Two maps you will, I think, find of interest. These are British 1:40,000 scale maps, prepared by army intelligence and issued, stamped confidential, during the last weeks of the Battle of Passchendaele. They show the progress made so far and, more importantly, information, received from the thousands of prisoners taken, on the German dispositions facing the attacking British. Passchendaele village is marked on the above map just to the left of 220th Div. Continue reading
So this is it folks. Our final stop. Continue reading
The penultimate stop on our tour finds us across the fields from the industrial estate, where another of the nineteen Demarcation Stones still to be found on the roadsides of Belgium, this one is sited alongside the Pilkemseweg about a mile and a half north of Ieper (Ypres), and 550 yards south east of Welsh Cemetery (Caesar’s Nose), can be found.
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We’re nearing the end of our Boesinghe tour now, just three posts to go. Continue reading
It’s January 2017, and frost covers the ground as we return for a third time to Colne Valley Cemetery. As you can imagine, I was very much looking forward to another visit to one of my favourite little cemeteries, as much as anything because of the state of the place last time we’d been there. Continue reading
There is a very good reason why this post is Colne Valley Cemetery Part One, and all will be revealed in due course. But for starters, this was the first of four visits Baldrick and I have so far made to this cemetery, along with numerous drive-pasts – it sounds daft, but you’d be amazed how easy it is to miss this little place – and at times it has looked decidedly different from previous visits, which is not what you generally expect from a cemetery. Continue reading
The entrance to Yorkshire Trench & Dug Out, very easy to miss, particularly if you are looking the other way in the brief moment the car passes by. Continue reading
