Little Willies & Big Willies

Posted on September 19, 2026 by Magicfingers

First, there was Little Willie. Continue reading →

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Ieper – Belgian Battery Corner Cemetery

Posted on August 22, 2026 by Magicfingers

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 →

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A Question of Haircuts

Posted on August 12, 2026 by Magicfingers

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 →

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A Question of Headstones

Posted on July 24, 2026 by Magicfingers

There was a time when the state of today’s CWGC cemeteries was not quite so immaculate. Continue reading →

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The Roeselarestraat Bunkers

Posted on July 13, 2026 by Magicfingers

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 →

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The Men Who Came Home – A Memorial Part Sixteen – The Royal Sussex Regiment, The Royal Warwickshire Regiment & The Royal West Kents

Posted on July 1, 2026 by Magicfingers

On the one hundred and tenth anniversary of the opening day of the Battle of the Somme, a day when close on 20,000 British soldiers would lose their lives – this is Ancre British Cemetery, near Beaumont-Hamel – allow me to introduce you to some more men who survived their war experience, if not wholly. Continue reading →

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More Military Tractors

Posted on May 31, 2026 by Magicfingers

The Newton Universal Military Tractor.  In case your literacy skills have just let you down. Continue reading →

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