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Forgotten Friday – Churchill’s Cigar

Forgotten Friday – Churchill’s Cigar Many photographs of Churchill depict him with a cigar either in his mouth or his hand. There is even one of him at the control of the aircraft that flew him home from Washington in January 1942, with a large cigar jutting out into...

Forgotten Friday – The Kriegie Edition

#ForgottenFriday – The Kriegie Edition This wartime publication was extremely famous, it was created by a man named Richard Pape who was from Leeds. He was imprisoned by the Germans, and placed in camp Staglag Luft VI. To try motivating his fellow prisoners, who...

Forgotten Friday – Silk Embroidered Postcards

Embroidered Silk Postcards   During World War One, a popular souvenir amongst British soldiers was the embroidered silk postcard.  As they were quite an expensive souvenir, a lot of postcards were unwritten and unmarked and sent home with accompanying letters to...

Forgotten Friday – The Kidnap of Henrich Kreipe

The Kidnap of Heinrich Kreipe – By Trish Wade During the German/Italian occupation of the Greek island of Crete an audacious plan was hatched to kidnap a German general. This was to be carried out by the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) and local...