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Category Archives: Postcards
Guerre 1914
It is nearly midnight on Christmas Day, and I should probably be fast asleep by now, bearing in mind that they dragged me dahn the pub at 11.30 this morning! The Missus has done the chauffeuring all day, Morecambe & … Continue reading
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Another Trench at Ypres
Another newly acquired postcard, and again an image I haven’t seen anywhere else, this view of a captured French trench near Ypres was taken the day after the Germans’ first ever use of gas on 22nd April 1915, at the … Continue reading
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The First Trench at Ypres
Here’s an interesting postcard that came into my possession only this week. I often talk about how trenches in Flanders had to be built above ground due to the high water table, using whatever came to hand, and this photograph … Continue reading
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