Category Archives: French War Memorials

French Flanders: Armentières to La Gorgue Part Eleven – Estaires War Memorial

Posted on May 12, 2019 by Magicfingers

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.

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French Flanders: Armentières, Nieppe & Steenwerck Part Nine – Steenwerck War Memorial

Posted on February 19, 2017 by Magicfingers

Steenwerck war memorial.

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French Flanders: Armentières, Nieppe & Steenwerck Part Five – Nieppe War Memorial

Posted on February 5, 2017 by Magicfingers

Before we leave Nieppe we shall naturally pay our respects at the village war memorial.

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Longueval War Memorial & the Pipers Memorial

Posted on July 14, 2016 by Magicfingers

Longueval war memorial, on one side of the crossroads in the centre of the village.

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Travels on the Somme Part Ten – Albert

Posted on March 30, 2016 by Magicfingers

The rolling plains of Picardy.

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French Flanders: The Nursery Part Eleven – La Chapelle d’Armentières War Memorial

Posted on February 19, 2016 by Magicfingers

A few hundred yards south east of the two La Chapelle-d’Armentières cemeteries…

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French Flanders: The Nursery Part Four – Bois-Grenier War Memorial

Posted on December 14, 2015 by Magicfingers

Back in French Flanders, you may remember that we had embarked on a tour of the cemeteries to the south and south east of the border town of Armentières, an area referred to by the Australians in 1916 as the … Continue reading →

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