Minty Farm Cemetery is a little under three miles north and a little east of the centre of Ypres (Ieper), and less than a mile south east of the Welsh Memorial Park where this tour started, and once you arrive it can be reached by following this grass pathway round the farm buildings. Continue reading
As a postscript to our Tour of Langemark, this is a German grave marker that I acquired only last year. Continue reading
A last-minute addition to our Tour of Langemark, and thus not on the trench maps seen in previous posts, the new memorial to the Hertfordshire Regiment can be found in the fields outside St. Julien (now Sint-Juliaan), less than a mile south east of the outskirts of modern Langemark. Continue reading
As a grey Flanders day nears its end, we find ourselves at Ruisseau Farm Cemetery, about three quarters of a mile due west of the centre of Langemark. Continue reading
The 34th Division memorial can be found about 500 yards north west of Langemark German War Cemetery. Continue reading
On the northern outskirts of Langemark, this is one of only four German Great War cemeteries to be found today in Belgian Flanders. Continue reading
The 20th Light Division was established in September 1914 as part of K2, the second of the Army Groups raised following Kitchener’s call to arms on being appointed Minister for War on 5th August, the day following the outbreak of war. Continue reading
