pferguson | 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 […]
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Tags: 8 November 1915, 8th Battalion The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment), Chaplain to the Forces, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Kenneth Theodore Dunbar Wilcox, Lankhof Chateau, Lankhof Farm, Reninghelst Churchyard Extension, Reninghelst New Military Cemetery, Reverend Alfred G. Wilcox, Westminster School
pferguson | 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 […]
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Tags: Battle of Verdun, Demarcation Stone, General Phillipe Pétain, Lankhof Farm, Paul Moreau-Vautheir, Touring Club de Belgique, Touring Club of France, Ypres League