Category Archives: French Flanders

French Flanders: The Nursery Part Five – Brewery Orchard Cemetery

Posted on December 22, 2015 by Magicfingers

A dank day and a rather dank place, I’m afraid to say.  This is Brewery Orchard Cemetery, and there used to be an orchard here.  And presumably a brewery.

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French Flanders: The Nursery Part Four – Bois-Grenier War Memorial

Posted on December 14, 2015 by Magicfingers

Back in French Flanders, you may remember that we had embarked on a tour of the cemeteries to the south and south east of the border town of Armentières, an area referred to by the Australians in 1916 as the … Continue reading →

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French Flanders: The Nursery Part Three – Bois-Grenier Communal Cemetery

Posted on August 31, 2015 by Magicfingers

The communal cemetery in Bois-Grenier contains 121 British Great War burials.

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French Flanders: The Nursery Part Two – White City Cemetery

Posted on August 20, 2015 by Magicfingers

Just a couple of hundred yards across the fields to the east of Y Farm Military Cemetery, where our tour began, our second stop, White City Cemetery, is considerably smaller, as you can see, and was used for a far … Continue reading →

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French Flanders: The Nursery Part One – Y Farm Military Cemetery

Posted on August 12, 2015 by Magicfingers

You may remember, a little while ago now, that we visited six cemeteries that lie between Ploegsteert Wood and the Franco-Belgian border, which, in this part of Flanders, follows the course of the River Lys (or Leie, if you prefer).  … Continue reading →

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