The Lowlander weekly podcast ~ Andy and Merryn share the service newsletter that was sent out daily to men of the 52nd Lowland Division from Nov 44 / May 45.
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🏴 Shared on the battlefield, stored in the archives, The Lowlander was a newsletter sent out to men of the 52nd Lowland Division every day from November 1944 to May 1945.
🔊The Lowlander. Episode One ~ 15.11.2023.
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PS: COME WALKING WITH THE JOCKS! 😀
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From the questionable Petri dish that was @The_Lowlander …. we bring you….
NEWS OF THE WAR @newsofthewar
A brand new, sideways look at WW2 through the lens of the newspapers
Coming summer 2024 📰
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🏴And so…our very last episode!
Yes, it’s a sneak preview of our walkingwiththejocks.co.uk tour in October ‘24. Want to see the war AFTER D-Day and Market Garden?! Come with us, as we follow in the footsteps of the men of the 52nd Lowland Division!
We’d also like to say…
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Lowlander's been amazing fun - getting newsletters out of the archives, getting into the stories. Now, important announcement ...
✨ONLY A COUPLE OF PLACES LEFT ON THE TOUR!✨
Look and book here 😊: walkingwiththejocks.co.uk
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Nearly there, the celebrations have begun - VE Day! The 52nd Lowland Division clicks over into ‘taking care’ mode … although there are still a few pot shots here and there.
🏴PENULTIMATE EPISODE!
Introducing the greatest Monty of them all - Malcolm Montgomery. Translator. 52 Lowland Division. Present at the surrender on Lüneberg Heath. And even though it’s hard to believe it gets better than this …
… these are possibly the greatest words ever spoken about us, by Malcolm’s niece, Linda. We love you Linda. U da best. 🥰 #52ndelite #52ndontime #52ndforthewin
🏴Hard to believe it, but the end is nigh - it’s Episode 25 of The Lowlander. The 52nd Lowlander Division is there to the very end - and what happens next, we wonder?!
“It’s the sheer size of the smashed area that overwhelms you” - reporting live from 1945, Wynford Vaughan Thomas takes us into Episode 24 of The Lowlander - JORROCKS (and Bremen).
Nearly there, folks. 😔
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😬 It would help if one of us pushed the button when the tweet is ready to send. Wouldn’t it.
The Lowlander — not many episodes left, people. 🥲
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OTD 1945 I remember the last two of Peters Jocks to be KIA.
Cpl John Parry, 29, Glasgow
Pte Percy Byles, 22, London
Both killed in an ambush, at Gros Eilstorf woods.
The even was written about in the With the Jocks chapter “Ambush”
Both are buried at Becklingen cemetery
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Over the last couple of years I’ve managed to track down the families of both Parry and Byles, and Pte Norman Grosfils who was wounded in the same ambush.
Norman survived and only died in 2015, leaving 11 grandchildren and 9 great grandchildren.
ALT Cpl John Parry, Aberdeenshire 1944
ALT Percy George Byles
ALT Norman Grosfils, just after the war in Europe
We haven't slipped, we've moved briefly in line with the newsletter dates. Next edition of The Lowlander is out tomorrow. Stand by...
You've heard the podcast, now read the book ... and then come with us, walkingwiththejocks.co.uk !
🚨 BARGAIN BOOK SALE! 🚨
The amazing people at the KOSB museum, Berwick have a stock of original hardback copies of WITH THE JOCKS by Peter White!
Fancy a copy?
£5 + post/packaging. Just email the Museum via their website kosb.co.uk/contact/
(Cannot post overseas)
