June 2024: Better late than never. Or, at least, I hope so. A brand new Stielhandgranate post, covering the first two models, can now be found here: The Stielhandgranate M1915 & M1916.
(September 2021: For those of you arriving here via some far-off link, this post is currently being replaced by a new updated version. Try again in a few months’ time – I’ll put a link here to the new post as and when).
Some of you will be wondering exactly why we are returning to Essex Farm Cemetery so soon after our previous visit. Continue reading
The commune of Boesinghe, or Boezinge, as it is currently called, was the scene of continuous fighting for much of the Great War, evidence of which exists in the eight cemeteries and numerous memorials that can be found in the surrounding area. All of which we shall visit on this tour. Continue reading
The war memorial in the village of Broodseinde, just a few hundred yards north east of the much larger town of Zonnebeke. Continue reading
On 31st August 1917, a young pilot on a training run met his death when his Martinsyde G100 Elephant scout caught fire and broke up in the air before crashing near Hanworth, south west London. Continue reading
If you follow the main road out of Ieper (Ypres) north towards Boezinge (Boesinghe during the Great War), after only a few minutes, Duhallow A.D.S. Cemetery comes into view on the right hand side of the road. Continue reading
