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- The Propaganda of Conscription – The Military Service Act of 1916 January 22, 2022
- Mont Kemmel Part Twenty One – Loker Demarcation Stone No. 2 & Kemmel Demarcation Stone No. 1 January 17, 2022
- Mont Kemmel Part Twenty – Locre Hospice Cemetery & Loker Hospice January 10, 2022
- New Addition December 31, 2021
- Hayle – St. Elwyns Church December 29, 2021
- Mont Kemmel Part Nineteen – On Mont Kemmel Part Two: The Fight for Locre December 24, 2021
- Mont Kemmel Part Eighteen – Loker Churchyard December 19, 2021
- Mont Kemmel Part Seventeen – Loker Demarcation Stone No. 1 December 12, 2021
- Mont Kemmel Part Sixteen – Locre No.10 Cemetery December 3, 2021
- Saxmundham War Memorial November 30, 2021
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The Propaganda of Conscription – The Military Service Act of 1916
The most famous image of the Great War was originally designed as a magazine cover. Bet you didn’t know that.
Mont Kemmel Part Twenty One – Loker Demarcation Stone No. 2 & Kemmel Demarcation Stone No. 1
Eleven months ago we began this tour of the Kemmel battlefields by visiting Kemmel Demarcation Stone No. 2, and today, as the sun gets lower in the sky, we shall finish with two more of the Demarcation Stones that ostensibly … Continue reading
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Mont Kemmel Part Twenty – Locre Hospice Cemetery & Loker Hospice
On the outskirts of Loker, which is actually behind us, because the sign is one-sided, and thus we are looking east here, back up the road towards Mont Kemmel on the horizon, there’s a cemetery.
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Hayle – St. Elwyns Church
Private George Sleeman’s name can be found on the Vis-en-Artois Memorial, a few miles south east of Arras. Sergeant John Richards, South African Service Corps, is buried in Taveta Military Cemetery (the link is to the CWGC website, where you’ll … Continue reading
Mont Kemmel Part Nineteen – On Mont Kemmel Part Two: The Fight for Locre
View of the Kemmelberg, two miles away to the east, from a ruined Loker. It’s time we rejoined our French corporal, Jean Parnin, who, when last heard of, had managed to regain the French lines, somewhere around where this photo … Continue reading
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Mont Kemmel Part Eighteen – Loker Churchyard
We’ve seen Loker church before, but only from a distance.
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