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Belgian Battlefields
... checking the Visitor's Books at each cemetery to see if we can come across any evidence of the North High connection visiting the same places we have been. This was all we could do of our tour (Flanders Fields Museum in Ieper being closed on Mondays and we have visited the Menin Gate twice for the 8pm service) so we followed Bob Shaw's recommendation and headed towards Poperinge to see the Lyssenthock Cemetery. This was a real highlight of our day. Our visit began in the very ...
Paying our respects to the fallen Canadians of WW1
(Renée) Since I was last in France, I had wanted to come out to Vimy to see the famous Canadian monument and memorials to the fallen Canadian soldiers of WW1 & WW2. Vimy Ridge is Canadian territory in France, and I have heard many stories of Canadians being treated with the utmost warmth ...
Day 19 - Two days to go
... 25/9/1915. I have read his regimental diaries and want to retrace his steps before and during the battle.
First stop this morning is the cross roads outside Vermelles heading towards Hulluch.
We had a fair bit of rain yesterday and the ground is very soft. All the unsealed roads are going to be reallly challenging...there is water lying everywhere. Not a good time to get your rental car bogged.
Next stop was St.Marys ADS Cemetery on ...
In the footsteps of the brave: In Flanders Fields
... the bodies of two Officers, and collected many identity discs, although fired on by bombs and machine guns.
Altogether he saved the lives of some twenty badly wounded men, besides the ordinary cases which passed through his hands. His courage and self-sacrifice, were beyond praise.”
Chavasse's second award was made during the period 31 July to 2 August 1917.
Though severely wounded early in the action whilst carrying a wounded soldier to ...
Future Trips....
... to marsaille
25- fly to TANIGIER (morocco, Africa) from marsaille..
26- all day in morocco
27- all day in morocco
28- leave from FEZ back to Brussels.
lille to pack up.
29 go to paris mid day. Night in paris
30- head to London
31- fly home to Canada.
I am looking forward to my trips.... i have a lot of planning to do in the mean time..
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