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Wednesday, 15 August 2012
A Veteran Remembers - part 1
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It's 1940 and from your home in Australia you hear daily news reports of bombs landing on your native Kent, with invasion threatened to ...
Friday, 10 August 2012
"Fortress Maidstone" 1939-41
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The shortest invasion route from Europe to Britain is from Calais to Dover. The primary invasion target for any invasion is London. Slap ban...
Tuesday, 29 May 2012
Nolan, of the Charge, in Maidstone
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If you are ever in want of a read with a mid-Victorian flavour, you could do worse than A Soldier of Three Queens by Robert Henderson, publi...
Thursday, 7 July 2011
Hanoverian Standoff - the Maidstone affair of 1756
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On Monday 13th September 1756 a German soldier walked into a shop in Maidstone, Kent, to buy some handkerchiefs. What happened next helped b...
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