Category Archives: Bunkers

The Roeselarestraat Bunkers

Posted on July 13, 2026 by Magicfingers

Whenever I find myself cruising around the back roads of Flanders I am always on the lookout – of course I am – for evidence of the Great War in the surrounding fields, and bunkers such as this are still … Continue reading →

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Mont Kemmel – The Lettenberg Bunkers

Posted on May 17, 2023 by Magicfingers

Restored British bunkers on the slopes of the Kemmelberg.

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From Dickebusch Lake to St. Eloi Part Seven – The St. Eloi Craters

Posted on October 30, 2022 by Magicfingers

Look for the green gate, someone said.  That’ll be it, then. 

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Zonnebeke War Memorial

Posted on August 12, 2019 by Magicfingers

Zonnebeke war memorial, next to the church, right in the centre of town.

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Inverness – Fort George

Posted on July 2, 2019 by Magicfingers

View from the Point Battery at Fort George, looking out on to the Moray Firth.

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A Return to Hill 60 – The Victoria Cross Actions of April 1915

Posted on August 13, 2018 by Magicfingers

‘Though poppies grow in Flanders fields’.  And the poppies are no myth, although this tranquil scene, looking west towards the spires of Ypres (Ieper) away on the horizon, would have been one of utter desolation for much of the Great … Continue reading →

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The Bayernwald Trenches

Posted on July 18, 2018 by Magicfingers

In the fields just over three miles south, and a little west, of the Lille Gate in Ypres (Ieper), there’s a little cemetery called Croonaert Chapel Cemetery, named after a shrine that once stood on the road between Wytschaete and … Continue reading →

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