Category: Battlefields and War Memorials

  Hidden off the beaten track in the rural countryside of Nord, northern France is the site of the Seclin Fort, the last intact survivor ...

Five more names were added to the serried ranks of stark white headstones at the Pheasant Wood military cemetery in 2013. Each grave is planted with a ...

Operation Dynamo was the code name given to the evacuation of the allied Armed Armies from the beaches in and around Dunkirk to the safety ...

I took a visit to the northern French towns of Crecy and Agincourt, site of infamous Medieval Battles between the French and the English with ...

The battle that took place in the little village of Crecy in the Somme is legendary.  A story of omens, a blind King, a boy ...

A tour of the legendary battlefield site of Agincourt with historian and tour guide Gary Ashley had started with a brief overview of the Hundred ...

In the little town of Blingel in northern France, a pretty, sleepy place where the chirping of birds and the occasional tractor are the most ...

  At 20.00 every night, the local police of Ypres, Belgium (not far from the French border), stop traffic from passing over the cobbled streets ...

One of the must see sites for visitors to the historic town of Arras in the north of France is the Wellington Quarry – Carrière ...