Walking the Battlefields

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Monday, 30 March 2026

The last helicopter out of Saigon (April 1975)

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 It must be twenty years since my wife and I were last in Ho Chi Min City. Since then much has changed - the bicycles have been replaced by ...
Friday, 20 February 2026

Brothers in Arms, Polygon Wood (1917)

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On a cold January day earlier this year, as my friends and I set out for a battlefield walk through Polygon Wood in the 1914–18 Ypres Salie...
Friday, 13 February 2026

A Walk in Ploegsteert (Plugstreet) Wood (1914-18)

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 It was perhaps inevitable that Lieutenant George Roworth Parr would join the army. His father was, after all, Major-General Sir Henry Halla...
Wednesday, 11 February 2026

Clevedon's Pathfinder (1943)

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Some time ago, I was privileged to spend time with 103 year old RAF Bomber Command veteran Arthur Spencer, who lives just a few hundred metr...
Monday, 26 January 2026

Shepton Mallet Military Prison (1939 -1966)

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Shepton Mallet Prison, formally known as HMP Shepton Mallet, occupies a distinctive place in British military history, not only because of i...
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