The Queen’s – The Royal West Surrey Regiment – lost 7,399 men killed during the Great War. Bill, Ernest & George were not among them, but they fought, and suffered, for their country, just the same. They just aren’t remembered as the men who died are. Continue reading
That’s eighteen years since I last set foot in this cemetery, before you ask. And I don’t imagine it’s changed a huge amount, although you never know. Continue reading
First, there was Little Willie. Continue reading
If you were a crow, perched atop the Cloth Hall in the centre of Ieper (Ypres), and you were considering a morning constitutional, it would take you a little over two minutes to make the journey, at cruising speed, down here to Belgian Battery Corner Cemetery. Continue reading
I’m afraid that I may have misled you slightly with the title of this post. ‘A Question of that Haircut’ would be more accurate, as you’ll see. Continue reading
There was a time when the state of today’s CWGC cemeteries was not quite so immaculate. Continue reading
Whenever I find myself cruising around the back roads of Flanders I am always on the lookout – of course I am – for evidence of the Great War in the surrounding fields, and bunkers such as this are still the war relics that you are most likely to see. Continue reading
