Boulogne-sur-Mer (Pas-de-Calais) - Harbour and Car Ferries

            The Postcard

A postally unused carte postale published by Mage of 36, Rue H. Fournier, Drancy.  The photograph was taken by Spadem - Couleurs Naturelles. The card was printed in Spain.

Boulogne-sur-Mer

Boulogne-sur-Mer is a coastal city in Northern France. It is a sub-prefecture of the département of Pas-de-Calais. 

Boulogne lies on the Côte d'Opale, a touristic stretch of French coast on the English Channel between Calais and Normandy. 

Boulogne is its département's second-largest city after Calais, and the 60th.-largest in France. It is also the country's largest fishing port, specialising in herring.

Boulogne in the Great War

During the First World War, Boulogne was the arrival port for the first unit of the British Expeditionary Force to land in France, and for many others thereafter.

Boulogne was one of the three base ports most extensively used by the Commonwealth armies on the Western Front throughout the First World War. 

It was closed and cleared on the 27th. August 1914 when the Allies were forced to fall back ahead of the German advance, but was opened again in October, and from that month to the end of the war, Boulogne and Wimereux formed one of the chief hospital areas.

Until June 1918, the dead from the hospitals at Boulogne itself were buried in the Cimetière de L'Est, one of the town's cemeteries, the Commonwealth graves forming a long, narrow strip along the right hand edge of the cemetery. 

In the spring of 1918, it was found that space was running short in the Eastern Cemetery in spite of repeated extensions to the south, and the site of a new cemetery at Terlincthun was chosen.

To see a photograph of the cemetery, please search for the tag 45TBC33

Boulogne in World War II

In World War II, on the 15th. June 1944, 297 aircraft (155 Avro Lancasters, 130 Handley Page Halifaxes, and 12 De Havilland Mosquitos) of the Royal Air Force bombed Boulogne harbour to suppress German naval activity following D-Day. 

Some of the Lancasters carried Tallboy bombs, and as a result, the harbour and the surrounding area were completely destroyed. 

In August 1944 the town was declared a "fortress" by Adolf Hitler, but it succumbed to assault and liberation by the 3rd. Canadian Infantry Division in September. In one incident, a French civilian guided the Canadians to a "secret passage" leading into the walled old town and by-passing the German defenders.

Reconstruction of Boulogne After World War II

To replace the destroyed urban infrastructure, affordable housing and public facility projects in functional, brutalist building styles were carried out in the 1950's and 60's.

Taken on: April 22, 2019

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