Ereveld Menteng Pulo Last year when traveling through Java, one of the things I wanted to do was reflect back on lives lived and lost during the colonial era. Java is home to several cemeteries financ… more →
Indo Discovery Travelwrote 5 days ago: While the work on British cemeteries was going on the Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge had be … more →
wrote 1 week ago: As the clearance of the battlefields was coming to an end and the cemeteries established, work on ma … more →
wrote 2 weeks ago: The so-called ‘Silent Cities’, the soldier’s cemeteries of the Great War, numbered … more →
wrote 2 weeks ago: So to get from Koh Phangan to Kanchanaburi we had to take a taxi, ferry, taxi, plane, taxi, bus … more →
wrote 3 weeks ago: ANZAC Day blog comes courtesy of a guest blogger & photographer ~ my Dad, Glen Smith ! http://w … more →
wrote 1 month ago: This unusual image from the early 1920s shows a British party from one of the Graves Registration un … more →
wrote 3 months ago: I grew up touring war graves in Europe, and as an adult I have continued to tour war cemeteries acro … more →
wrote 3 months ago: Achen(Father/Priest) with the censer Achen moving around the cemetery praying for each of the depar … more →
wrote 4 months ago: In Flanders Fields …, ein Album auf Flickr. Pictures taken in summer 2012 during my visit of t … more →
wrote 4 months ago: This is an overview of different sights in the Ardennes related to the “Battle of the Bulge … more →
wrote 5 months ago: We are approaching Ypres again: View Larger Map According to the guidebook, about 1.4 million French … more →
wrote 6 months ago: This radio recording dates from 11th November 1982 and on it Sir Robert Black, former Governer of Si … more →
wrote 6 months ago: On a weekend where Remembrance is on many peoples minds, this image for once needs little descriptio … more →
wrote 6 months ago: While the 11th November 1918 was an end to the fighting for Great Britain and became the focal point … more →
wrote 6 months ago: It is often forgotten how many families went to France and Flanders during the inter-war period; by … more →
wrote 6 months ago: As the Germans were pushed back across Northern France in September 1944, they withdrew across the B … more →
wrote 6 months ago: Following the landings on D-Day and the subsequent breakout from Normandy, the British and Commonwea … more →
wrote 7 months ago: Reblogged from Great War Photos: In the years that followed 1940 most of mainland Europe was occupyi … more →
wrote 7 months ago: In the years that followed 1940 most of mainland Europe was occupying by German forces. Many of the … more →