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D-Day – The Naval and Air Involvement
When we think of D-Day, it is of the men who landed on the beaches or parachuted into Normandy. D-Day was a combined arms operation, with the involvement of both the naval and air branches. This included the Royal Navy, and Royal Air Force, with their Commonwealth and Imperial elements, as well as the United…
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A Need to Remember
At Remembrance we all tend to go to remember those who went before in conflict and in military service, who were killed and those who came home shattered in mind, body and spirit. How we remember these losses is a phenomenon that originated in the Boer War, as communities had settled, news was more accessible,…
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1915 – A Global War – From Mud and Blood to Sand and Cliffs
On the Western Front, the winter of 1914 had turned the fields of France and Flanders into a scarred landscape of shell holes and basic trenches. In Ypres, Marne and Aisne, the German advance had been stemmed. In 1915, on the Western Front, the bloodshed continued, with some towns becoming linked with British losses. The…
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Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe
HG Wells
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