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- A Tour of Langemark Part Five – Langemark German War Cemetery June 17, 2018
- A Tour of Langemark Part Four – The 20th Light Division Memorial June 14, 2018
- A Tour of Langemark Part Three – Steenbeek Albertina Marker June 12, 2018
- A Tour of Langemark Part Two – Cement House Cemetery June 8, 2018
- A Tour of Langemark Part One – The Welsh Memorial Park & Hedd Wyn Plaque June 1, 2018
- The Menin Gate – The Executed Soldiers & the Crucified Canadian May 25, 2018
- The Menin Gate – The Victoria Cross Recipients May 21, 2018
- Kitchener’s Wood Memorial May 12, 2018
- St. Jean – White House Cemetery May 6, 2018
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Kitchener’s Wood Memorial
So, where, exactly, is this Kitchener’s Wood, I hear you ask? Well, sorry to disappoint, but there isn’t one. Not any more. But there was during the Great War, and it saw an action in 1915 that goes down as … Continue reading
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St. Jean – White House Cemetery
It’s a grey day as we arrive at White House Cemetery, three quarters of a mile north east of the Menin Gate, on the road to St. Jean (Sint-Jan) and Wieltje.
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St. Jean War Memorial
The crossroads in the centre of the little village of St. Jean (now Sint-Jan), almost exactly one mile north east of the Menin Gate.
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Wieltje – Oxford Road Cemetery
At long last, here we are at Oxford Road Cemetery, no more than two miles north east of Ypres (Ieper).
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Wieltje – 50th Northumbrian Division Memorial
Maybe six hundred yards east, and a little north, of Wieltje Farm Cemetery, this impressive memorial remembers the men of the 50th Northumbrian Division.
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Dublin – Deansgrange Cemetery
The hardly inspiring entrance to Deansgrange Cemetery, some six miles south east of Dublin City centre, and less than two miles from the port of Dun Laoghaire.
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Austro-Hungarian Hand Grenades of the Great War Part Thirteen – The Universal Grenade
We’ve seen some pretty basic hand grenades (in particular the Lakos grenades) in the past few months, so let’s take a look at something more complex, whilst bearing in mind that the more complicated the device, the more to go … Continue reading
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