Interesting photographs of then and now after the Battle of Messines.

• by marie.eklidvirginmedia.com

  These photos are very interesting, especially after tagging diaries where the troops were involved here. (Mail on Line News)

  A huge bomb crater at Messines Ridge in Northern France, photographed circa March 1919, soon after the end of World War One
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  A peaceful pond is what remains today of the craters made by massive mines on the Messines Ridge near Ypres. Their explosion was heard in London

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  The link also contains many more interesting photographs of places mentioned in the diaries. We have discussed before the Battle of Messines when all the mines went off but these are photographs of before and after.

  Posted September 26, 2016 7:42 PM