The Lochart Confusion

Posted on August 24, 2026 • No Comments

One of a series of stories and place-based sketches exploring locations that sit at the edges of the narrative told in The Écrivélo Book. The Head-Stone with Two Names. I have wanted to visit this grave in particular for a long time. This is the grave of Corporal 2982682 John[...]

Birling Gap

Posted on August 22, 2026 • No Comments

The South Coast of England. Birling Gap, near to Beachy Head One of a series of stories and place-based sketches exploring locations that sit at the edges of the narrative told in The Écrivélo Book. The RAF Bomber Command Memorial on Beachy Head. The RAF Bomber Command Memorial, located on[...]

Putting the Record Straight.

Posted on July 10, 2026 • No Comments

SA Detective and Blog Author at the Memorial to The Admiral Prune One of a series of stories and place-based sketches exploring locations that sit at the edges of the narrative told in The Écrivélo Book. This is me with my great friend Dan, over from Australia, at the memorial[...]

May 26, 1940

Posted on May 26, 2026 • No Comments

One of a series of stories and place-based sketches exploring locations that sit at the edges of the narrative told in The Écrivélo Book. Cutting from Argus Herald Newspaper 1940 On this day in 1940 — the beaches at Dunkirk, and a Flight Sergeant already on his way home. 86[...]

The House Where Commandant Guerin Recovered

Posted on April 22, 2026 • No Comments

One of a series of stories and place-based sketches exploring locations that sit at the edges of the narrative told in The Écrivélo Book. Georges Arnult, Un Chirurgien dans la Tourmente, Éditions Lavauzelle, Paris–Limoges, 1981, p. 92. A hamlet in the Rhône, a surgeon's memoir, and one night in April[...]

From St Cyr to Tempsford — The Road That Brought Them Home

Posted on March 26, 2026 • No Comments

One of a series of stories and place-based sketches exploring locations that sit at the edges of the narrative told in The Écrivélo Book. Remains of the Worry Bird in St Cyr de Valorges INTRODUCTION — A field near Mâcon There is a field, roughly 9 kilometres north-north-east of Mâcon,[...]

J Christie or WA Christie – Discuss

Posted on March 10, 2026 • No Comments

One of a series of stories and place-based sketches exploring locations that sit at the edges of the narrative told in The Écrivélo Book. A Blenheim Goes down over Frévent. At 06:30 on Saturday, 18 May 1940, in the skies above the village of Frévent in Pas-de-Calais, Aircraftsman First Class[...]

Bombing of Lyon by the Allied air forces, 26 May 1944: damaged sites recorded by the City Property Service — Nouveau cimetière de la Guillotière: graves bombed / photograph by Sylvestre Municipal Archives of Lyon; 3PH/126 Date 26/05/1944

Buried under the Bombs

Posted on January 2, 2026 • No Comments

One of a series of stories and place-based sketches exploring locations that sit at the edges of the narrative told in The Écrivélo Book. Bombing of Lyon by the Allied air forces, 26 May 1944: damaged sites recorded by the City Property Service — Nouveau cimetière de la Guillotière: graves[...]

Wilford L. Bollinger – The Absent Man

Posted on November 13, 2025 • No Comments

One of a series of stories and biographical sketches exploring the lives of those who stand at the edges of the narrative told in The Écrivélo Book. The Ambrose crew, photographed at Harrington by Sgt. James J. Heddleston. Those present include Left to right back row: Lt. George W. Ambrose,[...]

Lackey 3A

Posted on November 1, 2025 • No Comments

A series of stories and biographical sketches exploring the lives of those who stand at the edges of the narrative told in The Écrivélo Book. BEAUREGARD, ALCIDE “CYRANO” THE LACKEY 3A DROP SITE On the night of 27/28 April 1944, the aircraft Worry Bird of the 801st Provisional Bomb Group[...]