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Remembering the Actor, Arnold Ridley who passed away on this date in 1984 😇🙏

On 7 March 1915, Thomas Foley’s gallantry earned him the Distinguished Conduct Medal. Sadly, he also received wounds to his shoulder, neck, and lung that claimed his life four days later.

📍Poperinghe Old Military Cemetery 🇧🇪

You could say that Poirot isn’t a FAN of the beach…

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"Well, don't say I haven't warned you! I've laid it on the line for you time and time again!
Right!
So, this is it!
I'm gonna give you a damn good thrashing!"

PHOTO OF THE DAY. A mass exodus by Trabants from Communist East Berlin (1989). 📷 google images

FACT OF THE DAY. 11 March 1988. Bank of England 1 pound note, introduced in 1797, ceased to be legal tender in England and Wales at midnight. It was the smallest denomination note and had continued to be printed until 1984. It was replaced by the 1 pound coin.

11 March 1918 Captain Albert Evelyn Alderson 3 Bn The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment) died when he accidently drowned. He was buried in the Struma Military Cemetery, Greece.

Albert is remembered on the War Memorial St Peter & St Paul Church Minnis Lane, River. #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters

11 March 1918 Captain Hardic Grey Ashton of 25 Sqdn Royal Flying Corps died from wounds and was buried in the Lapugnoy Military Cemetery, France. Hardic was 23.

Hardic is remembered on the University of Manchester Memorial where he had been a medical student #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters

11 March 1915 Lt William Munro Ross 2 Bn Gordon Highlanders was killed in action and has no known grave but is commemorated on the Le Touret Memorial. William was 22.

William is also remembered at @pembroke1347.bsky.social and Eton College #WW1 #History #HistoryMatters

Sister Ethel Radcliffe, Queen Alexandra’s Imperial Military Nursing Service, was one of tens of thousands of service personnel who succumbed to the influenza pandemic that mercilessly claimed millions of lives in the closing phase ms of WW1.

📍Les Baraques Military Cemetery 🇫🇷

That’s me with every single book 📖 😂

Handle with care, with care…

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The first edition of The Frost Report was broadcast on this day in 1966. Ronnie Barker, Ronnie Corbett, John Cleese, Nicky Henson and Nicholas Smith were amongst those joining Frost in front of the cameras, whilst the cream of the country's comedy writers provided the scripts.

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Dare I ask what ship this is? My naval knowledge is very limited

PHOTO OF THE DAY: Alfred Hitchcock’s wife Alma shows off the wax head of her husband she kept in the fridge. 📷 Philippe Halsman (1974).

Quote “This weekend DOVO Sedee in Meerdaal was called to a plane bomb that was found in the Kattenbos in Lommel.It was an American 500-pound bomb, which probably came from a crashed B-17 bomber.Because the bomb had not been dropped, the detonators were still intact & partially armed.”

📸DOVO Sedee

FACT OF THE DAY. 10 March 1876. Alexander Graham Bell made the 1st successful telephone call in his Boston laboratory by summoning his assistant, Thomas A. Watson, from the next room, saying: “Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you.”

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#OnThisDay - 10 March 1863, a whole Ox was roasted outside #ColchesterCastle to celebrate the marriage of HRH the Prince of Wales (later Edward VII). It apparently weighed 600lbs and was turned by a steam-powered spit.

An image of the event is held in the @ColMuseums collections

Nuneaton soldier L/Cpl Frank Merry, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, was killed in an accident while on service “somewhere in England”. The vagueness of the location hints at the secrecy and censorship used during wartime.

📍Nuneaton (Oaston Road) Cemetery 🇬🇧

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Is there a more appetising name for a dish than “bowels in spit”? 😋

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The German paratroopers entered and held the ruins until May, longer than they had held the intact building.

The Germans built their defences into the slopes immediately below the walls and utilized the surrounding caves and ridge, not the monastery itself. After the February 1944 bombing, General Freyberg's prediction that it would shorten the battle proved wrong.

The fragment of the original abbey of Monte Cassino stonework below the steps is easy to miss. The hills beyond it are not. From this height, the entire Liri Valley is visible, including every route the Allies needed to advance toward Rome.

PERSON OF THE DAY. 9 March 1776. Scottish-born economist Adam Smith’s classic book An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, generally known as The Wealth of Nations was published in London. It’s viewed as a key work in classical free market economics.