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SallyB McGlone

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SallyB McGlone

@sallyacb275

Airstrip One, Oceania

Joined May 2012

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SallyB McGlone
@sallyacb275
Nov 7, 2024
Their Name Liveth Forevermore Second Officer Irene Arkless ‘Hoping to do my bit, for our dear old country’ 3 Jan 1943, her Oxford V3888 crashed onto a house outside Cambridge, engine failure on take-off. Buried Carlisle (Stanwix) Cemetery @CWGC
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SallyB McGlone
@sallyacb275
Jun 7, 2024
This was requested by the USA so that those landing in the DZ could have a France 🇫🇷 Normandy stamp on their passport dated 6 June 2024 (80th Anniversary), so actually very cool !
Jerome Starkey
@jeromestarkey
Jun 5, 2024
Replying to @jeromestarkey
Video: British paras jumping into Normandy are greeted by French customs
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SallyB McGlone
@sallyacb275
Nov 24, 2022
Talking about @RoyalMail This was our brilliant Postman (a rescue diver in his spare time)!
SallyB McGlone
@sallyacb275
Sep 19, 2025
Winston passed away yesterday. He was 15. He was my old boy, Charlie’s best friend He taught Charlie it was ok to love other dogs and not to be reactive. Winston helped his humans through countless rounds of IVF and heartbreak. Winston has been the constant companion for a
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SallyB McGlone
@sallyacb275
Jun 5, 2024
If ever there could be a single image to epitomise the respect, recognition, compassion, comradeship and love between service personnel and veterans, this is it. A truly touching moment, when the young soldier held the DDay veteran steadfastly, the legacy continues.
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SallyB McGlone
@sallyacb275
Feb 16, 2025
At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them. Radji Beach Massacre, Bangka Island, 16 February 1942. 21 Australian Army Nursing Service sisters, executed by IJA troops.
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SallyB McGlone
@sallyacb275
Apr 24, 2024
Funeral notice for Miss Margaret Robertson: 1100 on Thursday 2nd May at Sefton Road United Reforned Church in Morecambe. Margaret Robertson has no family, if anyone can attend would be lovely. She was 102, a former PMRAFNS McIndoe nurse,looking after Guinea Pig Club injured
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SallyB McGlone
@sallyacb275
Aug 16, 2025
‘Oh I have slipped the surly bonds of earth, Reached out my hand and touched the face of God’ 16 August 2025, sadly it has been announced that Flt Lt John Alexander Cruikshank V.C formerly RAF Coastal Command has died aged 105. He was the oldest and only remaining Second World
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SallyB McGlone
@sallyacb275
Aug 13, 2025
At the going down of the sun and in the morning, we will remember them. Radji Beach Massacre, Bangka Island, 16 February 1942. 21 Australian Army Nursing Service sisters, murdered by Imperial Japanese Army troops. #VJDay80
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SallyB McGlone
@sallyacb275
Nov 6, 2024
Their Name Liveth Evermore Flight Engineer Janice Harrington, one of 4 female Flight Engineers in the Air Transport Auxiliary Killed alongside Mosquito ac Captain, First Officer Dora Lang 2 Mar 1944 Both cared for by @CWGC and are buried in All Saints Cemetery, Maidenhead
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SallyB McGlone
@sallyacb275
Nov 7, 2025
Their Name Liveth Evermore Flight Engineer Janice Harrington, one of 4 female Flight Engineers in the Air Transport Auxiliary Killed alongside Mosquito ac Captain, First Officer Dora Lang 2 Mar 1944 Both cared for by @CWGC and are buried in All Saints Cemetery, Maidenhead
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SallyB McGlone
@sallyacb275
Oct 3, 2019
Please RT and do your thing Twitter, nobody should make their final journey on their own. An RAF veteran with no family has died aged 100 - and you are invited to salute him at his funeral - Manchester Evening News Per Ardua ad Astra .....✈️
Appeal for mourners to attend the funeral of an RAF veteran aged 100
From manchestereveningnews.co.uk
SallyB McGlone
@sallyacb275
Nov 9, 2025
Remember Them Their Name Liveth For Evermore Sister Rosetta Joan Wight Australian Army Nursing Service AIF 13 Gen Hospital Age 33 16 February 1942 Died alongside 21 other ANS sisters on Radji Beach, executed by Japanese troops. Commemorated @CWGC Singapore Memorial.
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SallyB McGlone
@sallyacb275
May 20, 2025
Happy Birthday , Flt Lt John Alexander Cruikshank V.C, of Coastal Command turns 105 He is the oldest and only remaining WW2 RAF recipient of the Victoria Cross who is still with us. iwm.org.uk/history/john-a…
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