CROONAERT Posted 7 February , 2003 Share Posted 7 February , 2003 It's interesting to note that a lot of people think Godewaersvelde is in Belgian; one of the P&S books states that the nurse(?s) buried there 'died in Flanders'... Paul, I was always under the assumption that Godewaersvelde IS in Flanders. French Flanders,maybe,but Flanders nonetheless. Historically speaking,flanders encompasses a chunk of N.E.France and has done since medieval times. Many places mentioned in the Flanders campaign of Marlborough (such as Cassel,Dunkirk etc.) are in France. Flemish placenames abound in this area of France. Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Reed Posted 7 February , 2003 Share Posted 7 February , 2003 Yes, that's quite true; but in the context of the BEF, when we talk of 'France and Flanders', Flanders usually means Belgium and the Salient - that's my point. While the CCS at 'God-wears-velvet' was receiving casualties from around Ypres, personnel who died there could not have been called 'Ypres casualties'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CROONAERT Posted 8 February , 2003 Share Posted 8 February , 2003 Fair point,Paul. But if a soldier was being treated for (or dying from!) wounds received at Ypres,surely he is an "Ypres casualty"? I say this because I have the medals to a soldier buried there who was (very)badly wounded at 3rd Ypres and died there.I regard him as a casualty of this battle,even though he is buried in France. Dave. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Reed Posted 8 February , 2003 Share Posted 8 February , 2003 Sorry Dave, you've misunderstood me - by "personnel" I meant personnel of the CCS, not patients, whom you rightly indentify as being "Ypres casualties"; the same applies to places like Bailleul, where most of those buried there were hit in the Salient, but the RAMC personnel buried there died at Bailleul, not in the Salient. Does this make sense!!?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CROONAERT Posted 8 February , 2003 Share Posted 8 February , 2003 It does now. Cheers,Paul. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt York Posted 9 February , 2003 Share Posted 9 February , 2003 Terry, Thanks for the details of Sister Gladstone and the list of names of other females. Ronnie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john w. Posted 9 February , 2003 Share Posted 9 February , 2003 Ronnie In Pauls book on Walking the Salient.. he mentions Nellie Spindler and others within the context of Lijssenthoek cemetery (P 138-140). Was there lst year.. well worth the visit, and as others have said it does have a wide range of nationalities interred there John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedley Malloch Posted 11 February , 2003 Share Posted 11 February , 2003 Agree entirely Prowse Point, Mud Corner & the two in the woods - a perfect and usually uncrowded walk. Prowse Point is the work of Cowlinshaw, probably the best of the younger architects working for Lutyens. In the 1930's he became the leading figure in the Arts and Crafts movement in the UK. One of his other cemeteries was threatened by the proposed new airport on the Somme Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul guthrie Posted 11 February , 2003 Share Posted 11 February , 2003 Has anyone else seen the large flock of Chinese ringneck pheasants there? I saw them in 1998. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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