Remnants of War – Slapton Sands & Exercise Tiger
Slapton Sands, Devon. Site of the infamous Exercise Tiger. In April 1944, large-scale rehearsals for D-Day took place on Slaptop […]
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Remnants of War
Remnants of War – Parachute & Airborne Memorial Paignton
More proof that in the UK you can find echoes of the Second World War everywhere you go. I was
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Remnants of War – Brixham’s Battery
In my hometown of Brixham in South Devon, you can find perhaps the country’s best preserved Second World War coastal
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Remnants of War – My hometown & Operation ‘Overlord’
You can always find traces of the Second World War if you know where to look… In my hometown of
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Remnants of War – German Resistance Memorial Centre
Today marks the 80th anniversary of the Stauffenberg plot to kill Hitler. Fittingly, yesterday, I had the pleasure of attending
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Remnants of War – My Grandad and the 9th Gurka Rifles
This one’s for you, Grandad. My Grandad served in the 9th Gurkha Rifles during the Second World War, where, amongst
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Remnants of War – Battle of Britain Memorial
Warming up to this year’s We Have Ways festival with a quick trip to the Battle of Britain memorial in
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Remnants of War – Hochbunker Pallasstraße
The Hochbunker on Pallasstraße in Berlin is a 4-storey high bunker, which was built by Soviet prisoners of war and
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Remnants of War – Upottery Airfield
To coincide with the 80th anniversary of D-Day, here are some photos I took last year of the former RAF
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Remnants of War – Dunkirk
The 27th of May 1940 was the first full day of Operation Dynamo, aka the ‘Dunkirk evacuation’. This first day
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