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Ypres – Railway Chateau Cemetery
The entrance to Railway Chateau Cemetery, with a long grass pathway beyond, at the end of which I shall be even wetter than I am at the moment.
Posted in Ypres (Ieper)
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French Flanders: Neuve Chapelle Part Six – Richebourg; The Portuguese Military Cemetery
Just a hundred and fifty yards down the road from the Neuve Chapelle Memorial, this is the only Portuguese military cemetery in Flanders.
Posted in French Flanders, Neuve Chapelle, Portugal
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French Flanders: Neuve Chapelle Part Five – The Neuve Chapelle Memorial
This is the Neuve Chapelle Memorial.
Posted in French Flanders, Neuve Chapelle, Victoria Cross
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None Of These Men Died For Us
Wounded soldiers pose for the camera at a hospital in Blighty, most of these men destined to return to the fighting at some future point, I would have thought.
Posted in Soldiers
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French Flanders: Neuve Chapelle Part Four – Neuve Chapelle War Memorial
Neuve Chapelle war memorial is an unprepossessing little memorial outside this building in the centre of the village.
French Flanders: Neuve Chapelle Part Three – Neuve-Chapelle British Cemetery
There’s a track down the left edge of this cornfield, and beyond, some trees on the horizon that we’ve seen before, if from the other side.
Posted in French Flanders, Neuve Chapelle
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French Flanders: Neuve Chapelle Part Two – Neuve-Chapelle Farm Cemetery
Soldiers of the Corn.
Posted in French Flanders, Neuve Chapelle
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