With the British Army in Flanders & France

Reninghelst War Memorial

Posted on August 3, 2025 by Magicfingers

I doubt if too many of you have visited Reninghelst. It’s hardly on the coach tour route, and I imagine most people who visit likely have personal reasons for doing so. Continue reading →

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Bamforth Postcards – The Commercialization of Sentimentalism

Posted on July 13, 2025 by Magicfingers

James Bamforth had long produced ‘song cards’, utilising popular songs of the time to layer the sentiment on his postcards, and the tradition continued throughout the Great War, by the end of which his company was producing some twenty million cards a year. Continue reading →

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Erquinghem-Lys – Of Dead Men & Heroes

Posted on June 29, 2025 by Magicfingers

We’ve been here before. More than once. Although not at this time of year. Continue reading →

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Westoutre British Cemetery

Posted on June 14, 2025 by Magicfingers

Westouter’s second cemetery can be found just three hundred yards north of the church & churchyard that we visited last post. Continue reading →

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Westouter War Memorial, Churchyard & Extension

Posted on May 25, 2025 by Magicfingers

Every so often we find ourselves in an area that remained behind the British lines for the whole of the war, and Westoutre, now Westouter, is one such place. Continue reading →

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