The Men Who Came Home – A Memorial Part Fifteen – The Royal Marines

Posted on March 30, 2023 by Magicfingers

Royal Marines march through Ostend in August 1914.  Continue reading →

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Coming Soon……

Posted on February 17, 2023 by Magicfingers

I appreciate that ‘Coming Soon’ is a moveable feast, but then that is exactly my reason for using it.  Continue reading →

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Austro-Hungarian Hand Grenades of the Great War Part Two – The Ball Rohr Stielhandgranate

Posted on January 28, 2023 by Magicfingers

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.  Continue reading →

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Great War Postcards No. 63 – A Quartet of Curious French Postcards

Posted on January 23, 2023 by Magicfingers

I shan’t be saying much about these cards. Continue reading →

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‘How It Feels To Be Shot’

Posted on January 13, 2023 by Magicfingers

‘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.’  Continue reading →

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Arras – London Cemetery, Neuville Vitasse

Posted on January 6, 2023 by Magicfingers

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 – and peering over the boundary wall (the cemetery entrance on the far right), that looks an interesting layout, does it not?  Continue reading →

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The Men Who Came Home – A Memorial Part Fourteen – The Middlesex Regiment

Posted on January 1, 2023 by Magicfingers

Men of the Middlesex Regiment, three privates and a lance corporal, later in life.  Continue reading →

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