Cornishman gripped by a fascination of the First and Second World Wars. Endlessly reading the books and visiting the battlefields when I can. Tweeting about it.
The Cornish/Devon border
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Neal Russell retweeted
Surprised to turn on Radio 4 and find a dramatisation of ‘The Things They Carried’ by Tim O’Brien. Even as fiction it’s one of the best books on the Vietnam War from the perspective of the ‘grunt’. Just last week l put it on a recommended reading list for clients on a Vietnam tour l’m co-leading in Oct-Nov.
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Saddened to report the death of Dave Bolus, class of 82, Fallklands vet with another unit beore joining the @TheParachuteReg and serving in @2PARA_HQ
Notable OC P Company. His father was an England cricketer.
Really good guy.
RIP Dave
Neal Russell retweeted
Commanding Officer 40 Commando Colonel Malcolm Hunt at San Carlos, by Linda Kitson, 1982.
© IWM (Art.IWM ART 15530 38)
Neal Russell retweeted
Back working at TNA on a 3 day commission.
I am available for research work, archival retrieval and obtaining copies of documents.
Emergency & Quick retrieval of documents is also available. A benefit of being within a short distance of the archives.
DM me with enquiries…
Read some great posts today on the anniversary of Néry, though feel compelled to say that a whole Brigade with its mounted regiments fought there, and not just a single battery!
Neal Russell retweeted
Black Watch members preparing to leave Dundee railway station for deployment in the First World War. (Pic: DCT)
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Former Plymouth Argyle and Southend United footballer Sergeant William Sutherland, 2nd Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders, was killed in action on this day in 1914. A pre-war soldier recalled to the colours, he has no known grave and is named on the La Ferte-Sous-Jouarre Memorial.
The house of General Penn Symons, 2/24th Regiment of Foot. Not present at Isandhlwana, he went onto be killed at Talana Hill. One of the first to pay the price for hard earned lessons at the hands of the Boer- lessons that would shape the Army that went to war in August 1914.
Well I didn’t know that. Thanks.
🗓️ #OTD in 1945 – John Maxwell and Ernest Smith, two Royal Marines from Detachment 385 who were captured four months ago while on recce of Phuket with COPP, are beheaded by officers from the Japanese army's intelligence staff.
We remember them.🕯️
▶️ coppsurvey.uk/march-1945/#co…
ALT The gravestones of John Maxwell (inscribed “To his dear memory. Unforgotten. Unforgettable.”) and Ernest Smith (“Not just today but every day, in silence we remember.”) Images from the War Graves Photographic Project.
Neal Russell retweeted
Congratulations to our Memorial Ambassador 100-year-old D-Day Veteran Ken Cooke who was made Honorary Freeman of the City of York @CityofYork yesterday!
📷 Nick Bielby
Neal Russell retweeted
#onthisday 1922 the Machine Gun Corps was disbanded.
Although there were companies and battalions formed as higher level organisation, the basic building block of the infantry branch was the section, each containing two sub-sections of two #VickersMG each.
Neal Russell retweeted
Every time I stumble upon these images of Ralph Vaughan Williams and Gustav Holst out walking together I feel compelled to share them. I love everything about these images, from the movement to the happiness to the attire. Just wonderful.
