Best of Rob:
June 15 - Unscathed French general with the wounded troups at St. Etienne church the day after the battle, town of Braine l'Alleud
Best of Rob:
June 15 - Caring for wounded French soldiers the day after the Battle of Waterloo at St. Etienne church, Braine l'Alleud
Best of Rob:
Jun 15 - Play mocking gullible, rich English battle-site tourists, town of Braine l'Alleud
Best of Rob:
June 15 - Wellington himself (at the left) and 3 of his generals, near the bivouac and prepared for the final reenactment of the battle of Waterloo, Braine l'Alleud
Best of Rob:
June 15 - Near the Allies' bivouac, Braine l'Alleud
Best of Rob:
June 15 - Brits et al. ready for the last Waterloo battle reenactment, near the bivouac, Braine l'Alleud
Best of Rob:
June 15 - Leaving the bivouac, Battle of Waterloo reenactment, Braine l'Alleud, Belgium
Best of Rob:
Jun 15 - Strategizing in Wellington's camp, in the British bivouac at Braine l'Alleud, Belgium
Best of Rob:
Jun 15 - One Peter Catley (with the 44th East Essex Regiment of Foot) In the British bivouac, Waterloo re-enactment, Braine l'Alleud, Belgium
Best of Rob:
Jun 15 - A re-enactor from Hanover in the Brussels metro (en route to Braine-l'Alleud)
Best of Rob:
Jun 15 - A re-enactor from Hanover done up as the only Turkish soldier at the Battle of Waterloo, Brussels (in the metro, en route to Braine l'Alleud)
Best of Rob:
Jun 15 - Re-enactors settling in before the first big battle re-enactment at 'Waterloo 2015' with a facsimile of the 'La Haye Sainte' farm (I think) in the middle there, Braine l'Alleud
Best of Rob:
June 15 - Just before the first battle re-enactment at 'Waterloo 2015', Braine l'Alleud
Best of Rob:
Jun15 - Re-enactors settling in to watch the first battle re-enactment at 'Waterloo 2015', Braine l'Alleud, Belgium
Best of Rob:
Jun 15 - One more redcoat at 'Waterloo 2015', Braine l'Alleud
Best of Rob:
Jun 15 - 1 of 1000s of redcoats marching @ at 'Waterloo 2015', Braine l'Alleud
Best of Rob:
Jun 15 - One of the 1000s of re-enactors at 'Waterloo 2015', Braine l'Alleud, Belgium
Best of Rob:
Jun 18 '15 - Polish re-enactors atop the Butte de Lion (sitting just below the lion), explaining at one point why they'd be fighting against Napoleon in the re-enactments (I forget why) whereas in fact the Poles had fought for him, Braine l'Alleud
Best of Rob:
Jun 18, 15 - Clear winner of the hat award (I assume), a 'Dutch Guard Lancer of the French Imperial Guard' at Braine l'Alleud (site of the Battle of Waterloo), Belgium
Best of Rob:
Jun 18, 15 - Can you tell he's French? A proud tourist on a shuttlebus on the N5 with a tattoo of Delacroix's 'Liberty leading the people' (which I took in at the Louvre this trip), Braine-l'Alleud (site of the battle of Waterloo), Belgium
Best of Rob:
Jun 18, 15 - A French soldier ready for battle, Vive l'Empereur!, on the N5, Braine-l'Alleud (site of the battle of Waterloo), Belgium
Best of Rob:
June 18, 15 - A German soldier at 'La Haye Sainte' farmhouse, a famous scene of much fighting at the battle of Waterloo, Braine l'Alleud
Best of Rob:
June 18, 15 - Chris Draper, a British artist at the commemoration celebrations, Braine l'Alleud
Best of Rob:
June 18, '15 - 'Vive l'empereur!', French soldiers at Braine l'Alleud (near Waterloo), Belgium
Best of Rob:
June 15 - A Latvian re-enacter at 'La Chapelle Royale', aka the Church of St. Joseph (Catholic, 1689 or 90), Waterloo, Belgium
Best of Rob:
June 16, '15 - Members of the Liverpool Scottish regiment officiating at the Last Post ceremony at the Menin gate, Ieper (Ypres), Flanders, Belgium
Best of Rob:
June 16, '15 - The last post (performed by the 'Liverpool Scottish' on their regimental day) at the Menin gate, Ieper (Ypres), Flanders, Belgium
Best of Rob:
June 15 - A guide from the Passchendaele museum and a great guy gave me a lift from Tyne Cot and a free tour round Passchendaele / Passendale, Ypres salient, Flanders
Best of Rob:
June 16, '15 - The Liverpool Scots' piper, Bellewaarde farm, after the ceremony commemorating the battle of Bellewaarde and the unveiling of the new monument, in the Ypres salient, near Ieper (Ypres)
Best of Rob:
June 16, '15 - Audience at the ceremony commemorating the battle of Bellewaarde and of the unveiling of the new 'Liverpool Scottish' memorial, Bellewaarde ridge, near Ieper (Ypres), Flanders
