Cement House Cemetery, three quarters of a mile south west of the village of Langemark-Poelkapelle, is, apart from a handful of British cemeteries clustered along the Channel Coast near Nieuwpoort, one of the most northern of the CWGC cemeteries to be found in Belgian Flanders. Continue reading
The Welsh dragon that stands atop the memorial in the new Welsh Memorial Park, opened in 2014, on the road between Pilckem and Langemark. Continue reading
The Menin Gate. Continue reading
The Menin Gate, lit up at night, Monday 14th May 2018. Continue reading
So, where, exactly, is this Kitchener’s Wood, I hear you ask? Well, sorry to disappoint, but there isn’t one. Not any more. But there was during the Great War, and it saw an action in 1915 that goes down as one of the most heroic, if, perhaps, ultimately unnecessary, of the whole conflict in Belgian Flanders. Continue reading
It’s a grey day as we arrive at White House Cemetery, three quarters of a mile north east of the Menin Gate, on the road to St. Jean (Sint-Jan) and Wieltje. Continue reading
The crossroads in the centre of the little village of St. Jean (now Sint-Jan), almost exactly one mile north east of the Menin Gate. Continue reading
