Genevra Charsley, Flanders Battlefield Tour
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Battle of Cambrai, 1917.
“Through Mud and Blood to the Green Fields Beyond.”
“Through Mud and Blood to the Green Fields Beyond.”
November 20, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Battle of Cambrai, 1917.
“Through Mud and Blood to the Green Fields Beyond.”
“Through Mud and Blood to the Green Fields Beyond.”
The Dover Patrol Memorial, Pas de Calais, France. This version inaugurated 1962, the German blew up the first memorial during the occupation of World War 2. Scattered along the coastline of the Pas de Calais are remnants of the Atlantic Wall built during the German occupation using forced labour.
November 18, 2025 at 4:03 PM
The Dover Patrol Memorial, Pas de Calais, France. This version inaugurated 1962, the German blew up the first memorial during the occupation of World War 2. Scattered along the coastline of the Pas de Calais are remnants of the Atlantic Wall built during the German occupation using forced labour.
Back for the day at the Old White House in Pops, always feels nice to be here especially after the frenetic days of Armistice.
November 13, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Back for the day at the Old White House in Pops, always feels nice to be here especially after the frenetic days of Armistice.
Armistice 2025 took my friends out on a #Dunkirk trail, couldn’t fit all of the sites in too many and not enough time. Showed them the glass etchings that John Hutton had done at the Dunkirk Memorial & Cemetery from top to bottom depicting the RAF & German Stukas to the evacuation from the beaches.
November 10, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Armistice 2025 took my friends out on a #Dunkirk trail, couldn’t fit all of the sites in too many and not enough time. Showed them the glass etchings that John Hutton had done at the Dunkirk Memorial & Cemetery from top to bottom depicting the RAF & German Stukas to the evacuation from the beaches.
Board left at Essex Farm showing the route for the evacuation of wounded soldiers from the frontline.
If this belongs to any tour groups coming out from the UK please contact me. I shall place for safekeeping in my ‘battle’ van and then arrange for collection.
If this belongs to any tour groups coming out from the UK please contact me. I shall place for safekeeping in my ‘battle’ van and then arrange for collection.
November 8, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Board left at Essex Farm showing the route for the evacuation of wounded soldiers from the frontline.
If this belongs to any tour groups coming out from the UK please contact me. I shall place for safekeeping in my ‘battle’ van and then arrange for collection.
If this belongs to any tour groups coming out from the UK please contact me. I shall place for safekeeping in my ‘battle’ van and then arrange for collection.
Great start...Artillery not the easiest at the best of times for research ...the exact three months that I'm looking for July, August & September 1917 and no surprise they're missing...what an absolute pain...
October 28, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Great start...Artillery not the easiest at the best of times for research ...the exact three months that I'm looking for July, August & September 1917 and no surprise they're missing...what an absolute pain...
The realities of being in a Sanitary Section during the First World War: “In certain places decomposing dead bodies are exposed in the walls and the stench from these is very offensive AAA. They should be well sprinkled with Chlorine of Lime and covered with earth AAA.
October 23, 2025 at 10:10 AM
The realities of being in a Sanitary Section during the First World War: “In certain places decomposing dead bodies are exposed in the walls and the stench from these is very offensive AAA. They should be well sprinkled with Chlorine of Lime and covered with earth AAA.
I always think that this is a ‘slimmed down’ version of Tubby, short but not rotund 😄
October 21, 2025 at 9:04 AM
I always think that this is a ‘slimmed down’ version of Tubby, short but not rotund 😄
Casualties from a working party in Belgium & part of France, July 1917. Covering areas with family descendants of Thomas Bragg, resting in Kandahar Farm Cemetery along with Lieut. Christensen & 3 O.R’s also killed.
October 16, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Casualties from a working party in Belgium & part of France, July 1917. Covering areas with family descendants of Thomas Bragg, resting in Kandahar Farm Cemetery along with Lieut. Christensen & 3 O.R’s also killed.
Not sure about this…I’m all for commemoration and remembrance but dare I say that this is a bit OTT?
October 13, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Not sure about this…I’m all for commemoration and remembrance but dare I say that this is a bit OTT?
Restoration work being carried out on the Buttes in Polygon Wood therefore is currently off limits to the public walking up there. The cemetery is still accessible to the public.
October 11, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Restoration work being carried out on the Buttes in Polygon Wood therefore is currently off limits to the public walking up there. The cemetery is still accessible to the public.
Oh dear, time to be a damp squid..."so we wondered if there is any way you could also incorporate the Christmas Truce football match site?"
October 6, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Oh dear, time to be a damp squid..."so we wondered if there is any way you could also incorporate the Christmas Truce football match site?"
On Friday we followed James Cormack of the 5th Cameron Highlanders & the Final Advance 28th September through to 27th October 1918. Starting off at the area of Bellewaerde, Frezenberg Ridges and Potijze, then advancing through areas such as MolenHoek Ridge, the Keiberg Spur & on to Waterdamhoek.
October 4, 2025 at 6:32 AM
On Friday we followed James Cormack of the 5th Cameron Highlanders & the Final Advance 28th September through to 27th October 1918. Starting off at the area of Bellewaerde, Frezenberg Ridges and Potijze, then advancing through areas such as MolenHoek Ridge, the Keiberg Spur & on to Waterdamhoek.
***Take Notice***For anyone out guiding the Ypres Salient this weekend please note there is a burial service on Saturday 4th October at the German Cemetery at Langemarck, from what I understand it is going to be in the afternoon.
October 1, 2025 at 1:15 PM
***Take Notice***For anyone out guiding the Ypres Salient this weekend please note there is a burial service on Saturday 4th October at the German Cemetery at Langemarck, from what I understand it is going to be in the afternoon.
Out guiding and met Tonny one of the buglers from the Last Post Association, he very kindly gave a little impromptu talk about his role within the LPA. A nice surprise for my chaps from Leek in Staffordshire.
September 30, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Out guiding and met Tonny one of the buglers from the Last Post Association, he very kindly gave a little impromptu talk about his role within the LPA. A nice surprise for my chaps from Leek in Staffordshire.
From 27th September to the 30th November a 6.5 metered high figure known as The Hauntings will be placed near the Menin Gate Memorial in Ieper. Facing towards the memorial symbolizing all those that never returned home…
📸 Flanders Fields 14-18
📸 Flanders Fields 14-18
September 15, 2025 at 10:26 AM
From 27th September to the 30th November a 6.5 metered high figure known as The Hauntings will be placed near the Menin Gate Memorial in Ieper. Facing towards the memorial symbolizing all those that never returned home…
📸 Flanders Fields 14-18
📸 Flanders Fields 14-18
Ahead of my guided tour yesterday for the Royal British Legion Gloucester City at Talbot House I read an article about TOC H where Tubby Clayton had been described as the “priest for the parish of the Ypres Salient” during the First World War.” A fitting and wonderful description I thought.
September 14, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Ahead of my guided tour yesterday for the Royal British Legion Gloucester City at Talbot House I read an article about TOC H where Tubby Clayton had been described as the “priest for the parish of the Ypres Salient” during the First World War.” A fitting and wonderful description I thought.
A boy soldier, enlisting at the age of 14 in 1905 having been born in Peshawar, India. Entered theatre of war 10th November 1914, described as: intelligent, hardworking, smart and trustworthy. Wounded in the areas of Barnsley Road and Post 28, resting in peace in Essex Farm Cemetery.
September 12, 2025 at 8:38 AM
A boy soldier, enlisting at the age of 14 in 1905 having been born in Peshawar, India. Entered theatre of war 10th November 1914, described as: intelligent, hardworking, smart and trustworthy. Wounded in the areas of Barnsley Road and Post 28, resting in peace in Essex Farm Cemetery.
We first came to the burial ground of the Clan MacCrae around 23 years ago. Today we made a return visit, I’m so pleased we did as I missed so much information from my first visit, especially some that links back to my old Clan MacCrae book of those who died, fought and survived the First World War.
August 15, 2025 at 12:39 PM
We first came to the burial ground of the Clan MacCrae around 23 years ago. Today we made a return visit, I’m so pleased we did as I missed so much information from my first visit, especially some that links back to my old Clan MacCrae book of those who died, fought and survived the First World War.
Tonight we are staying just outside Tain where the hills to the rear of Tain were used by the Gordon Highlanders “U Battalion” (from University) for training a few days prior to the declaration of war by Great Britain to Germany. Little did they realise…
August 7, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Tonight we are staying just outside Tain where the hills to the rear of Tain were used by the Gordon Highlanders “U Battalion” (from University) for training a few days prior to the declaration of war by Great Britain to Germany. Little did they realise…
Well, this was a nice surprise to start the day, thank you TripAdvisor - As Jacques and I have always said "we're only as good as our last tour," something we firmly believe in even after all these years.
Thank you also to all past & present customers who have placed their faith in us.
Thank you also to all past & present customers who have placed their faith in us.
July 23, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Well, this was a nice surprise to start the day, thank you TripAdvisor - As Jacques and I have always said "we're only as good as our last tour," something we firmly believe in even after all these years.
Thank you also to all past & present customers who have placed their faith in us.
Thank you also to all past & present customers who have placed their faith in us.
A haunting sight of the skeletal ruins of Zonnebeke Church...1917.
July 4, 2025 at 6:28 AM
A haunting sight of the skeletal ruins of Zonnebeke Church...1917.
Polderhoek Chateau and its contents went the way of all such things in the German war zone. The trees were whittled bare of branch and leaf, and the fields were no longer good to look upon. In all this region the Germans had made what in the language of the soldier are known as "strong points."
July 2, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Polderhoek Chateau and its contents went the way of all such things in the German war zone. The trees were whittled bare of branch and leaf, and the fields were no longer good to look upon. In all this region the Germans had made what in the language of the soldier are known as "strong points."
July 1, 2025 at 6:39 AM
