Walking the Battlefields

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Friday, 28 November 2025

The Abbots Leigh Battlefield Crosses

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As the number of men killed whilst fighting on the Western Front during the First World War mounted, it became ...
Saturday, 22 November 2025

A Family Story: The Gardener, the Knight, the Soldier and the Idealist (Part 2)

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And so to the idealist - Vera Gwendoline Pragnell. Up until her fathers' death, Vera had worked to support him in his civic duties while...
Friday, 21 November 2025

A Family Story: The Gardener, the Knight, the Soldier and the Idealist (Part 1)

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My family kept everything! And I recently discovered a particularly interesting letter sent to my paternal great grandmother, Mary Curme, fr...
Thursday, 13 November 2025

The Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery at Erquinghem-Lys (1914-1925)

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I suppose that most people who visit the First World War 'Old Front Line' tend to have their favoured spots. For me, the town of Erq...
Friday, 10 October 2025

Walking the Loos Battlefield (1915)

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 Until 1992 St Mary's ADS (Advanced Dressing Station) Cemetery in Haisnes was a quiet corner of a rarely visited battlefield. All that c...
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