Category Archives: Kemmel

This is the French ossuary on the western slopes of the Kemmelberg. 

A little French booklet that I picked up for a song earlier this year (from France, via Abe Books, no extra tax, thank you very much).  Published in 1920, and entirely appropriate to our current tour, this post features some … Continue reading →

Mont Kemmel, sometime in the early 20th Century. 

It’s getting late in the day as we arrive at the entrance to Kemmel Chateau Military Cemetery. 

Before the war, Kemmel church looked like this. 

Half a mile south of the American Memorial we visited last post, we find La Laiterie Military Cemetery. 

Although the American Expeditionary Force began arriving in Europe in June 1917, their main area of operations would be the Meuse-Argonne region of north eastern France, and it is far less well known that four American divisions fought in Flanders … Continue reading →