It’s only a little place, Suffolk Cemetery (La Rolanderie Farm), but it will forever be dear to my heart. And I suppose, for personal reasons, this is up there with the most important of the close-on nine hundred posts that have been published on this website since late 2010. Continue reading
Okay, I’ve been intimating for some time now that we will be off on a new tour soon, so let’s bite the bullet and get started. We begin with another visit – our third – to the cemetery at Erquinghem-Lys, just a mile south west of the outskirts of Armentières, and today well on the way to becoming an outskirt itself. Continue reading
The entrance to Berwick Barracks, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland. Continue reading
Dying Belgian soldier on the face of Beselare war memorial. Continue reading
A bunch of Great War rifles from four of the warring nations. As usual, click to enlarge. Continue reading
It’s nearing midnight in Mechelen, and thanks to some very kind locals, who didn’t seem in the least perturbed by my nocturnal mission, and despite the racket coming from a couple of deejays working a large stage set up in the square on the other side of the cathedral, and the accompanying crowds, armed police (searched twice betwixt hotel and cathedral), and a steward who allowed me in to what was actually a vast cycle park (below), I can show you a few shots of Mechelen war memorial, because, long-time readers won’t be surprised to hear, none of that was going to stymie this late night excursion. Continue reading
Right, the war’s finally over, before Christmas too, just the wrong one, and me and my mates want to go home. Sort it out please. Continue reading
