2016 Collection

Madeira, Funchal - Traditional costumes and dances
Madeira, Funchal, Spain: Traditional costumes and dances from Campanario Date: 2016

1967 Lamborghini Miura Jota entered by Piet Pulford and on show at The "Earls Court Motor
1967 Lamborghini Miura Jota entered by Piet Pulford and on show at The " Earls Court Motor Show" at Goodwood on Sept 10th 2016

Christmas 1914 Football Match Statues, Messines - Mesen
This life sized statue of a German and a British soldier shaking hands over a football, was sculpted by Andy Edwards and was unveiled on 22 December 2015

Field Gun outside the TJaegershof Restaurant
The restaurant has a small but interesting museum which is concerned with the activities nearby, including the St Sixtus Abbey

Headsone of German Jewish soldier Max Seller, Belgium
The burial is in the CWGC Cemetery, Hyde Park Corner. In this same cemetery is the grave of Private Albert Edward French, a 16 years old who was the subject of a BBC Radio 4 documentary in 1983

Ypres Battlefield Markers and signs
Over the 40 years that we have been writing about these battlefields, there has been many attempts to signpost the places of interest

Victims of the First Gas Attack Memorial, Steenstraat
This 15 metres high Cross of Reconciliation, commemorates the victims of the first gas attack of the war made by the Germans on 22 April 1915

Embraer KC-390 PT-ZNF
Forca Aerea Brasileira - Embraer KC-390 PT-ZNF (msn 39000001), at the SBAC Farnborough International Air Show on 7 July 2016. (Forca Aerea Brasileira - Brazilian Air Force) Date: 2016

Lockheed TR-1A 80-1068
United States Air Force (USAF) - Lockheed TR-1A 80-1068 (Article 068), at the SBAC Farnborough Air Show held between 5-12 September 1982

CASA C-295M 903
Royal Air Force of Oman - CASA C-295M 903 (msn S-108), at RAF Fairford on 10 July 2016. Date: 2016

CASA C-295M 026
Polish Air Force - CASA C-295M 026 (msn S-104), of 13.ELTR at the Royal International Air Tattoo - RAF Fairford 11 July 2016. Date: circa 2010

Hughes OH-6A Cayuse G-OHGA - 69-16011
United States Army - Hughes OH-6A Cayuse G-OHGA / 69-16011 (MSN 1381, Hughes Model 369A Series III) Date: circa 2016

PZL-Mielec M-28B1R Bryza 1017
Polish Air Force - PZL-Mielec M-28B1R Bryza 1017 (msn AJG001-03), at Yeovilton - International Air Day - 1 July 2016. Date: 2016

CASA C-295M 04 RED
Kazakhstan Air Defence Force - CASA C-295M 04 RED (msn S-126), at RAF Mildenhall on 14 July 2016. Date: 2016

Antonov An-72 07 RED
Kazakh Air Defense Forces - Antonov An-72 07 RED (msn S-119), at RAF Mildenhall on 14 July 2016. Date: 2016

CASA C-295M 03 RED
Kazakhstan Air Defence Force - CASA C-295M 03 RED (msn S-119), at RAF Mildenhall on 14 July 2016. Date: 2016

Mil Mi-17-1Sh 223
Croatian Air Force - Mil Mi-17-1Sh 223 (msn 81363), of 91 Zrakoplovna Baza, with KFOR (Kosovo Force) titles, at RAF Fairford for the RIAT on 9 July 2016. Date: 2016

Airbus Helicopters Jupiter HT. 1 ZM500
Royal Air Force - Airbus Helicopters Jupiter HT.1 ZM500 (msn 20111, ex D-HADT, ex G-CJIV, EC145T2 / BK117 D-2 / H145), of the Defence Helicopter Flying School

NH Industries NH90 NFH N-325
Koninklijke Marineluchtvaartdienst - NH Industries NH90 NFH N-325 (msn 1325), of 860 Squadron, at the RNAS Culdrose Air Day on 27 July 2016

Gulfstream G400 A6-HHH
Dubai Air Wing - Gulfstream G400 A6-HHH (msn 1531). Date: circa 2016

Dassault Falcon 20ECM 053
Luftforsvaret - Dassault Falcon 20ECM 053 (msn 53), of 335 Skv. at RAF Fairford for the International Air Tattoo on 8 July 2016. (Luftforsvaret - Royal Norwegian Air Force), of 335 Skv. Date: 2016

Alenia HC-27J Spartan 2714
United States Coast Guard - Alenia HC-27J Spartan 2714 (msn 4172, ex 10-27023), at the SBAC Farnborough Air-show, held from 11-19 July 2016. Date: 2016

Captain Chavasse VC Memorial, Brandhoek Church grounds
This memorial to Noel Chavasse was unveiled on 29 August 1997 in the presence of a delegation of the London Scottish Territorials

Memorial Plaque to Ypres Civilians WW1 and WW2
This is beside the main Ypres War Memorial which is just outside the Cloth Hall. On the other side of the memorial is a plaque to the Belgian 13th Field Artillery. Date: 2016

Chairman of the Ypres Last Post Committee with bugles
The Ceremony of the Last Post, in which firemen buglers play the Last Post under the Menin Gate at 8pm each night is, in its simplicity, one of the most moving acts of Remembrance in the world

Canadian Rifles and VCs Memorials, Passchendaele
Three flat black marble plaques mark the part played by the 3rd Canadian Division, the 4th Canadian Mounted Rifles and the 3rd (Toronto)

The Australian Diggers Memorial, Plugstreet Experience
The 14-18 Experience Museum was opened on 9 November 2013 and on that day a splendid bas relief of Australian miners digging underground was unveiled. It was donated by Ross J

The Memorial Chapel, Talbot House, Poperinghe, Belgium
Talbot House, a rest house for soldiers and officers, was started by Padre Philip Byard (Tubby) Clayton and was officially opened on 11 December 1915

Polish Memorial, Cloth Hall, Ypres, Belgium
The memorial, which is on an outside wall, commemorates the Polish Forces who liberated Ypres in September 1944. In September 2016 researcher Chris Lock discovered that three Polish soldiers were not

Thanking the Last Post Buglers at the Menin Gate
The Last Post at the Gate has been played at 8pm under the arches by Ypres firemen (with only an interval during WW2) since the unveiling on 24 July 1927

Captain Woodward, 1st Australian Tunneling Company
Captain Oliver Woodward was one of the heroes of the underground war at Hill 60. He had trained as a mining engineer and during his military career won the MC and two bars

Field gun and soldier statues, Plugstreet Experience
The gun and the statues, which are cut-outs made from steel sheets, are in the grounds of the Plugstreet 14-18 Experience (Interpretation Centre)

Reconstructed CWGC Cemetery, Colne Valley, Ypres
The Cemetery faces a feature known as Colne Valley. It is on one of the marked walking routes around the Ypres battlefields

The American Bridge, Vierstraat, Belgium
The bridge crosses the small stream the Kemmelbeek. In the August 1918 offensive the centre line of the attacking American 27th Division crossed over this bridge, hence its local name of American

Welsh National Memorial Dragon, Hagebos - Iron Cross
This fine memorial in Belgium is not only to the 38th Welsh Division, but to all Welsh Forces who fought in the Ypres Salient. It is similar to the dragon at Mametz on the Somme

Bus House CWGC Voormezeele, Belgium
Marking places on battefields is always a tricky business. hence the use of simple identifiers such as Lone Tree, Railway Corner etc. Our old friend Rose Coombs told how this cemetery got its name

The Izjer Tower seen through the Pax Gate, Dixmuide
Listed as an International Peace Centre, the Tower is a symbol of Flemish Nationalism which came to a head during the First World War. The Towers history goes back to the 18th Century

The Trenches of Death Museum by the River Izjer, Dixmuide
The Trenches of Death formed a Belgian defensive line along the west bank of the River Izjer which was pivotal in preventing the Germans breaking through to the Channel Ports

Belgian Headstones Houthulst Belgian Military Cemetery
This War Cemetery is maintained by the War Graves Department of the Belgian MOD. It is on the edge of the Houthulst forest which Napoleon called he key to the Low Countries

Memorial Chapel Calvery, Dixmuide
This is a religious monument which is dedicated to all of the soldiers and civilians who died in the Great War. On 23 September 1928 it was solemnly blessed by the Bishop of Bruges in the presence of

Memorial to Belgian pilot Willy Coppens, Klerken, Belgium
The small memorial to Heldhaftig Piloot Willy Coppens is in the Willy Coppens Plein in Klerken. He was Belgians leading fighter ace and, like American Frank Luke

Edmund Blunden Information Board, Vlamertinghe, Belgium
The board is outside the Chateau. Blunden was in the 11th Royal Sussex, camped just outside Vlamertinghe in the preparations for the Third Battle of Ypres

Hopstore CWGC Cemetery, Vlamertinghe, Belgium
The village, known as Vlam to the Tommies, was a pile of rubble by 1918 but the area of the Cemetery was just outside the range of the medium guns and the hop building, in the background here

Memorial to the 2nd and 4th Carabiniers, Zuidschote
This acknowledges their part in the April 1915 gas attacks and is on house number 15 in General Lotzstraat. It was erected by the Carabiniers Old Comrades Association. Date: 2016

Vlamertinghe Chateau, subject of Edmund Blunden poem
Blunden wrote the poem, On Passing Vlamertinghe Chateau in July 1917 in which he describes Poppies by the million. The Chateau survived the war

Headstone of Private Richard le Page, 26 March 1918
Le Page, who was 42 years old, was in the Royal Guernsey Light Infantry. He is buried in Vlamertinghe New Military Cemetery. The Regiment was formed at the end of 1916 from the Guernsey Militia

Preserved Yorkshire Trench - Boesinge
This was first explored in February 1992 by a local group called The Diggers. Gradually an important trench and dug-out system was uncovered

The Kleine Berta Mortar, Boezinge
This Little Bertha mortar (named after Bertha, Gustav Krupps wife), sits on the top of an ivy-covered blockhouse in the centre of the village

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