The Néry Gun at the IWM. Still bearing the scars of war.

Langemark German Military Cemetery.

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RT @BriW74: Paperback is now out. It does feel strange having a book published.

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RT @Ri315e: #OTD 29th August 1916,. 315e RI got their orders: Verdun .September can bee seen to be a “quiet” month, yet 315e RI lived in sh….

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Menin Gate shadows.

Down. Two. Earth. A full-size sculpture of a Junkers 87 Stuka at the Battle of Britain Memorial, Capel-le-Ferne.

CWGC commemorates 8 officers and 76 men of the battalion who died in this action. Roderic is buried in Mory Abbey Military Cemetery, grave ref V. C. 16. 10/10

…in the death of your son can make me gauge how great your loss must be. He was always so welcoming and cheerful and everyone loved him immensely. And the men of his platoon who survived that terrible 27th August feel his loss very deeply indeed." 9/10.

…the enemy a prolonged advance on his left was impossible - all the more because the Battalion on his left had been already held up. At this point Lieut. R. M. OLIVER was killed.". The Battalion's Chaplain wrote to Roderic's mother "The sense of personal loss which I feel… 8/10.

…casualties. The frontage allotted to the Battalion was 1500 yards which made flank connection of the utmost difficulty. Captain J. C. CORNFORTH M.C. led his Company forward from the sunken road and found that owing to the intensity of the M.G. fire and the proximity of… 7/10.

…rate of 100 yards in two minutes. At zero the battalion advanced from its forming up position and within a few minutes of advancing came under intense M.G. fire from the German M.G. nests in BANKS TRENCH and BANKS RESERVE, and from this moment any movement resulted in… 6/10.

…battalion took part in an attack on German lines some four miles north of Bapaume (see trench map). An after-action report recorded "Zero was at 7.0 am. when a field-gun barrage was put down in a line 500 yards in front of the leading company [No. 3], creeping at the… 5/10

going on to become Adjutant. In October 1916 he was transferred to the Household Battalion. The war diary of 2nd Battalion Grenadier Guards records Roderic joining the battalion in France on 3 June 1918. He was a platoon commander in No. 3 Company. On 27 August 1918, the… 4/10.

Qualifying as a solicitor in 1907, he went into partnership with his father in London. The 1911 census records that the family was living in Burnt Oak, Orlestone near Ashford. On the outbreak of war in 1914 Roderic was commissioned into 2/5th Battalion East Kent Regiment, 3/10.

…two further children, both girls. Roderic senior worked as a solicitor in London. Educated at Horris Hill Preparatory School, Roderic went on to Winchester College from 1895-1901. He then undertook a Classics degree at New College, Oxford, graduating with Honours in 1905. 2/10.

Thread. Local man Roderic Magrath Oliver was killed in action on this day in 1918, aged 36. Roderic was born in London on 1 February 1882 and was baptised in Christ Church Marylebone on 29 March that year. He was the first child of Roderic and Emily Mary Oliver who had… 1/10

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For #TankTuesday, a Sherman at Military Odyssey at the weekend. It appears that the turret is fibre glass.