Sabine’s battlefield guide

At the time of mobilisation, in August 1914, the 1st Regiment Jagers on foot was in garrison at Charleroi. on de-doubling, the 4th Jagers was formed and both regiments made…

The 105thregiment of engineers part of 'the old Hicory '30thDivision arrived in Calais between the 14thand the 17thof June 1918. On arrival they experienced their first air raid, Calais was…

German hand search light units oder ' sheinwerferzuge'Something I never paid attention to, never realized I actually had an image hidden in my ww1 library.It seems an engineer battalion (…

German pow dying in FranceMax Abraham a soldier on the 176 infantry regiment part of the 11thCompagny was captured near Chérizy on 23/04/1917,( now there are two villages in France…

Early October 1914, 4 nuns and a few young women had training from Doctor Callewaert from Ieper to dress wounds, in case wounded soldiers would end up in the Village.…

This week Sabine's battlefield guide Saturdaythis blog was going to be about so called British atrocities on the 25th of October 1914 , You might remember I wrote 3 blogs…

This week Sabine's battlefieldguide Saturday.The Korps der Congolese Vrijwilligers (Congolese Volunteers Corps) part oneThis was a special unit, consisting of around three hundred old colonials and colonials on holiday, it…

This week Sabine's battlefield guide SaturdayA misbehaving majorWe start off in October 1914 in the area of Beselare – Zonnebeke where RIR 243 was on the side of several other…