The majority of us acknowledge that our brave forces, whether they be on the ground, at sea or in the air, are the most vital element of any war campaign, but other essential elements are required to keep the cogs of war turning.

The “iron harvest” is the name for the large quantity of shells and other munitions dug up accidentally by farmers every year across the zone of the Western Front of the First World War in France and Belgium. In February 2012 Charlotte Descamps, farmer’s wife and proprietor of the Varlet Farm bed and breakfast near Ypres, came to talk to us at the Worcester Branch of the Western Front Association about the First World War legacy still being unearthed on her fields and how it is dealt with.

The “iron harvest” is the name for the large quantity of shells and other munitions dug up accidentally by farmers every year across the zone of the Western Front of the First World War in France and Belgium. In February 2012 Charlotte Descamps, farmer’s wife and proprietor of the Varlet Farm bed and breakfast near Ypres, came to talk to us at the Worcester Branch of the Western Front Association about the First World War legacy still being unearthed on her fields and how it is dealt with.

The “iron harvest” is the name for the large quantity of shells and other munitions dug up accidentally by farmers every year across the zone of the Western Front of the First World War in France and Belgium. In February 2012 Charlotte Descamps, farmer’s wife and proprietor of the Varlet Farm bed and breakfast near Ypres, came to talk to us at the Worcester Branch of the Western Front Association about the First World War legacy still being unearthed on her fields and how it is dealt with.

The “iron harvest” is the name for the large quantity of shells and other munitions dug up accidentally by farmers every year across the zone of the Western Front of the First World War in France and Belgium. In February 2012 Charlotte Descamps, farmer’s wife and proprietor of the Varlet Farm bed and breakfast near Ypres, came to talk to us at the Worcester Branch of the Western Front Association about the First World War legacy still being unearthed on her fields and how it is dealt with.

My setting aside of the meagre royalties from my First World War articles on the Triond set of websites to benefit the St Dunstan’s charity for blind and partly-sighted ex-Services personnel is now going to be continuous.

A thank you for those who have read my First World War articles, the November income from which I promised to donate to St Dunstans, a UK charity for blind and partly-sighted ex-Services men and women.

In the summer of 2011 I cycled the length of the First World War Western Front with a companion, all the way from the English Channel to the Swiss Border. It was a moving journey, each different site visited being an emotional experience of its own, but the concrete forts and bunkers in the wooded hills above Verdun stand out in my memory.

In the summer of 2011 I cycled the length of the First World War Western Front with a companion, all the way from the English Channel to the Swiss Border. It was a moving journey, each different site visited being an emotional experience of its own, but the concrete forts and bunkers in the wooded hills above Verdun stand out in my memory.

In the summer of 2011 I cycled the length of the First World War Western Front with a companion, all the way from the English Channel to the Swiss Border. It was a moving journey, each different site visited being an emotional experience of its own, but the concrete forts and bunkers in the wooded hills above Verdun stand out in my memory.