Paul Roe
@ChirpyRoe
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Retired accountant, born again volunteer, Governor, Trustee.
Crawley, South East
Joined April 2014
We already have this great book, but retweet for a chance to win a signed copy!
Just received the advanced copies of my US edition from the folk at @ScribnerBooks & offering 5 lucky people a signed copy for a retweet. I’ll announce the winners on Thursday. @WeHaveWaysPod @TheRestHistory @AspectsHistory @HistoryHit
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🇫🇷 80 years ago today, 25-Year old Resistance member Jean-Paul Léri, was shot by the German authorities at the sinister Montluc prison in Lyon. Today we remember this patriot who gave his all for his country. 1/6
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🇵🇱 Kraków- 6 November 1939 SS-Obersturmbannführer Bruno Müller leads Sonderaktion Krakau against Polish intellectuals. Müller orders a meeting of university professors and academics which is in fact a pretext to round them up. 184 are arrested, mainly from Poland's oldest
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Great work all at RPD
Proud to donate £5,500 to Crawley Food Bank Partnership! 🌟 Thanks to our sister charity, @RPDCrawley and all supporters for your help to raise the money! Your generosity will change lives 💜 #CommunitySupport #MakingADifference #Community #Fundraising #Crawley
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Lots of fun was had by all at our recent Sibling Sleepover! Our amazing Activities Team braved a night camping out in the marquee in our garden so everyone could enjoy games and treats together in the outdoors ⛺💛
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Take a huge bow KS4 & 5 pupils performing at the wonderful @MGC_wsussex (Manor Green College), and all those in the background that helped. WHAT A PERFORMANCE, brilliant, and in front of TWO FULL HOUSES. Well done everyone.
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So, the @theSNP bleated long and loud about democratic mandates with 230,000 Conservative Party members choosing the UK Prime Minister. What about 72,000 Scots picking the First Minister? Election @HumzaYousaf? I expect not, if the hypocrisy hat fits ……….
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So, I recall @theSNP bleating on, insisting on an election with a change of leader in Westminster …. now’s your chance to do so in Scotland. Well??? I suspect you’ll find some lame “reason” why it’s different now.
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Curious mismatch, perhaps lazy, (?) using stock photo of Victoria Road in piece on High Street regeneration.
New updates for the Horley High Street improvement scheme! https://t.co/88Owe14WuL
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I’ve decided to replace Twitter with Facebook for the 80 years ago posts, they continue on LinkedIn too. Both are less restricted.#lestweforget
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18/11/1942 In now occupied Vichy France, under pressure from Hitler, Marshal Philippe Pétain (centre) signs the constitutional document permitting Prime Minister Pierre Laval (right) to make laws and issue decrees on his own authority. #lestweforget
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17/11/1942 American troops capture Gafsa, Tunisia and British 36th Brigade engaged German forces at Djebel Abiod, also Tunisia. German General Walter Nehring arrived in Tunis to lead a counterattack against the Allies. #lestweforget
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16/11/1942 US forces begin an attack on Japanese positions south of Buna, Australian Papua, with a view to clearing the Japanese beachhead. Taken this day, photo is of of US 32nd Division troops probing a Japanese foxhole. #lestweforget
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15/11/1942 8th Army capture Derna, Libya, and the nearby Martuba airfield, which immediately became the new forward base for conducting air operations. In Britain church bells pealed for the first time since Jun 1940 to celebrate victory at El Alamein, Egypt. #lestweforget
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14/11/1942 Photo, USS Washington firing her primary (16 inch) guns, sinking Japanese battleship Kirishima, off Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands overnight. #lestweforget
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13/11/1942 The First Naval Battle of Guadalcanal ended with the US Navy task force under Rear Admiral Daniel Callahan driving off a Japanese naval bombardment group. IJN battleship, Hiel, (photo), is severely damaged and scuttled. #lestweforget
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12/11/1942 More than three months after the initial invasion, 6,000 more American troops are landed on Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands. Japan too, its 38th Division departs the Shortland Islands, also in in the Solomon Islands, for Guadalcanal. #lestweforget
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11/11/1942 Germany and Italy launches the occupation of Vichy France (so called Free Zone below), to defend against a potential Allied invasion. The American embassy in Vichy was seized by German troops. #lestweforget
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