Back in French Flanders, you may remember that we had embarked on a tour of the cemeteries to the south and south east of the border town of Armentières, an area referred to by the Australians in 1916 as the ‘Nursery’. Our tour goes from south to north, beginning at Y Farm Military Cemetery and visiting White City Cemetery and Bois-Grenier Communal Cemetery, should you wish to refresh your memory, before our next stop, which now finds us in the centre of Bois-Grenier itself. As we are here, it seems only right and proper that we pay our respects at the village war memorial before we visit the next cemetery on our itinerary. Continue reading
