With the British Army in Flanders & France

My guess is that you won’t have seen any of these photographs before.  And, from a thrill-a-minute point of view, possibly won’t be in too much of a hurry to see them again.  On the other hand, you might find this more interesting than it might appear at first sight, and if nothing else, it certainly answers a few questions about how troops might have been supplied when the land across which those supplies had to be transported had been turned into a quagmire by repeated artillery bombardments that had destroyed any semblance of the drainage systems that once patchworked Flanders Fields.  Note I use the words ‘might have been’.  Read on…… Continue reading →

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