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By *enjamin2018 OP   Man
over a year ago

Halstead

I love walking around the sites of old battlefields, been round a few in the UK, Flodden, Naseby, Hastings, Bosworth, now arranged a trip with some fellow anoraks to visit Agincourt and Crecy in Northern France later this summer.

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By *ew trixTV/TS
over a year ago

doncaster

Normandy is an eye opener

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By *enjamin2018 OP   Man
over a year ago

Halstead

It's great, stuffed with history, and the roads are usually pretty empty as well.

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By *reeder999Man
over a year ago

Leeds

Yeh I love anything Military and WW2 or any old battlefield sites !!

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By *ichardHeadMan
over a year ago

Higham

I did Nasbey about a year back very nice countryside there's a old airfield not far from there and a private museum I'm not sure if it's opened yet.

It only opens at certain times and has some of the S.O.E stuff there.

The Airfield use to house S.O.E operations.

In the fifties it was a Thor missile site with 3 pads which can be still seen today (heritage protected now).

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By *enjamin2018 OP   Man
over a year ago

Halstead

Many of the great war cemeteries in France and Belgium are located on the battlefields where the soldiers fought and died.

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By *ookhoutMan
over a year ago

Somewhere

A fascinating battlefield tour are the war graves and memorials in the Falklands - Blue Beach Military Cemetery at San Carlos, the HMS Sheffield memorial on Sea Lion Island, Lt Col Jones memorial and 2 Para Regiment Memorial near Darwin, Welsh Guard memorial at Fitzroy and a few others. The Argentine Cemetery near is very austere in nature and is located on the opposite side of Darwin Harbour away from Darwin and Goose Green.

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By *enjamin2018 OP   Man
over a year ago

Halstead

Wow Id love to do that, had a chance to work in the Falklands for a few months some years back, couldn't for family reasons, often wish I had.

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By *avidgeorgeMan
over a year ago

wakefield

have to admit they are very interesting places full of history, but when you sit back and just think of the young men and what they had to endure!! very sad places indeed.

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By *ibor58Man
over a year ago

Windsor

Love to go on a battlefield tour ex guardsman

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By *wbtmMan
over a year ago

Sherborne

Maybe we should all go on a tour, and book a hotel with lots of adjoining rooms for post history note taking

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By *ibor58Man
over a year ago

Windsor

Would be great fuck fest

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By *wbtmMan
over a year ago

Sherborne

I think your correct about that

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Would love a long weekend tour of ww1 battle sites with a like minded friend of similiar age, to share bedroom pleasures at the end of the day

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By *enjamin2018 OP   Man
over a year ago

Halstead

My ultimate battlefield ambition is to visit Gettysburg, probably next year, so if anyone harbours the same secret desire please send me a message

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By *angtMan
over a year ago

Wednesfield /Wolverhampton

I’ve been to Stamford Bridge (no not the Chelsea ground) Agincourt, Crecy, Bosworth, Waterloo, Ypres, and although not an actual battleground, Nicosia. Makes me sound like a war student, but I have spent a lot of time researching my family genealogy, and these are places I have found that family fought at over the centuries.

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By *antsMeetsMan
over a year ago

uxbridge

I'd like to go and do a battlefield tour in France/Belgium. I've been to Kanchanaburi in Thailand to see the River Kwai memorial which was very moving .

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By *oungWantedMan
over a year ago

Newcastle, Throckley

While not a battlefield, the US military cemetery just outside Cambridge is impressive

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By *antsMeetsMan
over a year ago

uxbridge

There's a military cemetery 5 min walk from me. ANZAC cemetery.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Normandy is an eye opener "

Best ten days I’ve ever spent

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Waterloo is worth a visit

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Waterloo is worth a visit "

I mean the battlefield, not the railway station

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By *icFlange2Man
over a year ago

Fareham

I've been to Berlin. Bullet holes still pepper many old buildings. I could sense the horror of the last stand of the nazis against the Soviets whilst fighting among civilians.

By chance I wandered into a courtyard. It was the former HQ of the wehrmact and where von Staffenburg had been shot.

Berlin is a strange place with many ghosts.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I've visited lots of WW1 sites in northern France and the Normandy landing sites. Went to Waterloo and Azincort a couple of years back as well.

Another thought provoking area that I've visited is the village of Oradour-sur-Glane near Limoges.

All well worth a visit.

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By *enjamin2018 OP   Man
over a year ago

Halstead


"I'd like to go and do a battlefield tour in France/Belgium. I've been to Kanchanaburi in Thailand to see the River Kwai memorial which was very moving ."

I've been there and I agree with you.

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By *enjamin2018 OP   Man
over a year ago

Halstead


"I've been to Berlin. Bullet holes still pepper many old buildings. I could sense the horror of the last stand of the nazis against the Soviets whilst fighting among civilians.

By chance I wandered into a courtyard. It was the former HQ of the wehrmact and where von Staffenburg had been shot.

Berlin is a strange place with many ghosts."

That's true, so is Munich for similar reasons.

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By *wbtmMan
over a year ago

Sherborne


"I've visited lots of WW1 sites in northern France and the Normandy landing sites. Went to Waterloo and Azincort a couple of years back as well.

Another thought provoking area that I've visited is the village of Oradour-sur-Glane near Limoges.

All well worth a visit.

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Iv been to Oradour as well, very moving indeed. X

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By *eekeeper1000Man
over a year ago

Richmond. North Yorkshire

Spent all my working life at the nearby army base at Catterick Garrison. Many of the roads, barracks & camps are named after WW1 battlefields. Names like Vimy, Somme & Arras are in daily use here in North Yorkshire. Busses have Kemmel on the destination board.

The tradition has continued with newer developments named after Falklands battles. It's a very real & living war memorial.

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By *tubbboyMan
over a year ago

Middlesbrough

Benjamin 2018 enjoyed reading your messages and am interested in chatting to you more about them but cannot contact you because of your age preference, Ian

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By *lueshirt1Man
over a year ago

Berwick upon Tweed/East lothian/Edinburgh

When I lived for a period in Berlin it was nice to drive out to the Seelow Heights for a picnic and a walk which wad 40 miles to the east of the city, where the German army made its last stand against the Soviet Union before they entered the city. The heights, once a place of explosions, smoke noise and slaughter is now covered in beautiful woodland and flowers,

anazing vantage points and some very impressive Soviet war memorials. Still some trenches and battle related earthworks too.

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By *ewbie NickMan
over a year ago

Aberdeenshire

Have always wanted to go to Arnhem as have always been interested in app Market Garden. 2024 is the 80th anniversary so planning to go in September next year.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I like to take cruises that cover areas my dad would have been in whilst serving on HMS Warspite in WW2. Off to Narvik this year.

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By *enjamin2018 OP   Man
over a year ago

Halstead

I've been to Omaha and Utah beaches, to Point de Hoc where the Rangers climbed the cliff under heavy fire and to St Mere Eglise which feels like stepping back on time.

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By *ewbie NickMan
over a year ago

Aberdeenshire


"I've been to Omaha and Utah beaches, to Point de Hoc where the Rangers climbed the cliff under heavy fire and to St Mere Eglise which feels like stepping back on time. "

Next time you’re in Normandy go to the town of Saint Lô; in the church which is pockmarked with bullet holes, they have left an artillery shell lodged in the wall that didn’t explode. You can’t move in Normandy for all the D-Day history.

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By *enjamin2018 OP   Man
over a year ago

Halstead

Thanks I will. Almost every village of any size has a tank or gun on display, dredged up or just found abandoned after the war. It's just so interesting.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The war graves at Gallipoli are worth a visit. Just plain butchery occured there, a total balls up by the allies.

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By *usu99Man
over a year ago

Hammersmith


"Waterloo is worth a visit "

The farm at La Haye Sainte is so close to the ridge that was the front line. The area is so small, it must have been horrific.

Well worth a visit.

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By *ewbie NickMan
over a year ago

Aberdeenshire


"Thanks I will. Almost every village of any size has a tank or gun on display, dredged up or just found abandoned after the war. It's just so interesting.

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certainly is; I have relatives there and although their house is quite old, none of the doors are original as the Germans occupied it as a strong point and used all the doors as stretchers for their wounded. It’s also interesting what gets dug up in the garden 80 years later!

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By *enjamin2018 OP   Man
over a year ago

Halstead


"The war graves at Gallipoli are worth a visit. Just plain butchery occured there, a total balls up by the allies."

Just been listening to an aussie soldier interviewed for the Great War series on the BBC in 1964 talking about his experience there and it beggars belief what these young guys went through.

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By *enjamin2018 OP   Man
over a year ago

Halstead

Following on from my last comment there's one of the last surviving Gallipoli landing craft at the historic naval dockyard in Portsmouth, which is definitely worth a visit,there was so much to see, it took 5 visits to see it all.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I have recently returned from a tour of the Somme Vimy Ridg Thiepval etc incredibly humbling

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By (user no longer on site)
6 days ago

On this day in 1314, the Battle of Bannockburn started.

Ochone, ochone, sock it to 'em, boyz!

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By *angtMan
6 days ago

Wednesfield /Wolverhampton


"On this day in 1314, the Battle of Bannockburn started.

Ochone, ochone, sock it to 'em, boyz!

"

Was that the last time a Scottish team won anything until about 1967?

Just asking!!

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By (user no longer on site)
6 days ago

1967, the year the Corries composed and performed "Flower of Scotland" for the first time

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By *etterbiggerMan
6 days ago

Scunthorpe


"Waterloo is worth a visit "

If you want to do the es corted tour thing. Leger travel specialise in battlefield tours. It is possible to stay in the farmhouse at the heart of the battle of Waterloo. Have a look at the Landmark Trust website. Some very interesting historic buildings converted into accommodation

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By *enardeMan
6 days ago

Barnsley


"I love walking around the sites of old battlefields, been round a few in the UK, Flodden, Naseby, Hastings, Bosworth, now arranged a trip with some fellow anoraks to visit Agincourt and Crecy in Northern France later this summer. "

Any of your mates up for cock fun?

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