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Category Archives: The Somme
The Somme – Guillemont Road Cemetery
The rather grand entrance to Guillemont Road Cemetery on the Somme.
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The Somme – A Return to Pozières British Cemetery
Last year I paid a second, brief, visit to Pozières British Cemetery, where 2,760 British, Australian & Canadian Great War casualties are buried, surrounded by walls on which the names of a further 14,000 British & South Africans who have … Continue reading
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The Somme – Rancourt Military Cemetery – ‘To the Immortal Memory’
A brief diversion from our current French Flanders tour, dictated entirely by today’s date. This is Rancourt Military Cemetery, on the Somme.
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The Somme – Fricourt German Military Cemetery
The village of Fricourt was a heavily fortified section of the German front line defenses prior to the Battle of the Somme in July 1916.
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The Somme – Auchonvillers: Ocean Villas Tea Rooms Museum
Still in Auchonvillers, just three hundred yards from our previous stop at the communal cemetery, here we are back at Ocean Villas Tea Rooms run by the ever-welcoming Avril Williams (inset: Duncan Senior and others tuck in on a previous … Continue reading
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The Somme – Auchonvillers Communal Cemetery
The unassuming entrance to Auchonvillers Communal Cemetery, with the ubiquitous dark green CWGC sign telling us that we really should take a look within.
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Somme American Cemetery
Somme American Cemetery was originally established as a temporary burial ground during the last weeks of the war.
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