Ahead of Armed Forces Day at Chatham Dockyard on the 28th June, I'll be giving a talk at the Royal Engineers Museum on Friday 27th June at 2pm about our archives and how to use our records.
More information on the RE Museum website
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In Volunteer's Week, I'd just like to say a huge thank you to all our volunteers. We could not do what we do to remember the fallen @cwgc.bsky.social without your unwavering support & dedication. 2 volunteering events this week: Shorncliffe Cemetery & Gillingham Woodlands Cemetery.

Exhibition showcases children’s responses to their research into Worthing’s fallen, including artwork and poetry An exhibition of work produced by children from three Worthing schools following research into the fallen from the Second World War has gone on show at Worthing Library.

Anyone local to Worthing, please pop along and see the fabulous work these young people have produced remembering @cwgc.bsky.social Second World War casualties from the town. www.sussexexpress.co.uk/news/people/...

CWGC Volunteering Day at Gillingham (Woodlands) Cemetery The Commonwealth War Graves Commission is looking for volunteers to support our operations teams at Gillingham (Woodlands) Cemetery.

All are welcome to join us at our @cwgc.bsky.social volunteering day at Gillingham Cemetery on the 4th June as part of Volunteers Week.
Sign up using the link below.
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Highlight at Tangmere VE Day event - emotional chat with a lovely woman whose grandfather we commemorate in Greece. She wanted to thank us for helping her find him. Visiting as she turned 80, she told me how important it was to talk to the grandfather she had never known. @cwgc.bsky.social

Snapshot of VE Day 80 in my corner of the world. @cwgc.bsky.social

It's always a pleasure

Wonderful weekend in the Netherlands 🇳🇱 with 1000 Canadian students at @cwgc.bsky.social Bergen Op Zoom Canadian Cemetery & then carrying our Torch for Peace on a silent march back to the city. Exceptional, inspiring young people. 🇨🇦

Soldiers, Shakespeare & St. George: Exploring a connection with the Bard and the Battlefield with Commonwealth War Graves | CWGC Did you know there’s a connection between Commonwealth War Graves, William Shakespeare and St George's Day? CWG PEC Sarah Nathaniel reveals all.

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Honoured to meet with the great niece of Pte George Fears, the lone @cwgc.bsky.social burial at Alciston, who died on the 11th Nov 1918. It was wonderful to be able to share information and photographs of George and his family and for Teresa to meet Joan, the EOHO volunteer who cares for George.

In celebration of #internationalwomensday2025 I've created an education resource that explores stories of women we commemorate @cwgc.bsky.social set within the wider context of women's Second World War work. You can see this and all our other education resources here: www.cwgc.org/our-work/out...

Very wet and windy @cwgc.bsky.social headstone replacement at Petworth today. Nothing stops our Ops Team from getting the job done 💪💪💪

A visit to Herne Bay Cemetery to talk to Sir Roger Gale MP about the work the @cwgc.bsky.social does to commemorate those from & remembered in his constituency. No visit to Herne Bay is complete without saying hello to Amy Johnson looking out to where her aircraft was lost in January 1941.

Great thread. Thank you. Such a tragic story, amongst many.

Cross curricular work at one of my favourite schools today. Researching local casualties using the @cwgc.bsky.social database and then plotting where they're commemorated on a world map. Great work from Y6 at West Park 😊

Might help if I posted the photo! 🤣

6) June. Means only one thing. Chalke Valley. @cwgc. This is me with the wonderful Kate Vigurs just after we'd given our joint talk about the women of SOE and where and how they are commemorated by @cwgc.bsky.social. One of my professional highlights of the year.

Ooooooo.... Want! But yes, you'd have to choose your playing companions carefully! 🤣

Wonderful Dutch tradition of lighting War Graves on Christmas Eve sees the 2617 graves at Groesbeek lit tonight,

Anywhere between 5 and 75??🤣

Thank you! I thought when I started the might be rare, but sadly all too commonplace 😞

5) May was such a special month with all the @cwgc.bsky.social commemorations for DDay 80. The highlight and privilege for me was meeting some of the last veterans. This is me with Stan Ford at Plymouth.

4) More New Zealand casualties from a tiny village on the tip of the South Island.

As there’s only 12 days left of 2024, I’m going to finish the year by daily posting my favourite photo from each month, from my phone camera roll.

Feel free to do likewise!

3. March - Queenstown War Memorial, New Zealand.
#neverreallyonholiday

I love this idea! Two from me today too. Work @cwgc.bsky.social trip to Belgium which spanned Jan & Feb.

First proper day off work for the hols, so decided to go & see an amazing collection of 22 original grave markers at St Mary's, Byfleet. Very well preserved & some still with the mud of Flanders on them. Does anyone know of a bigger collection? #neverreallyonholiday

Thanks, I'll look into them.

Pilot marks 80th anniversary of plane crash on Worthing beach and highlights how the crew has gone down in history A Worthing pilot has researched the history behind the names of nine roads in Durrington, revealing the story of a Lancaster bomber crew and the mystery surrounding the plane's dramatic crash landing ...

Full story here. www.sussexexpress.co.uk/heritage-and...

Maybe I've set myself another rabbit hole! 🤣

These things always come in handy at some point I find!