This has been a fascinating read - I picked up James Holland and Al Murray 🇺🇦's 'Victory '45' when I was at Tankfest at the The Tank Museum last month. A fresh way of looking at the remarkable stories around the surrenders that finally brought #WW2 to an end across the world.

Axis vehicles captured during the Second Battle of El Alamein including seven examples of the 15cm sFH 13/1 (Sf.) auf Geschützwagen Lorraine Schlepper(f) self-propellded gun on a French chassis representing 30% of the total number of the type that made it to North Africa

In Leamington Spa today and spotted the town’s war memorial. Many names from WW1 and WW2, but I was struck by four around the back from the Korean War and the Falklands conflict. #memorials

Tuesday Tank: a Chieftain hull mounting the Marksman anti-aircraft system: Marconi Series 400 radar and two Oerlikon 35mm autocannons. Seen at Op Market Harborough last Saturday, but is moving from Duxford to the The Tank Museum. Daniel Scholefield Military Model Scene USAS: Watching Hurricane Erin! 🇺🇲🌊 #TankTuesday

Great to see my article about identifying a #WW1 Ox and Bucks Light Infantry officer in the latest Britain at War. Fascinating to talk to Ingram Murray about the 10yr investigation and the surprise as to who it was. These items were found with the body. SOFO /Colin Morris

All ready to head to the Yorkshire Wartime event Many thanks to Clive Fletcher and BMR Transport Ltd for transporting this LVT4 .

Just finished Peter Bull’s excellent #WW2 memoir ‘To Sea in a Sieve’ (1956). In the RNVR from 1941 (Ord Seaman) to 1946 (Lt Cdr), he served in Landing Craft Tank and Flak in the Mediterranean - Sicily, Anzio etc and all the way to Venice. His humour balances the tough times.

Tuesday Tank: great to get up close with the The Weald Foundation's Renault FT at #Tankfest recently. Here are pics of it in the arena and some of the driver's compartment. Daniel Scholefield Military Model Scene USAS: Watching Hurricane Erin! 🇺🇲🌊 Tony Brown The Tank Museum #WW1 #TankTuesday

Deep in the woods on the French island of Ile-de-Re we find one of the flak batteries supporting the defence of Kora, the S 497 Fire Control tower. There are many remains in this area. Leading into the ammo rooms, camouflage hooks still present and steps leading out. #WW2

Sometimes you're not alone in a bunker … 🔊

Had a very interesting time at the #RoyalArtilleryMuseum Stores Open Day at Larkhill, Wilts, on Weds. A fascinating 'mini museum', with cannons, field guns & howitzers from the late 15thC to the Napoleonic & Boer Wars, #WW1 & #WW2. For more dates see royalartillerymuseum.com

Tuesday Tank: the French Saint-Chamond tank and the French 75mm field gun that armed it - two examples of the gun, one from the Museedesblindes in Saumur and the other at the #RoyalArtilleryMuseum stores in Larkhill. #WW1 Daniel Scholefield Military Model Scene USAS - airplanes, tanks, ships and more. 🇺🇲🌊 #TankTuesday

Just read this fascinating history of the Royal Naval base at Scapa Flow. Found one of my great uncles as a midshipman on HMS Queen Elizabeth in 1917! He’s in a group photo during the visit of King George V and Prince Albert. Louis Mountbatten is also in the pic as a midshipman.

In 2007 I was at the Suffolk Regiment Museum in Bury St Edmunds when the Area Regimental Secretary, Colonel Tony Taylor, took a telephone call. He put down the receiver and said, “I have just the job for you. That was the Suffolk County Council Archaeology Service. They are

Tuesday Tank: the 2pdr anti-tank gun & three of the tanks that mounted it - Valentine Mk II, Matilda II & A13 Cruiser Mk II. The AT gun is in the Royal Artillery Museum collection, while the tanks are at the The Tank Museum. #WW2 Daniel Scholefield Military Model Scene USAS - airplanes, tanks, ships and more. 🇺🇲🌊 #TankTuesday

For #TankTuesday, the Churchill at Hill 112 in Normandy.

A Chieftain in the dust for #tanktuesday from the arena at the Capel show this year.

This book from 1964 has been an interesting read. What a shambles the first battles of the #BoerWar in 1899 appear to have been for the British Army - Belmont, Modder River, Magersfontein, Colenso and Spion Kop. Indecisive generals, poor communications and wasted lives. #books