Dave Thurlow
@Gort_Line
Defences and military training in the landscape - WW1 & WW2. Author - ‘Building the Gort Line’ and’Attack on Concrete’.
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Attack on Concrete: Driving the Germans from their concrete defences in Northwest Europe: Amazon.co.uk: Thurlow, Dave: 9798351379111: Books. Now published on Amazon £9.99 😁 amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BLGJV66B?…
Concrete and geese on the North Norfolk coast. Pink-footed Geese fly over a Type 24 pillbox, Cley.
Ponsanooth church and war memorial, Cornwall. One CWGC from the Second World War, although a private family headstone.
Nice find in the National Trust Second Hand Bookshop, Hatfield Forest. One of the first books about the Dieppe Raid, published in 1956. Worth it for the just jacket alone!
Under the cover of Elgin Coppice, Hatfield Forest, are the remains of an ordnance store for RAF Stansted Mountfichet, opened in 1943. Used by the USAFF as a bomber airfield; the 344th Bomber Group operated from here on D-Day. Connected to the airfield by a light railway.
Suffolk square pillbox, Benacre. The hedgerow behind was entrenched in WW1. Hedges provided a good obstacle and good cover. The 1904 Army manoeuvres showed that such ‘hedgerow defence’ in enclosed countryside could be as difficult for defenders as attackers.
German kugelhandgranate 1913 model and 1915 model. The 1915 model was adopted to allow easier machining. Given them by the wonderful M. Fouchat of Pozieres, whom I’m sure old timers like me will remember!
The eerie sound of Nightjars last night, Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk.
By early 1921, 77,000 tonnes of munitions had been removed from the fields of Pas de Calais department. To put that in perspective it’s the equivalent of 169,755,941 18pdr shells. Removing munitions from the old battlefields is still ongoing.
Suffolk Square pillbox, Orford, Suffolk (C Coy, 1st Liverpool Scottish, 55th Division, defending Orford in 1940). Also had a platoon across the estuary on Kings Marsh Aerodrome, Orfordness. Abandoned 1941 and loopholes blocked per 15 Div instructions.
Just read an incredible statistic. After the Great War an estimated 280,000,000m3 - 333,000,000m3 of trenches required infilling and levelling with 26% of that total in the departments of Pas-de-Calais & 21.5% Somme. Add to that 375,000,000m2 of barbed wire thickets to clear.
Two pillboxes on Simpsons Marsh, Hollesley, part of a FDL held by C Coy, 1st Liverpool Scottish, 55 Div in 1940. Part of the Orford defences. Classic platoon locality, with the 2 pillboxes forward and 1 supporting . Abandoned 1941 as part of the coastal defences reorganisation.
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