Category Archives: Demarcation Stones

Mont Kemmel Part Twenty One – Loker Demarcation Stone No. 2 & Kemmel Demarcation Stone No. 1

Posted on January 17, 2022 by Magicfingers

Eleven months ago we began this tour of the Kemmel battlefields by visiting Kemmel Demarcation Stone No. 2, and today, as the sun gets lower in the sky, we shall finish with two more of the Demarcation Stones that ostensibly … Continue reading →

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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 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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Lankhof Farm Demarcation Stone & Bunkers

Posted on March 28, 2018 by Magicfingers

The road leads north to Ypres (Ieper), less than two miles ahead of us, but, as with so many places in Flanders, if you keep your eyes peeled, there are things to see on the way.

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A Tour of Boesinghe Part Twenty One – Pilkem Demarcation Stone

Posted on February 3, 2018 by Magicfingers

The penultimate stop on our tour finds us across the fields from the industrial estate, where another of the nineteen Demarcation Stones still to be found on the roadsides of Belgium, this one is sited alongside the Pilkemseweg about a … Continue reading →

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A Tour of Boesinghe Part Nine – Lizerne Demarcation Stone & Belgian Carabiniers Plaque

Posted on December 15, 2017 by Magicfingers

A mile and a half north of Boesinghe we find ourselves in the centre of the little village of Lizerne, about 900 hundred yards west of the Yser Canal, where, at the crossroads at its centre, another Demarcation Stone shows … Continue reading →

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A Tour of Boesinghe Part Seven – Boesinghe Demarcation Stone, Klene Berta & Boesinghe Château

Posted on December 9, 2017 by Magicfingers

Arriving in the centre of Boesinghe, our attention turns briefly to 1918, as we spot another of the nineteen Demarcation Stones that can still be found in Belgium to this day.

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