James Bamforth had long produced ‘song cards’, utilising popular songs of the time to layer the sentiment on his postcards, and the tradition continued throughout the Great War, by the end of which his company was producing some twenty million cards a year. Continue reading
We’ve been here before. More than once. Although not at this time of year. Continue reading
Westouter’s second cemetery can be found just three hundred yards north of the church & churchyard that we visited last post. Continue reading
Every so often we find ourselves in an area that remained behind the British lines for the whole of the war, and Westoutre, now Westouter, is one such place. Continue reading
That’s pretty. Continue reading
Lindenhoek Chalet Military Cemetery on a beautiful spring day. Continue reading
This is the M14 Gewehrgranate, the replacement for the M13, and the rifle grenade that would serve the German Army for much of the war, although technological advancements – the introduction of pneumatic grenade launchers and small trench mortars – and an entirely new concept in rifle grenades, would make it obsolete by mid-1917. Continue reading
