Menin Gate North (Hardback)
In Memory and In Mourning
Imprint: Pen & Sword Military
Series: In Memory and in Mourning
Pages: 421
ISBN: 9781473850910
Published: 21st November 2016
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This is a comprehensive and highly emotive volume, borne of years of intensive research and many trips to the battlefields of the Great War. It seeks to humanise the Menin Gate Memorial (North), to offer the reader a chance to engage with the personal stories of the soldiers whose names have been chiselled there in stone. Poignant stories of camaraderie, tragic twists of fate and noble sacrifice have been collated in an attempt to bring home the reality of war and the true extent of its tragic cost. It is hoped that visitors to the battlefields, whether their relatives are listed within or not, will find their experience enriched by having access to this treasure trove of stories.
These are deeply sad books, compiled as labours of respectful remembrance, and embodying a huge amount of research. Daunting on first examination, they become truly compelling and repay repeated study.
Church Monuments 32
If Chapman cannot quite restore vitality to the ghostly population of these Silent Cities, he can inject a flavour of the lives that were lost and the grieving which ensued. A century on from Passchendaele, the most prolonged scene of intense fighting along the whole of the Western Front, the emotions still run deep.
A comprehensive and highly emotive volume, borne of years of intensive research and many trips to the battlefields of World War One. It seeks to humanise the Menin Gate Memorial North, to offer the reader a chance to engage with the personal stories of the soldiers whose names have been chiselled there in stone.
The Armourer, February 2017
About Paul Chapman
Paul Chapman, founder and ex Chairman of the Northampton branch of The Western Front Association, is a keen historian and has been a member of the WFA for many years. Paul is also a member of the Talbot House Association. A regular visitor to France and Flanders, for a number of years he has arranged and escorted tours to the Ypres Salient.
Paul's interest in the Great War on the western front stems from his paternal grandparents. His grandfather served with the Canadian Army Service Corps and, after his demobilisation became, along with many fellow ex-servicemen, one of the first to join the ranks of the Imperial (now Commonwealth) War Graves Commission.