EastKentMilitaryHistory

When it comes to 20th century military history, there is nowhere quite like East Kent.

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@essexmetalman @WeHaveWaysPod Read that one a few months ago, fantastic read.

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@MatG235 Our cleaner in our building at Dover Eastern Docks is 83 years old, walks to work every day, used to get up at 3am but was told not to and now comes to work at 6am. She will probably go on until she physically cannot.

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@PirtAsher @EHWalmerCastle @VisitDeal @Salty_Deal_Kent @Deal_Town @DealSocietyKent @USArmy @USArmyEURAF I wasn’t aware of this accident, many thanks for tagging me in!

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@JimPMDuncan @burbridge_stu Wasn’t some chap pruning his tree in the garden and the blast blew him out of the tree, thankfully unhurt?!

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@mikegalsworthy Mings’ phone must be going crazy!

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@Chats1 @James1940 @BBCRadio4 My grandmother told me stories of being bombed on a train in Birmingham in 1940.....

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@Chats1 @James1940 @BBCRadio4 The sound of that Ju88 diving and then the crash of the parachute mine exploding. Incredible stuff.

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@ww2research @Nickleh @almurray @James1940 Thanks for your input Joseph, it is fascinating and glad that a few myths about Irish involvement in the war are being busted, it is about time.

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@Dunkirk_1940 Lots of love to you both.

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Impropmptu one today as I just happened to be passing whilst at work. This is Dover seafront and although I wouldn’t normally have done this at night, needs must! The plaque explains the story...... @WeHaveWaysPod

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@ww2britain @jamesjhistory Ah yes I get it now, sorry a bit thick this morning! Yes and no mention of Australia at all.

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@jamesjhistory @ww2britain I don’t actually understand this meme or what the creator is trying to say?

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@GreatWarHuts @COLDLUNCHUK @GreatWarGroup It is in a state of disrepair and neglect but would be a fantastic place to restore perhaps as a museum about Richborough Port?

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One from the Great War today. This is the guardroom at Richborough Camp (in a sadly dilapidated state). Built from the same blocks used on the Western Front to make pillboxes and manufactured in a brickworks sited in the adjacent field @GreatWarGroup

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@COLDLUNCHUK @GreatWarHuts @GreatWarGroup Yes by all means!

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I have a lot of her books and that we know so much about the Great War from the point of view of those who were there is in many ways down to her. Sadly missed.

[Dr Peter Caddick-Adams #StandwithUkraine @militaryhistori]

Oh no. That doyenne of #WW1 oral history, Lyn Macdonald, whose knowledge and books were unparalleled, has left us for the Great Muster Beyond. Haste yet there. I suspect most of my followers have read at least one of her Great War histories.

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There was a bridge across the Stour (now gone) and on the other bank looking across to Discovery Park there were masses of railway sidings where trucks would be loaded onto the roll-on roll-off ferries for France. The camp and docks were constructed in 1917.

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@JimPMDuncan @IHReeves Cheers! Where in Folkestone is this, Ian?

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@CllrChrisVinson @DNewtonC @PirtAsher @WeHaveWaysPod @VisitDeal @EHWalmerCastle Thanks Chris 👍🏻

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One from Dover Road in Walmer that you could easily miss: a flame fougasse sunk into the wall with exposed nozzles. There was one opposite as well (since demolished). Installed summer 1940, targeting enemy vehicles using the A258 @WeHaveWaysPod

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@Nickleh Monday March 8th is when I start to get my life back!!