #WW1Centenary, here some of my favourites. Dawn in the trenches at Beaumont-Hamel on the #Somme, June 2016. The Thiepval Memorial, #Somme - November 2014.