Eleven months ago we began this tour of the Kemmel battlefields by visiting Kemmel Demarcation Stone No. 2, and today, as the sun gets lower in the sky, we shall finish with two more of the Demarcation Stones that ostensibly mark the limit of the German advance in the spring of 1918. Continue reading
On the outskirts of Loker, which is actually behind us, because the sign is one-sided, and thus we are looking east here, back up the road towards Mont Kemmel on the horizon, there’s a cemetery. Continue reading
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View of the Kemmelberg, two miles away to the east, from a ruined Loker. It’s time we rejoined our French corporal, Jean Parnin, who, when last heard of, had managed to regain the French lines, somewhere around where this photo was taken, after his heroics on the hill itself. Continue reading
We’ve seen Loker church before, but only from a distance. Continue reading
Way back in the first post of this tour, I mentioned that we would encounter four Demarcation Stones on our travels, and here’s number two. Continue reading
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. Continue reading
