Wilderness tramping at the Three Mile Stream Track – heading for the Three Mile Stream Hut – in the Lake Sumner region, Canterbury, New Zealand, narrated and filmed POV by Tom van der Burg this week.
Citation info : Swamp Tramp New Zealand | 20231230 | 1-memo•com | @michelvanderburg | TakeNode 4ee28ec4-66de-4946-b50c-cc7201a869f1
Silent film — Towards the end of World War I – in the summer 1918 , after the Allies defeated the Germans in the Second Battle of the Marne – large groups of Belgians and French refugees flee in front of the retreating enemy force to the neutral Netherlands.
The Dutch army and Red Cross prepared to receive a possible 100,000 evacuees in the border towns in the south of the Netherlands.
After wandering weeks in the north of France , and next crossing Belgium on foot, the first group of French refugees arrived at the Dutch border October 20, completely exhausted.
At the gate in the electric wire fence at the border to the Netherlands – the so-called ‘Death Wire’ (dutch : Dodendraad ) Dutch soldiers took them over from German escorts.
Some refugees had travelled by tram part of the route crossing Belgium to the belgian border town Molenbeersel.
At the dutch border the refugees were welcomed and ladies from relief committees provide the refugees with food and drinks on the road to Stramproy in the Netherlands.
Within days , thousands of French refugees arrive in the village of Stramproy and are transferred to the city of Weert .
On arrival in the city center of Weert the dutch army registered people and handed out soup and bread.
The weak, the sick, and maternity women were cared for by the Red Cross and taken to an aid post for further care.
The refugees were sheltered the night in buildings like convents and schools in Weert, before being housed elsewhere in the country the following days.
References
Source (video footage) : Belgische vluchtelingen 1e Wereldoorlog. Open Images | Beeld & Geluid (Sound &Vision).
Weert en het einde van W.O.-I. | Jan Henkens | Stichting Historisch Onderzoek Weert | URL http://www.showeert.nl
Fall morning September 2023, Groene Hart, Holland
Citation : Walk with Geese in Holland | 20230912 | 1-memo•com | TakeNode 0436a6ed-74bd-4a55-b37a-9da2398a6292
Balcony Normandy Cliffs | Falaise #137 | 20230709 | Michel van der Burg | 1-memo•com | Because of the erosion a balcony was built here at the First Normandy Cliffs (Les Premieres Falaises) at Onival-Ault (Picardy) France, sunset May 2022 | TakeNode 0c41d48f-7cff-414a-a1da-677beb70172d
Wild Flowers | Falaise #136 | 20230708 | Michel van der Burg | 1-memo•com | GR120 – Thistle flowers (Carduus) on top of the Normandy chalk cliffs, Ault (Picardy) France, May 2022. | TakeNode 8b37e3fb-1168-49cb-8ff1-25290206d6de
GR120 Trail Coastal Cliffs Normandy | Falaise #135 | 20230707 | Michel van der Burg | 1-memo•com | GR120 – Sentier du Littoral (coastal trail) walk with iPhone on top of the Normandy chalk cliffs along the edge towards the First Valley (Premier Val) of the Falaises d’Ault, where a recent scree cone can be seen. Falaises d’Ault (Picardy) in France, May 2022. | TakeNode 6e3e3071-7c06-44b7-87cf-25cd5bb86528
