Arras – The Forgotten Battlefields of the Artois

Arras – The Forgotten Battlefields of the Artois

by Evelyn McKechnie This area of France is sometimes known as the ‘forgotten battlefields’ because Flanders and the Somme get more battlefield visitors, yet it is here on the Arras front that has over 150 British cemeteries, which bear testament to the huge losses. It...
ANZAC DAY – Villers-Bretonneux Cemetery

ANZAC DAY – Villers-Bretonneux Cemetery

by Evelyn McKechnie One of the locations in the Great War Battlefields of the Western Front app is the Commonwealth War Graves Commission’s Villers-Bretonneux Cemetery. It has a commanding vista with wonderful views over the French countryside. Flying high in...