Unlocking Ypres

A Student Stewardship programme to unlock the experience of visiting Ypres after #ww1, in collaboration with St. George's Church in #Ypres.

[Unlocking Ypres @UnlockingYpres]

Welcome to Unlocking Ypres - a new project to bring to life the experience of visiting interwar #Ypres - #UnlockingYpres #ww1

[Tim Godden @TJGodden]

It’ll be a Bit Different This Christmas, Old Boy.

Just in front of Plugstreet Wood, two privates of the London Rifle Brigade contemplate their first Christmas in the trenches.

Prints and original available here: https://t.co/vVcHXO6hMj #ww1 #christmas #christmas1914

[Tim Godden @TJGodden]

6 years ago today I shared my first illustrations of The Great War. It's been an amazing journey so far. To mark the occasion, here's a new piece I completed earlier today:

It'll be a bit different this year, old boy!

https://t.co/vVcHXO6hMj

#ww1 #illustration

[Tim Godden @TJGodden]

Just a little reminder to anyone in Ypres this Thursday evening, I’ll be giving a free lecture on Great War veterans, pilgrimage and the @cwgc cemeteries as part of the collaborative series organised by @GatewaysFWW and In Flanders Fields Museum.

#ww1 #memory #cwgc

[Tim Godden @TJGodden]

If you're in Ypres on 21st November, why not come along to this free lecture at the In Flanders Fields Museum.

You can find out a little about it here: https://t.co/XpvxgqUmDn‘returning-veterans-pilgrimage-and-british-war-cemeteries-western-front’-tim-godden

#ww1 #memory

[Tim Godden @TJGodden]

You can wear Daddy’s scarf, today.

This Remembrance weekend, across the country fans are getting ready to watch their team. Here’s an illustration remembering all the footballers and football fans who fell, those who returned and those left behind.

#ww1 #footballremembers

[Tim Godden @TJGodden]

Last Letter

The war poet Wilfred Owen pens his last words in a letter to his mother.

A limited edition of 20, signed and numbered digital screen prints are available now in my online shop: https://t.co/jX4SGj3Pbb

#ww1 #wilfredowen #illustration

[Tim Godden @TJGodden]

On 4th Nov. 1918 the poet Wilfred Owen was killed crossing the Sambre-Oise Canal, his last penned words, in a letter to his mother, said;

"Of this I am certain you could not be visited by a band of friends half so fine as surround me here. Ever Wilfred X"

#ww1 #WilfredOwen

[Tim Godden @TJGodden]

James Pearson of @WATSONIANFC and @Scotlandteam who was killed at Sanctuary Wood, Ypres serving with the Dandy Ninth battalion of @TheRoyalScots. #JPNvSCO #rugby #ww1

[Tim Godden @TJGodden]

In a damp secluded corner of this North Devon churchyard is listed the grief of one family’s war. None of them appear on the parish war memorial. #ww1 #memory

[Tim Godden @TJGodden]

We popped into St. Peter’s, Barnstaple today and discovered the Barnstaple Branch Old Contemptibles Association standard hung alongside the 6/Devons colours. Also in there were a number of private memorials to parishioners killed during The Great War. #ww1 #memory

[Michelle Young @fossemidge]

Loos British Cemetery. Never seen a stone like one before

[Tim Godden @TJGodden]

1922, Thomas Cook catalogue - How to see Paris and the Battlefields.

#ww1 #RIPThomasCook

[Unlocking Ypres @UnlockingYpres]

@gdmnw Thanks, Gareth, though these would have been @CWGC interns helping you to discover Tyne Cot. You may have been lucky enough to meet @AmyHarrison19, one of our alumni and was an intern in Ypres.

[Unlocking Ypres @UnlockingYpres]

@ReturnedFTF @SB_Anzac @dizzernp @sommecourt I've no idea, presumably whoever has put the exhibition together either has it in their collection or has borrowed it from elsewhere?

[Paul Reed @sommecourt]

My new Walking Ypres has just come out! Very pleased with it & it’s on special offer at @penswordbooks : https://t.co/nqavXpPWC3 #WW1

[Commonwealth War Graves @CWGC]

Tribute bells for St George’s Church in Ieper, Belgium transported by #WW1 lorries to @CWGC sites: https://t.co/1HFXpND4Zs #Passchendaele100

[Paul Reed @sommecourt]

2/Lt A C Young, R Ir Fus, died at Ypres #OTD in 1917: his father added a very moving inscription to his grave at Tyne Cot. #Passchendaele100

[Gateways Partnership @Gateways_Pship]

@GatewaysFWW and @TheWFA International #Conference #WW1 Commonwealth War Graves Commission @CWGC https://t.co/oOqC3xevrS

[Tim Godden @TJGodden]

A little pang of pride that one of the @UnlockingYpres team just posted about Holden and cemetery design. My work here is done... https://t.co/KkcNbcmFGv

[Unlocking Ypres @UnlockingYpres]

Jack is the relative of one of our great supporters @TheDerb and is remembered here at St. George's Memorial Church. #ww1 #Passchendaele100