The Aerodrome Forum - View Single Post - Trying to Locate where my Relative served in Belgium

duckman · 11 April 2005, 07:13 PM

Lynda,

Bullecourt seems most unlikely, it is in France, east of the Somme battlefield, and quite a distance from Flanders. The fighting there took place some time before the period you are looking at (April '17). Certainly railway troops were laying track up towards the Bullecourt area as fast as they could in March/April 1917, following the German withdrawal in that area, but everything you have said points to 3rd Ypres in this connection.

Let me know if you strike out at the NAA. I can probably give you hand getting info (living in Canberra has some advantages!)

And you have my sympathy - I've recently spent some time deciphering my Great Uncle's creative spelling of foreign placenames.

Good Luck

Duckman

*BREAKING NEWS*

Look at this map

A couple of kms NE of Poperinghe is a village called Perelhoek (I think - I can't quite read the map). Might be Peselhoek.

Looks like Johan was on the mark (to no-one's surprise).

Mystery solved?

11 April 2005, 07:13 PM	#5 (permalink)
duckman Two-seater Pilot Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Nephelokokkygia Posts: 117	Lynda, Bullecourt seems most unlikely, it is in France, east of the Somme battlefield, and quite a distance from Flanders. The fighting there took place some time before the period you are looking at (April '17). Certainly railway troops were laying track up towards the Bullecourt area as fast as they could in March/April 1917, following the German withdrawal in that area, but everything you have said points to 3rd Ypres in this connection. Let me know if you strike out at the NAA. I can probably give you hand getting info (living in Canberra has some advantages!) And you have my sympathy - I've recently spent some time deciphering my Great Uncle's creative spelling of foreign placenames. Good Luck Duckman BREAKING NEWS Look at this map A couple of kms NE of Poperinghe is a village called Perelhoek (I think - I can't quite read the map). Might be Peselhoek. Looks like Johan was on the mark (to no-one's surprise). Mystery solved? __________________ Adieu la vie, adieu l'amour, adieu a toutes les femmes. C'est bien fini, c'est pour toujours de cette guerre infâme. C'est à Craonne sur la plateau qu'on doit laisser sa peau, Car nous somme tous condamnés; c'est nous les sacrifiés. Poilu protest song, 1917. Last edited by duckman; 11 April 2005 at 08:49 PM.