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- St. Luke’s Church, Stone Cross & Westham War Memorial February 4, 2023
- Austro-Hungarian Hand Grenades of the Great War Part Two – The Ball Rohr Stielhandgranate January 28, 2023
- A Quartet of Curious French Postcards January 23, 2023
- Knoddishall War Memorial January 17, 2023
- ‘How It Feels To Be Shot’ January 13, 2023
- Arras – London Cemetery, Neuville Vitasse January 6, 2023
- The Men Who Came Home – A Memorial Part Fourteen – The Middlesex Regiment January 1, 2023
- The Men Who Came Home – A Memorial Part Thirteen – The London Regiment December 28, 2022
- The Men Who Came Home – A Memorial Part Twelve – The Canadian Expeditionary Force December 18, 2022
- Westleton War Memorial December 11, 2022
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St. Luke’s Church, Stone Cross & Westham War Memorial
The church of St Luke at Stone Cross, built as a memorial to a Lieutenant Colonel Charles William Owen, who died in 1922, was opened in 1929 as a chapelry of St. Mary’s Church in nearby Westham, long before eventually … Continue reading
Austro-Hungarian Hand Grenades of the Great War Part Two – The Ball Rohr Stielhandgranate
This is the Ball Rohr Stielhandgranate (stick grenade), once attached to a cardboard handle (as in the replica inset), remnants of which you can still see inside the ball in the main picture.
Posted in Austro-Hungarian Grenades, Weaponry & Relics
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A Quartet of Curious French Postcards
I shan’t be saying much about these cards.
Posted in Postcards
21 Comments
Knoddishall War Memorial
Another locked church, but we do have a war memorial.
‘How It Feels To Be Shot’
‘Then there came a crash. It sounded to me like someone had dropped a glass bottle into a porcelain bathtub. A barrel of whitewash tipped over and it seemed that everything in the world turned white.’
Posted in 1918 - The Advance East, Soldiers
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Arras – London Cemetery, Neuville Vitasse
How about we start the New Year with a random cemetery visit? I happened to find myself here last summer, at this burial ground a few miles south east of Arras – I’ll show you a map in a while … Continue reading
Posted in Arras, World War II
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The Men Who Came Home – A Memorial Part Fourteen – The Middlesex Regiment
Men of the Middlesex Regiment, three privates and a lance corporal, later in life.
Posted in Soldiers
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