Bernafay Wood After Carnoy the cloud started to drop, a shield of it obliterated the sun. Within twenty minutes the...

Bernafay Wood After Carnoy the cloud started to drop, a shield of it obliterated the sun. Within twenty minutes the...
I've been fortunate at times out on the front, walking the levelled trenches, across the flattened shell holes and in...
It suddenly struck me yesterday, what I'm trying to finish the unfinishable. The Great War may have ended in 1918, but...
I'm not far from here. Sitting in a hotel room on a laptop, near a roundabout and Le McDonalds, watching a dubbed film...
I recently rediscovered this. It was something I'd put on Flickr. It is the tale of another family member and his last...
Etaples was one of the main base camps along the coast of Northern France, being a port, a lot of men, thousands of...
Genealogy is an inconsistent practice, growing a family tree can quickly become an obsessive piece of semi-fictional...
Langemark is I feel one of the most desolate corners of the Western front. As I mentioned in another piece on Vladslo...
Oak is a feature of the English psyche, a fabled national wood if there is such a thing. It proliferates throughout...
At locations like High Wood, sometimes the only way to start these things is difficult, so here is a Piece of...
The best and the worst of it all are hidden over a brow. You won't find the chattering crowds of the nexus points...
The Somme is exceptionally beautiful. For me a landscape which feels like home. It is chalk downland, when you get up...
There are parts of the Somme where you can and do suddenly feel remarkably isolated in the sun, bits around Serre in...
If and when you visit the Western Front, which a huge and growing number of people do partly because of the centenary...
I'd been meaning to go to Holborn and take a photo of this chap for years. This is my grandfathers regimental...
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