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🇺🇦Passionate about the Railways on the Western Front in the First World War. WW1 Great Western 🚂@sandragittins.bsky.social

South Devon
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Wintertime Ypres Work party on Light Railway Jan 1918 #WW1 #FWW #Railway
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Western Front Railway Stations: Beaumont Hamel Station Somme as it was prior to the First World War and what it looked like after being captured from the Germans in November 1916 #WW1
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Great Western Railwaymen who lost their lives in the First World War #WW1 #FWW #GWR Harold Denham (5th Dragoon Guards) - Taunton George Victor Grimmer (1/8th Worcestershire Regt) - Henwick
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@MartinOgle1 Agrée. Unfortunately modern efficiency rarely comes with architectural beauty
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Great Western Railwaymen who lost their lives in the First World War #WW1 #FWW #GWR Fred Charles Leonard (3rd Wessex Brigade Royal Field Artillery) - Swindon John Pardell (Sgt 17th Royal Welsh Fusiliers) - Shrewsbury
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@G7KVE Yes it has been turned into residential house, as many have that survived the wars. I haven’t visited this station yet, but here it is on Google Earth… at the end of Rue de le Gare
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@G7KVE Yes, Hughes killed in action and Baggs died of wounds
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@mikenarrowgauge @Railsethistoire Thanks for the heads up Mike
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Great Western Railwaymen who lost their lives in the First World War #WW1 #FWW #GWR John Price (Sgt 116th (GWR) Railway Co Royal Engineers) - Llanvihangel Percival Frank Lane (1/8th Worcester Regt) - Campden
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@NealRussell17 Thank you Neal
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@NealRussell17 That would be nice thank you
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Always handy to come across official records of men where a unit War Diary has been lost These relate to the 118th Railway Company RE’s showing casualties due to bombing raids on two occasions #WW1 #Railways
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RT @GreatWarHuts: Just in the nick of time, we spotted this poster in the GWH Collection, from 110 years ago today: Notice to Refugees Th…
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@MG_1962_73 histoire familiale intéressante et je suis sûr que vous trouverez des documents à clarifier
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@MG_1962_73 Le monument est magnifique
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@pseudopodium @GreatWarHuts Many years ago I visited the graves of the men killed by the explosions due to the air raid. The book War Girls describes the event and the men in detail
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@Muzza9254 @selhurstpaw1 @GreatWarHuts I had the same thought
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