Category Archives: The Nursery: Bois Grenier to Houplines

The final stop on our tour of the Nursery is Houplines Communal Cemetery Extension.

A mile up the road from La Chapelle d’Armentières, and no more than a mile due east of Armentières itself, the penultimate cemetery on our tour is Ferme Buterne Military Cemetery.

With only two cemeteries still to visit on this tour of the Nursery, I thought it might interest you to see where we have been, and where we have still to go, on this very nice Google map.  If you … Continue reading →

By the time we reach La Chapelle d’Armentières Communal Cemetery, the weather is at its worst.

For nearly a hundred years, Chapelle-d’Armentières New Military Cemetery sat in splendid isolation in the middle of the fields just to the north of La Chapelle d’Armentières.

Now this looks a bit better.  Weather-wise I mean.