@jbanningww1@fossemidge Puzzled at the logic of removing the bollard and chain entrance to Connaught too. I suspect motivated by having less to maintain and giving easier access to mowing equipment. But they’ve irrevocably spoiled the aesthetics. Just why? Why must we have total mediocrity as standard?!
@GreatWarHuts The sacks are maybe hop sacks from Chambers in Yalding, Kent (?) So perhaps you have a little bit of @greeneking brewing history there too?!
@sworrall@ReassessHistory As anyone who knows anything about this stuff (or chooses to intelligently inform themselves) awards recommendations were routinely downgraded, ignored, forgotten. The ‘campaigning’ and the way the ‘campaigners’ conduct themselves, has a tendency to all get a bit undignified.
@AMooreye@nickjhistorian Precisely this. The Ally Sloper’s were very frequently in harm’s way.
Besides which - they also serve and all that.
Glad you have his medals, Nick.
@stevewelfare@yelsaeTtreboR@HannahIamthest1 Surprised you didn't remember that the troops tasked with capturing this and Horsa bridge were - famously - gliderborne infantry, in that case. The paratroopers you mentioned were *their' relief.
Robert - Ambrose tended not to let the facts get in the way of a good story, sadly!