Found myself accidentally standing on him last December

Oh my, never seen ‘a canvas chute for quick transfer to landing craft’ or reference to them. Published in ‘Our Great Enterprise’ by Lesley Burton, Gosport Society 1984. Nick Hewitt ⚓️🇺🇦🇹🇼 Stephen Fisher RM Historical Society wonder if they were actually used?

TNA has two sets of war diaries, the surviving attachments in the ADM series are different to the attachments in the DEFE series…. DEFE 2/1091 is also full of odds from other files

It’s the Blackpool Tower interiors for me

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I’m interesting DDAY titbits part 1

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Set of DDAY photos, most seem to have been taken from HMS Warspite. 1/2 Stephen Fisher Nick Hewitt ⚓️🇺🇦🇹🇼 RM Historical Society

DDAY 2/2

I hadn’t spotted that!

-8, but no snow in Warwickshire

Just guessing, but I wonder if the “Perthshire Fencible Cavalry” were, well no easy way to put this, the physical elite of the army in 1796?

from a completely different period in history or subject…. too close and you’ll start to relate everything to your book and what you could have done differently….

Not with Royal Marines Commandos, over 10,000 Royals served in the invasion as Landing Craft crew… IWM have the photos that Wright took during the operation, they were both on an LCG.

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RM Signaller, 2nd class.

Try royalnavy.mod.uk/locations-and-…

If you’re interested in the Battle for Walcheren in 1944, the strategic situation and particularly the role played by the Royal Marines… George Gelder’s presentation to the Royal Marines Historical Society has just gone live on YouTube youtu.be/QBQ8uFE1Eso