I was helping out at the Aldershot Militaria Society Fair in Farnham yesterday and found this in an odds and ends box. Now I know nothing about medals, and it’s in pretty poor condition, but it looked interesting, and it was only a pound. Continue reading
If you remember, we had just left the Thiepval Memorial… Continue reading
Earlier in the year the family Baldrick, along with yours truly and the missus, took a trip down to Amiens to spend a few days exploring the battlefields of the Somme. Continue reading
The communal cemetery in Bois-Grenier contains 121 British Great War burials. Continue reading
Just a couple of hundred yards across the fields to the east of Y Farm Military Cemetery, where our tour began, our second stop, White City Cemetery, is considerably smaller, as you can see, and was used for a far shorter period of time. Continue reading
You may remember, a little while ago now, that we visited six cemeteries that lie between Ploegsteert Wood and the Franco-Belgian border, which, in this part of Flanders, follows the course of the River Lys (or Leie, if you prefer). It’s high time we visited the cemeteries immediately south of the border, in French Flanders, and on this tour we shall. Continue reading
