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28/04/2024

Print of an oil painting by Jon Kelly. Farewell Z-Zebra flying over RAF Grimsby (Waltham) lost on Ops 28th April 1944. She flies over Grimsby one last time 80 years on. Prints of this aircraft are available. Contact me if interested.

14/06/2023

Returning to Ieper & the Somme in July, looking forward to seeing old friends (and some young ones too) Looking at the Lincoln’s involvement on the Western Front.

11/12/2022

A visit to the Hawthorn Ridge mine crater followed by Egg ‘N Chips at Oceanvillas Tea Rooms with good friend Avril Williams

23/09/2022

L-R Darryl Low Choy, Dave O’Hagan, Ray McNab, Dick Stanworth, Me, Adam Holloway, Mark Plath, Steve Vokes. At Ypres.

24/08/2022

The United Service Club tour in 2017 on the Jacka walk at Pozieres. (Picture by WCMDR Graham Hook)
Looking forward to their next tour in September 2022.

24/08/2022

An Australian tour from 1918.

06/11/2021

These Almshouses and the two old lady occupants in 1919 at Kirtling in Cambridgeshire, were the subject of the poem by Edmund Blunden. ‘The Almswomen.’

07/09/2021

Codford

07/09/2021

A visit to the Codford St Peter CWGC in England on a tour a couple of years ago. Most of the burials here are Australian soldiers who died from wounds.

20/06/2021

Kranji War Cemetery, Singapore.

19/05/2021

Still unable to visit the battlefields. I have never had so long away from them in over 20 years. I hope that a return in the late summer might take place. 2022 holds some promise. I will keep this site updated. This picture is from an Australian tour in 2019 where the first few days were spent in the UK. It is of a stained glass window at Stinsford Church, Dorset. In the churchyard lies the heart of one of our most loved poets, Thomas Hardy; his body is in Westminster Abbey.

05/03/2021

This poppy graph certainly gives one a true sense of casualties from WW1 and Great Grimsby was by no means on its own. Official numbers of those from Grimsby killed are 1,442. [Thanks to The British Empire site & Ray McNab for alerting me]

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Not a lot of battlefield tourism these days, but trawling through some pictures reminds me of exactly one year ago in the CWG cemetery at Regina Trench, Somme. This thunderstorm caused my group to take cover where they could. Someone made the comment, “It’s the boys marching through.”