Mark Sluman
@WarwalkerUpdate
Mark has walked many of the WW1/WW2 battlefields of western Europe and launched http://www.warwalker.co.uk in 2007 to share his passion with a wider audience.
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Gold Beach, inland: the beautiful and peaceful Ryes CWGC cemetery; memorial to the Green Howards at Crepon - two of whose battalions fought here with a CSM, Stan Hollis, being the only recipient of the Victoria Cross on D-Day
Gold Beach, Jig Sector: 77mm gun casemate which destroyed numerous armoured vehicles on D-Day before it was finally silenced by a Royal Engineers AVRE and a Royal Artillery SP gun; memorial to the men of 231 Infantry Brigade
The CWGC Cemetery at Bayeux is the final resting place of over 4,000 Commonwealth soldiers, sailors and airmen killed during the Normandy campaign
Pics of 'Bloody Omaha': the sweeping crescent-shaped beach taken from the German defences at Vierville-sur-Mer; memorial to the men of the 29 Div, 116 RCT who fought and died here; German 50mm gun casemate guarding the exit from Easy Red beach
Widerstandsnest 7, Utah Beach, guarded the planned landing zone for the 4th US Infantry Division on 6th June 1944 - strong currents pushed the eventual American landings further to the south: an artillery casemate and Tobruk weapons pit
American D-Day landings on the Contentin Peninsular: Iron Mike statue in memory of 82nd US Airborne and General Gavin overlooking La Fiere Bridge; memorial to Major Dick Winters nr Utah Beach; Dead Man's corner and the road to Carentan
In light of the recent Notre Dame Cathedral fire, we take a closer look at #construction #risks and key considerations when working with historic structures: bit.ly/2JfnLD9
Contemplative morning at the Battle of Britain Memorial, Capel-le-Ferne
A video taken at the ‘Ring of Remembrance’ beside the national military cemetery of Notre-Dame-de-Lorette at Ablain-Saint-Nazaire. This memorial, inaugurated on Nov 11th 2014, honours the 576,606 soldiers of 40 nationalities who died in #WW1 battles in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais area
At the Cenotaph in honour of great uncles Charlie killed on the Somme in 1916 and buried at St Severs, Rouen, Studley Richard buried at Baghdad North Gate and Ernest (pictured) still missing in "...some corner of a foreign field which is forever England".
The Tank Museum recently opened in Flesquieres, contains the Mark IV tank Deborah, which fought in the Battle of Cambrai, November 1917 and was unearthed almost intact in the 1990's.
The churchyard in Scampton contains many WW2 RAF burials from the nearby station plus, in a separate plot, those lost in the postwar era. These include Flt Lt David Adam, killed with two other crew when their Canberra crashed during a training sortie in 1991.
Very interesting day spent visiting aviation sites in Lincolnshire including the memorials in Woodhall Spa to those in 617 "Dambusters" Squadron killed in WW2 and in subsequent conflicts.
At 77 years at date of death, surely one of the oldest servicemen to have a CWGC headstone, Ramsgate Municipal Cemetery
One of the Dunkirk 'little ships', Sundowner, moored in Ramsgate Harbour, Kent. She picked up 130 men from the beaches and was commanded by Charles Lightoller, the most senior officer to survive the sinking of the Titanic.
Memorial on Ramsgate seafront to the six brave Swordfish crews who flew out from RAF Manston to attack the German battle-cruisers, Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, during the celebrated "Channel Dash", Feb 1942. All six planes were destroyed with only 5 out of 18 aircrew surviving.
Memorial gates near the site of Stalag XIB, Bad Fallingbostel. One of the largest Allied POW camps in Germany and home (and, for some, final resting place) for many British, Russian, American, French and US POWs including my grandad. He made it...thousands didn't.
The Eder Dam, also breached by Barnes Wallis' famous "bouncing bombs" in the Operation Chastise raid. Each attacking Lancaster had to fly at 18 metres at 390 kph and drop the bomb exactly 390 metres from the dam.
Sorpe Dam, damaged by the RAF in the Operation Chastise raid - had to be attacked down the length of the dam and with non-rotating "bouncing bombs" due to the shallow earth bank design.
Mohne Dam, Germany, breached by the "bouncing bombs" of 617 Squadron RAF led by Wing Commander Guy Gibson, 17 May 1943
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