Vanishing Point: Dartmoor – father and son

Vanishing Point: Dartmoor – father and son

Vanishing Points

There’s a focus, out there. You’ll see it in most cemeteries on the old front. The famous dead, the men, and boys who achieve some infamy by dint of their bravery, age or circumstances. Sometimes it’s a footballer who scored big in 1912 before...
Vanishing Point: Bernafay Wood

Vanishing Point: Bernafay Wood

Vanishing Points

After Carnoy the cloud started to drop, a shield of it obliterated the sun. Within twenty minutes the light had almost completely failed, the air filled with prickles of moisture. It took a good hour to lift as the edge of a small front slid in from the South West. It...
Vanishing point: Courcelette

Vanishing point: Courcelette

Vanishing Points

I’ve been fortunate at times out on the front, walking the levelled trenches, across the flattened shell holes and in the regrown woods. You meet people, some you know via the curious world of social media, shared interests in a shared space eventually made...
Vanishing Point: Carnoy to Montauban

Vanishing Point: Carnoy to Montauban

Vanishing Points

I’m not far from here now. Sitting in a hotel room on a laptop, watching a dubbed film which was bad enough in English in the first place. So I thought I’d start work. Carnoy is just to the South West of Albert in the Somme region, maybe five miles from...
Lost boys: Sid Northrop

Lost boys: Sid Northrop

Vanishing Points

I recently rediscovered this. It was something I’d put on Flickr. It is the tale of another family member and his last few days and hours in the Great War. We visited the panel he is remembered on at Tyne Cot a couple of years ago. He was my grandmother Jesse...