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Just to wish everyone on here a Happy New Year for 2026. Have a great one all 🍾😁
Tony Brown
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Tony Brown
@agbdrilling
Water Well Drilling, Sapper, History enthusiast, Military Vehicle collector, Suffolk
- Remember when the BBC let the Argentine forces know that 2 Para were about to attack Goose Green during the Falklands Campaign in 1982. The rot goes that far back The "Goose Green BBC incident" refers to a controversial event during the Falklands War in 1982 when the BBC World
- You know the Royal Navy is in a dire situation when the Spanish Armada decide to give it one more go 😁The Spanish galleon Andalucia is making her way into Bristol
00:00 - Admiral Horatio Nelson's Coat, worn at the Battle of Trafalgar. The hole made by the bullet that killed him can be seen on the left shoulder. National Maritime Museum Trafalgar Day 🇬🇧
- My ex Sapper Mate works for a company that checks out construction sites for unexploded WW2 Ordnance etc. On a site in Essex they located an anomaly 8 metres down. They had to dig this shaft to locate it. You can see one of the specialists at the bottom of the hole. Thread
- Statue to Spitfire designer Reginald J Mitchell at Hanley, Stoke on Trent. Near where he was born
- Take a minute to look at this video, each one of these tiny aircraft on this glass sculpture represents a USAAF aircraft that was lost flying from Great Britain during WW2 🇺🇸🇬🇧
00:00 - Have we sunk so low as a country that the Met Police do not know the significance of the Cenotaph . It is not a bloody hat stand
- Today got invited along to a memorial service and Headstone Dedication in Kedington to a local lad George Smith who in 1943 aged 20 went to the aid of the crew of a Stirling Bomber that had crashed in the village. He rescued one man but on returning to the aircraft to rescue 1/2
- Replying to @agbdrillingOne of the two fuses. Apparently It was fitted with an anti handling fuse and a timer fuse. The Bomb disposal guys then decided to blow it in situ with 500 tons of sand put on top of it to mitigate the blast Makes you wonder what is still lurking around in the ground. Well
- Some Dutch lads have turned up with a MK7 Churchill Crocodile flamethrower Listen to that Vauxhall engine 🙂 #Arnhem80
00:00 - At the End of the War Bristol Aircraft Factory worker Ralph Nelson used this Mk1 Blenheim cockpit to make an electric car that he drove around the City for 10 years. It is now the cockpit of the restored and only flying MK1 Blenheim 🇬🇧
- Heard the terrible news today that one of my old mates from 36 Engineer Regt at Maidstone passed away today. We shared a 4 man room for two years. Russ was only diagnosed with cancer in May. It took a bad turn very quickly. If you are having a beer tonight please raise a glass to
