WWI ... # 2

[debris4spike]

So, I am still on my last day - in the area of the battle of the Somme ... and yes, my Granddad went "over the top" on July 1st ... and survived the day. That July 1st is known as the "Bloodiest day in the British Army"

My suprise, as you see the land, is that any survived!

Picture heavy again

Looking across the battlefields towards the Thiepville Memorial

These woods (were stumps) is where my Granddad was based in July - September 1916

A few pieces from the museum


Sorry, but seeing the kit laid out like, looked a little creepy to me



Granddad was in the Northamptonshire Regiment

The Queen Mother's brother's name



Vimy Ridge - held by the Canadians



French graves

German Graves


ARRAS .... rebuilt as it was pre-1914


Arras Cemetery - the memorial to the Royal Flying Corps, The Naval Air Service, and the Royal Air Force (formed when the 2 were amalgamated 1/4/18)

Comments

[brunettepet.livejournal.com]

Again, this is heart breaking (even on a beautiful Summer day).

[debris4spike]

... made worse when you see how young they all were.

[trepkos.livejournal.com]

An epic journey! I love the Sikh gravestone (bloody immigrants, coming over here, fighting our nazis ...!)

[debris4spike]

That is the special thing about our Commonwealth graves - even the most basic inscriptions say so much about the family & heritage