With the British Army in Flanders & France

A mile up the road from La Chapelle d’Armentières, and no more than a mile due east of Armentières itself, the penultimate cemetery on our tour is Ferme Buterne Military Cemetery. Continue reading →

With only two cemeteries still to visit on this tour of the Nursery, I thought it might interest you to see where we have been, and where we have still to go, on this very nice Google map.  If you click the square on the right of the banner at the top of the map, the whole thing should open up in a nice new window.  In time, more and more British cemeteries, and a few German ones, will sadly feature on this map as we explore the areas to the west and south of the Nursery.  But that’s for the future.  Our penultimate stop on this tour, Ferme Buterne Military Cemetery, is next.

For nearly a hundred years, Chapelle-d’Armentières New Military Cemetery sat in splendid isolation in the middle of the fields just to the north of La Chapelle d’Armentières. Continue reading →

Now this looks a bit better.  Weather-wise I mean. Continue reading →

No let up in the weather, folks.  When we reached X Farm Cemetery, Baldrick declined to vacate the car, and I have to admit that my own excursion was somewhat brief. Continue reading →