He was a half-brother of the dowager Queen Emma of the Netherlands.Emma's mother Helena Wilhelmina Henriette Pauline Marianne of Nassau died in 1888, after which her father remarried Louise of…
July 28th1917 at 7pm planes fighting in the sky. A German plane falls, burning in Stragier field, the conductor ‘Hauptmann’ loses his life there and is buried in Roeselare. Next…
This week Sabine’s battlefield guide Saturday:Rumbeke in 1916 seen through the eyes of father Slosse23 of January, Lieutenant von Heugel and Müller are leaving taking with them their 2 dogs…
Daily life in occupied RumbekeAt the end of October 1914, the Germans constructed an airfield in Rumbeke, south of the Sterrebos, at the Bergstraat and the old Maria's lindestraat close…
On 19 October, French soldiers are shooting towards the Germans near Rumbeke. The Germans think it is civilians who are shooting at them and take revenge. Thirteen people are killed…
Josephine Scheerlinck was the economist of the Institute at Messines, The ladies who originally belonged to the community led a quasi-monastic life, but they were only bound by temporary vows,…
This week Sabine’s battlefield guide SaturdayMessines or Mesen , everyone always seem to focus on the June 1917 action but let’s go to what happened in 1914 seen through the…
A dough girl in FranceElsie Bierbower born in Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio, on March 16, 1889, daughter of John E. Bierbower and Jane Elizabeth CockrellShe had been performing since the…
I always wondered if German soldiers joined allied armies, I ended up in the French archives again for a friend and thought well do some research at the same time…
7 soldiers from WW1 were laid to rest in New Irish Farm cemetery in Ieper.John Lambert, an unknown soldier of the Royal fusiliers, an unknown soldier of the Royal Inniskilling…