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🅾🅽 🆃🅷🅸🆂 🅳🅰🆈 June 16, 1944: SOE agent Francisque "Frank" Bec, an instructor in the Headmaster network, is killed in action during an attack on the Charnie maquis by the Germans near Chemiré-en-Charnie in northern France. #FrancisqueEugeneBec #FSection #SOE #WW2 🇬🇧

Gordon Cemetery, Mametz, yesterday. A shell-hole burial site. Requiescat in pace.

A huge thanks to James Holland and Al Murray 🇺🇦 for inviting Paul Reed and I onto the WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk live stream to talk battlefield tours with Leger Battlefield Tours Memorable times with a veteran I forgot to mention when we were speaking about Fred Glover, 9Bn at Merville. In 2016 Fred

Fabulous day on my latest Cycling the Battlefields tour around Normandy with a group of ten looking at the fighting for Hill 112 & Canadian actions on Verrières Ridge. Riding today for Prostate Cancer UK

Lost his life this day 17th.June 1941. FO. Bruce Arthur Rogers. One of THE FEW. bbm.org.uk/airmen/RogersB…… On a squadron escort for Blenheims detailed to bomb the Chocques chemical works at Bethune, he was shot down in his Hurricane and killed. Age 23.

Remembering Cpl Sarah Bryant, Intelligence Corps killed in an explosion,Helmand Province, Afghanistan on 17th June 2008 aged 26. Sarah was married to Carl who was also serving with the Intelligence Corps. She died when the jeep she was travelling in hit a landmine #Afghanistan

#OTD in 1944, the 9th Colonial Infantry Division disembark from a Landing Craft Infantry (LCI) for the invasion of Elba:

The 5th Battalion Welsh Guards, part of the Guards Armoured Division, advancing towards the front line (Normandy campaign) on this day in 1944:

Coming soon...The story of the 1st Royal Welch Fusiliers during the 1st Battle of #Ypres in October 1914. A battalion virtually wiped out. And a man from #NewZealand who discovered his ancestor was one of them. Subscribe here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/tal…

I’m looking forward to this event at Chalfont St Peter Community Library on Saturday 21st June:

18th June, 2010 Trooper Ashley David Smith, aged 21 from York, of the Royal Dragoon Guards, was killed by an IED blast whilst improving security near a checkpoint in Nahr-e Saraj, Helmand Province, Afghanistan Lest we Forget this brave young Yorkshireman who gave his all 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧

Born this day 18th. June 1918. FO. Nathaniel John Merriman Barry. South African One of THE FEW. bbm.org.uk/airmen/Barry.h… Wonderful information in Link above. Photo shows Shoreham Aircraft Museum unveiled a stone marker close to the spot where he fell after being shot down.

Leading from the front, as always, fell in the dying days of WW2 Dr Peter Caddick-Adams #StandwithUkraine

In case you haven’t yet heard the news… Blaise Metreweli has been appointed the new Chief of MI6—the first woman to lead the organisation in its 114-year history. Now at the helm, women have been pivotal in intelligence operations for decades…

Remembering Major Sean Birchall, 1st Battalion The Welsh Guards, killed in an explosion whilst on patrol near Lashkar Gah, Helmand Province, Afghanistan on the 19th June 2009 aged 33. #Afghanistan

I took this photograph inside the barn at Tempsford Airfield - a site where SOE agents during the Second World War were outfitted with their equipment prior to undertaking their dangerous missions. Taking in the atmosphere of this barn was profoundly moving.

The stunningly beautiful Maddingley Cemetery

‘Riveting, and written with such clarity. Hempel has done an immense service to these women, who can finally be remembered.’

Fantastic turnout on this hot evening our monthly talk. Historian and author Ian Castle presenting - “A Fine Feat of Arms" - The Zeppelin Base Raids, Autumn 1914". More details on all our events can be found here; hertsatwar.co.uk/events/

A really good evening and a very engaged audience. Always a pleasure to visit Herts at War - except for the M25 bit!!