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Category Archives: French War Memorials
Strazeele War Memorial
A fine spring day in May 2022. We are in Strazeele. Where is Strazeele, I hear you cry?
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Wervicq-Sud War Memorial
Wervicq-Sud war memorial, photographed in October 2019.
Bousbecque Communal Cemetery & War Memorial
A short distance east of Wervicq-Sud, Bousbecque, still only ten miles from the centre of Ypres (Ieper), is another French town that clings to the southern bank of the River Lys, and another place that I have passed by on … Continue reading
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: Armentières, Nieppe & Steenwerck Part Nine – Steenwerck War Memorial
Steenwerck war memorial.
French Flanders: Armentières, Nieppe & Steenwerck Part Five – Nieppe War Memorial
Before we leave Nieppe we shall naturally pay our respects at the village war memorial.