#Gallipoli

On this day 104 years ago men from the 63rd Royal Naval Division clambered our of their trenches and attacked the German positions by the River Ancre on the Somme.
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OTD 1915 Sergeant Morris Howard WILKINS City of London Yeomanry Killed in Action 21st August 1915 Buried Green Hill Cemetery, Gallipoli. Joined @rosslynpark with his brother Leo in Oct 1913.
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In 1936 the Cunard White Star cruise ship RMS Lancastria took a large party of First World War veterans on a pilgrimage cruise to their former battlefields and the #GreatWarHutsCollection
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OTD 1915 KIA at #gallipoli Capt Jimmy 'Mud' Dingle of @dunelmia @OURFCblues @rosslynpark @HartlepoolRFC and @englandrugby Born Nov 5th 1891 in Hetton-le-Hole, Co Durham. Son of Reverend Arthur Trehane Dingle,
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KATIE FRAWLEY WAS A NEWMARKET WOMAN WHO NURSED INJURED SOLDIERS IN WW1 AND GOT THEM TO SIGN AUTOGRAPHS IN HER BOOK. It's a remarkable document with far more than just
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@wampasmudge @SteveJChambers @Peddler_of_84 @ShiptonTrent @Gallipoli100 Hi all, given interest I have begun this brief thread wrt Gallipoli & my Grt uncle George Pledger Bucks Hussars later Imperial Camel Corp KIA
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By coincidence the first Gallipoli medals / memorial plaques I acquired belong to men who died on consecutive days, 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th August 1915. Today I will share
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As it is Montgomery's birthday in the UK and as we are all discussing the Afghan War, am reminded of Monty's dictum: "never reinforce failure". Also that Monty (wounded in
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Approximately a third of the Americans were Loyalists and wanted no part of this insidious rebellion. They have been written out of this story. It is all rebellion and insurrection.
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#OTD #VietnamWar #LongTan #6RAR On August 18, 1966, D Company, 6th Battalion of the Royal Australian Regiment (6RAR) (which was just over 100 men strong), held their ground in a
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After the disaster that befell the Aust 5th Div on the 19/07/16 at Fromelles, 4 days later on the 23/07/16 it was the turn of the Aust 1st Div to
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1) In August 2019 , Sultan Erdogan in a Joint session of the GNA of Turkey, the Turkish Parliament thanked Indian Muslims for having initiated the Khilafat Movement during India's
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GEN Henri Gouraud, 1867-1946, commander of the French 4th Army in 1918. Now part of the French 4th Army, the American soldiers of the 369th, 371st, and 372nd Infantry Regiments
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There is an interesting game being played. Muslims from different regions are being fed that Islamic practices are Arab practices & if that doesn't works, they are told "yOuR aNcEsToRs
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Back to work (from home) @I_W_M after a long and strange period on furlough. And on 1 July, no less ā€“ a date that always makes me think of the
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Hello, I visited Anıtkabir Museum today and I want to tell you some things as best as I can. AnıtkabirĀ (literally, "memorial tomb") is theĀ mausoleumĀ ofĀ Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the leader of theĀ Turkish
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