The number of military cemeteries brought tears to my eyes. All contained the remains of the young men from foreign lands who ...

The Villers-Bretonnaux Military Cemetery includes the graves of many Commonwealth soldiers. The Sir John Monash Centre, an ...

A local club for all lovers of France, its language, culture, history and landscape.

Charming guesthouse Au Vélocipède (auvelocipede.fr) in Saint-Valery-sur-Somme has rooms from £101 per night. Aix-en-Provence, possibly the country’s most refined town, is already rather well ...

Many of the roughly 12,000 North Korean soldiers deployed to the war have been sent to Russia's Kursk Oblast, where Ukraine ...

This town is just outside the Paris region ... Albert is located in the Somme département. It has been a key location throughout history, first for the Romans in 54BC and later during the ...

Including Let the Light In by Jenny Downham and Louis Hill; After Life by Gayle Forman, and The Boy I Love by William Hussey ...

Hop across' destinations in France Boulogne-sur-Mer, Pas-de-Calais 30 minutes from Calais is the vibrant coastal town of Boulogne ... Amiens, Somme One hour and 45 minutes from Calais is Amiens ...

Saint-Valery-sur-Somme is a pretty little town on the Baie de Somme, where William the Conqueror set out with his fleet to invade England. It is also famous for its rope-grown mussels (moules de ...

He really did waltz into town and see Woody Guthrie on his hospital ... not the Battle of the Somme. Two, Dylan was being an ass; he could have either played one last acoustic set or just declined ...

Once the bastion of middle-class ladies going up to town to shop, with deferential and ... Stuart Chiesman, son of Frank, was wounded in the foot on the Somme in 1916 and medically discharged ...

With excerpts from Doug Warren’s Memoirs KAWARTHA LAKES-Doug Warren was born on July 16, 1916 at Fenelon Falls, Ontario. As he was coming into the world, six thousand kilometers away, the British Army ...