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Si Biggs
- Dec 9, 2017
- 1 min
Breakfast at Babs, Personalised Book Insert for Christmas
If you buy Breakfast at Babs for Christmas from Lulu or Amazon I would be delighted to send you a personalised note by e mail that you...
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Si Biggs
- Dec 8, 2017
- 2 min
In Flanders Fields
"In Flanders Fields" is a war poem in the form of a rondeau, written during the First World War by Canadian physician Lieutenant-Colonel...
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Si Biggs
- Dec 7, 2017
- 3 min
Operation Frankton is launched from HMS Tuna #cockleshellheroes
At 7.17 pm on December 7, 1942, His Majesty’s Submarine Tuna surfaced off the coast of Occupied France near the mouth of the River...
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Si Biggs
- Nov 27, 2017
- 1 min
How The Battle Of Cambrai Changed Fighting Tactics On The Western Front
At dawn on 20 November 1917, the British Third Army launched an attack towards Cambrai using innovative methods that were to become a...
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Si Biggs
- Nov 20, 2017
- 2 min
State Funeral of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington 18th November 1852 #OTD #militaryhistory
Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, KG, GCB, GCH, PC, FRS (1 May 1769 – 14 September 1852) was an Anglo-Irish soldier...
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Si Biggs
- Nov 11, 2017
- 1 min
We will remember them @SiBiggs @PoppyLegion
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and...
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Si Biggs
- Nov 10, 2017
- 1 min
For the Fallen (Ode to Remembrance)
They went with songs to the battle, they were young. Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow. They were staunch to the end...
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Si Biggs
- Nov 9, 2017
- 1 min
A Poppy in Remembrance @PoppyLegion @gwtorg @Ghurkah_Brigade #Gurkah
At a petrol station in Abu Dhabi last year I was asked by the girl behind the counter what my poppy was for, so I told her. I asked...
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Si Biggs
- Nov 9, 2017
- 1 min
Dambuster - Sq Ldr George Leonard "Johnny" Johnson MBE
The last surviving British member of the Dambusters raid has been presented with an MBE after a campaign for him to be honoured. Sq Ldr...
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Si Biggs
- Nov 2, 2017
- 3 min
Yvonne Burney "Odette" the youngest female SOE agent passes away at 95
Yvonne Jeanne de Vibraye Baseden MBE; Legion of Honour; the Resistance Medal and the Croix de Guerre avec Palme, (20 January 1922 – 28...
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Si Biggs
- Oct 28, 2017
- 1 min
Happy Birthday #Royal Marines 'this country's sheet anchor' since 1664
'I never knew an appeal made to them for honor, courage, or loyalty that they did not more than realize my highest expectations. If ever...
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Si Biggs
- Oct 26, 2017
- 1 min
Breakfast at Babs, Personalised Book Insert for Christmas
If you buy Breakfast at Babs for Christmas from Lulu or Amazon I would be delighted to send you a personalised note by e mail that you...
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Si Biggs
- Oct 23, 2017
- 3 min
1,000 British Guns open up at El Alamein
The day of waiting and discomfort was over. The British Eighth Army – including Australian, New Zealand, South African, Indian, Polish...
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Si Biggs
- Oct 12, 2017
- 2 min
Great Escapes - Le Chemin de la Liberte (The French Freedom Trail) @MontyHalls #WW2
Le Chemin de la Liberte (The French Freedom Trail) After the German offensive in May 1940 and the division of France into two parts - an...
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Si Biggs
- Oct 9, 2017
- 3 min
SS Volturno on Fire, North Atlantic October 1913 #OTD #MaritimeHistory
SS Volturno was an ocean liner that burned and sank in the North Atlantic in October 1913. She was a Royal Line ship under charter to the...
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Si Biggs
- Oct 8, 2017
- 2 min
The battle for the Red October factory canteen
In Stalingrad Soviet forces were obstinately refusing to budge from their defended positions on the ever diminishing sliver of land they...
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Si Biggs
- Oct 3, 2017
- 2 min
Troopship Queen Mary cuts HMS Curacoa in half 337 Men lost #militaryhistory #OTD
The RMS Queen Mary was used as a troopship throughout World War II and usually crossed the Atlantic without an escort, relying on her...
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Si Biggs
- Sep 28, 2017
- 1 min
Grandads of the Atlantic! @grandadsrow @RBLI @DCTCharity @supportourparas #twac2018
ONE TOUGH OCEAN TWO TOUGH GRANDADS In December 2018, Neil Young and Peter Ketley will attempt to row 3,000 miles across the Atlantic as...
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Si Biggs
- Sep 27, 2017
- 2 min
Great Escapes - The Sulmona Trail @MontyHalls #WW2
Escape from Italy On the 03 September 1943, the Italian Government led by Badoglio (who had replaced Mussolini in July), signed an...
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