Back now - thanks for all your Best Wishes, most touching! We like to think we are the sort of people who "do things" on holiday rather than lie...
1) July 1st, 1916. Not so much the first men over the top; they had been told the artillery barrage would obliterate the opposition, but the second...
I don't think any of us are going to top that, David. No-one should have to outlive their children. I cried when I told people that my oldest...
I'll be off-line for a couple of weeks; we're going off to Spain on Tuesday 22nd, until 5th August. A friend of ours has a house in Cabo Rio,...
At least three VCs were won in Hill 60 actions in WW1. I imagine that on the Eastern Front there were even more areas fought over both times....
I think its a bit late for that now; the term is very much part of our conciousness. Maybe in a few years time, when the veterans are all gone,...
I once visited a place called Hill 60, near Hooge, a few miles from Ypres, where there was very heavy fighting in WW1, particularly around time of...
Have you done it yet? Nothings happened over here, no earthquakes or black holes or anything. And I'm still on the internet, but perhaps that will be...
This made me squirm, right up to the last line: The vicar asked if anyone in the congregation would like to express praise to the Lord for...
I just voted no for the hell of it, given the inherent contradiction.
Phone this number and come down to London and you can - if you have £185 to spare. Maybe for my 50th birthday next year..... PS Haven't seen...
I believe that between the demise of the Hindenburg and the 1990's they survived as a general engineering company, fabricating whatever components...
Airshipsonline is a great site (if you're into airships) but can be rather intermittent. I tried it just now, and it seems to have gone down...
I know this relates to the wrong war, but some of you know I'm as much into WW1 as WW2 and I couldn't resist sharing something that brightened up my...
Southern Cross is a Fokker Trimotor not a Ford - am I right? Adrian
Great photos! The Hind was presumably at Old Warden as well; I don't think it ventures far from there. Some of these shots must be fairly...
I hope they succeed. Its a bold and expensive endeavour: a Lanc has four times as many Merlins and a lot more airframe to keep running than a...
The following is a quote from the obituary of Lt-General William Odom, Sovietologist and "Hawk" in the Carter administration, who died recently aged...
Lord Tweedsmuir, son of John Buchan, was a fighter pilot, and it would seem a bit of a playboy as well!...
I remember in the 70's my admittedly left-wing history teacher telling us that the world survived because Khruschev was big enough to back down....
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