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Because I shall never now visit the Dardanelles, and therefore will never get the opportunity to pay my respects at the numerous cemeteries on the Gallipoli peninsula that count the cost of Churchill’s folly in 1915, the least I can do is find a way of doing so by way of this website. Continue reading →
We looked at British rifle grenades in some detail recently, and here we have the only example of a British rod grenade in my collection, the No. 22 ‘Newton Pippin’. Continue reading →
Some of you might remember this rusted wine bottle-shaped thingy, one of the occasional live pieces of ordnance that I have stumbled over on my travels over the years. Continue reading →
Two examples of British rifle grenades ‘in action’ during the Great War. Continue reading →
La Clytte Military Cemetery can be found a couple of miles south east of Reningelst (once Reninghelst, with an ‘h’) on the road to Kemmel. Continue reading →
Grootebeek British Cemetery appears almost unfinished from the road, with no sign of a boundary wall separating field from burial ground. Continue reading →
Down this grass pathway the soldiers lie. Continue reading →
