Aspirin
EN – Hospital chinaware bearing a red cross, a superbly crafted syringe, a box of aspirin of a century old. Vintage for medics…! I’m at the ‘War and Trauma. Soldiers […]
Category Archives: Events
WW 1 related events I witnessed
Soil Stories
Schoolboys escorting the soldier carrying Flanders Fields soil EN – It was cool and windy below the Menin Gate on November 11, but the sun was shining and everybody was […]
A Test
EN – It was different, back in 1914. Antwerpen was under siege and surrounded by as yet undefeated Germans. Inside its perimeter: the retiring Belgian army, the British Expeditionary Force, […]
Heritage Day
EN – A dilemma: should I go to Antwerp or stay in Leuven with my small collection of documents and pictures on WW1? During our Flanders Heritage Day, both cities […]
Nostalgia
EN – To tell the truth I had no time at all for it, but I couldn’t resist to attend the press meeting on the exhibitions to be set up […]
Because war changes everything
04.11.2012 EN – Speeding from London to Bristol, the train is caught up in a snow flurry: the first of this year. I’m on my way because BBC History organises […]
