Tony Hold

Retired Computer Programmer, Crime Analyst, Performance Manager. Now amateur Genealogist & 18th C Naval Historian with O.C.D. (Obsessive Camperdown Disorder).

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@Christo03770888 The only show in which the main character was known by a different name by every other member of the cast.

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@kejamieson_ I’ve just blocked an over- bosomed self confessed nymphomaniac as I suspect her interest in my comments on the Battle of Camperdown is not entirely genuine.

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Top of the Pops (10th June 1976). The Wurzels hold the top spot with The Combine Harvester (Brand New Key).

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@the_simplius @NoContextBrits

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@jeromestarkey “You didn’t ask for passports 80 years ago.”

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Veterans of the 6th Airborne Division in Ranville’s Salle des Fetes on 5th June 2014. I wonder how many are there today.

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@WW2TV That’s the time the first wave of 6th Airborne Horsa gliders landed in DZ N to defend the Orne bridges from counter attack. My Dad, a Signaller in Div HQ, was in one of them.

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@haveigotnews He must have had his fingers crossed during the flight so the carbon emissions didn’t count.

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@gunsnrosesgirl3 In a vacuum no, otherwise yes.

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@kejamieson_ Our postman recently lobbed a 2nd class signed for parcel onto the middle of our garage roof.

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@kejamieson_ Somewhere on Craggy Island?

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Precariously steep glide of a Horsa glider. #WW2 #HISTORY

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@BladeoftheS Sounds like they’re up s**t creek without a paddle.

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@ReassessHistory After landing by Horsa before dawn on D-Day my Dad found a discarded Bren gun. He carried it to Div HQ at Ranville and dug in confident it would help him repel the expected counter attack. Later, when stood down, he stripped the gun and found the firing pin had been removed!

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@cluelesspegg

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@EvanTheAVgeek @militaryhistori @WeHaveWaysPod

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@sincesixaneagle My Dad went on several 6th AB Div pilgrimages to Normandy but only one of them by hovercraft. It was so rough the passengers were repeatedly thrown up out of their seats and he said he was more frightened than during either of his landings in a Horsa glider (Normandy & Rhine).

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@MoreMorrow The bag might belong to someone who has gone to the toilet or buffet car and have nothing at all to do with the person sitting next to it, which is why it is correct and polite to make the enquiry.

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@jockywilson99 @Barber1944 He went on two Varsity pilgrimages, visited the cemetery and photographed Bowkett’s grave. My Dad liked and admired him. He was told on one visit that Bowkett had been killed charging a machine gun nest.