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Mont Kemmel Part Seventeen – Loker Demarcation Stone No. 1

Posted on December 12, 2021 by Magicfingers

Way back in the first post of this tour, I mentioned that we would encounter four Demarcation Stones on our travels, and here’s number two. 

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Mont Kemmel Part Sixteen – Locre No.10 Cemetery

Posted on December 3, 2021 by Magicfingers

Locre No.10 Cemetery can be found about six hundred yards north of our previous stop in Dranouter, and not much further south of the village of Loker, as it is now known. 

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Saxmundham War Memorial

Posted on November 30, 2021 by Magicfingers

Now here’s an incongruous juxtaposition if ever I saw one. See what I mean. Although, come to think of it, it does rather ensure a wide audience, does it not? This was the emblem of Combined Operations Command in the … Continue reading →

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Mont Kemmel Part Fifteen – Dranoutre Military Cemetery

Posted on November 27, 2021 by Magicfingers

Now there’s an interesting, if curious, still-life for you. 

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The Men Who Came Home – A Memorial Part Eleven – The Royal Navy

Posted on November 23, 2021 by Magicfingers

Another postcard for you, although what you see is what you get; I have no information whatsoever about these men, the reverse of the card being blank.  Nice picture though, don’t you think? 

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Aldringham – St. Andrew’s Church, War Memorial & Churchyard

Posted on November 20, 2021 by Magicfingers

Now here’s a nice little church – no church tower, note. And on the outside wall,… …a memorial to eight local men who died during World War II. On the wall inside the church,… …the Great War Roll of Honour, … Continue reading →

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Mont Kemmel Part Fourteen – Dranouter Churchyard & War Memorial

Posted on November 14, 2021 by Magicfingers

Appropriately, on Remembrance Sunday, it’s time for us to return to the battlefields of Kemmel, where the churchyards and military cemeteries still tell their sad tale of death and sorrow.  We begin Part Two of our tour at the rebuilt … Continue reading →

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