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- 4 Feb 1916 // HM Trawler De la Pole, a minesweeper, was driven aground and wrecked on the Goodwin Sands during a gale. 11 of her 12 crew were saved by the North Deal RNLI lifeboat. #RoyalNavy #WW1 #NavalHistory
- 'Revealed: Israel bulldozed part of Gaza war cemetery containing allied graves' Satellite images and witness testimony show destruction as IDF claims it was forced to take defensive measures www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f... @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social #WW1 #WW2 #WarGraves #Gaza #HeritageAtRisk
- @ukahn.bsky.social I was gifted one of the rarest medals from #WW1. It was for a nurse in the TFNS She became very ill with malaria and discharged. Here is her story historicalclues.blogspot.com/2026/01/harr...
- @ukahn.bsky.social I was gifted one of the rarest medals from #WW1. It was for a nurse in the TFNS She became very ill with malaria and discharged. Here is her story historicalclues.blogspot.com/2026/01/harr...
- 3 Feb 1915 // Overnight on 2/3 Feb armed merchant cruiser HMS Clan MacNaughton (ex Clan Line SS Clan MacNaughton) vanished with all 281 on board off the north-west coast of Ireland during bad weather. She may have foundered in heavy seas or struck a stray mine. #RoyalNavy #WW1 #NavalHistory
- 2 Feb 1917 // HM Trawler Holdene, a minesweeper based in Harwich, detonated a submarine-laid mine while sweeping off Orfordness, and sank with the loss of seven of her crew. #RoyalNavy #WW1 #NavalHistory
- 2 Feb 1917 // HM Drifter G.S.P., a net barrier tender based in Poole, collided off Selsey Bill with newly-built destroyer Radiant, which was conducting speed trials, and sank with the loss of five men from her crew of nine. #RoyalNavy #WW1 #NavalHistory
- 2 Feb 1917 // HM Trawler Cotsmuir, employed as a minesweeper off north-east England, disappeared during the night of 2-3 February, presumed mined, while returning to the Humber after escorting a merchant vessel to the Tyne. All 13 of her crew were lost with her. #RoyalNavy #WW1 #NavalHistory
- Really enjoyed getting to present at the @milwelfhist.bsky.social virtual symposium this morning, looking at some of the more “fun” aspects of my PhD thesis (we all know I love getting to talk about the artificial limbs themselves!) #DisHist #ww1 #ww2
- What really happened? We’re launching a new theme on the podcast, beginning with two Great War questions long obscured by myth: the real origins of the Unknown Soldier and the truth behind Kitchener’s final hours - out Sunday #WW1 #FWW
- A little discovery today. I am researching an officer of the South Staffordshire Regiment. Turns out that in 1930s he became postmaster and lived at a premises on Kew Green in London. I have driven past it a million times on my way to National Archives. History is never far away. #ww1 #genealogy
- 1 Feb 1918 // HM Trawler Remindo, equipped with hydrophones for submarine detection, vanished off Portland with all 20 crew. U-boat UC.79 later claimed to have sunk her near the French coast, but the Admiralty concluded that she had struck a mine. #RoyalNavy #WW1 #NavalHistory
- 1 Feb 1918 // HM Trawler Cleon disappeared off Folkestone with all 12 crew while on minesweeping duties. An explosion was heard at about the time she vanished, suggesting that she had struck a mine. One of her boats was later found adrift in a damaged condition. #RoyalNavy #WW1 #NavalHistory
- "he was mourned as dead. On Saturday morning last his parents were overjoyed to receive a postcard from him stating that he was a prisoner of war in Germany." More on the #LiverpoolScottish in #WW1 at georgefergusonliverpool.wordpress.com/2026/02/01/1...
- Thanks to all who joined me this evening for a @oldfrontline.bsky.social Supporters Evening where we looked at images of the front line during Winter in #WW1.
- This week’s general release feature continues to follow the Navy in the Dardanelles on 2-3 March 1915. The fleet has found serious flaws in the plans but London isn’t listening… jerijerod14.substack.com/p/the-fleets... #navalhistory #ww1
- Please join the friends and members of the Military Welfare History Network @milwelfhist.bsky.social #online Monday 2 February 11:00 to 17:30 (Dublin time) The 3rd event supported by Wellcome-SSHM Network Grants For programme see 👇 & for Zoom link contact militarywelfarehistory@gmail.com #histmed
- Something I Found in an initial trawl of the committee books of a hospital in the North West - 1915. Explicitly - no pay, no promotion and no permanence! Oh thank you so much! #WW1 #WomensHistory
- My new book is finally available to buy. www.lulu.com/shop/nina-ba... #WW1 #WW2 #MerchantNavy #Womenshistory #History #Historybook I am sorry it is comparatively expensive for its size but there seemed to be no way to force the price down for something that had to have coloured images.
- This week’s feature - The third part on my Navy off the Dardanelles. This time it is 25 February, and the larger force has gathered to strike the outer forts - this time with the French #ww1 #navalhistory #history open.substack.com/pub/jerijero...
- In the latest @oldfrontline.bsky.social QnAs we discuss chaplains on the Western Front, were German machine-gunners really chained to their weapons, why were some sectors more heavily mined than others and the task of photographing wargraves during & after #WW1. oldfrontline.co.uk/2026/01/10/q...
- This week’s free to read follows the career of a Chatham built battleship into the First Workd War jerijerod14.substack.com/p/from-chath... #ww1 #navalhistory #history
- This week’s podcast is on the Astro-Hungarian dreadnoughts and argues that their fatal weakness isn’t that big of a deal… on paper. #ww1 #history podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/m...
- Time is running out! Some brilliant pitches so far. Have you got a #WW1 story to tell? Get in touch before 23rd January!
- Continuing my Naval attacks at the Dardanelles posts - this week’s feature (now free) is on the Allied Navy’s first attempt to level the forts at the Straits open.substack.com/pub/jerijero... #ww1 #navalhistory
- Part two is out for paid subscribers today as well (but on general release next week) and looks at the first major Naval engagement on 19 February. #ww1 #history #navalhistory jerijerod14.substack.com/p/the-first-...
- If you enjoyed yesterday’s podcast here are some first hand testimonies from survivors of the sinking of HMS Formidable jerijerod14.substack.com/p/voices-fro... #history #ww1
- So this week’s podcast is out and #otd 1914 a u-boat is stalking a battleship off the south coast. What would follow would see most of the crew of HMS Formidable lost in horrendous weather conditions and fighting for their lives. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/m...
- In this episode of @oldfrontline.bsky.social: Why were only three #WW1 officers Shot at Dawn? We explore Vera Deakin’s search for the missing, how war shaped those who served, and the Battle of Manchester Hill in March 1918. oldfrontline.co.uk/2025/12/27/q...
- Thrilled to share our new open-access article, co-authored with Robin J. C. Adams, for @conteurohistory.bsky.social - this time focusing on #Poland in the aftermath of #WW1. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
- #Onthisday in 1918, just days before end of #WW1, French poet Apollinaire (weakened by a shrapnel wound) died in the Spanish flu epidemic. Later that year Calligrammes: Poems of Peace & War was published, a collection of his concrete/visual poems publicdomainreview.org/collection/a... #OTD
