This week we're back in Flanders and I'm standing in the village of Lokra,

as it is today, a village once behind the lines for most of the Great War.

I'm standing close to a busy road but still here in Flanders the birds sing

and I'm looking out across the green lush land that leads up to Kemmel Hill

Welcome to the old front line with me military historian Paul Reed.

Each week I bring you a glimpse into the battlefields of the Great War

and we walk together along the lanes and past the cemeteries

that act as beacons here to events more than a century ago.

So let's strap on our boots, take our pack, and head out along the old front line.

We're standing outside the church in the village of Lochra, or Locker, as it's known today.

This area of Flanders at the time of the First World War and when

we look at World War I period maps we see that all of the villages here and the towns and the

locations had French names, the French language in Belgium at the time of the First World War

was the dominant language and a lot of the British maps that Britain took to war

and the map data that we used from Belgian sources

took and used these French names.

In the post-second World War period, there was a resurgence of Flemish nationalism,

and it led to the Flemish dialect, the Flemish language being properly

recognised and here in Flanders all of the locations, the towns, the villages, the little communes

all were given their proper Flemish names. That's why we see this disparity in the naming of locations

on First World War period maps and the maps that we use today.

The village of Lochra, as it was then, was some way behind the front lines, and it remained behind those lines for most of the war.

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