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Genevra Charsley, Flanders Battlefield Tour @flandersbtour.bsky.social · 10h

Casualties from a working party in Belgium & part of France, July 1917. Covering areas with family descendants of Thomas Bragg, resting in Kandahar Farm Cemetery along with Lieut. Christensen & 3 O.R’s also killed.

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Paul Reed @sommecourt.bsky.social · 10h

Shrapnel from 1944 found along the edge of the fields at Hill 112 in Normandy this morning.

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Genevra Charsley, Flanders Battlefield Tour @flandersbtour.bsky.social · 3d

Footballer and scored the winning goal in the 1911 FA Cup Final.

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Genevra Charsley, Flanders Battlefield Tour @flandersbtour.bsky.social · 3d

I agree completely Chris.

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Genevra Charsley, Flanders Battlefield Tour @flandersbtour.bsky.social · 3d

Hello Nigel, Is it just generic landscape photos of Polygon Wood as we see it today or as it looked during the First World War?

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Genevra Charsley, Flanders Battlefield Tour @flandersbtour.bsky.social · 3d

Not sure about this…I’m all for commemoration and remembrance but dare I say that this is a bit OTT?

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Chris Baker @fourteeneighteen.co.uk · 3d

#OTD 13 October 1915. An awful day for the counties of the North Midlands as their fathers, husbands and sons met a bloody repluse in their attack on the Hohenzollern Redoubt, a phase of the Battle of Loos. #ww1 #genealogy

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Paul Reed @sommecourt.bsky.social · 4d

Gunner Officer: Malcolm Vyvyan. In this latest Old Front Line #podcast we return to the memories of #WW1 veteran Malcolm Vyvyan MC, who served with 96th Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery on the Western Front from 1916.

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Gunner Officer: Malcolm Vyvyan

We return to the memories of WW1 veteran Malcolm Vyvyan MC, who served with 96th Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery on the Western Front from 1916, and then latterly the Royal Flying Corps and …

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Genevra Charsley, Flanders Battlefield Tour @flandersbtour.bsky.social · 5d

Restoration work being carried out on the Buttes in Polygon Wood therefore is currently off limits to the public walking up there. The cemetery is still accessible to the public.

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Genevra Charsley, Flanders Battlefield Tour @flandersbtour.bsky.social · 9d

Positive response to explanation of the Christmas Truce, we’re now going to insert into the tour a visit to the resting place of a footballer for the two teenage sons…

Genevra Charsley, Flanders Battlefield Tour @flandersbtour.bsky.social · 10d

Oh dear, time to be a damp squid..."so we wondered if there is any way you could also incorporate the Christmas Truce football match site?"

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Genevra Charsley, Flanders Battlefield Tour @flandersbtour.bsky.social · 10d

Oh dear, time to be a damp squid..."so we wondered if there is any way you could also incorporate the Christmas Truce football match site?"

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Genevra Charsley, Flanders Battlefield Tour @flandersbtour.bsky.social · 12d

On Friday we followed James Cormack of the 5th Cameron Highlanders & the Final Advance 28th September through to 27th October 1918. Starting off at the area of Bellewaerde, Frezenberg Ridges and Potijze, then advancing through areas such as MolenHoek Ridge, the Keiberg Spur & on to Waterdamhoek.

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Genevra Charsley, Flanders Battlefield Tour @flandersbtour.bsky.social · 15d

Too busy thinking I’d have nightmares after going down there. Jacques and I were offered the opportunity once but we politely declined.

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Genevra Charsley, Flanders Battlefield Tour @flandersbtour.bsky.social · 15d

I think it was around the area of Hill 80, could be mistaken though.

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Genevra Charsley, Flanders Battlefield Tour @flandersbtour.bsky.social · 15d

I don’t envy the person who has to carry the box with remains down into the crypt…

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Genevra Charsley, Flanders Battlefield Tour @flandersbtour.bsky.social · 15d

***Take Notice***For anyone out guiding the Ypres Salient this weekend please note there is a burial service on Saturday 4th October at the German Cemetery at Langemarck, from what I understand it is going to be in the afternoon.

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Genevra Charsley, Flanders Battlefield Tour @flandersbtour.bsky.social · 16d

Out guiding and met Tonny one of the buglers from the Last Post Association, he very kindly gave a little impromptu talk about his role within the LPA. A nice surprise for my chaps from Leek in Staffordshire.

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Genevra Charsley, Flanders Battlefield Tour @flandersbtour.bsky.social · 17d

This is exactly no one should EVER tamper with ordnance from First or Second World War, leave it to the bomb disposal units 👇

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Obus ontploft in centrum van Diksmuide: één zwaargewonde

Iets na elf uur is een obus uit de eerste wereldoorlog ontploft in het het centrum van Diksmuide. Daarbij is één gewonde gevallen.

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María Inés Tato @mariainestato.bsky.social · May 31

Today, I visited the British war cemetery in Stahnsdorf, where the remains of those who fell in Germany during the First World War are laid to rest. Among them is Thomas Colvill-Jones, an Anglo-Argentine volunteer and young RAF pilot who departed from Buenos Aires in 1917.
#LestWeForget

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Genevra Charsley, Flanders Battlefield Tour @flandersbtour.bsky.social · Sep 16

They may decide to extend it…

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Genevra Charsley, Flanders Battlefield Tour @flandersbtour.bsky.social · Sep 15

From 27th September to the 30th November a 6.5 metered high figure known as The Hauntings will be placed near the Menin Gate Memorial in Ieper. Facing towards the memorial symbolizing all those that never returned home…

📸 Flanders Fields 14-18

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Genevra Charsley, Flanders Battlefield Tour @flandersbtour.bsky.social · Sep 14

Ahead of my guided tour yesterday for the Royal British Legion Gloucester City at Talbot House I read an article about TOC H where Tubby Clayton had been described as the “priest for the parish of the Ypres Salient” during the First World War.” A fitting and wonderful description I thought.

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Genevra Charsley, Flanders Battlefield Tour @flandersbtour.bsky.social · Sep 12

A boy soldier, enlisting at the age of 14 in 1905 having been born in Peshawar, India. Entered theatre of war 10th November 1914, described as: intelligent, hardworking, smart and trustworthy. Wounded in the areas of Barnsley Road and Post 28, resting in peace in Essex Farm Cemetery.

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Genevra Charsley, Flanders Battlefield Tour @flandersbtour.bsky.social · Aug 18

Congratulations!

Genevra Charsley, Flanders Battlefield Tour @flandersbtour.bsky.social · Aug 15

We first came to the burial ground of the Clan MacCrae around 23 years ago. Today we made a return visit, I’m so pleased we did as I missed so much information from my first visit, especially some that links back to my old Clan MacCrae book of those who died, fought and survived the First World War.

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