Eddie Bairstow
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Ex-RN and Army Schoolie. 45 Cdo Gp Schoolie/Watchkeeper Falklands 82. 800m/1500m athletics coach. Photography. Old churches.
Joined January 2020
The link below shows Sub Lt Wilde RNR was serving on HMS Rhododendron when she was sunk by a U Boat 5 May 1918. Lots of interesting details. Plaque in All Saints Church, Okehampton. @militaryhistori @NatMuseumRN @I_W_M @NatMuseumRN @drhingram @Tigga594 .
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War Memorial Okehampton, inside graveyard All Saints Church. WW1.WW2 a.WW2 b plus Afghanistan 2011 in same font as the rest. Cpl Michael Pike @4_SCOTS_CO Lots of detail below.@militaryhistori @DrHelenFry @I_W_M @Britwarmemorial @Tigga594 @JaneFranklin99
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Bygones is a superb little private museum in St Marychurch, Torquay. Lots of medals and militaria, including Falklands and Canberra/P&O. @JaneFranklin99 @FalklandsinUK @militaryhistori @DrHelenFry.
A few of our City and Met Police medals including an Olympic 1908 gold medal winner . ( police medals on display but still looking for his Olympic tug of war medal ! Displayed by our Original Victorian Dartmoor prison door .
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@militaryhistori @I_W_M @robert_lyman @DrHelenFry I think Private Ward was in the 1/4th Devonshire Battalion. @Britwarmemorial @JaneFranklin99 @Tigga594 .
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Military grave All Saints Okehampton. Metal rifles & Devonshire Regt badge. Private W T Ward 1st and 4th R.V. Died 16 March 1917 aged 50. "He brought honours to his County by winning the Queens Prize at Bisley 1897 & 1900".@militaryhistori @I_W_M @robert_lyman @DrHelenFry
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Red squirrels at Formby reserve, Merseyside. Taken some years ago when I lived close enough to cycle there. They are very fast beasties. @Longhouses @LucyYung7 @Tigga594 @Jimmyocx3
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All Saints Okehampton. Fire destroyed most in 1842 except 16th C tower. War Memorial Fred Wilde RNR & @HAC_TheCompany .15th C glass fragment back-lit.William Morris designed window. @SgtMajFrench @militaryhistori @BooksTeaFilms @JaneFranklin99 @HistoricEngland @Britwarmemorial
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30 minute Goodrington evening walk.Kapitan Glowacki (L) & Fryderyk Chopin (R) anchored off Berry Head. Pied Wagtail. Female or Juvenile Male.Heron.Nelly. 10 year old cockapoo.@JaneFranklin99 @SianVidak @militaryhistori @paulhayes55 @ERattrac @BooksTeaFilms @Tigga594
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A memorable photo. @militaryhistori @DrHelenFry.
The British Army in Normandy.🇬🇧🇬🇧. A group of soldiers from 3rd Division pose for a photograph in Caen, July 1944.📸
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In my schooldays the Vietnam War was on the evening news daily.
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Still chuckling. The best bit. I can picture and hear him doing it. 🤣.
In awe, I watched the waxing moon ride across the zenith of the heavens like an ambered chariot towards the ebony void of infinite space wherein the tethered belts of Jupiter and Mars hang, for ever festooned in their orbital majesty. And as I looked at all this I thought. I
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1. @45CdoGp fatalities Falklands 82.2. 15 @RoyalNavy cooks killed Falklands 82 (plus 3 45 Cdo).3. 18 Mar 82. 3 @RoyalMarines killed mortar explosion Otterburn. Days before Falklands War start. 4. 28 Jan 83. Two 42 Cdo Falklands Vets killed Norway trg. @Tigga594 @FalklandsinUK
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In the 80s, I transferred to @ArmyEducators. I was on adventure trg with 4 Div Army Ed. Instructor took us to a v high metal road bridge for a free abseil where your feet don't touch anything. You dangle mid-air. They all looked at my Cdo dagger arm badge. Bleep! I went first.
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I watched Keely Hodgkinson's 800m comeback race on @BBCiPlayer. My heart was in my mouth all the way round. I must admit my eyes got a bit watery - dust coming thru the windows? Well done @Keelyhodgkinson , @faster_feet, @JennyMeadows800. Teamwork and patience. Wow!.
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It was known as the "rundown". You needed quite a bit of effort to overcome the friction on the rope.
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Hardest thing I had to do on All Arms Cdo Cse 1980. I hate heights!🙄60 ft front-facing abseil. Got to edge, walked back. CSgt @RoyalMarines took me aside: "down or off course". Went down. At bottom CSgt shouted "round again". 2nd time easier. @Tigga594 @RoyalNavy @NatMuseumRN.
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Keely Hodgkinson's 800m come-back race is live on @BBCiPlayer at 2.50pm today. The rest of the Diamond League fixture is on BBC 2 at 3pm-5pm. Thank you for the heads-up @JennyMeadows800. Hope it goes well, Kelly.
Happening today! Keely’s race is just before the BBC 2 broadcast 15:00-17:00 UK time so they have put it on the BBC iplayer & website at 14:50 UK time so UK audiences can watch live. Enjoy 😊 #M11trackclub
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Walking up from the seafront I saw a man outside a café. He had a v small owl on his arm. I asked permission to take photos. He said the owl is a Northern White-faced owl, 18 mths old, full size. Wonderful. @Tigga594 @JaneFranklin99 @SianVidak @militaryhistori @BooksTeaFilms
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