#RemembranceSunday🧵
Facial prosthesis, c.1917. THREAD for #RemembranceSunday🧵

From the moment the first machine gun rang out over the Western Front, one thing was clear: mankind’s military technology had wildly surpassed its medical capabilities. Bodies were battered, gouged, hacked, and gassed. /1
November 9, 2025 at 1:17 PM
🧵The stone used for war memorials is often chosen carefully and can represent either the home land of the troops or the theatre of war itself. Read more about geology and stone in London’s War Memorials at ruthsiddall.co.uk/Walks/WarMem... #remembrancesunday #urbangeology
November 9, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Today I attended the #RemembranceSunday service to honour all those who have served and sacrificed in defence of our country. We remember their courage and legacy on this, the 80th anniversary year of the end of the Second World War @houseoflords.parliament.uk @ukparliament.parliament.uk 🧵1/2
November 9, 2025 at 9:04 PM
What's through the not-quite-square window behind Stonehenge on this #StandingStoneSunday and #RemembranceSunday? Why, it's an entire concertinaed military landscape of camps and barracks! This 'novelty card' was written to Miss E. Nixon of Invercargill, New Zealand, in 1916 but never posted… 🧵
November 9, 2025 at 8:33 AM

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November 10, 2024 at 10:40 AM
10th November 1944 was a quiet day for the 1st Bn Manchester Regiment.

In reserve, the men had a brief opportunity to pause, something there'd been little time to do since landing in Normandy in late June...

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November 10, 2024 at 8:58 AM
Stonehenge in wartime: "the wide, happy skies of southern England... seem in strange contrast with these monstrous, sinister-looking stones." From 'The Canadians at Stonehenge' by Ella Hepworth Dixon, The Sketch, 28 April 1915 #StandingStoneSunday #RemembranceSunday

🧵 (on the postcard in the image)
November 10, 2024 at 10:18 AM