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Tim Godden
@TJGodden
Artist ———————————————————————— PhD from @KentArch: @CWGC architecture, landscape and memory on the old Western Front.
Jun 28, 2025 • 14 tweets • 5 min read
There are certain days in history that change everything. 28 June, 1916 was one of those. In the early hours of that day my Great, Great Uncle Thomas Wilson clambered from his trench in front of Hairpin Craters, not far from Hulluch, as part of a raid on the German lines. 1/ #ww1 Image The raid was almost immediately halted by heavy machine gun fire. In the half light, and in the confusion partly created by battle and partly by the yellowish clouds of gas drifting over no man’s land - an attempt to support the raid - Tom was hit. As the two sections... 2/ #ww1 The landscape of Hairpin Craters today.
Jun 28, 2023 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
There are certain days in history that change everything. 28 June, 1916 was one of those. In the early hours of that day my Great, Great Uncle Thomas Wilson clambered from his trench in front of Hairpin Craters, not far from Hulluch, as part of a raid on the German lines. 1/ #ww1 The raid was almost immediately halted by heavy machine gun fire. In the half light, and in the confusion partly created by battle and partly by the yellowish clouds of gas drifting over no man’s land - an attempt to support the raid - Tom was hit. As the two sections... 2/ #ww1
Jun 28, 2021 • 14 tweets • 6 min read
There are certain days in history that change everything. 28 June, 1916 was one of those. In the early hours of that day my Great, Great Uncle Thomas Wilson clambered from his trench in front of Hairpin Craters, not far from Hulluch, as part of a raid on the German lines. 1/ #ww1 The raid was almost immediately halted by heavy machine gun fire. In the half light, and in the confusion partly created by battle and partly by the yellowish clouds of gas drifting over no man’s land - an attempt to support the raid - Tom was hit. As the two sections... 2/ #ww1
Jun 28, 2020 • 14 tweets • 6 min read
There are certain days in history that change everything. 28 June, 1916 was one of those. In the early hours of that day my Great, Great Uncle Thomas Wilson clambered from his trench in front of Hairpin Craters, not far from Hulloch, as part of a raid on the German lines. 1/ #ww1 The raid was almost immediately halted by heavy machine gun fire. In the half light, and in the confusion partly created by battle and partly by the yellowish clouds of gas drifting over no man’s land - an attempt to support the raid - Tom was hit. As the two sections... 2/ #ww1