Churchill badgered his generals so quite fitting.
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Churchill badgered his generals so quite fitting.
A toilet brush is born.
Feral agents
Deepening crisis re shoddy media reporting of events and failure to hold officialdom to account.
Frozen waistlands
I shall have to get a copy 👍
Sofa spits out furball
snippet from film showing Archibald Wavell following behind Allenby entering Jerusalem. Full film clip reference IWM 13 at https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1060008299
Wavell on film following behind Allenby entering Jerusalem.
Lawrence in the group behind Wavell.
Clip Ref : IWM 13
www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
Wavell gets a mention in the Czar's British Squadron for helping negotiate a transportation issue with the Russians.
Wavell on his second posting to Russia at the time.
Excellent. Thanks for that.
Wavell's foreword of Ferguson's "Beyond the Chindwin" referencing back to Fox-Davies.
Wavell's foreword of Ferguson's "Beyond the Chindwin" referencing back to Fox-Davies.
Wavell's foreword of Ferguson's "Beyond the Chindwin" referencing back to Fox-Davies.
Fox-Davies mentioned in Bernard Ferguson's "Wavell Portrait of a Soldier"
Fox-Davies mentioned in Bernard Ferguson's "Wavell Portrait of a Soldier"
Military Cross write up for Harley Fox-Davies, 1/DLI, signed off by Archibald Wavell for a raid on 14/15th April 1941. Possibly against an infantry element of newly arrived 15th Panzer Division
MC for Harley Fox-Davies, 1/DLI, signed off by Archibald Wavell for a raid on 14/15th April 1941 near Sollum, Egypt.
Possibly against an infantry element of newly arrived 15th Panzer Division @crusaderproject.bsky.social?
rommelsriposte.com/2016/04/24/f...
Cover of latest Rolls-Royce armoured car book from the Tank Museum.
A previously unpublished picture of a Rolls-Royce armoured car in Dublin just after the #EasterRising made it into the latest Rolls-Royce publication from the Tank Museum, courtesy of @mof1916.bsky.social
tankmuseumshop.org/collections/...
A 1914 Pattern Rolls-Royce armoured car in Collins Barracks, Dublin, May 1916 pictured with some crew men from the Machine Gun Corps.
Some Machine Gun Corps men with a 1914 pattern Rolls-Royce armoured car sporting a Vickers MGs. Several cars sent to Ireland from Bisley just after the #EasterRising.
The Lord Lt in Dublin at the time of the Rising had been part of the team designing/developing the armoured cars.
a good listen.
Vickers MG (and Lewis guns) used during the #EasterRising
The Vickers team in the attached postcard captured on film (9 minutes in on the following clip) :
player.bfi.org.uk/free/film/wa...
Only know about Agnes Clerke through research on her cousin Henry Deasy and his involvement in the improvised armoured vehicles used during the #EasterRising
johnny-doyle.blogspot.com/2013/02/henr...
images of films credited to writer Henry Armitage Llewellyn Craig
Other grandson became a Communist organiser in Ireland.
Later a journalist and scriptwriter with some iconic films bearing his initials H A L
www.dib.ie/biography/cr...
One grandson served with the Malay Police during the Malayan Emergency operating against the Communist insurgents.
MC whilst serving with the 3/10th Baluch's during WW2.
Interview hosted by IWM (ref IWM 10175)
www.iwm.org.uk/collections/...
Pension card and death registration for Henry Armitage Llewellyn, a Royal Irish Constabulary constable who retired in 1904 and died in 1911.
Royal Irish Constabulary pensioner Henry Armitage Llewellyn from Queen's County (now Laois) died in County Tipperary in July 1911.
www.findagrave.com/memorial/846...
Twin grandchildren born in County Cork in 1921 would take different paths.
Hoping to watch the presentation online.
Dogs breakfast of a Christmas tree
Death by Xmas tree needles?
No footballs or truce in the air Xmas Day 1914 - a fleeting bombing raid on the UK
iancastlezeppelin.co.uk/24-dec-1914
Cover of Victoria Schofield's book "Wavell. Soldier & Statesman"
A good read. Lots to take in and think about.
It's grand as it is. No need to change it.
Heard the story on BBC Radio 2 - with added comments from Farage. So much unwarranted air time for this gobshite
so much (rat-a-)tat appears each year.
Always thought we were missing a Supermerino Spitfire though. Would look good with an effigy of Squadron Leader Guy Fawkes at the steering column ready to do battle with the expected invasion of flying reindeer bringing their damned Easter eggs.
OTD 1918. Denis "Sonny" O'Neill discharged from the British Army.
Captured 25/1/18 with wound to right forearm. Repatriated by the Germans, he was admitted to the temporary King George Hospital, Stamford Street, London on 2/6/18 (originally a warehouse used by HM Stationery Office aka HMSO).
