Going to the past…
We have been going to (mostly) French and Belgian battlefields for over 30 years, and […]
A Good Guide
I first heard the Last Post sounded at the Menin Gate at Ypres forty-five years […]
Guided tours
Only Tyne Cot Cemetery attracted coaches in the 70s. Lijssenthoek Cemetery, outside ‘Pop’, with its […]
With Hollywood in mind
Different nationalities tend to go to sites associated with their country (and their relatives), but […]
A Soldier of the Great War:
The inscription carved on countless headstones leaves a haunting impression of sacrifice and destruction. The […]
Before the Harvest
Antony Bird’s novel describes in great detail the events of 24th to 27th August 1914, […]
‘War is hell’
‘War is hell’, Sherman wrote. But it is not the complete picture. War is also […]
The Great War
Capt. Sidney Rogerson of the West Yorks thought the Great War ‘the happiest period’ of […]
