Author Archives: Magicfingers

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

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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

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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

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Hound (St. Mary) Churchyard Extension & War Memorial

Now that’s a cute little church if ever I saw one. 

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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. 

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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. 

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Neuve Eglise (Nieuwkerke) War Memorial

Neuve Eglise war memorial, with the village church beyond. 

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