Tim Purbrick
@TimPurbrick
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Tanks. Media & Comms. Stolen plant and art recovery. Art dealing. Solar PV. Military Cultural Property Protection. Views own etc.
Joined August 2012
Love the intro @LadyFosp!
Sound 🆙 Lt Col @TimPurbrick on setting up the @BritishArmy unit to defend & preserve the world’s greatest cultural treasures & how his @UNESCO course is helping in Ukraine. We also talk tanks, George Clooney & Kiera Knightley! D’load podcast @ @ConvexIn
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Good ending to 70th Anniversary year with @DefenceU establishing a #MilitaryCPP unit after @UNESCO delivery of military #CPP training course in #Kyiv in August - trialed in #Tallinn with @Kaitsevagi in January. #CulturalPropertyProtection
#RespectAndProtect
#HagueConvention 🪖🏛️
This year, we marked 70 years of the Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict—a cornerstone in the global effort to safeguard heritage in times of crisis. More about UNESCO’s work to #ProtectHeritage: #YearInReview
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@BBCArchive Left hand medal: Officer of the Order of the British Empire for Gallantry, shown by crossed oak leaves on the ribbon. Usually came with a citation, which meritorious service awards do not receive. Awarded from 1958 to 1974, before being replaced by the Queen’s Gallantry Medal.
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Cultural property trafficking. UK Del @OSCE: • Need for international co-op. • Importance of OSCE’s Heritage Crime Task Force, @metpoliceuk Art & Antiques Unit, @HSI_HQ and @INTERPOL_HQ. • Need more provenance research by museums and the art market.
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Check out the @ForcesNews report on military mule training with the @USMC #MWTC in #California. More on military mules and horses here:
Check out the latest BFBS #ForcesNews daily Download: 🔵 The UK is sending 700 troops to RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus ⚪ The head of the RAF says the control of space is the military’s ‘first duty’ 🟡 Lt Col Mike Carty becomes first Royal Marine to command a fast jet squadron
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Delivering @UNPeacekeeping (hard work anytime) can be improved if @UN Member States: • Provide unified political support • Give realistic, resourced mandates • Support innovative partnerships • Strengthen operations • Promote an understanding of peacekeeping’s limits 🪖🇺🇳
.@UN peacekeeping is the most effective tool that Member States have to protect & advance peace, but it is facing unprecedented hurdles. Head of UN Peace Operations @Lacroix_UN calls for a recommitment of Member States to advance global peace & security:
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@nickfshort @HelenRappaport …also (in)famous for being a location at which works of art looted by the Nazis were stored during WW2 before being recovered by the Monuments, Fine Arts & Archives. 📷 Capt James Rorimer of the MFA&A and soldiers on the steps of the Castle.
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‘Officers of the 18th Regiment of Bengal Lancers, Sialkote, 1899’ #ChristmasCard
#BengalLancers 19th Lancers was formed in 1922 by amalgamation of 18th and 19th Lancers and allotted to Pakistan in 1947. Affiliated to @LDLightCav 🇬🇧🤝🇵🇰 📷@NAM_London
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Top secret WW2 1939 4 rotor #Enigma K-Model with additional lamp panel, serial No K374 for sale on 14 Sep at Auction Breker, est €80-120k.
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UK SERE adapts MI9’s IS9(WEA) patch. For more on MI9: 👉MI9 Escape & Evasion 1939-1945 by MRD Foot & JM Langley 👉MI9 A History of the Secret Service for Escape and Evasion in World War Two by @DrHelenFry 👉Saturday at MI9 by Airey Neave Tiny 🧙🧵👇
The new UK SERE school badge. Featuring elements from our World War Two predecessors. Made by many masters.
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#Propaganda posters from the #WW2 🇬🇧Ministry of Information. Left - Freedom sold @CTauctioneers on 16 July for £3300. Right - 3x Keep Calm of differing sizes, saved by a Suffolk Police Constable, were sold by @NEAuctioneers on 4 July for a total of £7000. 📷@ATG_Editorial
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Last year the British Army’s @armycmc trained the Ukrainian Challenger 2 crews at Bovington, Lulworth and Warminster. Now they are, sources say, in action in Russia. Watch their training here: Documentary by Joe Cowen on behalf of @ForcesNews 🇺🇦🤝🇬🇧👊
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Protected cultural property. Named after Henry #Nevill, 2nd Earl of #Abergavenny: #UnderwaterCulturalHeritage
Good news! 🎉 The wreck of the Earl of Abergavenny, captained by John Wordsworth, brother of renowned Romantic poet William Wordsworth, has been granted protection! 👏 Find out more ➡️
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A hugely enjoyable, worthwhile and rewarding privilege to deliver military cultural property protection training to @DefenceU officers in #Kyiv, alongside culture and justice trainers. #RespectAndProtect
#CulturalPropertyProtection 🇺🇦🏛️🪖
For the first time in 🇺🇦 @UNESCO gathered military, cultural, and justice personnel for an intensive training on protecting Ukraine's cultural heritage. As war continues, the need to safeguard heritage is paramount. Learn more: #ProtectHeritage
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Slava Ukrayini! Photos: 1) view east across the Dnipro River from the terrace of the Books and Printing Museum, 2) St Sophia’s 3) Altar Screen and 4) a floorplate. @unesco_kyiv #WorldHeritageSites
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