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 litter the landscape. Continue reading
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 their hundreds as they tried and failed to breach the German defenses on the morning of 1st July 1916. Continue reading
I was helping out at the Aldershot Militaria Society Fair in Farnham yesterday and found this in an odds and ends box. Now I know nothing about medals, and it’s in pretty poor condition, but it looked interesting, and it was only a pound. Continue reading
If you remember, we had just left the Thiepval Memorial… Continue reading
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. Continue reading
The communal cemetery in Bois-Grenier contains 121 British Great War burials. Continue reading
