I’m at Anzio Beachhead War Cemetery this morning with my @LegerBattleTourgroup. #WW2

Yesterday, our first day on the ground with The Gettysburg Museum Of History We Happy Few 506 Leger Battlefield Tours Easy Company Legacy Tour. We visited some very poignant places linked to the Band of Brothers and got to see many unique artefacts from the men as well.

The highlight for many was being…

I’m over in Italy this week with a Leger Battlefield Tours group, visiting Anzio and Cassino. On these kind of tours I walk with ghosts; something I wrote about a while back:

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“Germany Kaput” - soldiers of the Seaforth Highlanders of Canada at De Grindhorst in the Netherlands, May 1945. #VEDay #WW2

Places still available!

A free, and non-didactic, writing #CrimeFiction workshop with me & Rebecca Mills, PhD.! If you write crime, or are thinking about writing crime do join us: we’d love to hear from you & we’re super #friendly !

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Podcast Questions & Answers Ep 4: In this latest Old Front Line Podcast episode we answer questions on the landscape of the Great War, the survival rates of officers and the weather on the front line.
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The Old Front Line Podcast is now on Substack: do come and join me for another layer of Great War history. Visit: open.substack.com/pub/paulreed/p…

Tomorrow on the Old Front Line Podcast we have our final Question & Answer episode of S6.
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Footsteps of the Past

📽️ Now & then

Enjoy!

Dusk at Thiepval
Taken this evening - not another soul around. The Somme at its most beautiful and peaceful time of day.
#somme #battlefields #ww1

Our latest #OldFrontLine Battlefield Vlog is now on YouTube: youtu.be/b1_IXN5P3wI?si…

A great first day for The Gettysburg Museum Of History We Happy Few 506 Leger Battlefield Tours as we start to follow in the footsteps of Easy Company. After lunch in Royal Windsor we hit the ground by heading to Aldbourne.

We started at the church and what life was like for those who were part of the…

How to speak like a poilu 🗣️

What does limace, capote, toubib, cabot, groin, pepere etc mean?

Find out below and how to pronounce them correctly in French

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Dr Victoria L. Humphreys By sheer coincidence I just posted this if anyone your feed can help pls 😄

Mulberry Harbour Phoenix Caissons at Portland Harbour this drizzly morning. The harbour was a part of the vital support structure for #DDay .

Le Grand Return by Talking Stock theatre coming to #York next Saturday before heading to Normandy.
YorkWW2DDayVeterans Ken Cooke will be guest of honour. All proceeds towards repair of WW1 memorial window at St Lawrence Church, York.
Tickets here:
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Spent a very special afternoon with members of Ken Smith's family as we prepare to tell his story in his words, highlighting the lifelong impact of conflict trauma on veterans in lead up to #DDay80 . What a privilege to have known & spent time with Smudger.
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Nice to hear Paddy O'Connell discussing Swift Bricks on BBC Radio 4 this morning, something championed by Hannah Bourne-Taylor - you should get her to talk about it on Broadcasting House, Paddy!

This is the steering rudder of a Morane. The aircraft was piloted by Władyslaw Chciuk of No. 308 'City of Kraków' Polish Fighter Squadron. He was shot down over Braine-le-Comte on May 16, 1940. His mechanic, Josef Wasniowski, inscribed the rudder with the words ‘Always with God.’