I am co author of this book about ABF The Soldiers' Charity's Frontline Walk. All proceeds to the charity. The walk goes again this year, Covid permitting.
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It was a privilege today to visit @MoultonPrimary and talk to 500 children about their "Old Boys". We discussed the meaning of #RemembranceDay and I told the stories of 3 lads buried in the local cemetery who died of wounds on #Somme battlefield. #WW1

This week’s episode is from #Ypres as I tell the story of Private William Bowers who was killed in action in October 1914. But what was the impact on his distraught wife Annie? He is still missing and on @CWGC Menin Gate. #WW1

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I'll be returning to @TalbotHousTubby in #Poperinge this week to give a talk showcasing Ivan Bawtree's photos of #Ypres in 1919. The exhibition '1919' at Talbot House runs until 24th November.
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Remembrance Sunday at the Memorial organised by the @PoppyLegion Normandy Branch.

The Unknown Warrior at Victoria Station, guarded overnight.
10 November 1920.

The train arrived at platform 8 in Victoria Station at 8.32, the coffin being borne in the same carriage that had returned the bodies of Nurse Edith Cavell and Captain Fryatt to the UK.

On #RemembranceDay we rightly think of those who died. But pause & think of those survivors of the Great War too: men who walked to the edge and came back, were left with debilitating injuries, and memories they would struggle to escape from. For them, the Great War never ended.

22,538 men and two women. We Will Remember Them. ❤️

📷 Gus Fisher / Eye Cut Stone

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The Trust is delighted to announce that Normandy Veteran Richard Brock has been appointed Memorial Ambassador!

He is pictured at events in Preston's Lancashire Infantry Museum earlier this week where he shared his story with young people and was interviewed by our Youth hurchill.

Richard, aged 102, served with the 1st Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment. Richard sailed aboard the Ocean Vigil and landed in Normandy on 8 June 1944, amid naval bombardment and German artillery fire.

He went on to operate a Universal Carrier during the campaign through north-west Europe, including the Battle of Normandy, the Battle of the Bulge, the liberation of Holland and the crossing of the Rhine.

Of his appointment as Ambassador he said:

"I am proud and humbled to accept the position of Ambassador for the British Normandy Memorial. Over the past four years I have been flying the flag for all the men and women who didn't make it back home. Also for my dear pals of my company of 130 lads who landed with me on Gold Beach. After nearly a year of bitter fighting, travelling over 2,000 miles, only 19 made it back. I am the last one alive today.

They are always in my thoughts. I have always said that they are the heroes and I am honoured to carry on their memory." ❤️

📷 Florence Marsac / British Normandy Memorial

Honoured to represent @CWGC yesterday talking to Northampton PROBUS about local casualties. Then last night talked to St John Ambulance cadets about the medical process in #ww1. Several more talks next week. #RemembranceDay. Just a hobby, never a job….

Deep in Nonne Bosschen stands a memorial to Captain Ewen James Brodie of the Cameron Highlanders. Killed on 11 November 1914 during the last major German offensive of the First Battle of Ypres, his grave was lost in the war. In 1923, his widow erected this monument in his memory.

Today, we are honoured to be attending the opening ceremony of the Westminster Field of Remembrance. 🌺

Earlier this week, the ABF team planted 80 crosses, each carrying a message from our supporters in memory of the Armed Forces personnel who are no longer with us.

We are also by our ambassador, Andy Reid MBE, an Afghanistan veteran and triple amputee, as we come together to remember, reflect and pay tribute to those who served.

@AndyReidMBE_STF

#ForSoldiersForLife #LestWeForget #Remembrance #FieldOfRemembrance

Cromer remembers...#Norfolk #ww1 ##ww2

Highly emotional photos from family pilgrimages to the Western Front during the 1920's. We can only imagine how the relatives and veterans were feeling....#WW1

Mundesley remembers. #Norfolk #ww1 #WW2

Next week’s podcast is a Halloween horror as we follow the story of a counter attack #Ypres in October 1914, through the eyes of the participants. We discover how the battle affected William Bowers and his wife Annie. #ww1 Subscribe here:

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"The most dangerous place on Earth" - Hellfire Corner on the Menin Road at #Ypres. #ww1

During the war, 20 years later and a couple of weeks ago...the same location...

📣 Get your bids in! The Remembrance 2026 Golf Auction in memory of our late Ambassador Harry Billinge is now open until Sunday 8th November. ⛳️
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Second Lieutenant Joseph Frain Webster (Aged 21)
The Black Watch
Killed: 30 October 1914
First Battle of Ypres
Killed in a charge at Gheluvelt
Commemorated on the Menin Gate
Portrait by George Harcourt RA (c.1914), normally on display at Webster Memorial Theatre, Arbroath.

Nothing on this page or on my podcast will be generated from AI.

There is no need….the original sources tell their own stories without the need for enhancing them.

Neither will I use bots to enhance my work as so many others seem to do. Again, there is no need. #ww1 #WW2

This week's podcast takes us to the 1918 battlefields as we discuss a brilliant #Australia victory on the Western. @naagovau @AWMemorial #ww1

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