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Austro-Hungarian Hand Grenades of the Great War Part Fourteen – The Lakos Hand Grenade Part Two

Posted on March 28, 2019 by Magicfingers

At the start of last year I showed you three examples of what are known as Lakos hand grenades, and here are three more examples of Captain Róbert Lakos’ inventions. Continue reading →

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Austro-Hungarian Mess Tin Lid Relics

Posted on March 26, 2019 by Magicfingers

Two Austro-Hungarian Great War mess tin lids, found in Italy, six quid the pair including postage, a few years back. Continue reading →

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German Military Cemeteries in France & Belgium

Posted on March 22, 2019 by Magicfingers

I don’t know about you, but I find delving into all things German on the Western Front pretty tricky at times. There’s the obvious language problem, of course, but I get by, and yet sometimes it’s the stuff that should be simple, like attempting to track down the location of the German cemeteries still to be found in France and Belgium, that proves problematic and time-consuming. I mean, do you know how many there are and where they’re all located? Continue reading →

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French Flanders: The Cemeteries on the Lys Part Two – A Return to Suffolk Cemetery (La Rolanderie Farm)

Posted on March 9, 2019 by Magicfingers

It’s only a little place, Suffolk Cemetery (La Rolanderie Farm), but it will forever be dear to my heart. And I suppose, for personal reasons, this is up there with the most important of the close-on nine hundred posts that have been published on this website since late 2010. Continue reading →

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French Flanders: The Cemeteries on the Lys Part One: Erquinghem-Lys Churchyard Extension

Posted on March 2, 2019 by Magicfingers

Okay, I’ve been intimating for some time now that we will be off on a new tour soon, so let’s bite the bullet and get started. We begin with another visit to the cemetery at Erquinghem-Lys, just a mile south west of the outskirts of Armentières, and today well on the way to becoming an outskirt itself. Continue reading →

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