Alan Malcher
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Writer, Journalist and Military Historian-ex British Army Para Reg. Currently writing book on SOE in France
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International Women's Day. Lance Corporal Kyle Watson MC, Royal Army Medical Corp. Kyle Watson from County Antrim, Northern Ireland ran 100 metres in full view of the Taliban under sustained fire and gave life saving aid to a Afghan soldier who had been shot twice.
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Despite the banter the military is one big team based on respect and support.
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There soon won't be any WW2 veterans alive. John Bosley, Arnhem veteran of 11th Battalion Parachute Regiment passed away last Monday. R.I.P. John
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Happy 100th birthday to Jan Stangryciuk a Polish airman who served with the RAF and was badly burned after his Wellington bomber crashed. His face was extensively rebuilt and is a member of the Guinea Pig Club.
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Remembrance - A blast from the past and I'm the only one still alive.
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HAPPY 92nd BIRTHDAY to former Paratrooper, Bernard Cribbins.
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23-year-old Battle of Britain Hurricane pilot, Flight Lieutenant Richard ‘Dickie’ Lee DFC, DSO (RAF). 18 August 1940 he was shot down over the English Channel. Neither his body or aircraft have been found.
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A Medical Emergency Response Team (MERT) aboard a Chinook above Southern Afghanistan with an injured soldier. Commissioned painting
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Lt Jack Reynolds photographed sticking two fingers up in defiance to his German captors shortly after being captured during the Battle of Arnhem in September 1944. Reynolds died in 2019 at the age of 97.
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Operation Banner (Northern Ireland) Blimey - I look like a school kid!
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A young boy sitting on the rubble of his home in London where his parents lie buried after a V2 rocket attack whilst he was out playing. His parents were later found dead. (January 1945 by photographer Tony Frissell)
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One of the last of the original Battle of Arnhem Flower Children, Willemien Rieken died at the age of 85 on 25 July 2020. For 75 years she attended the grave of Trooper William Edmond (Airborne Reconnaissance Squadron) who was killed during the battle.
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Each day many thousands of people walk past this building near Baker Street Station, and few have time to notice the blue plaque or take in the significance of this SOE operation during WW2.
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On this day in 1984 Sgt Al Slater MM (1Para/22SAS) KIA while killing IRA terrorists. A great bloke and a great soldier. RIP Al
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Oberleutnant Johannes Wilhelm at Chichester Railway Station en-route to London after being shot down on 18th August 1940
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William Geoffrey Foxley died on the 5th December 2010. Met him many years ago at the Cenotaph on Remembrance Sunday - RIP
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11 November. Operation Banner (Northern Ireland) the forgotten veterans!
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'Almost Home' by Paul Norman Photography. B17 returning to its airfield in England. No date
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Phyllis ‘Pippa’ Doyle (nee Latour) SOE wireless operator in France. The only surviving member of SOE French Section.
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Operation Banner (Northern Ireland) Lance Bombardier Stephen Restorick the last soldier to be killed during Banner, shot on 12 Feb 1997. Gunman released under the GFA!
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Sergeant Evan Jones fought at Rorke's Drift against the Zulus (good film) and Survived the Great War.
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French Resistance. After extensive research I failed to identify the copywrite owner and consequently cant use this image in my forthcoming book on SOE in France. This image is not in the archives at the resistance museums in France and similar archives in the UK.
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James Magennis VC from Belfast. Was a diver on a midget submarine who placed limpet mine on Japanese ships in Singapore Harbour.
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Unknown British Airborne Soldier buried by the Germans during the Battle of Arnhem 1944.
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Wing Commander 'Widge' Gleed sitting in his Spitfire. During the Battle of Britain he flew Hurricanes and was latter killed in action on 16 April 1943 during a fighter sweep in French Tunisia.
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Kiwi soldiers on Anzac Day in El Saff, Egypt on 25 April 1940.
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Another blast from the past: Operation Banner (Northern Ireland) 1972 - I've all the banter about the caravan! 😀
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Image described as a French woman pouring tea for a British soldier fighting in Normandy. (no original photo source)
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Operation Banner (Northern Ireland) I don't know what this kit is on the aircraft and leave it to the aviation experts to id it.
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Photograph taken in April 1945 after the 3rd Algerian Infantry Division, 1st French Army, liberated the Vaihingen an der Enz concentration camp in Germany. (no photo source)
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RIP Bernard Cribbins, a very proud Para. Utrinque Paratus.
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Unknown rear gunner of a Whitley bomber in 1940. (no source)
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I decided to post this again after hearing Phyllis Latour 'Pippa' the only surviving female agent serving with SOE French Section died today at the age of 102- RIP
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Plaque outside 64 Baker Street London W1 the former Executive HQ of SOE. Other offices in Baker Street were used as sub-HQs by the European sections.
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Photograph taken at Chelsea Hospital of the last survivors of the Battle of Waterloo
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A Waffen SS Officer surrenders to a US Army Sergeant on the West side of the Elbe River bridge near Tangermünde Germany in 1945.(photo source unknown)
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original B&W image will be found in the IWM collection. 4 March 1944 - An American military policeman salutes the Commander of the Allied Armies in Italy, General Sir Harold Alexander as he leaves Corps HQ at Anzio.
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A still from my favourite British war film that made good use of historians for accuracy. What is the film and why did the farmer say " Good Morning. My Arse!"
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Scots Guards during WW1. I cant make out what's on the floor on right
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British Homefront during WW2. William Gill, a member of the Home Guard based in Leyton on 26 July 1940. (IWM?)
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Mary Elis served with the ATA (Air Transport Auxiliary) during the Second World War during which she delivered more than 1,000 aircraft including over 400 Spitfires to operational RAF airfields across Britain. Mary Elis died in July 2018 at the age of 101.
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British Homefront during WW2. Winston Churchill and his wife Clementine on a naval vessel inspecting bomb damage. No date or original source.
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American: 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division before jumping into Normandy on D-day.
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US Airborne parachute failure. Listen to soldier shouting "pull you're reserve dumb arse"
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'Man in the Mud' by artist Peter Corlett, 1989, depicting a soldier's mental anguish during World War One.
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Operation Banner (Northern Ireland) RUC officer no date or image source
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Colourised photo of Lieutenant Colonel Robert "Paddy" Mayne, DSO (three bars) French Legion of Honour
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Robert Curtis (25 March 1950 – 6 February 1971) first British soldier killed in the Northern Ireland. By the end of the conflict 705 soldiers were killed.
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Sergeant John Ellis, Battle of Britain Pilot killed in action on 1 September 1940, body found and buried with military honours in 1993.
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Colourised image (DB Colour). Members of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment in the Netherlands on 24 September 1944. (From original B&W image at IWM)
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Canadian Sherman tanks Operation Quick anger to seize the city of Arnhem in April 1945 (Joel Stopples)
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Georges Blind of the French Resistance who smiled at his firing squad. (Fed German Archives)
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Noreen Riols, one of the last surviving female members of the French section of the Special Operations Executive. Not a celebrity or businesswomen, an MBE well earned. Congratulations Marm!
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British Homefront WW2. Mrs Garden, the wife of a fighter pilot, serving as a plotter at the Royal Observer Corp (ROC) Centre at Bromley, Kent in 1943
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Remembrance 11 November. Under cover soldier Telford Stuart (RE) killed by the IRA in 1972 during Operation Banner. (Image Belfast Telegraph)
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Parachute Regiment trying to locate the NOK of Nigel 'Dusty' Miller who served in 1 PARA from 1977 - 1989. He lived in the Worcester area. He recently passed away alone at home. Ex members of Airborne Forces and Para Reg being asked to assist in finding Nigel's NOK.
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British Homefront during WW2. 1940, what was commonly called an unexploded 'German parachute mine' in the back garden of a house in Liverpool after being made safe. (IWM?)
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A Reminder that remembrance Sunday includes all conflicts since the two world wars.
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I agree with Nixon Mattey "Anyone slagging this guy off on pathetic memes just remember he did two tours of Afghanistan which saw some of the most intense battles since WW2.He continues to support injured service men and women. A hero just like his mother."
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Canadian soldiers training to be despatch riders at Bordon, England during WW2. Dated 1 May 1942 (Library and Archives of Canada , MIKAN 3225476)
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1st Battalion Hertfordshire Regiment. Dated August 1914 (No source)
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Vera Atkins F (French) Section Special Operations Executive. In the background are the women agents who never returned. After the war Vera Atkins discovered the fate of many missing agents.
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@DominicFarrell
From Pentagon briefing today. "British paratroopers left the airport and are searching for those at risk and entitled to leave." A very dangerous OP
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8th Battalion, the King's (Liverpool Regiment, Liverpool Irish, 57th Division) entering Lille, 18 October 1918. (IWM)
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Operation Banner (Northern Ireland) I recall the lad far right with the Sterlin SMG was from Rhodesia. After demob he returned to Rhodesia and served with the Rhodesian SAS during the war.
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Brothers John (17) and Joseph (18) McCaig along with Donald McCaughey (23) serving with 1 Battalion Royal Highland Fusiliers were murdered during an IRA 'honey trap' in Belfast on 10 March 1971.
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British Homefront during WW2. 21-year-old Dorothy Crouch working in a munitions factory. Thousands of women worked in a variety of trades and professions which were essential for the war effort. For example, my mother worked on aircraft production (IWM)
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Anyone notice what is wrong with this film clip about the troubles?
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Operation Dynamo (Emergency evacuation from Dunkirk). June 1940 evacuated troops arriving in Dover (Royston Colour original B&W image not mentioned)
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M4A2 Sherman's belonging to the Canadian Governor Generals Horse Guards Armoured Regiment pushing through Arnhem during the liberation of the city in April, 1945
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British Homefront WW2. Government issued Anderson Shelter.
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Image and text by Joel Stopples. City of Aachen, Germany with US soldiers (2nnd Battalion, 12th Infantry Division) outside the courthouse on 21 October 1944.
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Blast from the past. Kenya 1974, me on the right when I had black hair and all my own teeth!
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The type pf photo the IRA did not like seeing published because it did not support their propaganda.
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