Category Archives: French Flanders

French Flanders: Armentières, Nieppe & Steenwerck Part Six – Pont-d’Achelles Military Cemetery

Posted on February 8, 2017 by Magicfingers

No more than a mile up the Bailleul road from Nieppe, this is Pont-d’Achelles Military Cemetery.

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French Flanders: Armentières, Nieppe & Steenwerck Part Five – Nieppe War Memorial

Posted on February 5, 2017 by Magicfingers

Before we leave Nieppe we shall naturally pay our respects at the village war memorial.

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French Flanders: Armentières, Nieppe & Steenwerck Part Four – Nieppe Communal Cemetery

Posted on February 1, 2017 by Magicfingers

A short distance north west of Pont-de-Nieppe, we arrive in the town of Nieppe itself.

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French Flanders: Armentières, Nieppe & Steenwerck Part Three – Pont-de-Nieppe German Military Cemetery

Posted on January 17, 2017 by Magicfingers

At the far north western end of Pont-de-Nieppe Communal Cemetery, beneath the willow trees, 790 German Great War casualties are buried in one of a number of small German cemeteries to be found in this part of French Flanders.

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French Flanders: Armentières, Nieppe & Steenwerck Part Two – Pont-de-Nieppe Communal Cemetery

Posted on January 14, 2017 by Magicfingers

The road from Armentières north west to Bailleul passes through a number of small communities each of which, it won’t surprise you to hear, host their own CWGC cemetery.

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French Flanders: Armentières to La Gorgue Part Two – Suffolk Cemetery, La Rolanderie Farm

Posted on January 3, 2017 by Magicfingers

Suffolk Cemetery, La Rolanderie Farm, can be found in the middle of the fields a few hundred yards south of the town of Erquinghem-Lys.

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French Flanders: Erquinghem-Lys Churchyard Extension & The Reverend David Railton M.C.

Posted on December 22, 2016 by Magicfingers

The small town of Erquinghem-Lys, a very short distance to the south west of Armentières, was occupied briefly by the Germans early in October 1914, before the British captured it on the 16th of the month.  From then it remained … Continue reading →

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