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Category Archives: Northern France

Usually in wartime

Harry, who landed at Sword (6th June,1944)

June 6, 2012

A few years ago I spent a morning with Harry, a retired soldier from Cheshire. (I was going to tape …

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“Un bonjour amical du Tréport …” 1917

May 22, 2012

On 11th March, 1917, D Boutguin (address Hôpital complémentaire 25, Eu – a temporary hospital) wrote a card to a …

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Le Tréport. Almost a hundred years on.

December 18, 2011

Before a decade had passed, a city of billowing white hospital tents transformed the scene and the grand hotel Trianon was …

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Mont-Huon Military Cemetery, Le Tréport, Normandy

October 20, 2011

I wrote this to accompany my own photos of Mont-Huon, which was the first war cemetery I experienced. Mont-Huon is …

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