Phil Curme 🥾🪖

Walker of Battlefields. Trustee, War Memorials Trust. MA in Military History. Bristol Area IC Member. Researching HMS Birnbeck (1941-46).

[Phil Curme 🥾🪖 @wtbattlefields]

Beautifully illustrated version of my #Clevedon Military History Trail by @ECMillustration available as a free downloadable PDF from @DiscovClevedon courtesy of #ClevedonBID. Dig below the surface and every town and village has a fascinating story to tell. https://t.co/EBsfpKa1IX

[Phil Curme 🥾🪖 @wtbattlefields]

I seem to have started collecting First World War China with the #Clevedon crest. I just can’t help myself ….. #WW1 #FWW #GreatWar #CrestedChina

[Phil Curme 🥾🪖 @wtbattlefields]

Arrest made after fire at Hitler's famed Eagle's Nest retreat #Kehlsteinhaus #WW2
https://t.co/zmrHgQe6fk

[Phil Curme 🥾🪖 @wtbattlefields]

We're proud to host Clevedon's Remembrance Sunday service on the Pier on Sunday, 8 November. Join us as our community comes together to remember those who served and sacrificed. Admission will be free between 10am and 11am for those attending the service. All are welcome.

[War Memorials Trust @WarMemorials]

Please accept our apologies. War Memorials Online has been taken down due to the global PHP vulnerabilities issue. It will be live again as soon as it is safe to do so. https://t.co/eAl7eokU7E is still live and includes plenty of info including how to apply for funding:

[On This Day RN @OnthisdayRN]

#OnThisDay 221 yrs ago in 1805 @RoyalNavy was successful in defeating the Franco-Spanish Fleet at #Trafalgar confirming British superiority of the seas. Lord Nelson died before the end, having done his duty, handing over Command to another great commander Admiral Collingwood.

[theknightirish @theknightirish]

Sneaked out of the office to the memorial service in the crypt of St.Pauls. The bugles in those acoustics gave me goosebumps. #trafalgarday

[Thornbury & District Museum @MuseumThornbury]

1. Aust Ferry Foot Passengers Only 1920s

2. Aust Ferry Undated

3. Aust Ferry c1962-63 (Ann Knowlson)

4. Aust Ferry c1962-63 (Ann Knowlson)

[Phil Curme 🥾🪖 @wtbattlefields]

@MuseumThornbury Do you have any images of the Princess Isla which operated on the route from 1931-35? It was able to carry seven vehicles.

[Phil Curme 🥾🪖 @wtbattlefields]

@LydiaJane13 @nickfshort Not sure how much ground you are covering @nickfshort and I admire you for travelling overground (I cheated and used the @Hurtigruten ferry) ☺️ but Tromso and Kirkenes have plenty to offer as well. Here are my impressions from an admittedly brief visit: https://t.co/iWuYQ7ufjT

[Phil Curme 🥾🪖 @wtbattlefields]

@LydiaJane13 @nickfshort Impressive collection though, particularly the uniforms. The Wehrmacht obviously left a lot of ‘stuff’ in Norway when the conflict ended.

[Phil Curme 🥾🪖 @wtbattlefields]

@militaryhistori And also #BirnbeckPier

[War Memorials Trust @WarMemorials]

#Teachers - are you preparing an #Assembly or #LessonPlan for #Remembrance.

Visit https://t.co/CrEUDv2BKl for Primary and Secondary level resources to save you some time

[Phil Curme 🥾🪖 @wtbattlefields]

Preserve the name of the National Memorial Arboretum - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/QaqdGuAWE4 via @UKChange

[Phil Curme 🥾🪖 @wtbattlefields]

@nickfshort The ‘go to’ publication for all my trips #AftertheBattle

[Phil Curme 🥾🪖 @wtbattlefields]

The #Volgograd Panorama Museum from the Volga river, image captured on #VictoryDay 2002. To the right of the museum (the round building), the red brick ruins are the remains of a flour mill. Beyond that one can just make out the roof line of a building built on the site of the famous House of Pavlov. Part of the original structure is preserved in the newer construction. If there is a location where the tide turned for the Wehrmacht during #WW2 then this riverside enclave would surely qualify #Stalingrad

[War Memorials Trust @WarMemorials]

Can you help us to check the condition of Nathan Neville Levene #WarMemorial, in #Blackpool, #Lancashire? Is it still Very bad?

We need photos and information added to https://t.co/vrXTN9qM5y or email using our details at https://t.co/2ZxkKnrenN.

#ThankYou for your help

[Phil Curme 🥾🪖 @wtbattlefields]

On this day - at 10:20 in the morning, 16 October 1970, two of Clevedon Pier's eight spans collapsed during a load test. On hearing about this calamity, local man Ralph Fryer went home and picked up his cine camera. He recorded the scene on Clevedon beach before heading down to Clevedon Pill, and then returning to the pier aboard his boat in order to capture close up shots of the damaged structure. This is the footage that Ralph shot, now safely preserved in the South West Film and TV Archive @clevedonpier https://t.co/qoGV2uzqEQ

[Simon Verdegem @SimonVerdegem]

After being recovered near St Julien in 2021, the remains of a British soldier have been identified through DNA analysis as Lance-Corporal Claude Stanley Dell of the Yorkshire Regiment.

Today he was laid to rest at Poelcapelle British Cemetery in the presence of his relatives.