Category Archives: French Flanders

French Flanders: From Laventie to Neuve Chapelle Part One – Laventie Military Cemetery

Posted on May 27, 2023 by Magicfingers

Our last trip to French Flanders, four years ago now, took us along the River Lys from Erquinghem to La Gorgue, ending with a visit to the Great War burials within the town’s communal cemetery. 

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Coming Soon……

Posted on February 17, 2023 by Magicfingers

I appreciate that ‘Coming Soon’ is a moveable feast, but then that is exactly my reason for using it. 

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Disposition Maps – German Forces 1916-1918

Posted on June 14, 2019 by Magicfingers

A series of seven British maps, this first dating from February 1916, showing the known, or believed, distribution of German forces facing the Allies on the Western Front.

Posted in Books, Documents, Maps & Artwork, French Flanders | 8 Comments

French Flanders: Armentières to La Gorgue Part Thirteen – La Gorgue Communal Cemetery

Posted on May 23, 2019 by Magicfingers

Another communal cemetery, this time with a CWGC sign for all to see.

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French Flanders: Armentières to La Gorgue Part Twelve – La Gorgue War Memorial

Posted on May 18, 2019 by Magicfingers

Less than a mile south west of Estaires, and now just south, once more, of the River Lys, our penultimate stop on the first part of this tour finds us at the war memorial in the centre of La Gorgue.

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French Flanders: Armentières to La Gorgue Part Eleven – Estaires War Memorial

Posted on May 12, 2019 by Magicfingers

Estaires war memorial is not only quite unusual, and I think quite beautiful, but damned tricky to photograph, even if it doesn’t look it.

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French Flanders: Armentières to La Gorgue Part Ten – Estaires Communal Cemetery Part Two

Posted on May 9, 2019 by Magicfingers

If you were with us last post we were in Estaires Communal Cemetery.  And we still are.

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