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Wonder & Awe at the Normandy Battlefield
The motivation and drive for doing a battlefield tour can be varied and for many reasons; to visit the campaigns and battles of past family members, to pay respect to the deeds of past generations of soldiers and to look where your own regiment, or brigade, took part in key actions are some.  But, recently I had a most enjoyable battlefield tour to Normandy with Joe O'Carroll and his wife Colleen from South Africa, they simply wanted to understand what happened there and to help understand the soldiers whom fought there.
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Dickin Medal for Search Dog Treo
I recently had the great privilege of witnessing the presentation of a Dickin Medal, the animals Victoria Cross, to Treo, for saving many lives in Afghanistan with the British Army.
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A Vietnam Veteran on The Western Front
Former soldiers returning to the battlefield is the very history and origins of battlefield tours, or as they were know Staff Rides, but to take a veteran of The Vietnam War to the battles of World War was highly memorable.
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The Menin Gate
Since the 1920s at exactly 2000 hours, or 8:00 pm, every night the sound of the bugle can be heard in the Belgium town of Ypres, as the local fireman play The Last Post under The Menin Gate as a salute to the many soldiers who fell during the Great War of 1914 – 1918.
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