Ypres
the Somme
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| Shambellie House near Dumfries, National Museum of Costume | Whitby Town from the Abbey |
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| A66 crossing over the River Greta. | Leaving Hull Docks & heading towards Zeebrugge |
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| Ypres,
taken from the top of the rebuilt Cloth Hall, middle left is the Menin
Gate and looking towards Paschendaele |
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above but more panoramic, showing the Wipers market in full swing |
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| Bunker on top of Hill 60, this is probably an Australian bunker (faces towards German lines) and was constructed on a German bunker (facing the other way) | Plenty of personal memorials, this one on Hill 60 |
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| Langemark German cemetry | Fricourt German cemetry |
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| Menin Gate, 56,000 names of the
missing around Ypres |
Thiepval Memorial, another 72,000
names of the missing around the Somme |
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| Front centre on the skyline is Albert Cathedral, I took this from the Hawthorne Crater on the Somme. On the 1st July 1916 this was the view the Germans had of the advancing British infantry, not much cover | A misty Moquet Farm taken from the Thiepval Memorial. Moo-cow farm "cost" the Australians over 6,000 men in just over a month or so in 1916, they captured it three times only to lose it again each time |
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| Tyne Cot cemetry, the rebuilt Ypres Cathedral and Cloth Hall on the skyline in the middle | |
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| Vimy Ridge, a grassed over "craterscape" | Church in Poperinghe |
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| As above, the Vimy Ridge "craterscape", picture taken the day after the one above | |
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| Art Deco house in Peronne | Peronne house again |