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Jeremy Banning
@jbanningww1
WW1 military historian. Bespoke battlefield tours. For tours by bike see @cyclingthefront. WW1 school education. Cyclist.
Nov 11, 2023 • 21 tweets • 7 min read
1/ A thread on #Remembrance for #ArmisticeDay which I think you may like. On my last group tour one of the passengers was a lovely gentleman called Ralph whose grandfather, Private William Ernest Tandy, 2/1st Ox & Bucks Light Infantry had been killed during Third Ypres. Image 2/ Originally buried close to where he fell, his body was exhumed from the battlefield in 1921 and reburied in Tyne Cot Cemetery. Here’s his record: cwgc.org/find-records/f…
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Dec 19, 2020 • 7 tweets • 5 min read
And here’s the one that I was waiting to see for the entire tour. Unknown to me until @frothelhorse found it. The family grave commemorating the three Nott brothers, all of whom served in the 1/6th Gloucesters. ImageImageImage A distinguished local family from Stoke Bishop, they all went to @Clifton_College & @EmmaCambridge
Dec 8, 2020 • 18 tweets • 5 min read
1. An important thread for all those who visit the #WW1 & #WW2 battlefields and cemeteries about the treatment of experienced @CWGC gardeners and staff. Read on…. 2. So, this popped up on my timeline this morning.
Oct 20, 2020 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
1/ A short thread on what seems to be a regular topic for me - 28th Division casualties at the Second Battle of Ypres in April - May 1915. Please do have a read as the figures involved are humbling #WW1 2/ I've posted before that 28th Division sustained over 15,500 casualties in a calendar month - more than the entire infantry complement of the division. Here's the table from the British Official History. Astonishing.
Oct 19, 2020 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
1/ Last week I completed a report on Sgt George Baxter Smallwood, 2nd King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regt). In autumn 1915 he earned the MM on 30 September and a Bar to this just three weeks later, 105 years ago today when in the line at the Cuinchy Brickstacks #OTD #WW1 2/ On 19 October 1915 German artillery heavily damaged the battalion's left front trench, destroying about 50ft of parapet, killing 4 Other Ranks and wounding and burying 6 Other Ranks. George was one of the six men buried.
Nov 23, 2017 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
Coming up, a short thread on #Cambrai100
#OTD 100 years ago the 12th South Wales Borderers & 19th Royal Welsh Fusiliers of 119 Infantry Brigade attacked Bourlon Wood, west of Cambrai. Image
Image Among those of the SWB killed when the Germans counter-attacked was L/Cpl John William Jones: Exact details of what happened during the counter-attack were sketchy so he was posted as 'missing'. His family back in Blackwood faced an agonising wait for newscwgc.org/find-war-dead/…