With the British Army in Flanders

Zandvoorde – The Household Cavalry Monument

Posted on January 15, 2012 by Magicfingers

Modern development means that the Household Cavalry Monument at Zandvoorde is now accessed by a narrow alleyway between two buildings.

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Zandvoorde Churchyard

Posted on January 14, 2012 by Magicfingers

The church of St. Bartholomew at Zandvoorde, destroyed during the First World War and rebuilt in the 1920s.

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Zantvoorde British Cemetery – Part Two

Posted on January 12, 2012 by Magicfingers

A few weeks before Christmas, the family Baldrick & I revisited Zandvoorde and the British cemetery there. Last time it was a beautiful summer’s day, blue sky, fluffy white clouds. Not so nice today, but a good opportunity nonetheless to rectify some omissions from our previous visit.

The road to Zandvoorde from the north. The spire of Zandvoorde Church can be seen (on the horizon in the centre of the photograph), as can the slight ridge upon which the village itself sits, a ridge that the British were striving so hard to defend in late October 1914.

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In an English Country Churchyard

Posted on January 1, 2012 by Magicfingers

The war memorial outside St. Mary’s Church in Templecombe, Somerset. And to the very nice lady who enquired as to the nature of my churchyard investigations that afternoon, you will find the rest of the photographs in the Back in Blighty – Somerset section.