Nigel Marshall

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Battlefield Guide, Military Historian, living on the Somme. www.marshallsbattlefields.com Blogging stories of the TF West Yorkshire Regiment battalions in the Great War - www.tfwestyorks.blogspot.com

A couple kneeling in front of the lady’s grandfather’s grave in a war cemetery in northern France.
A lady kneeling in front of her grandfather’s grave in a war cemetery is n northern France.
My cat, Sou, watching me write a booking in my diary.
Two elderly men admiring a goose on the run-up to Christmas in 1949. The man on the right being my great granddad, Andrew Kilkenny. He wears a Homburg hat, heavy, long, woolen coat, leather gloves and carries a silver-topped cane. He was 88 years old in this photo.
Red wine and Belgian Chocolates - a surprise gift from Mat McLachlan Battlefield Tours, who have sent me on many memorable tours during 2024.
A German Christmas card from 1915.
Sinkhole in the banking of the road leading into Riencourt lés Cagnicourt.
All of the area to the right of the image has dropped by about 30 - 40 cm. This won’t be a patch and move on repair.
Main junction in Beaulencourt showing the hole caused by an underground collapse, probably of a German tunnel from WW1.
My cat, Sou, slightly out of focus because she’s being nosy about my phone and getting too close, while being a bit clingy because I went out and left her all day. I’m forgiven now… chicken breast for dinner will do that with a cat. An explanation that I have to go out to work to keep her in food won’t.