My last day with my two lovely American guests where I'll be taking them to look at Vimy Ridge & after that we'll be going to the Nécropole nationale de Notre Dame de Lorette for a personal visit Sophie's Great War Tours #WW1 #FWW

Pozieres Windmill before & during the Great War & now Sophie's Great War Tours #WW1 #FWW #Somme

These are just a few of the places I've shown my American guests today to tell the story of the Battle of the Somme on a tour arranged by Sophie's Great War Tours #WW1 #FWW #Somme

Day 3 will see me taking my American guests to the Somme where we will look at that campaign from start to finish. This is on a tour arranged by Sophie's Great War Tours #WW1 #FWW #Somme

It's been great to be able to stand underneath the Menin Gate again Sophie's Great War Tours #WW1 #FWW #Ypres #Wipers Commonwealth War Graves

The ABMC Kemmel American Memorial seen then & now Sophie's Great War Tours #WW1 #FWW #Ypres #Wipers

The Cloth Hall seen between the wars and as it is today Sophie's Great War Tours #WW1 #FWW #Ypres #Wipers

The American 27th Division Wagon Train near the Cloth Hall in Ypres then & now Sophie's Great War Tours #WW1 #FWW #Ypres #Wipers

Although a big part of today has been about our experiences around the Salient it's been great to show my two American guests where their country contributed to a 1918 battle near Ypres Sophie's Great War Tours #WW1 #FWW #Ypres #Wipers

Day 2 for my American guests who are on a battlefield tour looking at various sites relating to Ypres which will include me showing them where the American 27th & 30th Divisions advanced in September 1918 this tour has been arranged by Sophie's Great War Tours
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I took my two American guests to Ramparts Commonwealth War Graves today to give them an overview of our cemeteries. I always visit this Norfolk Regiment officer when I go there. He was KIA whilst serving in trenches at Hill 60 Sophie's Great War Tours #WW1 #FWW #Ypres #Wipers #Norfolk

Day 1 of my tour with two American guests where the groundwork has been laid in relation to the Ypres Salient & the Commonwealth War Graves Tomorrow we will look at various sites including the American contribution here in September 1918 on a tour arranged by Sophie's Great War Tours #WW1 #Ypres #Wipers

I'm now in Lille getting ready to pick up guests for a battlefield tour of Ypres & the Somme arranged by Sophie's Great War Tours #WW1 #FWW #Wipers #Ypres #Somme

One of the best books I ever read about the Falklands war was written by this bloke, RIP ...

It was good to see my book on the Norfolk Regiment on the Western Front in the Norwich Castle shop yesterday & remember that I also have this book which is available from The History Press

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It was great to do something different yesterday. I was asked by a friend to come along to the Neatishead & Barton Turf W.I. to talk about the contributions of Norfolk women in the Great War & it was lovely to share my stories with the group #WW1 #Norfolk