HenryS 🇺🇦

Trustee & online course lead @GreatWarGroup; trustee @SOFOTrust; @wehavewayspod #IC no.1996; motorcyclist & aspiring bassist (own views)

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@Taff_Gillingham @ProfPeterDoyle @PaulSuttonKing @ZeppRaider @IanCastleRaids Thanks Taff. I know those guys are very knowledgeable

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@SeaSpitfires What strange phrasing “the majority of troops are friends of the US from eight countries”. Talk about downplaying the British contribution! And never mind the naval element…

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@ProfPeterDoyle @Taff_Gillingham @PaulSuttonKing Thanks Peter! Would be great to know more of the story

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@Taff_Gillingham @PaulSuttonKing You two gents make staying on this platform worthwhile!

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@Taff_Gillingham @PaulSuttonKing Oh wow! Thanks Taff. That changes the story somewhat!

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@Blanch6144 Whoever completed the form made an error. First number is Completed years of service - in Tom’s case 9 months. Second number is completed months with field force - 4 months. But the completer has used that column to describe the injury instead of the correct column to the right

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@PaulSuttonKing @Taff_Gillingham Maybe survivors of a mining collapse? With a memento

[Paintings of London @PaintingsLondon]

'Public House', The Brighton, Camden Town (from 'High Street', 1938) by Eric Ravilious

[SOFO Museum @SOFOtrust]

You don't have long to wait until our next Second World War Living History day!

Drop in 27 May during half term for our D-Day special, First to Fight. Go face to face with airborne troops from 1944 and get hands-on with authentic kit of the era

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@benmoores2 The HGM in Vienna is peerless. We went 3 years ago and spent all day there - even with the the WW2 gallery closed for refurbishment

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@ShazArtHouse @PaulSuttonKing Turns out dogs can have gout https://t.co/qTXDYnG1bw

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@MorrisBrightMBE It must have been amazing to meet him. Was on Marchmont St earlier today. I always stop by the blue plaque there.

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@MoonieNo5 @PaulSuttonKing We still have free parking in Witney…

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@Whachazuck @Lost___London @VinnieSull1van @PubHistoryTours Bookbinding is a skilled craft. Here’s a company I’d recommend https://t.co/vVTE95P81t

[Back in Time West London @OldLondonW14]

This photograph, taken during WW1, made me stop and think. A family walked into a Hammersmith studio on Beadon Road, the grandly named 'Ideal London Studios Ltd', to create a photographic memory. I wonder if the soldier survived the war, whether he came back to his family.

[Ravilious @Ravilious1942]

Train Going Over A Bridge At Night, Eric Ravilious, 1935. At this time Ravilious was living in Bank House, Castle Hedingham with his wife Tirzah. This painting is one of a series featuring scenes from his time in #Essex. The original artwork is in the collection of @TownerGallery

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@robert_lyman @SOFOtrust You too Rob! Thanks for giving us an excellent talk. Hope to welcome you back to the museum soon.

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Looking forward to seeing @robert_lyman at @SOFOtrust this afternoon, talking about ‘What Do We Still Forget About The ‘Forgotten War’?

#Burma #WW2

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[Petersfield Bookshop @The_PBS]

To all appearances a signed photo by glamorous actress of stage and screen from the 1930s Dorothy Hyson... and indeed it is. But it is also signed by a WW2 codebreaker from Bletchley Park who was part of a team that broke the German 'Floradora' code.

(Hint: it's the same person)