Sabine’s battlefield guide

This week Sabine’s battlefield guide Saturday :Kurt Zehmisch extracts from a diary by a German lieutenantHis diary was discovered in 1998 in an attic near Leipzig by his son Rudolf…

This week Sabine’s battlefield guide Saturday is going to Stene ( a village close to Oostende)living with the Germans seen through the eyes of a Belgian priest named Henri Leroeye.On…

This week Sabine’s battlefield guide Saturday is going to the area around Boezinge to see the German actions. Most regimental German histories are pretty expensive to buy, I only had…

Civilians were more often suspected of espionage than soldiers. If one lit a candle at night when a cow calved, the farmer was immediately arrested and taken for interrogation. He…

This week Sabine’s battlefield guide Saturday is going back to Boezingea German spy?The violence came closer and closer and on the 20th of October the front was close to Boezinge.…

This week Sabine’s battlefield guide Saturday is going to BoezingeThe first prisoners of war in the villageOn Wednesday 14 October , one week before the infantry reached the Boezinge area,…

This week Sabine's battlefield guide Saturday :A German Medical officer about the life in the trenchesThe master baker Clemens Bedbur (1883-1936) from Jülich was a soldier of the RIR 68…

This Week Sabine's battlefield guide Saturday is going back to Zillebeke, we were there in December last year ( 26/122/2020 blog), and for some reason I didn't use the following…

This Week Sabine’s battlefield guide Saturday is going back to Zonnebekeeveryday life winter 14-15 in Zonnebekethe landscape : when the French arrived in October 1914, the region around Ieper still…

This week Sabine’s battlefield guide is going back to ZonnebekeHow Zonnebeke ended up in German hands for a short while October 1914Wednesday 21 OctoberAfter a night of little sleep, the…