Mark Simner
@marksimner
Author and Magazine Feature Writer of British Military History | MHM Book of the Year Nominee | Book Reviewer | Militaria Collector | BA (Hons) MSc
Artefacts from Royal Navy First World War battleship recovered from seabed royalnavy.mod.uk/news/2025/july…
If StudioCanal do make the proposed remake of The Avengers TV series a reality, they're going to have a devil of a time casting the right actors to play John Steed and Emma Peel. It would have to be actors like Henry Cavill and Hayley Atwell to pique my interest, albeit unlikely.
As a fan of Secrets of the London Underground TV series, I absolutely love this YouTube channel from @ltmuseum. If you've not seen either, you're really missing out on some fascinating history. youtu.be/iCxd-mBXc6I?fe…
A shout out for @rifleman_moore, who produces one of the most detailed and interesting YouTube channels on British militaria. youtube.com/@riflemanmoore…
Time for a second viewing of this excellent series! m.imdb.com/title/tt240538…
Another article for a magazine finished today. A final read through/check tomorrow before submission. Now for a lazy afternoon/evening. Have a great Saturday, folks!
It's amazing what small and personal items of wartime kit survive. A #Wardonia safety razor and unused blades of the type that would have commonly been found in British soldiers holdalls (wash rolls) during the Second World War.
Pleased to learn that the SSZ airship mooring rings I first discovered in 1970 are still in situ at Donkey Hollow on the former WW1 RNAS station at Polegate, East Sussex.
I’m a huge fan of Great War family history, @SgtMajFrench, and Ronald may well have brought the spoon home, but there is no doubt that the spoon was originally issued to pre-war Regular, 7057 Joseph I. Taylor, who enlisted into The Cheshire Regiment in late 1902/early 1903 and…
Family history… a spoon issued to Mrs F’s grandfather, who served with the Royal Horse Artillery in Egypt in WW2. 2CH represents 2nd Chestnut Troop, named after the colour of the horses. Here’s to Ronald H-R (7057), who spoke lovingly of his war horse, George. @royalartillery1
Inside issue 148: Great Battles - Loos with @marksimner. Launched on 25 September 1915, 'The Big Push' was the first massive British offensive of the Great War. ➡️ Buy Today: history-of-war.visitlink.me/aFYo7M Image by Martin Frost (Der Krieg 1914/19 in Wort und Bild, 53)
A very recently acquired 1915 dated British intrenching tool. I'd like to give a shout out to @DBGMilitaria (dbgmilitaria.co.uk). A gentleman and always a pleasure to do business with.
Reading about the German Gotha bombers of the First World War. I cannot imagine what it would have been like risking your life in one of these contraptions. Ive flown in a Stampe, but even then... (Image: Wikimedia Commons)
#OnThisDay (21 July 1944) U.S. forces land on the Japanese held island of #Guam in the Mariana Islands. The island was a U.S. territory that had been taken by the Japanese in December 1941 following the attack on Pearl Harbor. (Image: Wikimedia Commons)
The level of detail on this is bonkers incredible! 😯 1/6 scale Colonel Mackenzie from 1917. share.google/U9p1smjQASwMD4…
This is one reason why I love history. As Trev says, the aircraft is truly "wonderfully bizarre".
I've not posted much about the wonderfully bizarre Handley Page Heyford for a while, so I'll redress that today. The RAF's primary night bomber for much of the 1930s, it was involved in the first radar detection trials and later saw service in WW 2...as a glider tug!
Another item of British leather militaria lightly cleaned and treated to some balsam. This time a binoculars case. Apart from the War Department broad arrow, there is no date or manufacturer's details. However, I suspect these are WW2 rather than WW1. What do you think?
