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

[alex kershaw @kershaw_alex]

Goodbye to England. Many of the 73,000 US troops who will see action on D-Day, just 48 hours away, are now being ferried to troopships. Photo by the great Robert Capa. @WWIIMemorial

[Weird Bristol @WeirdBristol]

In 1914, before enlisted soldiers from Bristol and its surrounding counties were sent overseas to fight in “The Great War”, Ashton Court was used as a training ground. This image depicts the field which is now part of the red deer enclosure.

[Phil Curme 🥾🪖 @wtbattlefields]

@nickfshort Very poor that Mandelson ‘gossip’ was first up on the BBC News at Ten last night, right after this story broke. Fair play to Henry’s father for asking the right questions and forcing the release of the cam footage.

[Phil Curme 🥾🪖 @wtbattlefields]

Ever wondered what those mysterious rails are on @nationaltrust #BreanDown? All is revealed here: 'Bouncing Bombs on Brean Down' - a story involving the Air Ministry, Barnes Wallace and the Wheezers and Dodgers of HMS Birnbeck. @KYPNorthSom @BirnbeckTrust
https://t.co/aZERDO2UdU

[Phil Curme 🥾🪖 @wtbattlefields]

@48hrsnotice4sea I was really looking forward to this, but unfortunately I’m laid up with a heavy cold. I don’t think I would make it up the steps! Hopefully, next time ….

[Prof. Frank McDonough @FXMC1957]

PHOTO OF THE DAY. This boy came home to find his house was bombed and his mother, father and brother were dead. He survived the war and became a truck driver. His face features in the titles of World at War (1945). 📷 Toni Frissell

[Phil Curme 🥾🪖 @wtbattlefields]

Flight Lieutenant George Dunn, bomber pilot who raided Nazi bases. One of the last veterans of the Peenemunde Raid (Operation Hydra). https://t.co/OqsWxZwYpX

[War Memorials Trust @WarMemorials]

Our next deadline for grant applications is 30th June - just over a 1 month to go! Find out more about our grants for the repair and conservation of war memorials at https://t.co/xPq1GOPhxL

#ThankYou @HistoricEngland, @HistEnvScot and donors for making these possible.

[War Memorials Trust @WarMemorials]

Dudden Hill School in #Brent closed in 1964. Its #WarMemorial has been in storage but £650 helped repair works before it went on display in Willesden Green Library see https://t.co/T9MLZyDr5x and https://t.co/wSXmUeddO5 @Brent_Council

[Phil Curme 🥾🪖 @wtbattlefields]

@48hrsnotice4sea I had no idea, steep learning curve on this one!

[Phil Curme 🥾🪖 @wtbattlefields]

Stumbled upon this German 1898 Krupp-Schumann Fahrpanzer in the Athens War Museum today. Armed with a 5.7cm cannon it was apparently used by the Bulgarian Army on the #SalonikaFront in 1918 during the #FWW. I haven’t come across this Heath-Robinson style contraption before.

[Phil Curme 🥾🪖 @wtbattlefields]

@ReassessHistory It does, but without mention of the Brits. Focuses on the fight between Greek Government forces and the EAM-ELAS resistance fighters.

[Phil Curme 🥾🪖 @wtbattlefields]

What, no British and Commonwealth involvement in Greece (including Crete!) during the two World Wars? No, nothing. Happily there is plenty more to see at the Athens War Museum even though there are a few gaps in the story 🤔

[Phil Curme 🥾🪖 @wtbattlefields]

@YewneekPhoto @ReassessHistory I like the way that they have separated the Greco-Italian War 1940-41 from the Second World War. They won the former of course!

[Phil Curme 🥾🪖 @wtbattlefields]

The forgotten truth about Monty — he was a 'cheeky chappie'. https://t.co/3TsoOvrObz

[Phil Curme 🥾🪖 @wtbattlefields]

@hoyer_kat @JEyal_RUSI Such a powerful way of remembering victims of the Holocaust. Well done, Gunter Demnig 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻

[Phil Curme 🥾🪖 @wtbattlefields]

@TrenchTrotter You have a point, Tim. Maybe the carriage was just a means of transporting the turret to a static position.

[Phil Curme 🥾🪖 @wtbattlefields]

The grave of Catherine Harley at Lembet Road @CWGC in Thessaloniki. Killed in 1917 whilst running an ambulance service for the Serb Army on the #SalonikaFront - this remarkable woman was a leading Suffragist who had served with the Scottish Women’s Hospitals for Foreign Service.

[Phil Curme 🥾🪖 @wtbattlefields]

@BillAlexander4 @GlennStennes Yes, me too. Aside from his skills as a battlefield guide, by virtue of his 4x4, Glenn gets you to places that it would otherwise be very difficult to reach. Ideal for lone explorers or groups of two or three.

[Phil Curme 🥾🪖 @wtbattlefields]

Hiked the Grand Couronne to Kale Tepe (The Devil’s Eye) with @GlennStennes. This Bulgarian strongpoint dominated the Doiran battlefield and Daniel Burges from my home town of #Clevedon won a #VC leading 7th Bn, The South Wales Borderers in an attempt to storm it in Sept 1918.

[Phil Curme 🥾🪖 @wtbattlefields]

And of course, you can’t go to #Macedonia without seeking out ‘local lad done good’ #AlexandertheGreat