The Scottish Military Research Group - Commemorations Project

scorpion · Joined: 24 Jul 2011 Posts: 8 Location: SW Flanders

Hello, I'm a new member from Flanders. You must think: what does a flemish guy here on this Scottish War Memorial project forum....? I live in the "October 1918 sector " of the Ninth Scottish Division. Eighteen years ago I published a study about their fightings, the place where I live is liberated by the 11 /Royal Scots. Lots of Lads stayed with us and lie buried on our small military cemetery here. Every year in the Remembrance Week , I put some photographs of buried men at their headstones. It's a way of giving the graves an idendity, in this way the cemetery becomes a "living " cemetery. I don't have much photographs in my collection maybe twenty, but I hope to find more.
I'm afraid I don't know how I can help the forum since you work on the memorials in Scotland, my apologies for that. Also apologies for my English, As a non-native speaker I will write a lot of mistakes, please forgive me Embarassed

Now allow me to walk through your pages and enjoy your forum.
In the mean time, kind regards from Flanders,
Jef

David McNay · Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 9:10 pm Post subject:

Jef,

Your English is much better than my Flemish. Welcome to the forum, glad to have you here.

Regards,

David

DerekR · Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2011 9:59 am Post subject:

Welcome Jef,

Where do you live?

Last week I was visiting the small cemeteries at Dadizele and Kezelberg to visit the graves of some of my boys who fell there in 1918.
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scorpion · Joined: 24 Jul 2011 Posts: 8 Location: SW Flanders

DerekR · Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2011 6:38 pm Post subject:

Jef,

It is a small world.

I also visited Vichte last week - I must have passed your house as I could not find the cemetery. Shocked

It took me an hour to find it despite having a sat-nav in the car. It is not well signposted.
I was visiting the grave of Alfred Morrow of the Border Regiment.

Two of my boys are buried at Harlebeke:

James McIntosh, 5th Bn. Cameron Highlanders and David Pringle, 12th Bn. Royal Scots.
I did not have the time to visit their graves last week due to not being able to find Vichte MC.
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scorpion · Joined: 24 Jul 2011 Posts: 8 Location: SW Flanders

spoons · Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2011 10:52 am Post subject:

Welcome to the forum. It's great to see people around the world doing their bit to remember the loss of all these men.

\Paul

dhubthaigh · Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2011 11:22 am Post subject:

Hi Jef,

Enjoy the project.

apanderson · Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2011 1:37 pm Post subject:

Hello Jef,

Welcome from me too.

Let's hope we can be of help to each other.

Anne

Keptie · Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2011 3:36 pm Post subject: from flanders

Hi Jef

Welcome to the website and to the sister website Scottish War Graves project too.

We have friends who live in Wingene Belgium and I met them in 2008 at a war memorial near Dingwall and since then they have visited us here in Angus each June and I give them a tour around this area showing them historical and military locations and war graves in Angus & Perthshire !

I have a friend , Eddy Lambrecht who lives in Belgium and who published yet another great War book this time on the Airmen who fought over Flanders and one chapter covers my namesake Uncle's flying service in the Somme with 18 Sqn RFC & RAF until his serious wounding on 27June 1918 . Lt PW Anderson , Black Watch , &RFC RAF died of wounds back in Arbroath scotland on 2 Nov 1921 . Eddy's latest book "ZIJ VIELEN UIT DE HEMEL " is only published in FLEMISH and is sold in the Ypres book shop I hear . Would have been better published in both English like his previous books !

welcome aboard Jef..

patrick w anderson

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DerekR · Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2011 7:36 pm Post subject:

scorpion · Joined: 24 Jul 2011 Posts: 8 Location: SW Flanders

Hello everyone,
Thank you so much for your warm welcome.
@Keptie.... I heard a lot of Eddy, once I have been mailing with him because he has a great collection of photographs. I know he is also a member of the Belgian WFA, like me ( I'm also in the British WFA), but I don't know him personally. Scottish War graves, is that another forum?
@Derek, Think you have used a GPS. When you got off the motorway, or when you came from Harlebeke the GPS has leaded you the shortest way. You went right at the first trafficlights, then left and after about 1Km you're at the railway crossing at the backside of the cemetery. You should had driven to Vichte crossroads, there you see the first marker. Did you visit Ingoyghem too?
Again thank everyone for your warm welcome.
Jef