Category Archives: Messines

French Flanders: Armentières, Nieppe & Steenwerck Part Six – Trois Arbres Cemetery

Posted on February 16, 2017 by Magicfingers

Leaving the Armentières-Bailleul road, and taking the southern turn-off from Pont-d’Achelles, after a short distance we reach Trois Arbres Cemetery, where over 1,700 British soldiers are now buried or commemorated.

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French Flanders: Armentières, Nieppe & Steenwerck Part Five – Pont-d’Achelles Military Cemetery

Posted on February 8, 2017 by Magicfingers

No more than a mile up the Bailleul road from Nieppe, this is Pont-d’Achelles Military Cemetery.

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Twenty Minutes After

Posted on April 1, 2016 by Magicfingers

A few years back now, I showed you a couple of pieces of artwork by Lieutenant Hugh Mossom Boyd of the Royal Engineers that I was kindly allowed to scan and publish, and I thought you might like to see … Continue reading →

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R. E. Farm Cemetery

Posted on May 4, 2014 by Magicfingers

I considered including this little cemetery in the series of posts that made up the Tour of the Messines Ridge that you will find elsewhere on this site, as just half a mile up the road towards Wyschaete (Wijtschate) are … Continue reading →

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Kandahar Farm Cemetery

Posted on April 4, 2014 by Magicfingers

A quarter of a mile west of St. Quentin Cabaret Military Cemetery, and a little way south west of the village of Wulvergem, Kandahar Farm Cemetery stands as a silent witness to the many wounded men whose journey ended at … Continue reading →

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