Arras – The Resistance Memorial

Posted on August 27, 2016 by Magicfingers

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Night time in the Grand Place, Arras. Continue reading →

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Arras War Memorial

Posted on August 22, 2016 by Magicfingers

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The inscription above the Poilu remembers the ‘Children of Arras, Dead in the Defense of Right’. Continue reading →

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Arras – Heninel Communal Cemetery Extension

Posted on August 18, 2016 by Magicfingers

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Seven miles south east of Arras, and now just to the east of the A1 – the Autoroute du Nord – the village of Heninel was captured by the British on 12th April 1917, four days into the Battle of Arras. Continue reading →

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Arras – The Battle of Arras Memorial & La Carrière Wellington

Posted on August 16, 2016 by Magicfingers

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If you follow the D917 south out of Arras towards Bapaume, you soon find yourself passing through the district of Ronville which, once upon a time, consisted of just a few houses clinging to the side of the road.  Today it is a sprawling suburb of the city, indistinguishable from so many other suburbs in so many other French cities. Continue reading →

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Science Museum, London – Wounded: Conflict, Casualties and Care Exhibition 2016

Posted on August 7, 2016 by Magicfingers

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Tagged and blanketed. British and German wounded await evacuation. Continue reading →

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Pozières British Cemetery & the Pozières Memorial

Posted on August 3, 2016 by Magicfingers

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Pozières British Cemetery, enclosed on three sides by the Pozières Memorial. Continue reading →

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High Wood

Posted on August 1, 2016 by Magicfingers

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On my recent trip to the Somme with the Friends of the Surrey Infantry Museum, as well as paying our respects at a number of cemeteries on the battlefield, most of personal interest to members of our group, we also visited some of the locations where the Surrey regiments found themselves in action. Continue reading →

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