Oak Dump Cemetery

Posted on April 29, 2023 by Magicfingers

The entrance to Oak Dump Cemetery, these photographs taken exactly one week ago this afternoon. Continue reading →

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Flanders Update – April 2023

Posted on April 24, 2023 by Magicfingers

Beauty, beneath skies of grey.  Continue reading →

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At Last!

Posted on April 19, 2023 by Magicfingers

For the first time in over three years, come the morning I shall once again be heading off to drag Baldrick, kicking & screaming, doubtless, around Flanders’ soggy fields.  Continue reading →

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The Men Who Came Home – A Memorial Part Fifteen – The Royal Marines

Posted on March 30, 2023 by Magicfingers

Royal Marines march through Ostend in August 1914.  Continue reading →

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Coming Soon……

Posted on February 17, 2023 by Magicfingers

I appreciate that ‘Coming Soon’ is a moveable feast, but then that is exactly my reason for using it.  Continue reading →

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Austro-Hungarian Hand Grenades of the Great War Part Two – The Ball Rohr Stielhandgranate

Posted on January 28, 2023 by Magicfingers

This is the Ball Rohr Stielhandgranate (stick grenade), once attached to a cardboard handle (as in the replica inset), remnants of which you can still see inside the ball in the main picture.  Continue reading →

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Great War Postcards No. 63 – A Quartet of Curious French Postcards

Posted on January 23, 2023 by Magicfingers

I shan’t be saying much about these cards. Continue reading →

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