Category Archives: Kemmel

Mont Kemmel Part Sixteen – Locre No.10 Cemetery

Posted on December 3, 2021 by Magicfingers

Locre No.10 Cemetery can be found about six hundred yards north of our previous stop in Dranouter, and not much further south of the village of Loker, as it is now known. 

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Mont Kemmel Part Fifteen – Dranoutre Military Cemetery

Posted on November 27, 2021 by Magicfingers

Now there’s an interesting, if curious, still-life for you. 

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Mont Kemmel Part Fourteen – Dranouter Churchyard & War Memorial

Posted on November 14, 2021 by Magicfingers

Appropriately, on Remembrance Sunday, it’s time for us to return to the battlefields of Kemmel, where the churchyards and military cemeteries still tell their sad tale of death and sorrow.  We begin Part Two of our tour at the rebuilt … Continue reading →

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Coming Soon to a Website Near You!

Posted on August 9, 2021 by Magicfingers

For those of you currently struggling with all things grenades, here’s a cemetery for you (grenades, cemeteries, that’s some weird site you got there, boy). 

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Mont Kemmel Part Thirteen – The French Ossuary

Posted on April 30, 2021 by Magicfingers

This is the French ossuary on the western slopes of the Kemmelberg. 

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Mont Kemmel Part Twelve – On Mont Kemmel Part One: The Heroic Hill

Posted on April 23, 2021 by Magicfingers

A little French booklet that I picked up for a song earlier this year (from France, via Abe Books, no extra tax, thank you very much).  Published in 1920, and entirely appropriate to our current tour, this post features some … Continue reading →

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Mont Kemmel Part Eleven – The Kemmelberg

Posted on April 17, 2021 by Magicfingers

Mont Kemmel, sometime in the early 20th Century. 

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