Category Archives: The Somme

Travels on the Somme Part Six – Auchonvillers War Memorial

Posted on November 20, 2015 by Magicfingers

The British first arrived on the Somme in the summer of 1915, taking over from the French who had held this sector since the start of trench warfare in the latter months of the previous year.  The village of Auchonvillers, … Continue reading →

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Remember

Posted on November 11, 2015 by Magicfingers

Tree stump in the Hawthorn Ridge Mine Crater on the Somme, earlier this year.  My personal memorial. Never Forget.

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Travels on the Somme Part Five – The Battlefield of Beaumont-Hamel: Hawthorn Ridge, the Sunken Lane & Beaumont-Hamel British Cemetery

Posted on November 8, 2015 by Magicfingers

The battlefield of Beaumont-Hamel.  Taken from what was No Man’s Land on 1st July 1916, this view looks east towards the village, the church spire visible in the distance.  The German front line once traversed this picture from left to … Continue reading →

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Travels on the Somme Part Four – Beaumont-Hamel Village

Posted on October 12, 2015 by Magicfingers

Having traversed the Redan Ridge (last post), we make a brief stop in the village of Beaumont-Hamel.  Everywhere on the Somme you find the ubiquitous green CWGC signposts that point the way to the hundreds of British military cemeteries that … Continue reading →

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Travels on the Somme Part Three – Serre & the Redan Ridge

Posted on September 29, 2015 by Magicfingers

Our next stop finds us at Serre, the northern extent of the main British offensive in July 1916 (there was a subsidiary attack a little further north at Gommecourt).  In this field the men of the Pals Battalions fell in … Continue reading →

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Travels on the Somme Part Two – Thiepval: The Leipzig Redoubt

Posted on September 21, 2015 by Magicfingers

If you remember, we had just left the Thiepval Memorial…

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Travels on the Somme Part One – The Thiepval Memorial to the Missing & Thiepval Anglo-French Cemetery

Posted on September 14, 2015 by Magicfingers

Earlier in the year the family Baldrick, along with yours truly and the missus, took a trip down to Amiens to spend a few days exploring the battlefields of the Somme.

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