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Mont Kemmel Part Eleven – The Kemmelberg

Posted on April 17, 2021 by Magicfingers

Mont Kemmel, sometime in the early 20th Century. 

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Mont Kemmel Part Ten – Kemmel Chateau Military Cemetery

Posted on April 13, 2021 by Magicfingers

It’s getting late in the day as we arrive at the entrance to Kemmel Chateau Military Cemetery. 

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Mont Kemmel Part Nine – Kemmel Churchyard

Posted on April 9, 2021 by Magicfingers

Before the war, Kemmel church looked like this. 

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Mont Kemmel Part Eight – La Laiterie Military Cemetery

Posted on April 6, 2021 by Magicfingers

Half a mile south of the American Memorial we visited last post, we find La Laiterie Military Cemetery. 

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Edinburgh Waverley Station – North British Railway Company Roll of Honour

Posted on April 4, 2021 by Magicfingers

From Highlands to Lowlands, and yep, those are platforms, and this is a terminus, and if you look to the left,… …you will see a Roll of Honour,… …with far too many names listed on it, and, before I forget, … Continue reading →

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Strathspey & District War Memorial

Posted on April 3, 2021 by Magicfingers

Grantown-on-Spey on a chilly spring day.  Poetry, that.  Although hardly in motion. Anyway, you’d assume that this stately Corinthian column is the Grantown-on-Spey war memorial,… …but according to the Imperial War Museum’s War Memorials Register, this is officially the Strathspey … Continue reading →

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Mont Kemmel Part Seven – U.S. 27th & 30th Divisions Memorial

Posted on March 28, 2021 by Magicfingers

Although the American Expeditionary Force began arriving in Europe in June 1917, their main area of operations would be the Meuse-Argonne region of north eastern France, and it is far less well known that four American divisions fought in Flanders … Continue reading →

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