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In 2021, workmen digging a rainwater cistern in Hazeweidestraat, St Juliaan, Belgium spotted human remains in their trench. A few days later an archaeological excavation was undertaken by the Flanders Heritage Agency. Artefacts recovered alongside the remains showed them to be those of a soldier who had served in the 5th Battalion Yorkshire Regiment.
The Ministry of Defence’s Joint Casualty and Compassionate Centre (JCCC), launched an investigation to name him. Research identified twenty men from the regiment missing in the area, all of whom died in the Spring of 1915.
Following genealogical investigation, living descendants of the missing men were traced one by one until eventually DNA testing proved that the remains were those of Lance Corporal Claude Stanley Dell. He was laid to rest last week at Poelcapelle British Cemetery in Belgium.
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I don’t know if this counts as a scandal but when Michele Bachmann was running for president in 2012 and she was in Waterloo Iowa speaking about how John Wayne used to live there but it turns out she was given wrong information and it was John Wayne Gacy that lived in Waterloo 😭
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V.important polling, in honour of the late Dolly Parton.
Labour lead with fans of Jolene which is also the most popular Parton song among Britons
The Tories lead with “I will always love you” fans
“Islands in the Stream” is the most Reform leaning
Greens do best among 9-5 fans and maybe explains their desire for a different economic model.
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After my post about the Chatsworth Parterre being revealed in the drought.. the magnificent Blenheim Palace has captured a glimpse into their previous formal parterre design.
The original parterre was created in 1705 by royal gardener Henry Wise..
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‘Mother, I’ve weighed the risks which I prefer to living in a world dominated by Nazis. Bill’
CWGC epitaphs are unbearably moving
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The graves of two unknown soldiers from World War 1 have been identified and the headstones replaced.
Padre Rees, chaplain to 1 PWRR, had the honour of leading the joint rededication service in Belgium for the soldiers of the Queens Royal West Surrey Regiment.
@CWGC #WW1
ALT An Army Chaplain in white robes stands among Commonwealth War Graves Commission headstones. She is reading from a service book while resting her right hand on a folded Union Flag placed on top of the headstone. A soldier in uniform stands close by with rows of graves and greenery in the background.
ALT An Army Chaplain in white robes leads a graveside rededication service holding a book and gesturing while speaking. In front of the chaplain is a headstone with a folded Union Flag placed on top. A soldier in uniform stands nearby, with rows of white headstones stretching into the background of the cemetery.
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Omaha Beach is now a vast harbor, delivering supplies to an Allied force that will soon number a million men. substack.com/@alexkershaw
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john prescott dissociating at the 1997 election victory when all of a sudden he hears this agitating grating voice peter mandelson. neil kinnock is also there dancing to things can only get better new labour anthem robin cook
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RIGHT NOW in 1944, the first of 20,000 Allied paratroopers are dropping into Normandy. The long-awaited liberation of France is underway.
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The grandchildren of Eisenhower and Montgomery, Susan and Henry, as they depart Portsmouth for Normandy. 82 years on, they come together with Veterans to remember and reflect. #DDay82
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Wreath laying by 100-year-old Henry Rice off the Normandy coast.
#DDay82 commemorations have begun.
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Alex Kershaw’s D-Day coverage has begun.
Every year it is utterly exceptional.
Do ‘Follow’ him and keep up-to-date with his posts:
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
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I saw him on the tube once (not knowing who he was) and as I left the carriage I said: ‘You know has anyone ever told you you’re the spitting image of Clement Attlee?’ … Reply: ‘I’m his grandson’ #owned
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Carol Jackson in 1997:
#eastenders
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Love that the todays equivalent of holding up a newspaper as proof of life is an iPad with today’s BBC News homepage.
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It's now possible to walk from Westminster to the Tower entirely along the north riverbank (only straying a few metres to go beneath bridges). First time in London's history this has been possible. Details on link londonist.substack.com/p/an-…
