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    Daily life in occupied Rumbeke

    • Post author:joerookery
    • Post published:September 24, 2022
    • Post category:Sabine's battlefield guide

    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…

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    How the diary of a priest reveals locations of German soldiers buried around Rumbeke

    • Post author:joerookery
    • Post published:September 10, 2022
    • Post category:Sabine's battlefield guide

    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…

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    The British arrive at Messines October 1914

    • Post author:joerookery
    • Post published:September 3, 2022
    • Post category:Sabine's battlefield guide

    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,…

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    The arrival of the Germans in Messines through the eyes of Josephine Scheerlinck

    • Post author:joerookery
    • Post published:August 27, 2022
    • Post category:Sabine's battlefield guide

    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…

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    Sabine’s battlefield guide Saturday…A dough girl in France

    • Post author:joerookery
    • Post published:July 16, 2022
    • Post category: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…

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    Sabine’s battlefield guide Saturday–La legion étrangère

    • Post author:joerookery
    • Post published:July 9, 2022
    • Post category:Sabine's battlefield guide

    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…

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    Reburial service at New Irish farm cemetery

    • Post author:joerookery
    • Post published:July 2, 2022
    • Post category:Sabine's battlefield guide

    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…

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    Clandestine exhumation of ww1 soldiers

    • Post author:joerookery
    • Post published:June 25, 2022
    • Post category:Sabine's battlefield guide

    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.…

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    Zuydcoote

    • Post author:joerookery
    • Post published:June 18, 2022
    • Post category:Sabine's battlefield guide

    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…

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    Erwin blumenfeld and Feldfreudenhaus 209

    • Post author:joerookery
    • Post published:May 21, 2022
    • Post category:Sabine's battlefield guide

    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…

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