Unbelievable. @thetimes.com here, proving irony is dead.
Merryn
Hello. Some of you may have been on the WHW livestream last night and heard Al talking about our podcast @newsofthewar.bsky.social
We try not to hang off others coattails but, well they brought it up! (we’re overwhelmed by the kindness)
Interested? here’s the link
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On @newsofthewar.bsky.social, we've revelled in stories that aren't well known, 1939-45. We were keen to do a VC-special. But when @andyaitch.bsky.social realised he'd got unseen film of Ian Liddell VC - that was something else.
Who is this chap?
Find out who he is and what he’s going on about, tomorrow on News Of The War with @andyaitch.bsky.social and @merrynwalters.uk
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pca.st/episode/5a9f... Pulled up short by the story of Padre Perry. My Uncle landed with 6th Airborne and was wounded on d-day. Aid station he was taken to came under attack. Survived, RTU only to die April 10 1945. @merrynwalters.uk @andyaitch.bsky.social @newsofthewar.bsky.social
Part 2 of our VC special is out this Friday….you’ve heard of the Arnhem VCs? Cain, Baskeyfield, Lord, Greyburn and Queripel.
Well, in the words of Yoda “there is another”
Tune in on Friday to News of the War
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@andyaitch.bsky.social @merrynwalters.uk
"News of The War" – EPSOM. No getting round it, he's off. She's catching up. And then there's D-Day, and pipers, and sad stories, and mad stories - THE RABBIT CLUB - and news of V1s and V2s ... it's…
This week, It was the anniversary of T E Lawrence's untimely demise. Left a few desert blooms for him, not so long ago. The marker where he fell nearby was looking rough, but the cemetery is kept tidy.