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Mont Kemmel Part Two – Vierstraat: Suffolk Cemetery

Posted on March 6, 2021 by Magicfingers

The first cemetery on this tour is Suffolk Cemetery, not to be confused with Suffolk Cemetery, La Rolanderie Farm, which is an entirely different cemetery in an entirely different country.

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Mont Kemmel Part One – Vierstraat: Kemmel Demarcation Stone No. 2

Posted on February 26, 2021 by Magicfingers

Mont Kemmel, or the Kemmelberg, photographed after the war from the road between Kemmel and La Clytte. 

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Mont Kemmel – An Introduction

Posted on February 20, 2021 by Magicfingers

Autumn leaves litter a Flanders cemetery.  It’s been a while coming, I admit, but it’s time to set off on another tour.  This time we shall be visiting the Great War cemeteries and memorials to be found in the area … Continue reading →

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The Men Who Came Home – A Memorial Part Nine – The Army Service Corps

Posted on February 13, 2021 by Magicfingers

Army Service Corps water supply post, sometime in 1916. 

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British Military Headstones – Personal Inscriptions No. 4

Posted on February 1, 2021 by Magicfingers

One final group of headstone inscriptions, for the moment, although I’ll show you some at a future date.

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The Men Who Came Home – A Memorial Part Eight – The Labour Corps

Posted on January 30, 2021 by Magicfingers

Another of those Daily Mail postcards I showed you during the daily/weekly postcard series of 2020, here we see a British labour battalion in action. 

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The Men Who Came Home – A Memorial Part Seven – The Royal Army Medical Corps

Posted on January 25, 2021 by Magicfingers

R.A.M.C. doctors drawing rations. 

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