Lionels WW1 Calendar

The Ypres Salient - You'll never forget it !

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Today 1918 Priest Achiel Vanwalleghem, #Dikkebus: After mass, shells on farm Delporte and again in the evening: the shed of Logie is destroyed. At ‘Ouderdom’ one drops on the barn of Logie, luckily without exploding #ww1 #ypres #wo1 #ieper

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Today 1918 Priest Achiel Vanwalleghem, #Dikkebus: Sunday, #Easter, very solumn mass, where 75 people hold their Easter #ww1 #ypres #wo1 #ieper

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Today 1918 #PPCLI, #Canada: DORIS TRENCH: Fine and windy. Battalion relieved by R.C.R. and moves into Brigade Reserve #ww1 #ypres #wo1 #ieper

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Today 1918 Raoul Snoeck, #Diksmuide: …it’s for them that I do not give in to that strong longing and I particularly think about my loving mother #ww1 #ypres #wo1 #ieper

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Today 1918 Raoul Snoeck, #Diksmuide: It’s beautiful to see them at work. If didn’t know it would make my parents still more concerned, I would certainly have become pilot:… #ww1 #ypres #wo1 #ieper

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Today 1918 Raoul Snoeck, #Diksmuide: Do they now us that little? Our pilots give us samples of their knowledge and capabilities: there are without fear #ww1 #ypres #wo1 #ieper

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Today 1918 Raoul Snoeck, #Diksmuide: …they try to impress us or make us surrender, but to no avail: do the #Germans measure us to their own standards? #ww1 #ypres #wo1 #ieper

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Today 1918 Raoul Snoeck, #Diksmuide: Luckily the projectiles follow the law of gravity, so it is easy to predict where they fall. They not only pepper us with bombs, but also with pamphlets and announcements:… #ww1 #ypres #wo1 #ieper

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Today 1918 Raoul Snoeck, #Diksmuide: A plane comes over and drops bombs: sadly these are not chocolate #Easter eggs and we observe the plane flying over #ww1 #ypres #wo1 #ieper

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Today 1918 Raoul Snoeck, #Diksmuide: I expect no end to the war and am convinced it will still take a long time #ww1 #ypres #wo1 #ieper

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Today 1918 Raoul Snoeck, #Diksmuide: Bad news for all: all leave has been dismissed and nobody knows for how long, unless the war ends quickly, but I do not believe that whatever is said #ww1 #ypres #wo1 #ieper

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Today 1918 Sgt Peach: On guard till 4 pm. Have some pretty bad characters to look after but everything goes off O.K. #ww1 #ypres #wo1 #ieper

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Today 1918 Gen #Monash, #Australia: …they having been sent down from the Division to stand by for billeting duties, when it has been determined where the Division is to go #ww1 #ypres #wo1 #ieper

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Today 1918 Gen #Monash, #Australia: Arrive there about 3 o’clock and find a motor omnibus load of my officers and NCO’s just arrived,… #ww1 #ypres #wo1 #ieper

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Today 1918 Gen #Monash, #Australia: I thereupon decide to push on to #Doullens to get closer and more definite news #ww1 #ypres #wo1 #ieper

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Today 1918 Gen #Monash, #Australia: Wieck has come down ahead to try and find the 10thCorps Head Quarters, as it is understood that we should report to the 10thCorps for orders #ww1 #ypres #wo1 #ieper

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Today 1918 Gen #Monash, #Australia: …and that it has been ordered to stand by to entrain during that night and next day for #Doullens #ww1 #ypres #wo1 #ieper

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Today 1918 Gen #Monash, #Australia: …has been intercepted on the road an deflected southward and that it would lie that night at #Blaringhem (just north of the map)… #ww1 #ypres #wo1 #ieper

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Today 1918 Gen #Monash, #Australia: At the railway station I am fortunate enough to pick up letters from Jess which Wieck has brought down that morning telling me that the Division on its march towards Ypres… #ww1 #ypres #wo1 #ieper

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Today 1918 Gen #Monash, #Australia: The ordinary supply depots have ceased to function; we can hardly get any petrol or tires to replenish our needs, and it is with some difficulty we manage to get some lunch #ww1 #ypres #wo1 #ieper