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Category Archives: Messines
A Tour of the Messines Ridge – The Prologue
The Battle of Messines (above, the rebuilt Messines Church), which took place between the 7th & 14th of June 1917, was Haig’s preparatory offensive before his planned assault on the Passchendaele Ridge further north. In order for the advance towards … Continue reading
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Finding Private Boland
December 2nd 2011. Another beautiful day in Flanders fields. Baldrick and myself have just returned from visiting the few remaining cemeteries in the Messines area that we haven’t had the opportunity to visit before. Most of the photos we took … Continue reading
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Xth Corps Burial Instructions
Interesting, desperately tragic, yet entirely pertinent to the content of this website, these instructions for the recovery and burial of the dead were circulated by Xth Corps prior to the British attack on the Messines ridge on June 7th 1917.