Tom Anderson's series on #naval #history looks at the #interwar period between #WW1 and #WW2 and how the politics of naval strength affected the alliance structure of the latter war and rise of #Japan. #Battleship #AircraftCarrier #Navy #MilitaryHistory www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/naval-g...

Edward eventually became king in January 1936 but abdicated later that year in order to marry an American divorcee Wallis Simpson, after which he became the Duke of Windsor and Wallis's became his Duchess.
#princeofwales #edwardviii #mrssimpson
#ww1 #Windsor

#WorldPostcardDay
What a great excuse to post my blog about my husband’s Nan who left an album with 200 postcards dating from 1910 to 1919 with dozens from #WW1 and one from the Lusitania!

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#PicOfTheDay The very seldom visited Cretinier @cwgc.bsky.social #Cemetery #Wattrelos. The men here all fell in the area across the two world wars. 11 men of #WW1 rest here alongside 36 men of #WW2 who were holding the line as the retreat to #Dunkirk was in full flow.

1 October 1917 Driver Frederick Bennett (L/43727) Royal Field Artillery died of wounds and was buried in Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery.

Frederick is also remembered on the Hazel Grove War Memorial #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters

1 October 1915 Private Donald Ferguson (2915) 1/6 Bn Manchester Regiment died and was buried in East Mudros Military Cemetery. Donald was 21.

Donald is remembered inside Stockport War Memorial #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters

1 October 1917 Captain Stanley Wilbraham Burditt, Army Service Corps died from wounds and was buried in Outtersteene Communal Cemetery.

Stanley is also remembered inside Stockport War Memorial #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters

1 October 1918 Private Jack Clarke (TF/204542) 23 Bn Middlesex Regiment was killed in action and buried in Hooge Crater Cemetery.

John is also remembered inside Stockport War Memorial #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters

1 October 1918 Sergeant George Leonard Fowden (1190) Australian Infantry died of wounds (gassed) and was buried in Doingt Communal Cemetery Extension.

George is also remembered inside Stockport War Memorial #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters

Irlams o' th' Height had a female Station Master and a fully female compliment of staff.

The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway hired many women during the war. They took on roles such as Station Master, porters, locomotive and carriage cleaners, and ticket collectors.

#ww1 #WomensHistory #Railway

The great German Admiral Reinhard Scheer! Born on this day. #WW1 #FWW #GreatWar #Germany

Admiral Reinhard Scheer born this day. Admiral of the Imperial German Navy and later Chief of Naval Staff. He led the German Navy at the Battle of Jutland. After the war accepted an invitation from Jellicoe to meet and discuss Jutland. He died before the trip.
#WW1
#FWW
#GreatWar
#Germany
#Jutland

1 October 1918

The Egyptian Expeditionary Force captures Damascus.

#WW1 #History #HistoryMatters

I recently picked up a copy of “Over the Top” by Arthur Lambert. The author served with the HAC on the Western Front. My copy originally belonged to Horace G. Sennitt, who was in the same unit. He carefully made notations on the margins throughout the book. #WW1 #FWW #WesternFront #BritishArmy

30 Sept 1918 // HM Trawler Sealark II, a Hull boat in naval service as a minesweeper, sank off St John's point, County Down, Ireland, after colliding with naval trawler Henry Ford. Seven of her crew were lost and five survivors were rescued. #WW1 #RoyalNavy

The Germans then boarded the trawler and took various things they liked the look of, including all the sea-boots they could find, and then set charges which sank her after 5 minutes. The skipper was returned to his boat, safely reaching Mersah Matruh with all his crew. #WW1 #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory

#avgeek #art #ww1 #fww

Tom Anderson's #history of #naval #warfare comes to #WW1 and how many pre-war predictions of the decisive #battleship #battle were made redundant by the nature of the sides. #GreatWar #Mahan #MilitaryHistory #Navy #Dreadnought #Jutland www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/alterna...

@thegreatwargroup.bsky.social
#FWWhist #History #1GM #FWW #Grande-Guerre #WW1