Warsaw

Ceridwen has supplied this shot of the Warsaw uprising monument to add to our online photograph album of places mentioned in Lorna Lloyd's Diary of the war (previously blipped in full in the LornaL journal, and now available as a podcast series). Thank you Ceridwen!

Lorna writes a lot about Warsaw at the start of her war diary. The mentions fall across 14 diary entries that chart the fall of the city to the Germans in September 1939. In the last of these, on 30th September 1939, Lorna notes that the German occupation will start the following day. She also refers back to this event in her war diary entry of 13th March 1940.

You can follow the audio version of Lorna's account of the Fall of Warsaw in the first two episodes of the Diary of the war podcast series, in which Lorna is played by her great-great niece actress Bethany Ray: Episode 1 is here; Episode 2 is here. The later mention of Warsaw in March 1940 features in Episode 4.

CALLING ALL BLIPPERS! 
Have you ever been to any of the following countries? England, Albania, France, Finland, Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland, Russia, Spain, Egypt, Iraq, Cameroon, Chad, Niger, Nigeria, South Africa, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Libya, or Romania. If so, please check the lists below to see if you are able to contribute to the pipeline of photos for this journal. We currently only have a couple of shots lined up for future blips, so we would be be very grateful to hear from you with a shot, then add you to our list of contributors.

Please send your contribution(s) (not previously blipped) to h.hall@napier.ac.uk and we will feature it(them) alongside the others that we have been blipping here since 13th July 2022. 

ENGLISH CITIES AND LARGE TOWNS
Bolton
Coventry
Gloucester
Ilford

ENGLAND: SMALLER LOCATIONS
Leigh, Gloucestershire
Shrivenham, Oxfordshire
 
ENGLAND: VERY SPECIFIC LOCATIONS
Callow End, Malvern 
Caxton Hall, London

EUROPE - SPECIFIC PLACES
Albania: Durrës (Durazzo)
France: Bailleul,  Dunkirk, Forest of Compiègne, the Maginot Line, Roncesvalles
Finland: Hanko (Hangö), Mannerheim Line
Germany: Heligoland, Siegfried Line
Greece: Thermopylae
Italy: Romagna, Taranto
Poland: Silesia, Westerplatte
Russia: Karelian Isthmus, Petsamo province (part of Finland until 1944, Vyborg (Viipuri in Finland until 1944)
Spain: Guernica

REST OF THE WORLD - SPECIFIC PLACES
Egypt: Sidi Barrani
Iraq: Babylon (Hillah)
Cameroon/Chad/Niger/Nigeria: Lake Chad
South Africa: Mafeking (Mafekeng)

EUROPE AND REST OF THE WORLD - GENERAL (i.e. we just need a shot from anywhere in the country listed)
French Equatorial Africa (now Chad, the Central African Republic, the Republic of the Congo, and Gabon)
Libya
Romania

Thank you to all the blippers who have already supplied pictures for this project to date:

ArcLight
1bluebell 
bibba 
CaitlinA
Ceridwen 
Colstro
DarkEyedMary
digitaldaze
esiuol 
hazelh
hjarald
iaint
Ingeborg
jelleybaby
jonmountjoy
Joyful
LauraMuir
Livresse
Munroist4113
Myceliumme
Nettenet
Pandammonium
Pinkhairedlady
Ridgeback13
rosewiles7
Sallymair
SMLP
SparseRunner
StuartDB
Tigger101
Tweedy
walkingMarj
whome
Winsford