Michèl Admiraal is a retired chartered accountant in the Netherlands. He has been interested in history all his life. Currently he is studying Military History at Wolverhampton University. The subject of his dissertation will be Royal Navy operations at the Belgian occupied coast in the First World War. As European Field Officer he is also connected to the French Association Nationale 1914-1918 and the Friends of the In Flanders Fields Museum in Ypres.