Simon Hunt

Work in the Motor Industry Interested in Military History particularly WW1 & WW2

[Simon Hunt @wiggy1965]

Remembering today my great grandfather and great uncle and all those that have served!

[Simon Hunt @wiggy1965]

@jbanningww1 😬

[Jeremy Banning @jbanningww1]

I’ve an article I wrote in the latest version of The Brussels Times all about the joys of cycling around Ypres on my @cyclingthefront tours. Do have a read!
#Ypres #WW1 #cycling

https://t.co/LMo56PFZuY

[Simon Hunt @wiggy1965]

@jbanningww1 Hi Jeremy hope you’re well - took a couple of months last one i did probably around 18 months ago ish

[Zero Hour Z Day 1st July 1916 @zero_hour_z_day]

110 years ago this evening 6 Dec 1915 1st Cheshires raided Mametz West Craters Somme. The enterprise was regarded as an example of best practice. 3 officers & 50 ORs bombed along trenches to the German support line capturing 1 prisoner & inflicted many casualties.

[Simon Hunt @wiggy1965]

@footsteps_pod

Was at Berks Cemetery ext / Hyde Park Corner on Sunday - after listening to another of your excellent podcasts and living in Reading i paid my respects to this Gentleman. (Along with many others)

[Simon Hunt @wiggy1965]

@TrenchTrotter The ages for Battalion co’s 25 & 27!

[Jeremy Banning @jbanningww1]

Sound up! Birdsong at Bourlon Wood Cemetery. Remembering Canadian sacrifice.

[Lord Ashcroft @LordAshcroft]

As many of you know the @I_W_M is kicking out over 200 Victoria Crosses at the end of this month as they feel such commemoration of the bravery of our military is so so yesterday… I would like as many people as possible to visit the Lord Ashcroft Gallery before it closes so please repost the message below…#imperialwokemuseum

[Simon Hunt @wiggy1965]

@footsteps_pod 50’s rattle along - just turned with mine starting with a 6 as of a month ago - Happy BIRTHDAY Matt!

[Simon Hunt @wiggy1965]

@James1940 Look what I found in Barnes & Noble booksellers Orlando!

[Peter Jones @PeterJones37]

@masaccio60 Went to the Hartmannwillerkopf a few days ago - my first time. Winter in those trenches in the mountains must have been just appalling.

[Danelleke @Danelleke13]

Thursday 8th May 2025 a burial service took place for Private John Tame – 12793. 2nd Bn. Royal Berkshire Regiment. Died 16 August 1917 Age 22. Now resting @CWGC #NewIrishFarmCemetery, Belgium.

[315e RI @Ri315e]

La Targette

Where the First World War meets Second World War

Battles of Artois 14-18
Battle of Arras, May 1940

11,443 soldiers

#VEDay

[Andrew Holmes @agh57]

Maltz Horn Farm Cavalry, looking across the fields from the Hardecourt-aux-Bois - Guillemont Road.

[Zero Hour Z Day 1st July 1916 @zero_hour_z_day]

Serre Road No2 this afternoon.

[Sputnik🛰️ @SputniksWorld]

@MattWallace888 Yeah no chance I’m believing that💯💯

[Andrew Holmes @agh57]

Caterpillar Valley Cemetery, Somme at sunset, last Easter.

[Simon Hunt @wiggy1965]

@NewForestNewbie @6thairborne I wonder if they knew each other - obviously 700-800 men but we will never know.

[Simon Hunt @wiggy1965]

Remembering today my Grt uncle Cpl H J Bannister 2nd Ox and Bucks airborne light infantry 6th airborne division KIA 24/3/45 on Operation Varsity - the Rhine crossing. Lest we forget.

[AVDB @NewForestNewbie]

@wiggy1965 @6thairborne Thank you for remembering, my great uncle died there too