@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social15 October 1917
Vera Brittain writes to her mother ‘We are still in a great rush & taking convoys every day; I have had a heavy day although I have managed to get off this evening. I am at the moment sitting in an extremely cold bath hut’
@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social15 October 1918
Men of 20th Division unloading limbers to form a roadside dump of 18-pounder shells at Drocourt.
© IWM Q 9609
110 years ago today, Oct 15, 1916. My great-grandfather’s company marched out of Albert at 8.30. He went ahead to look for billets, and wrote:
“Bunked in a shack & jolly cold too.”
@rebeccabryn.bsky.social'The sin of war spread out to engulf him...' Families torn apart by war. A young farm boy who went to war and the girl who waited. Promises to keep. mybook.to/DandelionClock 'Compelling and unmissable' #WW1 #historicalfiction
@ww1rollofhonour.bsky.socialCampbell, G — Information G Campbell, a Driver in the Royal Field Artillery during WW1... https://www.ww1rollofhonour.co.uk/index.php/2015/12/campbell-g/ #history #eastsussex #ww1
@rnshiplosses.bsky.social15 Oct 1918 // HM Submarine J.6 was sunk by Q-ship HMS Cymric in a friendly fire incident off Seahouses, Northumberland. In foggy conditions and poor light the Cymric mistook J.6 for a German submarine and sank her with gunfire. 15 of J.6's crew lost their lives. #RoyalNavy #WW1 #NavalHistory
@rnshiplosses.bsky.socialN.B. The records are not clear on whether the White Head was a Royal Fleet Auxiliary vessel or a hired merchant vessel when sunk. Her commanding officer at the time, Lt Thomas Mann Heddles (who survived), was a Royal Naval Reserve officer. #RoyalFleetAuxiliary #WW1 #NavalHistory
@rnshiplosses.bsky.social15 Oct 1917 // HM Drifter Active III, a Banff boat in naval service as a net barrier tender at Milford Haven, sank at 8.30am after hitting a mine as she formed up with other drifters and trawlers off Skokholm Island for a patrol. No survivors from her crew of ten. #WW1 #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory
@rnshiplosses.bsky.social15 Oct 1914 // Edgar-class cruiser HMS Hawke was torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U.9 in the North Sea off the Aberdeenshire coast. Struck by a single torpedo, she exploded, capsized, and quickly sank. 524 of her 594 crew were lost. (Imperial War Museum: Q 39034) #RoyalNavy #WW1 #NavalHistory
@nobilepress.bsky.socialA #ttrpg that explores the horrors of u-boat warfare in the First World War. Hunt. Dive. Survive… this narrative driven game. On Kickstarter on October 29. www.kickstarter.com/projects/nob... #ww1 #kickstarter
@phugoid.bsky.social#WW1 #DeadHistory #DeadLink #DeadWebSite All the work of many web sites about the heroes of World War 1 are dying. This site was amazing labour of love and appears to have died. doingourbit.ca
@bonfieldkeith.bsky.socialThe 1/1st Cambridgeshire Regiment stormed The Schwaben Redoubt on the 14 -15th October 1916 🏅
These two books are now available from the Suffolk Regiment Museum shop 📖
All proceeds to go to the museum 🏛
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@footstepspod.bsky.social#31daysofgraves If ever an epitaph told you the true measure of a man - Gunner CD Moore, Petit Vimy Cemetery, France #WW1
@atticusfinch-105.bsky.social15 October 1916 Lance Corporal James Marshall (1174) 1/6 Bn Cheshire Regiment was killed in action and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial.
James is also remembered on the Romiley Memorial #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters
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