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Despatches Summer 2020 July 2020 Summer 2020 www.gbg-international.com DESPATCHES IN THIS ISSUE: PLUS Guiding Through Quarantine Photojournalist Guide Lone Star Guide AND Tracking a Lancaster Wotjek the Bear Picture Guide 02 | Despatches www.gbg-international.com | 03 Cover image: Rainbow over the Messines © Mike Sheils FIELDguides (See article page 29) Contents Battle Honours have been looking closer to home - Defence of the Realm Weekend Often fleetingly glimpsed from the deck of a cross channel ferry, Dover offers a rich military heritage making it the ideal location for a short military history break. P2 FIELDguides P21-28 PICTURES THAT PAINT Led by badged guides Tony Scott and Clive Harris, the weekend includes a A THOUSAND WORDS walk around the town of Dover, P5-7 BATTLEFIELD GUIDING taking in memorials and historic sites and the COVID-19 CRISIS P29-34 PHOTOJOURNALIST to tell the story of Dover at War, this is followed by a walk along the The experience of a fulltime guide GUIDE eastern cliffs discovering wartime Part One defences, cross channel guns sites and P8-12 ‘DON’T MESS WITH the Chain Home early warning system before ending at the Dover Patrol TEXAS’ P35-36 A BATTLEFIELD STUDY Memorial and a seaside pub. Texan war of Independence 1835-36 Virtually The following day includes a walk along the western cliffs pausing at P37-38 WOTJEK THE POLISH sound ranging equipment and P13-16 INVESTIGATING THE numerous pill boxes overlooking the LOSS OF PB 812 MILITARY BEAR English Channel. We complete the day An unusual soldier with visits to the Capel-Le-Ferne Using good sources Battle of Britain Memorial, the historic Royal Military Canal and P39-40 PB 812 SOURCE GUIDE Shorncliffe Military Cemetery. We are P17-20 LOCAL LOCKDOWN currently costing the tour and as GBG MONUMENT TOUR P41-43 GUIDEbooks Partners, we will of course offer members a discount on the package. Close to home and Dover Details will follow soon. P43 EVENTguide 2020/21 Lancaster LM363postscript Tony Smith Back in Spring 2014 I wrote an article for for sale on eBay. This they duly purchased and on ‘Despatches’ in which I told the story of the crew a cold January day I met with the family at a hotel of Lancaster LM363 which failed to return from a just off the A303. raid on Berlin on the 2nd December 1943. The At that meeting I met with George’s son, only a aircraft was piloted by Flight Lieutenant George baby at the time that his father was killed, and he Frazer-Hollins, an experienced 31-year-old pilot showed me letters and documents about George with 24 missions under his belt. including photographs of him. Up until then I had As the article mentions, my interest in the never been able to find a photograph of George. Lancaster and its crew had come about after I They also did not know the full details of the final purchased George’s DFC medal group from a mission which between myself and Willem we had dealer some years ago. I had researched each of the been able to fill in. Photos: Battle Honours Battlefield Tours Ltd Photos: Battle Honours Battlefield Tours lives of the crew members and with the help of It was quite an emotional meeting. It was Guild member, Willem Kleijn, had pieced together explained that George’s widow had been forced to the story of their last fateful raid. What I did not sell the medals in the ‘50s when times were hard. know at the time was where that article would lead. The family however had always kept George’s It was over two years later when, out of the memory alive and that it was by chance that they Material for publication in the Autumn FIRSTcontact: blue, I received an e-mail from fellow member had seen my article. Now they were to be reunited edition of ‘Despatches’ must be with Iain Standen. He had been contacted by a member with George’s medals. They told me that they were the Editor no later than 30 August Guild Chairman Guild Secretary Guild Membership of George Frazer-Hollins’ family who had seen now going to draw up a legal contract to ensure 2020. This is a deadline and Mike Peters Tim Stoneman Secretary - Tony Smith the ‘Despatches’ article on the internet. The that the medals would never leave the family again. submissions should be sent as far in family was very keen to buy the medals back from Having heard the family’s story, I was glad that chairman@gbg- secretary@gbg- mbr.sec@gbg- advance as possible. international.com international.com international.com me if I would be willing to sell them. I had I had been able to reunite them with the All material should be sent via Guild After some thought I agreed and it was decided medals and that between us - myself, Willem and www.facebook.com/battleguide Secretary Tim Stoneman at: that the family would ‘swap’ the group for a Iain had been able to contribute a little more to [email protected] twitter.com/GuildofBG similar set which, as luck would have it, was up their family history. www.Instagram.com/guild_bg 04 | Despatches www.gbg-international.com | 05 OPENINGshot: BATTLEFIELD GUIDING AND THE CHAIRMAN’S VIEW THE COVID-19 CRISIS The personal experience from a fulltime battlefield guide Hello Fellow Guild Members and Guild Partners, I or inappropriate hope that this bumper issue of ‘Despatches’ finds you behaviour on social Edwin Popken MA all in good health. I also hope that you like our media will amazing cover picture, generously provided by long undoubtably come It was Tuesday morning, 16 June 2020 around 8.30. The computer sounded a ‘you have time GBG member, Mike Sheil. As Editor, I am home to roost. new mail’ signal and I routinely checked it. I had woken up earlier that morning around grateful to Mike and to all of the other members who This new reality responded to my appeal for content a few weeks ago. has focused the minds of the GBG Management 7am, expecting it to be just another day in this now dreary COVID-19 crisis that had It is testament to the depth and variety of knowledge Board, we have been working behind the scenes to violently swept my diary clean of all tours and talks I had planned until the end of July. Some within our unique organisation that we have been futureproof your guild. You can see evidence of the twelve weeks into the lockdown - or had it already been more? - I had kept up a regular daily able to compile another excellent issue. Looking output in the form of detailed weekly bulletins, ahead, the Autumn ‘Despatches’ is already looking ongoing changes to the website, virtual validation routine from the beginning and keeping myself busy with different activities and projects. very healthy. Thank you to everyone who contributed sessions and many other proactive measures and articles, I will use them all. programmes of work. We are alive to the threats The Dutch government and their European leaders on the narrative and would be giving several Given current events, the cover image of a rainbow posed by COVID-19, Brexit and the prospect of counterparts had started planning to ease lockdown talks as well as two battlefield tours on non-walking over Messines seemed appropriate…as we go to print, economic downturn. As a board we are working hard and reopening their countries again. That was good days. To get these tours organised, I had enlisted the all of the talk is of a return to the new ‘normality’ that to ensure that membership is worthwhile in personal news, but with several travel restrictions still in place assistance of several other GBG members. And then we all crave. The Travel Industry has of course terms, as well as good value for money. The process and consumers probably hesitant because of all the there was my Viking Cruises project on top of all this. suffered terribly, and we all face an array of new is ongoing, please take the time to review the changes vagaries, I could not see battlefield touring restarting Having worked for several months with a Destination practical challenges related to the nitty, gritty detail of that you can see in the areas of Accreditation, just yet. I opened the email and read it … and read it Management Company (DMC) which provides shore- planning and delivering even the most basic battlefield Governance and Events. If you have not registered on again, making sure I was reading it correctly: based activities and excursions for Viking, Viking had tours. The biggest challenge will no doubt be costing a the website already, please do it now – it is a great lockdown was easing off, a group of Dutch friends asked us to give presentations for their Rhine cruises tour. The associated costs of administering a tour have shared portal for us all. Those who are accredited was re-planning a trip to the Ardennes which they while moored at Arnhem or Nijmegen. Around 38 changed beyond recognition. European members will members, please review your bio and refresh it if you had to postpone earlier due to COVID-19. They were talks had been planned until the end of August and already have scoped the hike in cross-channel prices think that is required. now planning to be there during the last weekend of more yet during Autumn. To get these presentations by ferry or train. All of these variables will hopefully In line with our efforts to sustain the GBG through June and asked me whether I was available to do a organised, I again enlisted the help of several other begin to settle in the next few months, most of the the current crisis we have made a number of changes battlefield tour for them.
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