Dear followers I am delighted to announce that my book on 2nd Battalion Leicestershire Regiment 1914-1918 is now available. More detail can be found here helion.co.uk/military-histor… If you would like a signed copy please DM me Best wishes Nigel

A betwixtmas visit to Norfolk and stopped into Swaffham, where I took the time to visit the town war memorial, the wonderful memorial window in the church, and the grave of Sir Arthur Kynvet Wilson, VC.

A wonderfully uplifting story about groundbreaking surgery at @RoyalPapworth, where surgeons transplanted a pair of lungs revived outside the body in a hi-tech box. Medical science doing its magnificent, awe-inspiring, life-enhancing thing 💙🫁 theguardian.com/society/2024…

Very first time I see the words on the Cross in Afrikaans! What is the rule @JuanMaree @jaffergullam ? Windhoek Old Cemetery, Namibia, WW1 and WW2 casualties.

RT @HealthRegLawyer: I learned an astonishing statistic over the weekend - 10% of Gypsy, Roma, and Traveller people die by suicide. The NHS…

There's a festive episode of Not So Quiet on the Western Front this week. Join @DanHillHistory & I as we explore the Christmas truce of 1914 through the eyes of one famous eyewitness - Bruce Bairnsfather. Available wherever you get your #podcasts! #ww1 #History

A Polish #SOE agent who wreaked havoc in #WW2 German occupied Greece, accounting for the sinking of two Nazi U-Boats amongst other targets. The film named ‘Agent No.1’ about his wartime exploits is worth a watch

Join @DanHillHistory & I on the #podcast this week as we discuss one of the definitive weapons of #WW1 - the machine gun. How did they work and why did they reshape the Western Front? Available wherever you get your podcasts! #war #History

10 December 1942. Polish government in exile, based in London, published a detailed report called, The Mass Extermination of Jews in German Occupied Poland. A week later, Anthony Eden, the British Foreign Secretary gave details of the report in a speech in the House of Commons.

One of my favourite virtual tours - across one of my favourite #WW1 battlefields! 👇

A short thread about an intriguing memorial I found to a Leicestershire doctor who ‘died a cruel death at the hands of the Japanese military police’ on this day in 1943…🧵 📍Hinckley Cemetery

Who is in Ypres this weekend? Cheers N

My dear friends and followers I can now be found on @nigatt59.bsky.social hope to see you there.

Incase you have yet to see the latest issue of the last post. Click on the link to view it. atriskwarmemorials.co.uk/lat…

Bravo! And thank you, Cabbies!

Remembering Indian soldiers buried in Europe. Driver Karam Dad, buried in a little graveyard at Grange in Banffshire in December 1943 @CWGC

Today marks the anniversary of Kristallnacht, or the "Night of Broken Glass," which took place on November 9, 1938. In remembrance, we joined a group in our neighborhood to clean Stolpersteine — small brass plaques embedded in the pavement that honor the memory of victims of the Holocaust. Each plaque is placed in front of the last known residence of an individual who was persecuted by the Nazis.

The new issue of the BJMH is now online at journals.gold.ac.uk/bjmh/ Open Access and free to all this is a bumper Special Issue with 10 articles exploring aspects of war on screen - TV, cinema and video games.

Dulmial Village #Punjab, present day #Pakistan 🇵🇰 contributed with 460 soldiers in #WW1 & 732 in #WW2 These included my GreatGrandfathers & Grandfathers In 1925 Dulmial was awarded with a British cannon in recognition of military services #RemembranceDay2024 #RemembranceSunday #WeWillRememberThem #LestWeForget

The coffin of the Unknown Warrior arrives in Britain from France and is taken to the Cenotaph before the final burial at Westminster Abbey, 10-11 November 1920. Film: IWM 505