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Archive for October, 2011

RAF Cadets, The Queen’s Hotel, Hastings, 1918

Posted: October 28, 2011 in 1918, Hastings, Royal Air Force, Royal Flying Corps
Tags: 1918, hastings, raf
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RFC Cadets June or July 1918 Hastings

John Arthur Wilson MM 1896-1992

Posted: October 27, 2011 in Consett, Passchendaele, Royal Air Force, Royal Flying Corps, Somme, Western Front, Ypres
Tags: Machine Gun Corps, paschendaele, raf, rfc, somme, world war 1
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https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-hZfJ7YpRloM/Thlgyj0i3DI/AAAAAAAAGPo/vhCoCMhxDk4/s800/JAWilsonMM%2525201918.jpg

95 years later Houthulst Forest is used to first store then detonate the 200,000 bomb a found in the Ypres area every year.

http://wikimapia.org/4103376/Quarters-Bos-van-Houthulst-EOD-Houthulst-Forest


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