Alan Wakefield

Curator, historian and battlefield guide specialising in the First World War and in particular British involvement in the Salonika Campaign.

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@BruceDu08970322 Certainly did.

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In Liverpool to give a paper on the Zeebrugge Raid at a First World War naval history conference and fitted in a bit of relevant sightseeing (OK, some of this is from the wrong war but hey!)

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On the way home from Liverpool after an excellent conference.

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@Normandy661944 But I did include some WWII content during the Poland tour to prevent any mutinous behaviour!

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@Normandy661944 The view appears to be from the Krusha Balkan Hills east of Lake Doiran

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Back in the UK after guiding a Salonika Campaign tour for The Cultural Experience and getting a recce in ahead of the planned Salonika Campaign Society tour in September.

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@Normandy661944 Ddwww

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Another day visiting sites relating to 1st and 2nd Masurian Lakes. Capture of Johannisburg (Pisz). German advance through Snopken (Snopki) and street fighting in the town, September 1914 and February 1915

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Second day on the Tannenberg battlefield. Looking at operations of German I Reserve Corps and sealing of the pocket by the meeting at Willenburg (Wielbark) of German I and XVII Corps

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Battle of Tannenberg Day 2. Cemeteries of German and Russian dead, killed on 28/29 August in clashes around the area of the old brick works in Ameryka.

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Sites of the Tannenberg Denkmal and Hindenburg's field HQ. Both monuments destroyed as a result of WWII

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From the 2nd day on the Tannenberg battlefield following German I Reserve Corps drive into the Russian right flank at Grieslinen (Gryzliny) and the joining of the German I and XVII Corps at Willenburg (Wielbark) that sealed the fate of Samsonov's Russian Second Army

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Out on the 1914 Tannenberg battlefield looking at German Xx Corps defence of Orlau (Orlowo) and Lahna (Lyna) on 23 August 1914

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First chance to post on the Poland trip. Day 1 covering WWII around Gdansk with a visit to Westerplatte and the excellent WWII Museum.

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All ready for Poland. Tannenberg and the Masurian Lakes recce is on.

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Nice to see this study published, for which I contributed the foreword. Thanks to George Thompson for his kind dedication.

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Joint National Trust, Salonika Campaign Society service of Remembrance today at Sandham Memorial Chapel. Thanks to the National Trust team for organising the event, Rev Mark Christian for officiating and those SCS members attending.

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RBL Field of Remembrance outside Westminster Abbey was opened on Thursday 7 November by the Duchess of Gloucester. It was, as always, a privilege to represent the Salonika Campaign Society, commemorating those who lost their lives serving with the British Salonika Force.

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@SimonMoody_NZ @JakeGasson1918 @SalonikaCmpnSoc Good days.

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@JakeGasson1918 @GPiegais @SalonikaCmpnSoc Jake, it was great having you along, your contributions to the tour proved the worth of the SCS running the Bursary. I'm reporting back to the Society's AGM on Saturday. Look forward to your contribution to the journal next year and hope you will maintain links with the SCS.