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Co-host of THE LOWLANDER PODCAST. Leading the first Peter White; Walking With The Jocks battlefield tour in Autumn 2024. Come join us!

East, England

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8 months

Yesterday at @WeHaveWaysPod fest we walked with Peter Whites Jocks though Waldfeuct. Why not join me and @rentaquill in autumn 2024 & Walk With the Jocks, for real? With the amazing @bhltours we are offering the first ever Peter White battlefield tour

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Join us, walking with the Jocks on two 4-day battlefield tours | Following in the footsteps of Capt. Peter White, 4th Battalion, King's Own Scottish Borderers…

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2 years

2 pints of milk White sliced 20 B&H Razzle

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Russian air defence commander, 0543hrs this morning, Belgorod #Ukraine ️

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rip sycamore gap wiv da angels now.

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Bernard Cribbins was unique in many ways, none more so in that way that, despite being in the parachute regiment, he didn’t mention it every 2 fucking minutes.

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Everyone: 2” mortar is not a direct fire weapon. 4th Battalion Kings Own Scottish Borderers: Hold my beer… @WeHaveWaysPod

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3 years

Very traumatic story…. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the Isle of Arran community Facebook group:

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Every time he drops his mag on the ground an instructor at Brecon dies

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T.REX ARMS As a material to learn shooting and tactics

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Albert Herbert was not a typical soldier but maybe his attitude wasn’t as uncommon as we think. Herbert was 19yo and plain terrified Here he describes his novel way of dealing from the SS during Op Jupiter, Normandy July 44’ with the 4th Somerset Light Infantry @WeHaveWaysPod

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@RM_Mili_History It’s cool because it’s the exact opposite of the vetbro coffee company/tactical gear/COD “loadout” crew

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Incorrect. Weirdly luminous British tropical DPM of the 70s-90s is the best and everyone knows it

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The US Army's Woodland camouflage pattern is the best camouflage to have emerged over the last 50 years. Still works very effectively in my view and doesn't look like you're wearing pyjamas after three washes.

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NOT A TAN… oh what’s the fu*king point

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I think I’ve found some bocage.

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2 years

I don’t think I’ve been anywhere quite as affecting as the @CWGC Reichswald It was a privilege to be able to visit. Only 3 and a bit hours from Calais.

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Me: meh, not really into planes.. Also me: FUCKING HELL ITS A LANCASTER Right over the house, 3 times. Shit the bed #lancaster #BOBMF @WeHaveWaysPod

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Right wingers: War is a serious business, this is a waste of time and resources, it’s humiliating… blah blah Me, Operation Telic 2, Basra, Iraq 2003: Squadron breakdancing competition

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Morning Pikachu Dance. Winter has never been an obstacle to a good mood. 🎥 by Operative #UAarmy

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“Two years, mountain warfare training, skiing, climbing the lot…Then where’d they go? Fucking Holland… below sea level..”

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OTD, 26/06/1944 Operation Epsom started, and was born, what I think is the greatest British combat photo sequence, not just of the war but of all time. It follows 6th Royal Scots Fusiliers in their assault on Saint Manvieu @WeHaveWaysPod @almurray @almurray

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I was thinking the exact same… here looks pretty good 👍🏻

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As someone with an extreme fear of nuclear war, I've made the decision to move the family to somewhere safer--rural North Dakota. About as far as you can get from population centers. If nothing else, we'll be safe from the warheads.

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Unduly irritated by the pervasive use of Recon over Recce in British media.

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3 months

The only tank for the 14th February.

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3 months

Do you know what the worst thing about this series is? This British funded, British directed, British written and predominantly British acted show doesn’t mention the contribution of the Americans once. Disgusting, completely writes out the contribution of the Yanks Do better

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The night of 23rd/24th March 1945, Operation Plunder, the assault across the Rhine began. BBC correspondent Wynford Vaughan-Thomas recorded this from an assault battalion HQ (51st HD) buffalo, just listen to the tension as he crosses!🔊 @WeHaveWaysPod @almurray @James1940

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@HelanaDarwin DO IT. I left a job a few years ago that damn near killed me with stress. I took a big pay cut but it turned my life around.

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2 years

New Sandhurst spring/summer 2022 collection has dropped 🔥

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Evidence the UK embassy in Kyiv - @UKinUkraine - is getting ready to reopen. Spotted in the 🇺🇦capital already: 🇬🇧Defence Attache Tim Woods & his deputy. Their Ukrainian partners will be delighted!

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The indomitable, Captain Stan Perry, Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry. @James1940 @WeHaveWaysPod #WarFest

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Me, after binging The Pacific in 2 days.

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As you tuck yourselves up in bed tonight, spare a thought for a PIAT crew from 7th Battalion Seaforth Highlanders, who knocked 3 Panzer Mk IVs from 9th SS, with a flipping PIAT OTD 1944 @WeHaveWaysPod @historicfirearm

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300m away from you

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Cool. Now reassemble the the SA80 A1 Bolt Carrier Assembly, with a violent alcoholic full screw watching.

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A high school student in Baku, Ayan Hasanova, during initial military training lesson, with her eyes closed, disassembled a Kalashnikov assault rifle within 10 seconds. According to the standards, partial disassembly of an AK-74 assault rifle for an excellent assessment should…

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2 years

Apropos of nothing, here’s a photo of my dog Boe, bugger all to do with the funeral but she is magnificent.

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6 months

People don’t realise the dangers of being a cosplaying Walt. One minute I’m in my bedroom dressing up like an army man then somehow ended up in Al Majar al Kabir building an emergency sangars and mortar shelters. I really should have done Napoleonic reenactment. Silly me

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2 years

Spectacular. There’s almost an abstract beauty to it. Amazing work.

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If any veterans are part of those far right hooligans then you’re a fucking disgrace. Violence is not a part of remembrance. This rests entirely with @SuellaBraverman shame on you

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BBC Reporter, Colin Wills here on the run in to Juno beach, 6th of June 1944. “The sky is lightning!” #DDay77 @WeHaveWaysPod @almurray @James1940 🔊 on!

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Second World War Twitter watching 15th century and Napoleonic Twitter getting done over this morning…

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Holy fuck. The first lesson you teach recruits, on their first ever field exercise is the duties of a sentry. Jesus Christ

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1/4 OTD 1944, AFPU filmed C Company, 4 KOSB, 52(L) Div training near Sittard, Netherlands. The full film has never been seen publicly before. It was filmed just 1 month before Blackcock. @WeHaveWaysPod

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3 months

Can we all agree on one thing about Masters of the Air at least? Austin Butler had no business being that gorgeously handsome.

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3 years

Is there a more iconic image of the Normandy campaign than British infantrymen advancing through ripe, waist high wheat? 4th Dorsets, 130Bde, 43Div on the approach to Eterville. OTD 44’ Op Jupiter. @WeHaveWaysPod IWM A70 76-4

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2 years

just nipping out for a pint of milk and 20 B&H from @CenterParcsUK

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2 years

Not today, Satan.

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Now, here’s a thought. In @sauldavid66 brilliant book Devil Dogs, he quotes a letter from Sledge to his mum, that he was filmed on Peleliu firing the 60mm mortar with SNAFU. Searched for the footage & found just this bit from a newsreel, dare to dream? @WeHaveWaysPod

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When Adolf Hitler claimed that the “Reich would last for 1000 years” he hadn’t factored in Driver F Wastell, RASC of Finchley, London N3. Seen here crossing the Rhine, 26th March 1945. @WeHaveWaysPod

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You should have seen the state of my nutsack during Op Telic. As someone that used to train male and female army recruits, including hygiene in the field, don’t listen to Denise.

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Female Ukrainian soldiers are getting yeast infections on the front lines. It's almost as if there are biological differences between genders that make women a very poor choice for soldiers....

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Hey Siri, what is a “safety margin”? @WeHaveWaysPod

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@David_Cameron Hey, just checking in to see how this is going

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@NoContextBrits I’d have this lad in the trenches with me. He’s 6st wet through and dense enough to bend light, but he as fearless as a honey badger.

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3 years

Watching all the sailors losing it over #Vigil this morning

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OTD Infantry of 2nd Wiltshire Regiment, 5th Division, supported by Churchill tanks of 6th Guards Tank Brigade, clear a pocket of resistance south of Lubeck, 2 May 1945. IWM BU 4990

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Twitter historians analysing a 2m31s film trailer

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@JeremyClarkson Binged it at the start of the week, looked outside & was immediately worried that it hasn’t rained and the crops would be ruined, then I was chuffed when it did rain, but it hasn’t stopped for raining for 2 days now & I’m really stressed out again that the crops are fucked

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@JimmySecUK To all the people criticising the lads incorrect use of the NLAW: get your kit on, travel to Ukraine, poke your head out of a window whist a Russian tank rumbles past and take a shot. Then report back to us

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@SkyNews @Rfn1940

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Say one thing for Masters of the Air, it’s ignited a spark of interest in me about the air war. Best thing about living in anglia is you’re never more than a few minutes from USAAF airfields. Steeple Morden, 1628hrs 02/02/24 route to pick up the boy from the train.

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OTD 06/06/375million BC the most important amphibious operation in history took place. #neverforget

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I think we’re all forgetting that Diane Abbot drank a whole can of M&S Mojito on a train.

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2 years

There’s happy, then there’s @robert_lyman in a a bren carrier happy. What a fantastic weekend @WeHaveWaysPod fest. Bit overwhelmed by the lovely comments, but a huge thank you to all who watched the talk, and of course thanks to @almurray @James1940 @tonypastor70 🫡

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As we head into the evening of the 6th of June #DDay77 I’ll leave you with the BBCs Alan Melville. From the dunes behind Sword Beach he watched the Airborne resupply drops(not paratroops as thought) and 6th ALBde coming in. Volume up please @WeHaveWaysPod @almurray @James1940

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If the word of command to fire this weapon isn’t “DRACARYS” then UK defence is truly broken.

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BREAKING: The MoD has announced it will accelerate the DragonFire Laser weapon from a demonstrator programme to an operational capability to be installed on Royal Navy warships. Initially for use as a counter-UAV solution, it is hoped it will be operational by 2027 but…

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Just like to say thank you to all the lovely people on here that were super kind and supportive this year, especially the @WeHaveWaysPod IC, @James1940 and @almurray Wishing you the very best of luck for 23’ Up the 52nd, and down with the Nazis.

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08/10/2022

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I often think about L/Cpl Ransford-Thomas and just what he would have done to the Soviet 3rd Shock Army. #hottakessunday

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@STWuk I dunno… maybe the hammer and sickle at a rally about Ukraine isn’t the best optics lads? Голодомо́р

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I’ve seen people making jibes about @WeHaveWaysPod recently but our wee moment on the livestream to remember IC member Mike Hobbs who sadly passed away this week is what this community is all about. @almurray @James1940 Here’s to you Mike 🍺

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Nothing says British army more than cutting out the side of a tent to show a member of the royal family what the inside of a tent looks like. @olly2518 IWM H 29093

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@ABridgen Congratulations on writing the worst tweet of the day

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I haven’t used a stamp in about 8 years… people WILL be getting Christmas cards from this year @WeHaveWaysPod

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I’ve come across the most amazing unheard/seen footage of PM Neville Chamberlain after his visit to Munich in 38. I was unaware this was part of his speech, such a complex man. Astonishing. Please watch.

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1 year

You can tell the RAF regiment didn’t secure the airfield in Sudan because they haven’t commissioned a painting of it

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One of the best talks last week was by this chap, Abbs. Really engaging on how a home guard platoon would defend a street. @WeHaveWaysPod

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It’s going to be unbearable on here soon, isn’t it.

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THINGS ARE GETTING RIDICULOUS NOW Complete aerial mosaic for 30 Corps initial phases of Operation Veritable thanks to 6th Assault Regiment RE War Diary @RE_Hist_Society @WeHaveWaysPod @UkNatArchives

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Imagine the humiliation of having one of your submarines destroyed by a missile made in Stevenage. #stormshadow

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What’s the matter, babe, do you like your Karl Donitz shoes I got you?

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3 years

If you share a video of #christianerikson collapsing or getting treatment you’re a piece of shit. Don’t do it.

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@UNARMOUREDworld @joshgad 3-2-1 will blow his fucking mind

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When #tanktuesday and Op Blackcock combine. Armour of the 7th Armoured Division move on the Buchten-Susteren road OTD 17/01/1945. @WeHaveWaysPod @almurray @James1940 IWM A70 229-8

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It’s just a scrubby bank of the A30 autobahn, outside of Ibbeburen, but it’s also the location of the farmhouse where on the 5th of April 1945 3 British 17pounder Archer SP guns shot up Whites platoon, killing 8 of his men. @WeHaveWaysPod

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1/2 I’ve stumbled across film footage of a well known sequence of photos, so I thought I’d share. Here’s 6 Cameronians (52 LD) and Royal Scots Greys (4AB) crossing the Dortmund Ems canal in April 45. @WeHaveWaysPod @RobertGlenniePT @almurray check out the stowage

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#tanktuesday innit. 79th Armoured Division doing their thing, near Susteren, Netherlands, January 1945. It’s that division again, @almurray @WeHaveWaysPod

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Despite some personal misgivings about living history, Montys Men did look good. @WeHaveWaysPod #WarFest

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Gosh this was so much fun to do, I could have talked for hours about Peter and the 52nd 😆 The great thing is I’m finding out more about Peter and his men every week, which I hope to share as soon as I can. Huge thank you to @almurray @James1940 and @WeHaveWaysPod

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WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk

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Who was Peter White - writer of the incredibly influential war memoir 'With The Jocks'? @almurray and @James1940 speak to @AndyAitcheson about the man behind the book. Listen ⬇️

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There is nothing, and I mean nothing more dangerous than a bored squaddie. Lots of people in the comments saying they don’t believe it… I reckon most squaddies believe this.

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In 90s Northern Ireland, the guard towers outside barracks used to have counter measures to stop radio controlled bombs. I turned them off when I was on duty so I could listen to the radio.

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You’ve heard of #tanktuesday well get ready for… #swwtankrecognitiononasaturdaymorningsaturday What tank is rolling across the bridge? @WeHaveWaysPod

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What’s the matter babe, didn’t you like your National Socialist tank high tops that the kids got you for Father’s Day?

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Coming soon, the story of the 52nd Lowland Division, 6 months in combat, one podcast episode for every week they were fighting the Germans. The source?…. The divisions own wartime newspaper.

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I wouldn’t have done any of these things, which have changed and enriched my life immeasurably. Meeting the the @WeHaveWaysPod team @almurray @James1940 , the IC, and loads of new friends

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Allow me to brag… but here’s me on holiday with my beautiful daughter 🖤

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@HughKeir Never change RAF, never change you magnificent bastards

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Someone has a remarkably sweaty forehead for a man that, checks notes... can’t sweat 👀 #RoyalFuneral

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