Category Archives: The Somme

The Somme – Villers-Bretonneux Part One: Villers-Bretonneux Demarcation Stone

Posted on June 3, 2017 by Magicfingers

Surprise surprise!  We find ourselves back on the Somme, but not, this time, to explore the battlefields of 1916.  We are heading towards Villers-Bretonneux, where the Australian National Memorial, on what was once known simply as Hill 104, towers above … Continue reading →

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Pozières British Cemetery & the Pozières Memorial

Posted on August 3, 2016 by Magicfingers

Pozières British Cemetery and, surrounding the burials, the Pozières Memorial.

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High Wood

Posted on August 1, 2016 by Magicfingers

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 … Continue reading →

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High Wood – London Cemetery & Extension

Posted on July 29, 2016 by Magicfingers

First view of High Wood, our objective the large cemetery you can just see through the windscreen reflection on the far right.  This was the first time I had set eyes on the wood and, knowing what happened here, it … Continue reading →

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Mametz Wood – Flatiron Copse Cemetery

Posted on July 24, 2016 by Magicfingers

A few hundred yards north of the 38th Welsh Division Memorial, Flatiron Copse Cemetery is situated alongside the road at the north eastern edge of Mametz Wood.

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Mametz Wood – The 38th Welsh Division Memorial

Posted on July 21, 2016 by Magicfingers

The fortified German villages of Fricourt and Mametz had both fallen by day two of the Somme offensive, but the subsequent capture of Mametz Wood and, a little to the west, the village of Contalmaison, were essential to the next … Continue reading →

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Longueval – Delville Wood: The South African National Memorial & the Last Tree

Posted on July 18, 2016 by Magicfingers

The South African (Delville Wood) National Memorial, unveiled in October 1926 by, among others, General James Herzog, Prime Minister of South Africa, and Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, to remember the South Africans who served and died in all theatres … Continue reading →

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