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The @TheWFA turns 40 this month. Four decades ago author John Giles founded the WFA to ensure that the story of the Great War was not lost forever. John was a talented photographer, so for my bit for #WFA40 here are some of his images which I have; starting with the man himself.
#WFA40: John Giles' photograph of Lowrie Cemetery near Havrincourt on the Cambrai Battlefields in 1971.
#WFA40: John Giles' photograph of Ribecourt la Tour on the Cambrai battlefields in 1971.
#WFA40: John Giles' photograph of Hell Fire Corner, Ypres, looking down the Menin Road towards Hooge in the early 1970s.
#WFA40: John Giles' photograph of old Imperial War Graves Commission signs at Spanbroekmolen on the Messines Ridge near Ypres, early 1970s.
#WFA40: John Giles' photograph of a #WW1 mine crater at Railway Wood on the Bellewaarde Ridge near Ypres, now filled in, taken in the early 1970s.
#WFA40: John Giles' photograph of the 'fragments of war' on the battlefields of Ypres in 1970s.
#WFA40: John Giles' photograph of a less busy Last Post Ceremony at the Menin Gate in the early 1970s.
#WFA40: John Giles' legacy is immense, but his landmark 'Then and Now' books are not as well known as they should be (they are still in print). He, and his wife Margery, were good friends to me, and it's nice to remember them again after all these years. @TheWFA
