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Category Archives: French Flanders
Disposition Maps – German Forces 1916-1918
A series of seven British maps, this first dating from February 1916, showing the known, or believed, distribution of German forces facing the Allies on the Western Front.
Posted in Documents, Maps & Artwork, French Flanders
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French Flanders: The Cemeteries on the Lys Part Twelve – La Gorgue Communal Cemetery
Another communal cemetery, this time with a CWGC sign for all to see.
Posted in Armentières to La Gorgue, French Flanders
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French Flanders: The Cemeteries on the Lys Part Eleven – La Gorgue War Memorial
Less than a mile south west of Estaires, and now just south, once more, of the River Lys, our penultimate stop on the first part of this tour finds us at the war memorial in the centre of La Gorgue.
French Flanders: The Cemeteries on the Lys Part Ten – Estaires War Memorial
Estaires war memorial is not only quite unusual, and I think quite beautiful, but damned tricky to photograph, even if it doesn’t look it.
French Flanders: The Cemeteries on the Lys Part Nine – Estaires Communal Cemetery Part Two
If you were with us last post we were in Estaires Communal Cemetery. And we still are.
Posted in Armentières to La Gorgue, French Flanders
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French Flanders: The Cemeteries on the Lys Part Eight – Estaires Communal Cemetery & Extension Part One
After our brief visit to the battlefield of Culloden, it’s time to head back to Flanders for your Bank Holiday, if you are in England, reading. Our next stop on our journey up the River Lys is Estaires, where there … Continue reading
French Flanders: The Cemeteries on the Lys Part Seven – Sailly-sur-la-Lys Canadian Cemetery
Anzac Cemetery once more, but the weather’s not so good this time. It’ll probably get better later.