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My Purpose

Combining my interest in military history and my passion for field walking. This web site is a fairly arbitrary collection of photos and stories from various battlefield walks undertaken in the company of a small group of like-minded friends. I write this stuff for my personal enjoyment and, if others are interested, then that's a bonus.

Book of the Month - June 2025

Book of the Month - June 2025
Korea: War Without End by Richard Dannatt & Robert Lyman

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Clevedon Military History Walk

Clevedon Military History Walk
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Walking The Battlefields Links

  • The Swavesey Roll of Honour
  • Lloyds Bank Memorial
  • All Saints Shrine, Clevedon

Battlefield Maps

  • Bristol WWII HAA Batteries
  • The Cholm Siege 1942

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My Family Stories

  • Arthur Taylor: The farmer's son who never returned
  • Australian Autographs - 1941 to 1944 - collected by Michael Curme
  • Mary Curme - Suffragette
  • Memories of a Wartime Schoolboy - Alton, Hampshire (1940-45) by Michael Curme
  • Memories of an Evacuee - Bibury and Other Places (1940-45) by Janet Curme
  • My Aunt, Dorothy Sutton - A Tale of Three Husbands and Four Brothers
  • My Father & The Soviet Spy (1968)
  • My Father and the Runaway Plane (1955)
  • My Grandfather, Frank Saunders - in the Royal Air Force (1918)
  • My Grandmother, Edna Curme - & HMS Warspite
  • My Great Uncle - Bernard Taylor - Royal Marine
  • My Gt Gt Grandfather, Alfred Baker - in China
  • My Gt Gt Grandfather, Arthur Taylor - in Canada
  • My Gt Gt Grandfather, Arthur Taylor - in the Crimea
  • My Gt Uncle and Aunt, Alf and Jo Curme - in the Sudan
  • My Gt Uncle, Alf Curme - in Germany
  • My Gt Uncle, Ernest Ward - Royal Marine
  • Tom Neal - From Navy to RAF (1939-40)

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Popular Posts

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    Between 2nd November 1940 and 15th May 1944, Bristol was subjected to a series of bombing raids. Six of these were on a huge scale, caus...
  • The evacuation from Pillau, East Prussia (1945)
    Pillau, or Baltiysk as it is now known, is quite a difficult place to get to. Indeed it was one of the last places to be opened up in Russi...
  • Gettysburg connection in Clevedon, England
    Ten minutes walk from my home in Somerset, England there is an interesting reference to the Battle of Gettysburg. It can be found on a Dur...
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    Last week I fulfilled one of my ambitions by walking the Fugitive's Trail in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The trail marks the route t...
  • Battle Group Scherer - 105 days in Cholm, Russia (1942)
    Or as the Russian's call it, 'Kholm'. During the first week of December 1941 Marshall Zhukov launched Operation Typhoon and, i...
  • The Bunkers of Zossen (1936 - 2004)
    For anyone interested in 20th century military history the Zossen / Wunsdorf area holds a particular fascination. Zossen itself was home to...
  • Oddball's Tank (1970)
    The scene in the 1970 film Kelly's Heroes, where three Sherman tanks emerge from a railway tunnel and destroy a German Army camp, is a h...
  • Demyansk & Cholm (1942)
    I've been fascinated by the encirclement battles at Demyansk and Cholm ever since my trip to Volgograd (Stalingrad) a few years ago. A f...
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    I covered the history of this pivotal WWII battle in an earlier entry (see link at the bottom of this narrative). So, I'm assuming that...
  • The Testing Grounds at Middle Hope, North Somerset (1941- 2009)
    For many years stories have circulated in Clevedon and Weston-super-Mare about the strange "goings on" in Woodspring Bay at the ...

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