Images from the Western Front
Most of the images in this gallery (photos and drawings) are included in my book, The Road of Hope and Sorrow: by bike along the Western Front of the Great War. The selection presented here is intended to give visitors to my web site a feel for the extraordinarily rich heritage available to those visiting the old battlefields, memorials, cemeteries and the excellent museums along the Western Front, all of which are described in more detail in my book. These images are arranged by the following four sectors of the Front to help orientate viewers to what can be found in different parts of the Western Front and to show that there is a great deal of interest to see and learn about in areas other than those that are best known and most frequently visited such as those in Flanders (e.g. Passchendaele) and the Somme.
Some of the images shown here and which are not in my book relate to new material I am developing on the causes of, and responsibility for, the Great War, work about which in due course I'll be writing more on my Blog page on this web site.
All photos and artwork © Nigel Bruce.
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Flanders and northern Artois
Flanders and northern Artois once the position of the Western Front was set after the 1st Battle of the Marne and the Race to the Sea saw fighting mainly by British and Commonwealth forces, although the French army was the main force involved in the early battles of Artois to the north of Arras.
The Grieving Parents, the very moving memorial at the Vladslo German Cemetery naer Diksmuide by German artist and sculptor Käthe Kollwitz for her younger son, Peter, who was killed in late 1914 near Langemark during the First Battle of Ypres.
