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Bit of a quiet day today, so here's an open offer: Do any of my followers want to learn a little about a relative who served in #WW1? If you know name/regt/year of birth I will give it a go and see what I can find. Maybe a few colleagues would like to chip-in and help? :)

Just thinking this morning how much I miss travelling around Europe's battlefields. As soon as the world reverts to something like normal, I will be straight there. How about my fellow history geeks on here? Where is the first historic place you will visit? #twitterstorians

Growing up near the village of Weston in Hertfordshire, even fifty years after #WW2, there was always a story about two American bombers crashing in the local woods. I have always wanted to know more, so I decided to investigate.

A thread:

One of my favourite #WW1 photos and a great reminder that the war was not only fought by young men. This portrait of an unknown boer war veteran, taken in 1915 was one of more than 100 saved from a skip and donated to @herts_at_war a few years back. A proper old warhorse.

As a tunnelling geek I found it pretty amazing so see so many open #WW1 system entrances dotted up and down the French sector of the Western Front. Due to the disagreeable prospect of death I didn't go down any this time, but would love to come back again to have a look.

This has got to be one of my favourite #WW1 photos from the @herts_at_war collection - taken in the village of Wormhoudt in July 1917. Both of the men identified in this photo fell a few weeks later on 31st July 1917.

These men are likely all from #Letchworth as a number of them also appear in this image taken at Letchworth Railway Station a few months before.