RT @Taff_Gillingham: In 2007 I was at the Suffolk Regiment Museum in Bury St Edmunds when the Area Regimental Secretary, Colonel Tony Taylo….

Just read this fascinating history of the Royal Naval base at Scapa Flow. Found one of my great uncles as a midshipman on HMS Queen Elizabeth in 1917! He’s in a group photo during the visit of King George V and Prince Albert. Louis Mountbatten is also in the pic as a midshipman.

Tuesday Tank: the French Saint-Chamond tank and the French 75mm field gun that armed it - two examples of the gun, one from the @museedesblindes in Saumur and the other at the #RoyalArtilleryMuseum stores in Larkhill. #WW1 @Burntime0101 @milmodelscene @USAS_WW1 #TankTuesday

RT @klaasm67: Sometimes you're not alone in a bunker … 🔊

Had a very interesting time at the #RoyalArtilleryMuseum Stores Open Day at Larkhill, Wilts, on Weds. A fascinating 'mini museum', with cannons, field guns & howitzers from the late 15thC to the Napoleonic & Boer Wars, #WW1 & #WW2. For more dates see

RT @germanbunkers: Deep in the woods on the French island of Ile-de-Re we find one of the flak batteries supporting the defence of Kora, th….

Tuesday Tank: great to get up close with the @wealdfoundation's Renault FT at #Tankfest recently. Here are pics of it in the arena and some of the driver's compartment. @Burntime0101 @milmodelscene @USAS_WW1 @agbdrilling @TankMuseum #WW1 #TankTuesday

Just finished Peter Bull’s excellent #WW2 memoir ‘To Sea in a Sieve’ (1956). In the RNVR from 1941 (Ord Seaman) to 1946 (Lt Cdr), he served in Landing Craft Tank and Flak in the Mediterranean - Sicily, Anzio etc and all the way to Venice. His humour balances the tough times.

RT @BuffaloLvt: All ready to head to the Yorkshire Wartime event Many thanks to Clive Fletcher and BMR Transport Ltd for transporting this….

Great to see my article about identifying a #WW1 Ox and Bucks Light Infantry officer in the latest @britainatwar. Fascinating to talk to Ingram Murray about the 10yr investigation and the surprise as to who it was. These items were found with the body. @sofomuseum /Colin Morris

Tuesday Tank: a Chieftain hull mounting the Marksman anti-aircraft system: Marconi Series 400 radar and two Oerlikon 35mm autocannons. Seen at Op Market Harborough last Saturday, but is moving from Duxford to the @TankMuseum. @Burntime0101 @milmodelscene @USAS_WW1 #TankTuesday

*T-34/85 🙄.

Enjoyable day yesterday at the Operation Market Harborough show. Here are a Scammell towing a T-34/86 on a trailer, Antar tank transporter and Foden carrying a CVR(T). #tanks #trucks

RT @hw97karbine: Axis vehicles captured during the Second Battle of El Alamein including seven examples of the 15cm sFH 13/1 (Sf.) auf Gesc….

In Leamington Spa today and spotted the town’s war memorial. Many names from WW1 and WW2, but I was struck by four around the back from the Korean War and the Falklands conflict. #memorials

This has been a fascinating read - I picked up @James1940 and @almurray's 'Victory '45' when I was at Tankfest at the @TankMuseum last month. A fresh way of looking at the remarkable stories around the surrenders that finally brought #WW2 to an end across the world.

Tuesday Tank: had an hour chatting to Panzer Tracts author and @wealdfoundation trustee Hilary Louis Doyle today on behalf of @CMVMAG, so here's a bundle of #Panzers. @Burntime0101 @milmodelscene @USAS_WW1 @agbdrilling @TankMuseum #TankTuesday #WW2

Excellent article by Gerry van Tonder in the latest issue of @CMVMAG about the restoration of a Sexton Mk II SPG by the Garrison Artillery Volunteers. Based on the chassis of the Canadian Ram, the vehicle was taken into service in late 1944. @GarrisonArtill1 #WW2 #artillery

Just had the pleasure of interviewing Chris Price and Chris Copson from the @TankMuseum on behalf of @britainatwar magazine. Thank you both for a great chat! Here's the museum's Matilda I in the arena at this year's #Tankfest. #WW2

Tuesday Tank: some of the multinational armour that was at the Capel Military Show a couple of weeks ago, including a Soviet T-54, British Chieftain, US M5A1 Stuart and German Leopard 1A1A4. @Burntime0101 @milmodelscene @USAS_WW1 @agbdrilling #TankTuesday