Eugenie Brooks 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 @alberttopcat Twitter profile

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Eugenie Brooks 🇺🇦 🇬🇧

@alberttopcat

6 months

This cafe at Vierville Draw at Omaha Beach Normandy refused to serve my British Army soldiers today as “they are English”. An utter disgrace & I will NEVER EVER EVER take any of my tours there again.

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@alberttopcat

2 years

The oldest existing cat flap. Exeter Cathedral has a 14th century door that is mentioned as an entrance for cats. From 1305 cathedral accounts show an allowance for quarterly payments of 13 pence “to the custors and the cats”. They kept the rats and mice down. 🐭 🐱 ❤️

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@alberttopcat

6 months

@Loops4442 @Bruno1023llama @SusieCooper4021 @GuildofBG @Normandy @NormandyUKIE @britishmemorial @AngliaTours @mcitours @MotorradTours @thebattleguide Ohhhh great idea!

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@alberttopcat

2 years

On 18/11/16 Pte Robert Haywood Jones was kia on The Somme. He was never found & he is remembered on the Bramley War Memorial & Thiepval Memorial. A century later, millions of people worldwide mourned the death of his grandson, David Robert Jones (better known as David Bowie).

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Eugenie Brooks 🇺🇦 🇬🇧

@alberttopcat

2 years

Remembering PC Yvonne Fletcher, of the Metropolitan Police. Murdered on duty on this day in 1984. She was 25. We will remember her.

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Eugenie Brooks 🇺🇦 🇬🇧

@alberttopcat

6 months

@LordBoatrace @Bruno1023llama @SusieCooper4021 @GuildofBG @Normandy @NormandyUKIE @britishmemorial @AngliaTours @mcitours @MotorradTours @thebattleguide He said “because they’re English”. They are well behaved Junior Soldiers all smartly dressed. 😡

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Eugenie Brooks 🇺🇦 🇬🇧

@alberttopcat

3 years

This day in 1944 WAAF SOE Agent Noor Inayat Khan was executed at Dachau Concentration Camp after months of inhuman treatment. Posthumously awarded the George Cross for her bravery. Her name is carved with pride on Air Forces Memorial, Runnymede. I always tell her story. ❤️

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Eugenie Brooks 🇺🇦 🇬🇧

@alberttopcat

3 years

Mum passed away in her care home bed Tuesday evening aged 91. She’d stopped eating & drinking at Christmas & just wanted “to go”. She’s now with Dad & her ashes will join his at the RAF Memorial, Runnymede. Just remember to appreciate those you love while you have them. ❤️

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Eugenie Brooks 🇺🇦 🇬🇧

@alberttopcat

3 years

George Arthur Roberts, born 1890. Leaving Trinidad, he arrived in London at the outbreak of WW1, joined up & got nicknamed "the coconut bomber" supposedly due to his ability of throwing bombs behind enemy lines, 74 feet no less ! He sustained injuries from both the Battle 🔽

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Eugenie Brooks 🇺🇦 🇬🇧

@alberttopcat

6 months

So proud to have been one of the 40 retired police women guard of honour at WPC Yvonne Fletchers ceremony in St James Square. 40 years ago on this spot she was shot in the back by scum who got away with murder because of political interference. We WILL get justice for her.

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Eugenie Brooks 🇺🇦 🇬🇧

@alberttopcat

3 years

I’m a very lucky girl - Santa brought me a Lewis MG!! (Assisted by @Bruno1023llama ) ❤️❤️🎄🎄 happy Christmas to you all. Clarence the cat is very impressed 😍

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Eugenie Brooks 🇺🇦 🇬🇧

@alberttopcat

3 years

Very chuffed to receive this ‘spotlight’ award for my volunteering work at Brookwood CWGC Military Cemetery, the Air Forces Memorial & all the talks I’ve given about the great work of the CWGC. It’s so important to tell the stories of those men and women so they are remembered.

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Eugenie Brooks 🇺🇦 🇬🇧

@alberttopcat

6 months

@MG6pii @Bruno1023llama @SusieCooper4021 @GuildofBG @Normandy @NormandyUKIE @britishmemorial @AngliaTours @mcitours @MotorradTours @thebattleguide Yeap. Fuming 😡

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Eugenie Brooks 🇺🇦 🇬🇧

@alberttopcat

1 year

Happy 88th birthday to my Dads favorite plane. The one he learnt to fly in, fight in and survive. 👍🏻 🎂

RAF Cosford

@RAF_Cosford

1 year

88 years young. Happy birthday to the Hawker Hurricane. First flight 6 November 1935.

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Eugenie Brooks 🇺🇦 🇬🇧

@alberttopcat

1 year

I got married today to my love @Bruno1023llama on the 81st anniversary of Operation Jubilee when Dad was awarded the DFM. Only right I had his hurricane conduct a fly past & aerobatics at our reception. Best day EVER with my friends ♥️

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Eugenie Brooks 🇺🇦 🇬🇧

@alberttopcat

2 years

37 years ago today I joined the Met Police. So very proud to have served & pleased I’m now an old pensioner. 😎 Many fantastic memories & friends made for life. Now loving my new chapter of battlefield guiding making new friends & memories. Cheers to all! 👍🏻🥂❤️ 🇬🇧 💪 🚓

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Eugenie Brooks 🇺🇦 🇬🇧

@alberttopcat

3 years

Happy 100th birthday to my Dad - you may have passed many years ago but I remember you, love you & miss you every day & try to make you proud of your little girl.. Mum will be with you soon. Love you Dad, my hero and my friend. ❤️❤️🇬🇧🇬🇧

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Eugenie Brooks 🇺🇦 🇬🇧

@alberttopcat

3 years

When guiding on 1st WW battlefields, I always take my Granddad Johns original Princess Mary Christmas Gift Box issued to him in the trenches in Plugstreet near Ypres for Christmas 1914. He kept it safe & in 1965 gave it to my Mum for safekeeping to pass it onto me along 1/2

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Eugenie Brooks 🇺🇦 🇬🇧

@alberttopcat

2 years

Christmas has arrived!! 🎄🎉The Vickers has been decorated - no need for a tree in our house.. I’m sure Granddad would have approved as he took part in the 1914 Xmas day truce in Ploegstreet Woods. 😎🤣👍🏻🥂🎉🎄🕺🏻💃🏻🇬🇧💪 🎁

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Eugenie Brooks 🇺🇦 🇬🇧

@alberttopcat

11 months

Today I remember my relatives who gave so much for my freedom today. I remember colleagues who I’ve lost during my service who ran towards evil to protect us. I will ensure as a battlefield guide all who gave their lives for us are never forgotten. #WeWillRememberThem

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Eugenie Brooks 🇺🇦 🇬🇧

@alberttopcat

9 months

A break from decorating to watch Reach for the Sky. Dad was still in training during the BOB but every time I see a spit or hurri I burst with pride thinking of my young 19 year old Dad flying them in combat. Remembering all those young lads who gave their all for our freedom.♥️

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Eugenie Brooks 🇺🇦 🇬🇧

@alberttopcat

3 years

While we are all rushing about preparing for christmas 2021, I thought I would let you read my Grandads memories of his christmas day 1914 in the trenches of Ploegstreet Woods, Ypres. " Next day was Christmas Day 1914. There was a lot of shouting across the lines

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Eugenie Brooks 🇺🇦 🇬🇧

@alberttopcat

3 years

100th birthday celebration for Bernard Gardiner, 2nd WW typhoon pilot. Also with Colin Bell DFC (101 years old!)Typhoon pilot and George Pritchard (97 years old) mosquito pilot. So honoured to be in their company.. may have mentioned my Dad once or twice! ❤️😎😂

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Eugenie Brooks 🇺🇦 🇬🇧

@alberttopcat

10 months

Proud to have served on the SEG & been the first ever female supervisor in it. 👍🏻💪🏍️

Tom Gaymor 🎙️

@TomGaymor

10 months

Earlier I visited the @metpoliceuk ‘Special Escort Group’ whilst officers were training. These are the ONLY ‘Armed’ Escort officers in the country and there are only circa 30 officers on the unit. To reach this stage officers have years of service and around 25 weeks of training.

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Eugenie Brooks 🇺🇦 🇬🇧

@alberttopcat

1 year

This is an example of how fantastic @Twitter can be.. a truly kind act by a person I know via this media: a visit to the ‘adopted’ grave in Ovillers of my Gt Uncle Arthur who’s name is on Thiepval. 🙏. He is not forgotten Xx

Ian lyall

@Ianlyall9

1 year

@alberttopcat visit made Eugene, not 1st July weather !

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Eugenie Brooks 🇺🇦 🇬🇧

@alberttopcat

2 years

I’ve been so honoured to spend time with many 2nd WW veterans over the years. This day 78 years ago they fought against Nazi tyranny. Some came home, others still lie at rest in Normandy. I will raise a glass to them all today and every day I thank them for my freedom.

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Eugenie Brooks 🇺🇦 🇬🇧

@alberttopcat

4 years

@TheRothOfKhan Fabulous news!! Some of my lot are celebrating Bramleys return! 😂😂❤️❤️👍👍🐈🐈

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Eugenie Brooks 🇺🇦 🇬🇧

@alberttopcat

3 years

@sommecourt Good morning @sommecourt from Lijssenthoek @CWGC Cemetery and Nellie, the local farm cat who supervises visits to 'her' cemetery.

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Eugenie Brooks 🇺🇦 🇬🇧

@alberttopcat

3 years

Finally visited one of the lads in my Death Penny collection. The wonderful Ploegsteert Memorial. Found in a skip its now shown to Army Recruits when on tour & sits on my bookshelves in pride of place with my other Pennies. Ernest was in the Border Reg & died on 14 April 1918.

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Eugenie Brooks 🇺🇦 🇬🇧

@alberttopcat

2 years

The funeral of my dear friend 101 yr old Driver Fred Miller RASC is tomorrow 23/2 at 1215 at Breakspear Crematorium Landed Juno Beach, 3rd wave. Escorted by RBL Riders & RBL RASC RCT Standard Bearers & RLC Bugler. Webcast username keni2880 Password 221466

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Eugenie Brooks 🇺🇦 🇬🇧

@alberttopcat

2 years

Remembering those men who fought at Rorkes Drift and also those who had fought at Isandlwana.

Just Jacob’s Daddy

@Dunkirk_1940

2 years

144 years ago today and 11 Victoria Crosses. #MenOfHarlech #LestWeForget 🌺

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@alberttopcat

4 years

A great start to guiding @heritageopenday at @CWGC Brookwood Military Cemetery... including a furry friend who joined us in the Canadian Section ❤️🐈👍 🇨🇦

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Eugenie Brooks 🇺🇦 🇬🇧

@alberttopcat

3 years

Happy 100th birthday to my 2nd ww RAF veteran Mr Benson who I met on one of my RBL LIBOR Normandy tours.he enjoyed it so much he came back for another one! initially based at Somervieu airfield,it was my honor to take him to the RAF base memorial. He is my ‘Somervieu Boy’. Xx

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Eugenie Brooks 🇺🇦 🇬🇧

@alberttopcat

1 year

Today of all days I am eternally grateful to all those young men who participated in the Normandy Landings & gave me the freedom I have today. Absolutely honoured & privileged to have met so many of these chaps via my guiding role. I will never EVER forget any of them.

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Eugenie Brooks 🇺🇦 🇬🇧

@alberttopcat

4 years

Did our good deed for today and tidied up grave of Sgt George Gardner who was killed with 3 other crew mates in a mid air collision in his Wellington bomber during night bombing training over Aylesbury 22/12/42. Buried in St Peters, Wrecclesham. He is not forgotten . @pergamum

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Eugenie Brooks 🇺🇦 🇬🇧

@alberttopcat

3 years

103 years ago today my Great Uncle Roper Henry Whitrod was killed near Poperinge. Joined as a 14 yr old boy in the Coldstream Guards. In the BEF & became 2nd Lt in Kings Liverpool Regiment on the 14 May 1918.he lasted 14 days as an officer. left a wife, Minnie and a daughter..

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Eugenie Brooks 🇺🇦 🇬🇧

@alberttopcat

3 years

Remembering today the Defence of Rorkes Drift where just over 150 British & Colonial troops defended the mission Ststion against 3000/4000 Zulu warriors. 11 VCs awarded along with other decorations & awards. I paid my respects to Pte Hayden, the gt gt uncle of a friend.

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Eugenie Brooks 🇺🇦 🇬🇧

@alberttopcat

10 months

Extremely sad news from @lastpostieper . Gilbert passed away yesterday. We always exchanged a friendly kiss every time I was at The Gate with a tour. He will be sadly missed. Thank you for all your work Gilbert. Xx

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Eugenie Brooks 🇺🇦 🇬🇧

@alberttopcat

3 years

Extremely proud to have these pics sent to me from Polderhuis Museum, Westkapelle, Netherlands. An amazing museum & I donated Dads original kit to be on permanent display. he flew several bomber escorts and I thought it was the ideal place to show his kit. #prouddaughter

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Eugenie Brooks 🇺🇦 🇬🇧

@alberttopcat

4 years

My grandads original Princess Mary Gift Box issued to him in Ploegstreet trenches, Christmas 1914. He treasured it & I now use it when guiding to hold battlefield items picked up over the years including a 1917 Penny from a Somme ploughed field. @James187961 @Bruno1023llama

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Eugenie Brooks 🇺🇦 🇬🇧

@alberttopcat

3 years

Odd request - am looking for someone who owns a Bren gun carrier in Hampshire/Surrey area who would like to visit a 2nd WW veteran who was Kings Shropshire LI & operated one on D Day, Arnhem and later in Korea. Stan, is a lovely chap, aged 97 living on his own near me ❤️👍🇬🇧

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Eugenie Brooks 🇺🇦 🇬🇧

@alberttopcat

3 years

Rest in peace Robert. 🙏 British soldier who died in First World War finally laid to rest in Belgium 100 years after his death

British soldier who died in First World War finally laid to rest in Belgium 100 years after his...

Born in Bishop Wilton in 1876 and one of seven children, he will be buried at the Commonwealth War Graves Commission's New Irish Farm Cemetery near Ypres on Wednesday afternoon.

news.sky.com

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Eugenie Brooks 🇺🇦 🇬🇧

@alberttopcat

2 years

Whilst at RAF Northolt with the Cadets I stopped & paid my respects at the Polish War Memorial. It bears the names of 1,925 Polish men who served in the RAF during the 2nd WW. Over 18,000 men & women served in the Polish Sqns & over 2,000 died. #wewillrememberthem

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Eugenie Brooks 🇺🇦 🇬🇧

@alberttopcat

2 years

An emotional day with my Mums ashes being reunited with my Dads at the Air Forces Memorial. With them I placed a tiny pair of baby blue booties in memory of my brother John born before me but who passed only a few hours old. Nearby on panel 61 Art Lewis’s name, Dads roommate. ❤️

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@alberttopcat

3 years

Popped into @CWGC Cement House Cemetery to visit 2nd Lt Cunningham-Reid and his u usual and thoughtfully written epitaph. As usual said a BIG thank you to @CWGC worker John who was a delight! A fellow motorcyclist and all round good egg and a credit to the CWGC. @dgcwgc

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Eugenie Brooks 🇺🇦 🇬🇧

@alberttopcat

2 years

Fabulous to be back touring in Ypres. Met up with the Lijssenhoek cat who enjoyed a ham sandwich & I enjoyed a delicious ice cream after a day on the battlefields. Life is good. 👍🏻🇬🇧 🇧🇪

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Eugenie Brooks 🇺🇦 🇬🇧

@alberttopcat

3 years

Paid our respects to one of the 17 ‘shot at dawn’ burials in this Belgium @CWGC cemetery. Only 17, he was a Jamaican who’d enlisted in Dec 1916 during a recruitment drive in the West Indies. Son of William & Ophelia Morris, St Catherine, Jamaica.A sad story as ever, now at peace

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Eugenie Brooks 🇺🇦 🇬🇧

@alberttopcat

3 years

Fantastic day guiding @CWGC Brookwood Military Cemetery. Cemetery cat visited as did a gent in a wonderful Bentley.. ☀️ great company of guides and Military history = a happy girl 🥰

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@alberttopcat

11 months

Today I had the absolute honour of marching past the Cenotaph. Met colleagues old and new & humbled as we marched with the applause of the crowds who shouted “thank you” to us. I remembered my relatives who served and my colleagues who gave their all for our freedom today.

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Eugenie Brooks 🇺🇦 🇬🇧

@alberttopcat

3 years

My regular visit to my Great Uncle Roper. Always remembered and never forgotten by his family. Sleep on Roper until my next visit Xx

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Eugenie Brooks 🇺🇦 🇬🇧

@alberttopcat

3 years

Just a new pair of training shoes. Saw these & decided to treat myself, then started wondering about the plane identification markings on them. ‘VR A’ was a Lancaster Bomber in 419 Squadron based at RAF Middleton St George near Darlington. The mid-air gunner was a young 1/15

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Eugenie Brooks 🇺🇦 🇬🇧

@alberttopcat

2 years

Currently watching the 1942 film ‘Went the Day Well’. Filmed in Turville, a village 5 miles west of High Wycombe, Bucks. I’ve tried to search the @CWGC website for some of the names on the 1st WW Memorial with no luck. I wonder if it was a false memorial for the film? ??

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Eugenie Brooks 🇺🇦 🇬🇧

@alberttopcat

3 years

#prouddaughter moment whilst researching Operation Jubilee footage for forthcoming tour & exhibition. Dad is young Sgt pilot far left and seen taking off in his XP - G hurricane Bomber on way to Dieppe on 19 August 1942. 2 sorties that day resulted in Dad being awarded the DFM.

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Eugenie Brooks 🇺🇦 🇬🇧

@alberttopcat

3 years

Absolutely delighted to meet these 3 @CWGC gardeners at Bayeux CWGC Cemetery- 3 ladies looking after our men and women - I shook their hands to say thank you - cemetery looking fabulous and so well tended. @dgcwgc they are a credit to your team 👍🏻❤️🇬🇧🇫🇷

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@alberttopcat

4 months

An absolutely fabulous long weekend in Ypres @Bruno1023llama & I had our wedding blessed in St Georges Memorial church surrounded by our friends from UK & Belgium. Cottage de Vinck was stunning & much fun was had by all. Today I visited my Gt Uncle Roper & left him my bouquet.♥️

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Eugenie Brooks 🇺🇦 🇬🇧

@alberttopcat

3 years

The horror of war brought home by 4 of the 6 headstones in this tiny cemetery by the busy D930 nr Cambrai. We will remember them.

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Eugenie Brooks 🇺🇦 🇬🇧

@alberttopcat

4 years

Am so very Proud of my grandad John Brooks DCM MM who took part in this battle & was awarded the DCM for his actions there..

Spencer Jones

@historian1914

4 years

Remembering those who fought at the Battle of Le Cateau 26 August 1914 - 106 years ago today. This bloody 'stopping blow' saved the British Army from encirclement & destruction on the Great Retreat. Pictured: The British II Corps memorial & German casualties from the battle.

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Eugenie Brooks 🇺🇦 🇬🇧

@alberttopcat

3 years

troops to cease fraternising so everybody kept under cover." HAPPY 2021 CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY. We WILL remember them.

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Eugenie Brooks 🇺🇦 🇬🇧

@alberttopcat

3 years

Top of the tree decoration sorted! 😂😂❤️❤️💪 🔥 🚓🔫

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Eugenie Brooks 🇺🇦 🇬🇧

@alberttopcat

2 years

A moving finish to our 2nd day Mark recently discovered his Gt grandad died during 3rd Battle of Ypres & My research found his name on the Tyne Cot Memorial. No one from his family had ever visited - until today. Pte Joseph Stephens. An unknown grave now marks his resting place.

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Eugenie Brooks 🇺🇦 🇬🇧

@alberttopcat

10 months

Dad always said ‘wars start when people don’t talk’. This is Dad (RAF) with his great friend Gerhard Warnk (WEHRMACHT). Met in a Bierkeller in 1956 & became best of friends. His son Holger & I have kept that friendship alive for 50 years. Happy peaceful Christmas to all. ♥️👍🏻🎄

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Eugenie Brooks 🇺🇦 🇬🇧

@alberttopcat

3 years

I saved this from a skip at work in about 2012. Anyone on here able to assist me with its history, it’s story or any suggestions for further research? Thank you in advance 🙏

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@alberttopcat

6 months

An Act of Remembrance on the last day of tour 1. The Standing with Giants installation is stunning. 1,475 silhouettes representing the number of servicemen who died under British Command on D Day. One is F/Sgt George Boucher, 174 Sqn a colleague of my Dad. His parents letter to

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Eugenie Brooks 🇺🇦 🇬🇧

@alberttopcat

3 years

Beautiful thoughtful memorial to the 10,000 unaccompanied Jewish children that escaped Nazi persecution between 1938/39. Most arrived at Liverpool Street & taken in by British families. The sculptor, Meisler was one of those children. I stood quietly as people rushed past 🙏 😢

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@alberttopcat

2 years

Remembering the Few today - Battle of Britain Day. We will remember them

Athol Forbes 🇺🇦(Now on BlueSky)

@Strangelyhappy

2 years

15th September. Battle of Britain Day. To all those from many nations who fought to preserve our freedom. 🙏

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@alberttopcat

4 years

A sad story.... Private Thomas Reynolds Died 13 April 1926 from wounds received 10 May 1917 Aged 41 "WITH WOUNDS SORE, LONG TIME HE BORE WITH TROUBLES WAS OPPRESSED; TILL CHRIST OUR SAVIOUR THOUGHT OF HIM TO TAKE HIS SOUL TO REST" St Andrews Church Dudley West Midlands.

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@alberttopcat

2 years

🧵 104 years ago today my Gt Uncle Roper Henry Whitrod was killed by a shell when with a working party near Poperinge. He joined the Coldstream Guards aged 14. One of the BEF, he rose thru the ranks & was promoted to a 2nd Lt in the Kings Liverpool Regiment on the 14 May 1918.

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Eugenie Brooks 🇺🇦 🇬🇧

@alberttopcat

3 years

Ive had such sad news today from the daughter of Corporal Stanley Taylor, 3rd Div, East Yorkshire Reg, a D Day veteran & who I took on several Normandy RBL tours. He passed away in his sleep last night aged 97. Born on 20/5/1924. He was part of a gun crew of 6 pounder anti tank

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Eugenie Brooks 🇺🇦 🇬🇧

@alberttopcat

2 years

The Gate looking resplendent as ever this evening after the Last Post Ceremony. Honoured & privileged every time I attend & always visit the boys of The Rifle Brigade on behalf of my Grandad John. We will remember them.

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Eugenie Brooks 🇺🇦 🇬🇧

@alberttopcat

2 years

The Gate is manic tonight with at least 12 schools attending - kids all fueled with Belgium chocolate and fizzy drinks 🙄 Meanwhile the Lion still looks reverently & defiantly up towards the old German lines. 💪

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@alberttopcat

1 year

Every now & then I see an epitaph that stops me in my tracks & I have a moment of contemplation at that grave. Today on a @AngliaTours tour we visited Belgium Battery Corner cemetery on a students pilgrimage & i found this one.

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@alberttopcat

6 months

We will remember them

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Eugenie Brooks 🇺🇦 🇬🇧

@alberttopcat

3 years

Delighted to have recieved letters from @RMASandhurst Officer Cadets who I recently guided around @CWGC Brookwood Military Cemetery on a tour. They were all a credit to @RMASandhurst @ArmyComdtRMAS & their words about my Dads memoirs of Dieppe August 1942 make me so proud of him.

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@alberttopcat

6 months

Just led a 4 day motorcycle tour @mcitours to Normandy. Many visits & many stories told but most emotional was the laying of our wreath on Juno beach where one of my groups Dad landed on D Day & telling George Bouchers story @britishmemorial . We will remember them

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@alberttopcat

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Today marks the 80th anniversary of the death of a 22 yr old fighter pilot buried nearby. P/O John A P Studd’s spitfire was hit by enemy fire & he bailed out into the sea. Rescued by lifeboat he never regained consciousness and lies with his Mum. I visited to pay my respects..

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@alberttopcat

5 years

A walk around a local cemetery today revealed three headstones with original ‘death pennies’ attached to them... anyone else seen this before? @Bruno1023llama @Tofrek @pergamum @plummer_jack @James187961 @TGTandV @CGTBattlefields @DanHillHistory

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@alberttopcat

3 years

A visit to @britishmemorial in stunning weather with other @AngliaTours guides. @SusieRother and I, both @CWGC volunteer guides met & thanked the @CWGC gardeners including Head Gardener Myles Hunt for keeping the Memorial & area immaculate. @dgcwgc @WW1_Education @megan_maltby

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@alberttopcat

2 years

Doesn’t every home have a draining board containing mills bombs, Lee Enfield magazines & a 97 round pan magazine for a Lewis? #battlefieldguide #parachuteregiment 🙄🤣😎💪💂‍♀️

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@alberttopcat

3 years

Am proud to be part of tomorrows military funeral for a true hero & friend Stan Taylor. In the East Yorkshire Regiment, he was First wave onto Sword Beach D Day. Aldershot crematorium 1400 hrs. Please come & line the route to see Stan off to his rest. We will remember them. 🇬🇧

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@alberttopcat

1 year

Tyne Cott Cemetery is looking beautiful today. Peaceful & sunny. An emotional read of 2 family letters by my group; 1 from Pte Albert Ford & 1 from Rifleman Cyrus Thatcher. Time for reflection and remembrance before our attendance at the Menin Gate tonight. We will remember them

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@alberttopcat

3 years

Thank you @ProfPeterDoyle for an amazingly interesting book - fits perfectly with my lovely Grandads original Christmas box which he treasured for years. I now use it in my role as a battlefield guide and it’s full of shrapnel balls & Mills grenade pieces!

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@alberttopcat

2 years

Final day on the Somme - my driver is a RMC who wore his beret with pride at The Last Post Ceremony. Today I left him for a time in Ancre @CWGC Military Cemetery as he paid his respects to the RND & Royal Marines buried there. We will remember them.

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@alberttopcat

2 years

A fabulous private tour of the cemetery and museum today by Phillip Gorczynski MBE who found Deborah the tank in Cambrai in 1998.

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Eugenie Brooks 🇺🇦 🇬🇧

@alberttopcat

2 years

Final day of 3day @AngliaTours Somme tour. Took the opportunity to pay my respects to my Gt Uncle Arthur Frederick Whitrod 8th Bn Royal Fusiliers Kia 7/7/1916. His mum, Caroline as an old lady used to sit next to his pic saying “my poor boy, my poor lost boy”. Always remembered.

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@alberttopcat

11 months

@Protect_ServeUK Karma.. obey the law and you won’t be sent to court. Simples.. 🙄🙄

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@alberttopcat

1 year

Our last night in Ypres after successful wedding blessing & rugby tour recces. Beautiful night & fab food at Captain Cook Restaurant. We’re both back next week on different tours but always remember the boys who we visited & the anguish in those epitaphs. We will remember them.

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Eugenie Brooks 🇺🇦 🇬🇧

@alberttopcat

2 years

An extremely proud & emotional day for me whilst guiding @AngliaTours . On the 106th Anniversary of my Gt Uncle Arthur F Whitrod being Kia at Ovillers, our group learnt of the sacrifices made during the Great War. Arthur’s name is on Thiepval Memorial and his Story was told.

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@alberttopcat

4 years

EXCITING NEWS!! For those who may like to see me trying not to turn green as I fly upside down in my ‘Dads hurricane’ then please tune into the Yesterday Channel - Freeview channel number 26 - at 2100 hours on Thursday 22 April Programme is called WARBIRDS ... 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

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@alberttopcat

1 year

🧵Honoured to have guided with these fine @CWGC colleagues a huge group of Canadian Military around the beautiful Brookwood Military Cemetery. My group visited Pte Denis Lasky on the anniversary of his death. A truly tragic story. He came from Saskatoon Saskatchewan & took part

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@alberttopcat

3 years

awarded the British Empire Medal. A couple of years ago there was an online vote for people to nominate who they thought deserved a blue plaque on their home and George was declared the winner. thank you for my freedom Sir, I shall wear a Poppy for you. Lest we forget.

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@alberttopcat

2 years

An early start at Dover with @mcitours as a tour heads off to Ypres and the Somme for 4 days. @dfds_uk very efficient loading and now for breakfast!

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Eugenie Brooks 🇺🇦 🇬🇧

@alberttopcat

2 years

A blustery beautiful day at Tyne Cott @CWGC Cemetery & Memorial for my group. Took the opportunity to visit name of Pte Ernest Burrows 7th Bn Leicestershire Reg. KIA 1/10/17. I own his Death Plaque & have adopted an unknown as his final resting place. Never forgotten.

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@alberttopcat

2 years

@CWGC the scent and sight of the wisteria was stunning today.. thank you to the gardeners for all your hard work 👍🏻 @dgcwgc

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Eugenie Brooks 🇺🇦 🇬🇧

@alberttopcat

3 years

A walk up to the @cwgc RE Grave to pay our respects to 2nd Lt Boothby & the 11 men that still lie with him in the tunnels beneath our feet. The Liverpool Scottish Memorial looking pretty 💐 & craters all cleared by ex convicts on community service. 👍🏻👍🏻

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Eugenie Brooks 🇺🇦 🇬🇧

@alberttopcat

3 years

Whilst clearing through items left after a friend passed, I found this medal. Anyone out there tell me what is this medal please? @GuildofBG @sommecourt

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Eugenie Brooks 🇺🇦 🇬🇧

@alberttopcat

2 years

The Maple Trees in the Canadian Section @CWGC are starting to turn to their different vibrant reds. Moody skies which were kind to my group during a family tour.

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@alberttopcat

3 years

Very pleased with my charity shop purchases! Great complete set of Ogdens Infantry training cigarette cards and a slightly soppy old print of an officer and his young lady. Now in pride of place on dining room wall. 👍🏻👍🏻❤️❤️

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Eugenie Brooks 🇺🇦 🇬🇧

@alberttopcat

2 years

A lovely little collection of postcards/snapshots of Ypres. Fascinating to see White House Cemetery still with its wooden crosses & the picture of the artillery piece & tank in the Square. Am back to Ypres Tuesday so may try a ‘then & now’ picture. 👍🏻

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Eugenie Brooks 🇺🇦 🇬🇧

@alberttopcat

2 years

Driver Fred Miller, Juno Beach, 3rd Wave, D Day hero & my friend passed away January aged 101. His funeral is 23/2/23 at Breakspear Crematorium. @rbl_riders will be escorting him on his final journey @RLCCorpsSM has been amazing assisting with Freds funeral. You are all welcome

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@alberttopcat

2 years

🧵 207 years ago my G G G G Great Grandfather, Private Benjamin Tolfree of the Coldstream Guards fought at Hougoumont Farm during the Battle of Waterloo. His Army record states ‘that consequence of being badly wounded in the right arm at Waterloo & his health being bad, he is

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