Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh . . ROYAL NAVY SERVICE . 🇬🇧 He joined the British Royal Navy in 1939, aged 18. During the Second World War he served with distinction in the Mediterranean & Pacific Fleets. . 🇬🇧 After leaving Gordonstoun in early 1939, Philip completed a term as a cadet at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, then repatriated to Greece, living with his mother in Athens for a month in mid-1939. At the behest of the Greek king, George II, he returned to Britain in September to resume training for the Royal Navy. He graduated from Dartmouth the next year as the best cadet in his course. . 🇬🇧 During the Second World War, he continued to serve in the British forces, while two of his brothers-in-law, Prince Christoph of Hesse & Berthold, Margrave of Baden, fought on the opposing German side. . 🇬🇧 Philip was appointed as a midshipman in January 1940. . 🇬🇧 He spent four months on the battleship HMS Ramillies, protecting convoys of the Australian Expeditionary Force in the Indian Ocean, followed by shorter postings on HMS Kent, on HMS Shropshire, & in Ceylon. . 🇬🇧 After the invasion of Greece by Italy in October 1940, he was transferred from the Indian Ocean to the battleship HMS Valiant in the Mediterranean Fleet. . . . #RoyalNavy #Naval #Worldwartwo #secondworldwar #Mediterranean #Pacific #Valiant #Kent #Shropshire #Ramillies #ships #cruiser #indianocean #HMS #PrincePhilip #Mountbatten #PhilipMountbatten #hrh #DukeofEdinburgh #Prince #consort #RoyalFamily #RoyalHistory #history #historyinpictures #Navy #thequeen #Royalty #Monarchy #Britishmonarchy (at United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_5HtOpDOJx/?igshid=1xe82ipvm3p5

In the above image the grenadiers of one of the Scottish regiments, Borthwick, can be seen leading the charge against the church precincts. Ensign James Gardiner, a 19-year-old officer in Borthwick’s regiment, was shot through the mouth leading the attack while carrying the Scottish saltire. 

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Belle rencontre que celle-ci avec un personnage emblématique du quartier du village où il réside seul avec son petit compagnon. L'homme est curieux de tout, il note tout et a le phrasé abondant. A tel point qu'il est difficile au sortir de la conversation de se souvenir de tout ce qui a été abordé. Mais je ne retiendrai qu'une chose c'est la grande joie, l'émotion et la gratitude manifestée à la vue de ce cliché, la seule “valable” avec son petit chien qu'il adore, lui-même ayant été passionné de photographie il n'est visiblement pas à l'aise dans l'exercice du selfie :-)

May 23rd, 1706: John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, defeats a French army under Marshal François de Neufville, duc de Villeroy at the Battle of Ramillies, during the War of the Spanish Succession. The victory led to the Allied capture of the whole north and east of the Spanish Netherlands. The battle was fought 13 miles north of Namur (in modern Belgium), between a 62,000-man Allied armyunder Marlborough and a 60,000-man French army under François de Neufville, Duke de Villeroi. Under express orders from Louis XIV to seek battle, the French reached the plain of Ramillies ahead of the Allies but deployed unwisely along the entire length of a 4-mile ridge, the centre of which was at the villages of Ramillies and Offus. A strong Allied attack on the French left forced Villeroi to shift reinforcements from his centre. Marlborough, however, called off this attack because the marshy ground would not permit cavalry support. Half of the battalions from this wing then marched, undetected by the French, to the centre to support the final concentrated Allied assault. This smashed the overextended French army. The French lost about 17,000 killed, wounded, or captured and by the next morning were thoroughly dispersed. Allied losses numbered about 5,000 killed and wounded. Although many towns fell to the Allies in the succeeding weeks, their advance came to a halt when they reached better-fortified and well-garrisoned towns farther south. The seemingly decisive victory did not lead to a peace settlement.

HMS Ramillies, HMS Warspite, y corbeta clase Flower en la playa Sword, Normandia,1944