Category Archives: The Nursery: Bois Grenier to Houplines

French Flanders: The Nursery Part Eight – X Farm Cemetery

Posted on February 1, 2016 by Magicfingers

No let up in the weather, folks.  When we reached X Farm Cemetery, Baldrick declined to vacate the car, and I have to admit that my own excursion was somewhat brief.

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French Flanders: The Nursery Part Seven – Desplanque Farm Cemetery

Posted on January 18, 2016 by Magicfingers

Five hundred yards as the crow flies north east of Ration Farm Military Cemetery, our next stop finds us at Desplanque Farm Cemetery.

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French Flanders: The Nursery Part Six – Ration Farm Military Cemetery

Posted on January 8, 2016 by Magicfingers

A little less than a mile north east of Bois-Grenier, our next stop sees us at Ration Farm Military Cemetery…

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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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