Sabine’s battlefield guide

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…

As a guide I knew the story of several attempts by locals to exhume bodies on behalf of family members. I wondered if German family would have tried the same.…

This week Sabine's battlefield guide Saturday : ZuydcooteA visit to Zuydcoote Military Cemetery where I found not only a CWGC section of graves but also a French and a German…

Erwin Blumenfeld (1897-1969), became a world-famous fashion photographer, for American Vogue, Life and the fashion magazine Harper's Bazar. His parents were Albert Blumenfeld and Emma Blumenfeld, born Cohn. He received…

This week Sabine’s battlefield guide SaturdayAlcoholThe British had rum, the French red wine and the Russians vodka. German soldiers were entitled to 10 cl. of brandy a day, well known…

A cocktail named after a field gunin 1890 General Mathieu, Director of Artillery at the Ministry of War, had been informed that Konrad Haussner, a German engineer working at the…

The regrouping of RIR 240 begins in the night of 27.08. the frontline of the whole section is occupied by the 7 Company and 2nd. the 5 and 6 and…

It seems that is was already decided early August that Kemmel hill was to be given up08.08The old and yet ever new small-scale battles over a lost piece of trench…