Tales From The Battlefields Podcast

Volunteer fundraiser for ABF The Soldiers Charity; CWGC Volunteer; Battlefield guide. Podcast views are my own.

[Tales From The Battlefields Podcast @TerryWhenham]

I am co author of this book about ABF The Soldiers' Charity's Frontline Walk. All proceeds to the charity. The walk goes again this year, Covid permitting.
https://t.co/vFtztIhWVD

[Tales From The Battlefields Podcast @TerryWhenham]

@johncadigan @talkSPORT One of those people that I’ve never met, but feel as though I’ve known him for decades…he was that good as a broadcaster and a person…

[Genevra Charsley @FlandersBTour]

11th Hour.
11th Day.
11th Month, 1918.
The day the guns fell silent.
Armistice.
We will remember them…

[British Normandy Memorial @britishmemorial]

We remember the men and women killed on D-Day and during the Battle of Normandy every day of the year.
Since the Memorial was completed, the Trust has shared stories of those we remember; preserving their memory and sacrifice for future generations.

This is a small selection of some of the recent stories we have shared:
https://t.co/OoIPDFqkMA

#RemembranceDay #ArmisticeDay #LestWeForget

[Tales From The Battlefields Podcast @TerryWhenham]

My podcast about the Armistice in 1918…through the eyes of the people who were there…#ww1

https://t.co/UAHRuEQaLV

[Tales From The Battlefields Podcast @TerryWhenham]

Dad. Left us 14 years ago today. On Armistice Day…aged 88.

A veteran of 7 year’s service in the British Army. Sergeant Arthur Whenham, Army Service Corps. Served 2 years in Japan after #WW2.

He’s not gone though. I still hear him every single day.

[Tales From The Battlefields Podcast @TerryWhenham]

Last month I guided for @ArmyBenFund Frontline Walk. 100k across #WW1 battlefields from #Somme to #Ypres. We raised nearly £150,000 for soldiers, veterans and their families. I was therefore humbled to receive this letter from the charity…

[Tales From The Battlefields Podcast @TerryWhenham]

It was a privilege today to visit @MoultonPrimary and talk to 500 children about their "Old Boys". We discussed the meaning of #RemembranceDay and I told the stories of 3 lads buried in the local cemetery who died of wounds on #Somme battlefield. #WW1

[Tales From The Battlefields Podcast @TerryWhenham]

This week’s episode is from #Ypres as I tell the story of Private William Bowers who was killed in action in October 1914. But what was the impact on his distraught wife Annie? He is still missing and on @CWGC Menin Gate. #WW1

https://t.co/TLm1ZMHUkt

[Jeremy Gordon-Smith @JGordonSmith1]

I'll be returning to @TalbotHousTubby in #Poperinge this week to give a talk showcasing Ivan Bawtree's photos of #Ypres in 1919. The exhibition '1919' at Talbot House runs until 24th November.
https://t.co/0iNBLBXuxr

[British Normandy Memorial @britishmemorial]

Remembrance Sunday at the Memorial organised by the @PoppyLegion Normandy Branch.

[Tales From The Battlefields Podcast @TerryWhenham]

@SteveCaple4 It’s a free service…just a hobby!

[Doug @colour_history]

The Unknown Warrior at Victoria Station, guarded overnight.
10 November 1920.

The train arrived at platform 8 in Victoria Station at 8.32, the coffin being borne in the same carriage that had returned the bodies of Nurse Edith Cavell and Captain Fryatt to the UK.

[Paul Reed @sommecourt]

On #RemembranceDay we rightly think of those who died. But pause & think of those survivors of the Great War too: men who walked to the edge and came back, were left with debilitating injuries, and memories they would struggle to escape from. For them, the Great War never ended.

[British Normandy Memorial @britishmemorial]

22,538 men and two women. We Will Remember Them. ❤️

📷 Gus Fisher / Eye Cut Stone

#RemembranceSunday

[British Normandy Memorial @britishmemorial]

The Trust is delighted to announce that Normandy Veteran Richard Brock has been appointed Memorial Ambassador!

He is pictured at events in Preston's Lancashire Infantry Museum earlier this week where he shared his story with young people and was interviewed by our Youth Ambassador, Alexander Churchill.

Richard, aged 102, served with the 1st Battalion, East Lancashire Regiment. Richard sailed aboard the Ocean Vigil and landed in Normandy on 8 June 1944, amid naval bombardment and German artillery fire.

He went on to operate a Universal Carrier during the campaign through north-west Europe, including the Battle of Normandy, the Battle of the Bulge, the liberation of Holland and the crossing of the Rhine.

Of his appointment as Ambassador he said:

"I am proud and humbled to accept the position of Ambassador for the British Normandy Memorial. Over the past four years I have been flying the flag for all the men and women who didn't make it back home. Also for my dear pals of my company of 130 lads who landed with me on Gold Beach. After nearly a year of bitter fighting, travelling over 2,000 miles, only 19 made it back. I am the last one alive today.

They are always in my thoughts. I have always said that they are the heroes and I am honoured to carry on their memory." ❤️

📷 Florence Marsac / British Normandy Memorial

[Tales From The Battlefields Podcast @TerryWhenham]

Honoured to represent @CWGC yesterday talking to Northampton PROBUS about local casualties. Then last night talked to St John Ambulance cadets about the medical process in #ww1. Several more talks next week. #RemembranceDay. Just a hobby, never a job….

[Passchendaele Museum @MMP1917]

Deep in Nonne Bosschen stands a memorial to Captain Ewen James Brodie of the Cameron Highlanders. Killed on 11 November 1914 during the last major German offensive of the First Battle of Ypres, his grave was lost in the war. In 1923, his widow erected this monument in his memory.

[Tales From The Battlefields Podcast @TerryWhenham]

@hente_afsc I was watching from the North Bank. I remember it like it was yesterday!

[Army Benevolent Fund @ArmyBenFund]

Today, we are honoured to be attending the opening ceremony of the Westminster Field of Remembrance. 🌺

Earlier this week, the ABF team planted 80 crosses, each carrying a message from our supporters in memory of the Armed Forces personnel who are no longer with us.

We are also delighted to be joined by our ambassador, Andy Reid MBE, an Afghanistan veteran and triple amputee, as we come together to remember, reflect and pay tribute to those who served.

@AndyReidMBE_STF

#ForSoldiersForLife #LestWeForget #Remembrance #FieldOfRemembrance