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Their Name Liveth Forevermore Second Officer Irene Arkless ‘Hoping to do my bit, for our dear old country’ 3 Jan 1943, her Oxford V3888 crashed onto a house outside Cambridge, engine failure on take-off. Buried Carlisle (Stanwix) Cemetery @CWGC

Knoydart 5am sunrise through the window - Ardvasar, Isle of Skye #Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @ThePhotoHour @StormHour @bbcweather @SeanBattyTV

WAAF WEDNESDAY Today we feature Ursula Powys-Lybbe who was born in 1910 & had a pre-war career as a professional photographer in Cairo & London. She was well respected, with her images featuring in Tatler & The Illustrated London News. With the outbreak of war Ursula started…

🅾🅽 🆃🅷🅸🆂 🅽🅸🅶🅷🆃 July 22/23, 1944: SOE agents Jack Agazarian and Nicolas Bodington leave England in a Hudson aircraft and land in German-occupied France to investigate the collapse of SOE's Prosper network. #JackAgazarian #NicolasBodington #ProsperNetwork #SOE #WW2 1/3

An image of the headstone when it was nice & clean. thebignote.com/2015/01/15/gui…

Feb 2019 when we first moved to Kintyre from Manchester. They spent a lot of time looking out the windows. 🐑 TV in the winter and 🐄 TV in the summer.

Taken 2 days ago by an ex WRAF veteran friend. Private Daisy Mary Ashcroft, Auxiliary Territorial Service Age 20 14 Jun 1941 Buried in Mount Cemetery, Guildford, Surrey (I’m lost for words)

Their Name Liverh Forevermore Private Elsie Handley, ATS Age 28 18 July 1944 Killed alongside her Mother & Aunt when a Lancaster crashed onto family farmhouse. Offley, (St Mary Magdalene) Churchyard Commemorated by @CWGC crash incident detail attached to Forevermore entry

My brain, struggling to learn Gàidhlig (today! !

On the way from here to there, it would be remiss not to drop into Castiglione deli Pepoli - South African Legion, @CWGC doing a fine job. One for @james1940.

#OTD. Following on from my chronologically erroneous tweet earlier, it was 43 years ago, not 42. This is my late Dad looking at a Wessex V of 848 D Flight on HMS Hermes on 21/7/1982.

Sound of Sleat rainbow - Armadale, Isle of Skye #Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @bbcweather @krobertsonitv @SeanBattyTV @VisitScotland @ThePhotoHour @StormHour

“The Spitfire didn’t just fly—it lifted the spirit of a nation.” Let the legacy of the Spitfire remind us: With purpose & courage, we can rise above anything. Keep pushing forward. Keep flying higher. The Spitfire lives on in stories, memories, & in all who dare to rise.

Welcome to our new Defence Attaché Colonel Erica Bridge - look forward to working with you as we continue to strengthen 🇬🇧🇮🇹 defence cooperation. And a big thank you to Col Matt Smith, our former Defence Attaché, for his sterling work over the last 3 years 🇬🇧🤝🇮🇹

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20 minutes ago, Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, Isle of Skye

A good beach find this morning - the base of a stoneware pot 🫙 marked with the company name Govancroft Pottery Ltd. Founded in 1911 by James Buchanan, the pottery until 1946 mainly produced stoneware items such as whisky flagons, kitchen wares, hot water bottles. #OuterHebrides

Earlier, more flowers! Gorgeous flowers 🫶🏼🪻

🅾🅽 🆃🅷🅸🆂 🅽🅸🅶🅷🆃 July 19/20, 1942: SOE agent Richard Heslop is infiltrated into Vichy France by boat. Arrested in August, he is released by the French commandant of the internment camp to avoid handing him over to the Germans. #RichardHeslop #SOE #WW2 1/6

The Heyford being used in Robert Watson-Watt & Arnold Wilkins’ Daventry Experiment (1935). The birth of RAdio Detection And Ranging… (Painting: ‘The First Step’ by Roy Huxley)