Breakfast in Flanders at a restaurant in a Poperinghe used by officers in #WW1 - out today doing stuff for Old Front Line Podcast

My latest video is live now on YouTube, the story of Captain Charlie May, the man who diarised his journey to The Somme battlefields. Link is below #ww1 #wwi #battleofthesomme #thegreatwar #charliemay #tofightalongsidefriends

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I had the honour and pleasure of travelling to Anzio with John Dennett in 2013, where he served before D-Day in Normandy. Glad to see him still going strong.

Podcast Questions & Answers Ep 5: In this latest Old Front Line Podcast we answer questions about the 1914 Star, the Canadians as 'Shock Troops', what was my favourite #WW1 unit, and ask if there are enough war memorials now?
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'The trouble is I'm not going to sleep well tonight, it'll all be going to be going round in my head.' 'Our new piece for #DDay anniversary explores the experiences of infantryman 'Smudger' Smith through the lens of undiagnosed sleep trauma in veterans.
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Catching up on D-Day programming for #DDay80 … will it really be Unseen on Channel 5 🤔

Tomorrow we have the first Old Front Line Podcast Questions and Answers bonus episode of Season 7. Among other things we discuss the regular army of 1914, Canadians as shock troops and manage to turn the conversation back to the Royal Sussex Regiment!
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Hi James Holland & Al Murray - DKMS.ORG.UK 🇺🇦 just catching up on your Casino episodes. I was surprised to hear the statement France 'had it easy' in #WW2 . In terms of the Holocaust alone, more than 77,000 French Jews were murdered, in Italy it was over 7,500. Civilian losses on top of this push

Newfoundland's Unknown Soldier oldfrontline.co.uk/2024/05/18/new… via Old Front Line Podcast Old Front Line Podcast Paul Reed Thanks for the podcast. Their journey in France would make for a very interesting day trip

The latest Old Front Line Podcast about the Newfoundland Missing is proving very popular as we start Season 7 of the #podcast . Listen here on Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the…

Our next online global seminar is on 4 June 2024, 1800-1930 UK time. It covers new research on D-Day and the Normandy campaign, featuring Halik Kochanski, Arthur W. Gullachsen, and Nick Hewitt. New Research on D-Day and the Normandy Campaign at 80!
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'I'm sitting on a petrol jerry can in a semi conscious state...all the rest of our squadron...dead, every single last one, dead.' Dennis 'Hank' Haydock, Coldstream Guards.
Come & watch Hank's #WW2 story, June 1st 7.30pm
Helmsley Arts Centre #DDAY
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Dark sunset over the hell that was once Monte Cassino… now birds sing where shells once crashed across those rocky outcrops. #WW2 #Cassino80

#Cassino80 : I took this photo at the Commonwealth War Graves Cassino Memorial some years ago. A daughter’s hand remembering her father who was missing in 1944. The Cost of War: Lest We Forget.

The Battle of Monte Cassino: both glory and dishonour for the French Army. An excellent article by Stéphanie Trouillard on FRANCE 24 English #Cassino80 #WW2
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The view of Monastery Hill at Monte Cassino from the front line positions on Snakeshead Ridge: that all-seeing-eye of the monastery dominates the landscape still. #WW2 #Cassino80

In 2011 we made DigWW2 with Dan Snow & followed the work of the Gustav Group in an excavation of a part of the Hitler Line attacked by Canadian units in May 1944. It was amazing to see the archaeology of a very short battle emerge from the soil of the Liri Valley.

Poland’s sacrifice at Monte Cassino: 80 years ago today. It remains for me one of the most impressive battlefield cemeteries in the world.

On the 80th Anniversary of the capture of Monte Cassino and the advance up the Liri Valley, just a few of the many Monte Cassino veterans I’ve had the honour to walk those battlefields with: Richard Hargreaves, Don Carter and John Dray.