After our visit to Ayette cemetery we moved on to Arras. The city is built on a deep bed of chalk and limestone that from medieval times onwards provided the building materials for the homes, churches and public buildings. The city initially avoided damage by the advancing German army in 1915, but when the British …
George Donald Lennox….
George Donald Lennox was born on 24th October 1898 in Dublin, the eldest son of Albert George Lennox (Printer) and Elizabeth Mary Lennox, nee Gilbert. He had two brothers, Albert and David and a sister Winifred. David Lennox was my grandfather. David had two children, Elizabeth, mother of my cousins Dorothy and Grace, and a …
Remembrance….
There is much written and recorded about the First World War and I'm unsure how much I should rehearse here, how much my readers know or might be interested in knowing. I'm also getting behind again! In some of our stopovers in rural France we have discovered the internet is slow or non existent. Five …
The gathering of the cousins…
The main reason why we are still in France is that I, Hazel, have a great uncle who was killed in the First World War on 26th May 1918 and my cousin, Dorothy, thought it might be an idea to visit his grave on his anniversary. Hense we are now staying in the outskirts of …
North to Ypres….
Our journey has brought us north to the town of Ypres just across the border in Belgium. We have come to experience the ceremony of the Last Post, held every evening at the Menin Gate before we spend the weekend near Arras visiting the Somme area. If we had difficulty with the French roadsigns, the …
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