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Recent Posts
- Post Update No. 5 – Railway Dugouts Burial Ground (Transport Farm) October 18, 2024
- Post Update No. 4 – Bedford House Cemetery October 14, 2024
- A Meeting of Military Minds October 1, 2024
- Hound (St. Mary) Churchyard Extension & War Memorial September 21, 2024
- Mending the Soldiers: An Introduction – Harold Delf Gillies September 4, 2024
- Neuve Eglise (Nieuwkerke) Churchyard August 24, 2024
- Neuve Eglise (Nieuwkerke) War Memorial August 13, 2024
- The Aubers Ridge Part Three – Le Maisnil Church & War Memorial July 27, 2024
- The Aubers Ridge Part Two – Aubers Ridge British Cemetery July 20, 2024
- The Aubers Ridge Part One – Aubers War Memorial July 9, 2024
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- Helen on Grangegorman Military Cemetery – Part One
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- Magicfingers on A Tour of Zillebeke Part Two – Railway Dugouts Burial Ground (Transport Farm) – Updated 2024
- Magicfingers on Post Update No. 5 – Railway Dugouts Burial Ground (Transport Farm)
- CAROLINE MOZLEY on Post Update No. 5 – Railway Dugouts Burial Ground (Transport Farm)
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Post Update No. 5 – Railway Dugouts Burial Ground (Transport Farm)
Just like London buses, you wait for ages, and then two turn up almost at once. Here’s another updated post from way back for you, and this one has had a major overhaul. You can see what you think by … Continue reading
Posted in Zillebeke
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Post Update No. 4 – Bedford House Cemetery
An update to a post that was first published over thirteen years ago, mainly because I have always been aware that when I visited I had missed, among many, one particular grave that I should have photographed, and which I … Continue reading
Posted in Zillebeke
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A Meeting of Military Minds
Not exactly your average Sunday, as we find ourselves in a school hall somewhere in the depths of leafy Surrey – and we do have a lot of leaves in Surrey, being the county, apparently, with the most trees in … Continue reading
Posted in Miscellaneous
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Hound (St. Mary) Churchyard Extension & War Memorial
Now that’s a cute little church if ever I saw one.
Mending the Soldiers: An Introduction – Harold Delf Gillies
Pioneer of plastic surgery and, later, much later, sex reassignment surgery, maxillofacial mastermind Harold Delf Gillies (later, Sir Harold Delf Gillies), pictured before the Great War.
Posted in Medical
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Neuve Eglise (Nieuwkerke) Churchyard
Neuve Eglise church, the small green sign on the right telling us, as if we didn’t know it already, that there are CWGC graves to be found in the churchyard.
Posted in Neuve Eglise (Nieuwkerke)
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Neuve Eglise (Nieuwkerke) War Memorial
Neuve Eglise war memorial, with the village church beyond.