Replying to @Jefferies_ and @TaranehDean
That’s amazing! I’d love to feature it in Geology Today magazine if you’d be interested? (I’m the Editor)
Peter Doyle
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Peter Doyle
@ProfPeterDoyle
Geologist and military historian of twentieth century conflict, Great War in particular. Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
- Death, mourning and remembrance in the First World War. A thread with images. 1: the returned letter
- Finally, I framed something that means a lot to me. My Dad’s emulsion brush, carefully trimmed for ‘cutting in’. He was a painter and decorator apprenticed before the SWW, returning to his trade after his time as a PoW in Germany. Objects matter
- ‘The Face of a Merchant Seafarer lost to the Sea’: a truly incredible art work, a memorial to those seafarers who died in war, at Cardiff Bay (image: James Doyle) rcahmw.gov.uk/the-face-of-a-…
- The Somme, yesterday. Echoes of war in a beautiful landscape
- My dad. He got on with life after he came back from Germany. He’d been there five years, a PoW at Lamsdorf, Stalag VIIIB
- This was released just twelve years after the end of the Great War. The battle scenes of the original, 1930 epic ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ are compelling, even more so given such events were likely in the memories of its participants (How sharp is your memory of 2011?)
00:00 - Bullet-stopping. Corporal of Horse [=Sargeant] Buckby of the Royal Horse Guards was saved by his cigarette case, notebook - and finally his French phrase book - at Frezenberg, 13th May, 1915, during Second Ypres (At the Household Cavalry Museum)
- Remembering Pte Arthur Bassingham, London Rifle Brigade, a young man with ‘a beautiful voice’ who did not have the chance to take part in the Christmas Truce, alongside his comrades Killed by a sniper entering the frontline, Christmas Eve, 24 December 1914, at ‘Plugstreet’
- Tucked away in the corner of Horse Guards Parade, sitting rather uncomfortably, and probably mostly overlooked, is the monument to the deeds and men of the Royal Naval Division in the Great War. Moved three times, I suppose we should be grateful it survives to this day
- Servicewomen of the Second World War: WRNS and WRAF #InternationalWomensDay
