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Category Archives: Shot at Dawn
Mont Kemmel Part Twenty – Locre Hospice Cemetery & Loker Hospice
On the outskirts of Loker, which is actually behind us, because the sign is one-sided, and thus we are looking east here, back up the road towards Mont Kemmel on the horizon, there’s a cemetery.
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Mont Kemmel Part Eighteen – Loker Churchyard
We’ve seen Loker church before, but only from a distance.
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The Elverdinge Burial Grounds Part Five – Bleuet Farm Cemetery
The final post in our Elverdinge series takes us to Bleuet Farm Cemetery.
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The Elverdinge Burial Grounds Part Three – Ferme-Olivier Cemetery
Ferme-Olivier Cemetery, the road to Elverdinge, three quarters of a mile to the east, on the left.
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The Elverdinge Burial Grounds Part One – Hagle Dump Cemetery
At the end of the previous post we found ourselves here (see inset), if you remember, having just spent some time in Red Farm Military Cemetery, one of the smallest cemeteries in the Salient. The four tall poplar trees that … Continue reading
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Poperinge Part Five – The Condemned Cell & Execution Courtyard
“I could not look on Death, which being known, Men led me to him, blindfold and alone.” At the start of this tour of Poperinge, I said that we would return to the centre of town in due course, and … Continue reading
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Poperinge Part Four – Poperinghe New Military Cemetery
Poperinghe New Military Cemetery.
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