A couple of spots for you to visit

[Chris_Baker]

A couple of things you may not have seen before. One to add to your next battlefield visit, perhaps. Taken on a rather dull and overcast day in February.

Portuguese memorial in Vieille Chapelle:

[cockney tone]

Chris,

thanks for bringing these to notice, always nice to include new features on a visit,

Regards,

Scottie.

[ulsterlad2]

Thanks Chris. I always like to see stuff about the lesser known participants. It looks like a very nice memorial. Was it erected on the site of a ruined church or is that collapsed wall part of the design?

ps. regarding the Portuguese, How is the Battle of the Lys book coming along?

[Chris_Baker]

As far as I can tell the "ruined building" look is simply part of the memorial. Closer up, it's a bit grisly and not to everyone's taste. But it's certainly different.

The Lys is coming along nicely and I hope to finish it in late autumn, but it probably won't see a bookshelf until next year.

[paul guthrie]

I've seen that memorial, quite different. The Portuguese cemetery at La Bombe is in bad need of headstone renovation, they are largely illegible.

[Chris_Baker]

Very true, Paul. No gravestone inscriptions in this pic, but they do seem worse every time I go. The grass had been cut in February, though.

[michel knockaert]

Sorry Pals,

but the porguguese memorial is not in Vieille-chapelle, but in... La Couture..

very friendly

Michel

[michel knockaert]

And this years the day of the ceremonies of remembrance of the battle of the Lys is on april 18th...

[Chris_Baker]

Sorry Pals,

but the porguguese memorial is not in Vieille-chapelle, but in... La Couture..

very friendly

Michel

Of course! My mistake. Sorry. I was about to post a pic of the King Edward's Horse memorial ...

[stoj22]

Here's a piccy I took of the gravestones, they seem to vary from good to terrible.....