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.…

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…

American versus German regiments reporting on actions around Kemmel 31 august 191827th and 30th American DivisionsOn 30.08, the enemy made a surprise move that tested the doughboys. In the early…

The American 27th division arrived in France at the end of May 1918 send to a trainings camp 20 kilometres north of Abbeville. On the 30th of June they were…

The death of Prins zur Lippe near LiegeI have several old newspapers and one of them : ‘”vooruit” of 13 October 1914 reports of a German prince being killedFriedrich Wilhelm…