Oops almost forgot this, sitting at the side of the road - since 1918 - the entrance to a British bunker, now long since caved in... [IMG]...
Artefacts.. [img] [img] Well that's about it from me on this trip. Please feel free to use any of my pictures as you see fit, I only ask that...
.....and into the british bunker..... The armourer.. [img] The surgery. [img] The bunkspace. [img] The French and (Left) the...
Stormtroopers, a concept developed by the German army during WW1, highly trained, lightly equipped and very manouverable troops, with a specific...
During WW1 the Germans were still employing armour to protect their men, something I didn't know until this trip... [img] and the armoured...
The final part of the trip took us to the Passchendaele museum in Zonnebeke Outside the museum there are two pillboxes, excavated from the fields...
The three Victoria Cross winners, within the cemetary. [img] [img] [img] [img]
[img] Part of the visitor centre recreation... [img]
Next, Tyne cot cemetary, well the intro plaque tells it better than me.. [img] [img] [img] One of the German bunkers, there are five of...
The following day, we went to Passchendaele - now renamed Passendale. The village was wiped from the face of the map during hostilities, after the...
Closer.... [img] This shot was taken to show the german cemetary in the foreground and the British and French sites in the background. (The...
Then we visited the German cemetary.. [img] [img] Each of the German stones represents four souls.. [img] The German Remembrance...
The last destination for today was the village of Rancour, it is the only village in the region that has a cemetary from each of the combative...
Unknown Frenchmen... [img] Unknown Brits... [img] As I walking away from the main monument at Thiepval, I looked over to my left and...
More at Thiepval... [img] [img] [img]
[img] [img] [img] ....and we think one of Buster's ancestors... J. Halliday, West Yorks. Regt. whoa.. moving. [img]
[img] Particularly poignant... Brothers in arms.... [img] Further down the "Circuit" to Thiepval, once again the scene of atrocious...
We then followed part of the "Circuit of remebrance" which took us through some of the sites of the fiercest of the Somme battlefields. I kid you...
This is the entrance to the museum, it is an entrance to an underground tunnel system which was used as a bunker in WW1 and an air raid shelter in...
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