HistoryFare 💙

RAF Veteran and Independant tour guide & military historian. Member of @GuildofBG @CWGC speaker. All views expressed are my own.

[HistoryFare 💙 @FareBrian]

The Melton BID Business Awards (MBBA) 2026 are now open for voting.

I would really appreciate it if you would be so kind by showing your love and support by voting for @HistoryFare in the Leisure & Tourism Award category via the following link 👇

https://t.co/YmCicuVbxy

Let's see if I can beat last years position as a finalist as it would really mean a lot to me to win this award.

Thank you in advance. 🤞

[HistoryFare 💙 @FareBrian]

Operation HARDTACK 28
Small scale Commando raid on Jersey
https://t.co/LucxAGmzx1

#ww2 #commandoraids #jersey #occupation

[HistoryFare 💙 @FareBrian]

For anyone thats interested, I’ve finally decided to push forward with creating my YouTube channel.

There are only a couple of videos on there at the moment but I will be expanding on these over the coming months with more content.

Any follows would be greatly appreciated.

You can find my YouTube channel @HistoryFare or via the following link 👇

https://t.co/AH8HtWmX13

[HistoryFare 💙 @FareBrian]

@Gexton93 Will you be joininfmg us @Gexton93?

[HistoryFare 💙 @FareBrian]

For June’s HistoryFare talk, we welcome guest speakers Laurence Allison, Matt Farmer and Hayley-Anne Allison who will be joining us from Oberkommando der Werhmact (OKW43).
Laurence and his colleagues are from the OKW43 re-enactment group and their talk “Between Campaigns: Sicily 1943” will focus on the the rarely talked about period of time from April to July 1943.
During the talk, they will discuss a range of topics from the political and diplomatic stance on the Island to logistical issues posed by the evacuation of the German Africa Corps as well as the German and Italian build up of Forces and how that affected the local population, and ultimately why Operation Husky was such a speedy campaign.
To sign up for this face to face event, visit my website 👇
https://t.co/KPsiqtX3Zv

#ww2 #MTO #sicily

[Ben Mayne @BattlefieldBen]

Shocked at the news that the piper on the Breville Ridge has been stolen. I have lost count on how many times I have visited the 51st HD Memorial and spoke of the Black Watch actions in the field next to it. It’s saddening and will be missed. I hope that it is recovered soon.

[HistoryFare 💙 @FareBrian]

The Sherman M50 at @edencamp was built as a M4A4 Sherman by Chrysler in November 1942.

[HistoryFare 💙 @FareBrian]

Revenge Wood in Hutton Buscal, North Yorkshire was one of a series of woodlands planted in 2005 to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar by The Woodland Trust.

They planted dozens of community woodlands across the UK—one for each ship in the British fleet. This initiative highlighted the tens of thousands of trees required to build Nelson's naval fleet.

This woodland at Hutton Buscel was planted with 10,000 trees and named Revenge Wood after HMS Revenge which wss Captained by Robert Moorsom from nearby Whitby.

#BattleofTrafalgar

[HistoryFare 💙 @FareBrian]

At Noirmont Point in Jersey stands a memorial to the men of the American Patrol Torpedo boat PT509, of US Navy PT Boat Squadron 34, who were lost in action off the Jersey coast on the morning of 9 August 1944.
On that mission, the squadron dispatched six PT boats, together with USS Maloy, to disrupt German shipping convoys operating between Guernsey and Jersey.
PT506 broke down en route, leaving PT508 and PT509 to operate under the codename “Barracuda” off the south-west coast of Jersey.
Three other PT boats—PT500, PT503, and PT507—were operating under the codename “Tunna” off the north coast of Jersey, while USS Maloy directed the flotilla by radar in tracking the movements of the German convoy.
At about 05:51 hrs, USS Maloy directed the Barracuda section into action. After PT509 fired a torpedo at an enemy vessel she had sighted, she was drawn into a gun battle with the German minesweeper M4626.
The action between M4626 and PT509 continued until PT509’s guns fell silent. The German minesweeper then came alongside, and her crew boarded the stricken vessel to bring the fire under control. Among them was Kriegsmarine Leutnant Hans Constable, who found the gravely wounded Radarman John Page and helped carry him aboard M4626. He was the sole survivor; all of his comrades were lost in the action.
The engagement left the German convoy with 41 wounded and four dead, and inflicted such serious damage upon the minesweepers M4621, M4622, and M4626 that they were withdrawn from further service.

[HistoryFare 💙 @FareBrian]

It was great delivering my RAF Melton Mowbray Nuclear Missile Base talk to the Mountsorrel Heritage Group tonight at the Mountsorrel Memorial Centre.

Great timing for this talk as this week is #nationalcoldwarweek led by The Cold War Network

#localhistory #coldwar #militaryhistory

[HistoryFare 💙 @FareBrian]

Just one of the Stolpersteines (Stumble Stones) that can be found on the Liberation Route Europe Stolpersteine Trail in St Helier, Jersey.

#LRE

https://t.co/nQs1xPAIEp

[HistoryFare 💙 @FareBrian]

@QMGS191418 Eliane Cossey 'Ginger' was a favourite of the British soldiers in Pop during #WW1. Sadly she was killed in London in an air raid during #ww2

[HistoryFare 💙 @FareBrian]

This memorial plaque at St Brelades Parish Church commemorates the 337 German soldiers that had their temporary resting place in the churchyard or as the Germans called it "Heldenfriedhof, or Heroes Cemetery".

The 337 including German POWs from #WW1 and also members of the occupying forces in #ww2.

In 1961, Lord Coutanche, Bailiff of Jersey, wrote to the German War Graves Commission, on 14 July 1961, as follows: ”Permission is hereby granted to the German War Graves Commission (Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgraberfursorge) of Kassel, Germany:—
to exhume the bodies of German nationals buried in the Parish of St Brelade in the Island of Jersey, and particulars where of are set out in the Schedule hereto, and to remove them out of the Island for reburial in a Military Cemetery in France."

The bodies were subsequently exhumed and taken to Mont de Huisnes, Manche, France for re-interment.

[HistoryFare 💙 @FareBrian]

@HistoryUnter Yes that's the one that was disguised as a house.
More info can be found on https://t.co/pvTyebjhOP

[HistoryFare 💙 @FareBrian]

During the German occupation of Jersey in #ww2 German soldiers took over No 14 Gorey Pier.

In the building they hid an anti-tank gun on the 1st floor with machine guns on the ground floor.

[HistoryFare 💙 @FareBrian]

I first came to Jersey back in 1987 whilst serving with the RAF and in typcal Air Force manner, we checked in to the Merton Hotel in Belvedere, St Saviour.

Since then I have been back to the island numerous times staying at the same hotel on several occasions.

It is only now that I have found out that the Merton was requisitioned by the occupying German forces during #WW2 and used as a military hospital, known as Orstlazarett 1.

One of the nurses to work there was DRK (Deutsche Rotes Kreuz) Nurse Erika Feige.

Erika joined the German Red Cross and arrived in Jersey in December 1943 and initially worked at Soldatenheim 1 in the Mayfair Hotel in St Helier.

She was posted to Orstlazarett 1 (Merton) on 21st November 1944 where she continued to work until 12th May 1945, 3 days after the island was liberated by Force 135.

Soon after Liberation Day, the patients & staff from Orstlazarett 1 were removed from the Island and taken to St Helier harbour where they boarded a ship and sailed for Southampton.

On arrival in England, Erika,was now a POW and worked at the POW hospital in St Lawrence Riad, Cheostow and katwr at a hospital at Foxley near Hereford.

From 24th May 1945 until 7th December 1946, Erika worked at the Milirary Hospital 99 at Shugborough Park, Great Haywood, Stafford.

Erika returned to Gernany on 19th April 1948 aboard the hospital ship "El Nil" sailing to Hamburg.

Erika returned to Jersey in 1984 and recalled " We had a good relationship with the people of Jersey, and I have pleasant and positive memories of this time. Naturally during the tine of occupation there was not so much opportunity to experience the total beauty of the island, therefore I am very happy to see Jersey again.

[HistoryFare 💙 @FareBrian]

The view from the Tobruk bunker/Tobrukstand on top of the Type 634 Sechsschartenturm heavy machine gun bunker at Strongpoint Corbiere.

#ww2 #channelislands #occupation #atlanticwall

[HistoryFare 💙 @FareBrian]

If you're visiting the #1940sMeltonMowbray event in #meltonmowbray this weekend, stop by at the HistoryFare stall to discover what was happening in the town in the 1940's.
#ww2 #ww2history

[HistoryFare 💙 @FareBrian]

@BattlefieldBen I visited a couple of years ago with Mrs F, very moving place.