Category Archives: Zillebeke

Zillebeke – Maple Copse Cemetery

Posted on May 24, 2026 by Magicfingers

The sun is setting as we arrive at Maple Copse Cemetery at the end of another glorious spring day in Flanders’ fields. 

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Post Update No. 5 – Railway Dugouts Burial Ground (Transport Farm)

Posted on October 18, 2024 by Magicfingers

Just like London buses, you wait for ages, and then two turn up almost at once.  Here’s another updated post from way back for you, and this one has had a major overhaul.  You can see what you think by … Continue reading →

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Post Update No. 4 – Bedford House Cemetery

Posted on October 14, 2024 by Magicfingers

An update to a post that was first published over thirteen years ago, mainly because I have always been aware that when I visited I had missed, among many, one particular grave that I should have photographed, and which I … Continue reading →

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Hallowed Ground

Posted on July 10, 2019 by Magicfingers

It’s a chilly, misty morning as we debus, or decoach, at the little crossroads beside this roadside calvary, Calvarie Van Kranenburgstraat, three quarters of a mile east of Klein-Zillebeke.  The coach is parked on the main road between Zillebeke, two … Continue reading →

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A Return Walk in the Palingbeek

Posted on December 11, 2018 by Magicfingers

It’s the afternoon of Armistice Day 2018, and the Palingbeek looks glorious in the late autumn sunshine. 

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A Return to Hill 60 – The Victoria Cross Actions of April 1915

Posted on August 13, 2018 by Magicfingers

‘Though poppies grow in Flanders fields’.  And the poppies are no myth, although this tranquil scene, looking west towards the spires of Ypres (Ieper) away on the horizon, would have been one of utter desolation for much of the Great … Continue reading →

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A Tour of Zillebeke Update

Posted on June 20, 2016 by Magicfingers

Some five years ago now, I published a series of eight posts taking you round the cemeteries south of Zillebeke lake, its rather ungainly title, ‘A Tour of Zillebeke (South)’, being at least accurate, if hardly tongue-tripping.  Since then, Baldrick … Continue reading →

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