8 November (1915)…

| November 8, 2021

2nd Lieutenant Kenneth Theodor Dunbar Wilcox 8th Battalion The Queen’s (Royal West Surrey Regiment) These past days of commemoration bring us another story of a son whose remembrance is recorded elsewhere and can be best accessed by reading of him at Westminster School and The First World War. Still there is a reminder of this […]

From Here the Invader…

| November 7, 2019

Bornes du Front, Demarcatiepalen, Demarcation Stone On occasion, while wandering the hurt landscapes of France and Flanders the visitor will happen upon one of French sculptor, Paul Moreau-Vautheir’s demarcation stones introduced to this fractured landscape in 1921. Dotted intermittently along significant sites of the Western Front in France and Belgium, the stones are known to […]