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- The Cemeteries of Gallipoli Part One – Cape Helles January 12, 2026
- Farnborough War Memorial December 11, 2025
- The Rifle Grenade Part Seven – The British No. 22 ‘Newton Pippin’ Rifle Grenade & the Newton 6-inch Trench Mortar December 1, 2025
- The Stokes Mortar November 20, 2025
- British Rifle Grenades of the Great War – A Brief Pictorial Overview November 13, 2025
- Kemmel – La Clytte Military Cemetery November 2, 2025
- Grootebeek British Cemetery October 5, 2025
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Author Archives: Magicfingers
Remember the Dead – The 3rd Bn. Monmouthshire Regiment & the Second Battle of Ypres
Men of the initial draft of the 3rd Battalion Monmouthshire Regiment (colloquially known as 3rd Mons, and mainly recruited from the Gwent area) parade at Abergavenny in South Wales in August 1914. Part of the 83rd Brigade, 28th Division, they … Continue reading
Posted in Miscellaneous
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Austro-Hungarian Hand Grenades of the Great War Part Fifteen – The M16 ‘Cigaro’
Here’s another of those curious contraptions that litter my Man Cave. And if you disregard the vanes at the top, this image shows exactly why this was referred to as the Cigaro.
Posted in Austro-Hungarian Grenades, Weaponry & Relics
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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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