Kevin Ward

Interests Op. Market Gdn, military history & aviation, F-15 Eagle, museums, heritage, culture...including their preservation for society! Any views my own!

[Kevin Ward @17Sep1944]

Remembering the sacrifice of #marketgarden particularly the 1st Airborne Division, dropped 65 miles behind the front line, who held on for 9 days in the hope of creating a bridgehead with XXX Corps across the Nederrijn at #Arnhem.

[The Don Photography @THE_DON_TOG]

So close to 9k followers! Just 60 to go

Can you please spread the love and see if I can get there before the evening is out?

Thank you all! 📷🤘🏻

[Museum in the Park @museuminthepark]

We're so excited to be a part of this #discovery - join our free museum membership to be among the first to access our Collections Officer's excavation blog in our September Newsletter 😀👉 https://t.co/QQMTJC1F9p
News: https://t.co/vXAtV0BGDJ

[Arnhem Fellowship @Arnhem44Fellow]

Just to say that the June newsletter number 69 will be hitting your inbox soon if not already...........a bumper 36 page issue!

[Arnhem Fellowship @Arnhem44Fellow]

Just a few photos from Day 1 of our May weekend.......The very knowledgeable Graham F discussing stories behind the headstones in Oosterbeek....Thanks to Arjan for the images.

[Arnhem Fellowship @Arnhem44Fellow]

After a short break the weekly story behind the headstone has returned to our FB page...this time Lt Colo K Smyth of the 10th Parachute Battalion......

[Arnhem Fellowship @Arnhem44Fellow]

Many thanks to Airborne Assault Duxford for hosting two groups of members this weekend for a behind the scenes look there...One of many highlights the VC of Captain Queripel - more photos and a full report in a future newsletter......Many thanks again!

[Museum in the Park @museuminthepark]

Dame Margaret Weston. 7 March 1926 – 12 January 2021. On #IWD we remember a special local lady who in 1973 became the first woman to serve as a director of a national museum @sciencemuseum . Here she is in 1995 as a Patron of the Museum in the Park project. #sciencemuseu #mip

[Kevin Ward @17Sep1944]

@HelenaCDO My sincere condolences. A beautiful setting. Take care.

[Museum in the Park @museuminthepark]

Changing climate, rising sea-levels, mass migration, extinction of species. Sounds familiar?

Explore half a million years of ancient local history through Ice Age, the exhibition: https://t.co/AAHM0ZUEUW 🏔️

🎼:'Arrival', Edgar Hopp, Epidemic Sound

[Tony Pollard @ProfTonyPollard]

Thanks to social media this is one of the most famous battlefield relics from Napoleonic era. It captures the moment of a man's death. It is not a joke or a Monty Python sketch about a scratch. It might not seem so funny if we knew more about the man and his death. 1/10

[Arnhem Fellowship @Arnhem44Fellow]

@airbornemedic23 Happy New Year to our members and followers. If you are not a member here is a link to join us and receive newsletters about Arnhem, info on new books and much more! https://t.co/aQkje7ICsH

[Museum in the Park @museuminthepark]

For the next four weeks we will be bringing back Meet the Curator! 📯
Week 1 - Christmas #MTC
Rodborough Postcard.
An early 20th century postcard sending Season’s Greetings. The card describes Rodborough as a snow idyll, and is edited to show a snow storm above Rodborough Fort

[Arnhem Fellowship @Arnhem44Fellow]

This weeks story behind the headstone a glider pilot Donald Wyatt just posted on our FB page.....

[Museum in the Park @museuminthepark]

We're wrapping up a year of #sustainablestories by looking at Christmases past. How did our ancestors decorate homes and wrap gifts and what can we learn from this? 🎁🎄 Read 'Wrapping it Up' by Collections Assistant Fern Ryan, here 👉 https://t.co/vhlWyJA34D #greenchristmas

[Arnhem Fellowship @Arnhem44Fellow]

This weeks story behind the headstone just posted on our FB page.....Peter Cane of the 2nd Parachute Battalion. More info in either of the books -covers as below.

[Claire Hartley @CHartleyPhotos]

Gorgeous light on the Hunter yesterday morning

[Arnhem Fellowship @Arnhem44Fellow]

This weeks story behind the headstone just posted on our FB page.....A man from 6080LWU Roffer Eden.......

[Ravilious @Ravilious1942]

Drought, Eric Ravilious, 1933. It dates from his time at Great Bardfield in #Essex. The original artwork was sold at auction in 2019 and is now believed to be in a private collection.

[Kevin Ward @17Sep1944]

@owentg We had one come into the museum last week... It could be doing a cultural tour! 😁