tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29502564589457002102024-02-19T01:35:19.405-08:00Echoes of WarBicycling throughout the Ypres Salient and the Somme then and nowUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger31125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2950256458945700210.post-33974106910620245112009-09-20T23:55:00.009-07:002022-07-05T03:10:38.470-07:00Ypres<div style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-style: oblique;">A more sacred place for the British race does not exist in
all the world. </span></span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">Winston Churchill, 1919</span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">In the Middle Ages Ypres became world famous because of its cloth trade. Commercial relations flourished, particularly with England, which provided much of the wool on which the town’s great prosperity was based. The most obvious symbol of this prosperity was the magnificent Cloth Hall, built during the 13th century. Ypres was occupied by the German army for one night at the beginning of the Great War and recaptured on 14 October 1914, remaining in Allied hands until the end of hostilities.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Some five million British Empire soldiers passed through
Ypres on their way to the Salient. Reduced to rubble by constant
bombardment, the town came to symbolise the meaningless slaughter of the
Great War. After the Armistice, the British government wished to
acquire the ruins of Ypres as a permanent memorial to the sacrifices of
its army between 1914 and 1918. However, the returning refugees wanted
to rebuild their homes and the wishes of the local population finally
prevailed. Now restored to its former grandeur, Ypres still contains
numerous poignant sites and monuments linked to the war.</span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>First Battle</b>
<span style="font-weight: 300;">(19 October - 22 November 1914)<br />
</span><span style="font-weight: 300;">After the German advance through Belgium and Northern France
was halted in September 1914, the centre of fighting shifted to
the Westhoek. The Belgians halted the Germans by flooding the Yzer plain (27-29 October 1914). To the south, the British
and the French fought determinedly to prevent a German
breakthrough at Ypres. This was the First Battle of Ypres, which raged
from 22 October to 22 November 1914. When the battle was over,
the Germans held the ring of high ground which overlooked the city. Both armies dug in and the famous Ypres Salient was born.</span></span> </div>
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</span><span style="font-weight: 300;">In the spring of 1915, the
Germans made a new attempt to break through at </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: 300;">Ypres</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: 300;">. They captured Hill
60 and on 22 April 1915, between
Steenstrate and Langemark, using chlorine gas for the first time
in modern warfare. 150 tonnes of chlorine gas were released from 6,000
cylinders directed against the French lines. The result was death, panic
and total surprise. The Allies were forced to withdraw for several kilometres, but there was no breakthrough. In September it was the turn of
the Germans to be surprised when the British attacked
at Loos. Until the end of the war, both sides bombarded each other with millions of gas shells. However, in proportion to the total number of casualties, gas claimed relatively ’few’
victims.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Third Battle </b></span><span style="font-size: small;">(31 July - 10 November 1917) </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: 300;">Summer 1917 saw the great Mine Battle of 7 June to the south of </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: 300;">Ypres</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: 300;"> - Messines Ridge to the British and to the Germans ”Wijtschate Bogen” - quite literally made the world shake. 19 mines
were detonated under the German lines, causing explosions which could
be heard as far away as London. In the beginning, this British offensive
was a success. This was the prelude to the ill-fated Third Battle of </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: 300;">Ypres</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: 300;">.</span></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">The Battle of </span></span><b><span style="font-size: small;">Passchendaele</span></b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: 700;"><b> </b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: 300;">The success at Messines was followed up in August with a new offensive: the Battle of </span></span><span style="font-size: small;">Passchendaele</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: 300;">. This battle was a complete disaster. The
shells and the rain reduced the battlefield to a muddy swamp, through
which neither attackers nor defenders could move. In four months the
British lost 400,000 killed, wounded and missing for the gain of just 8 kilometres of territory.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: 300;">The Germans had built strong concrete bunkers, defended with nests of
machine guns that were almost impregnable.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"> Passchendael</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: 300;">e was an hell of mud,
blood and superhuman endurance. Little wonder that British called the
village ”Passiondale” - the valley of suffering. 1917 also saw the
first use by the Germans of mustard gas or ’ieperiet.’ An ’improvement’
on chlorine and phosgene, mustard gas not only attacked the victim’s airways, but also caused the skin to erupt in hideously painful blisters.</span></span></div>
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In the spring of 1918, the Germans were strengthened by the arrival
of fresh divisions from the Eastern Front, where the October Revolution of 1917 had led to Russia’s withdrawal from the war. The German
offensive began in March, in the sector between Arras and Laon. In
April new attacks were launched near </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: 300;">Ypres</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: 300;">, where the Allied line
was almost broken. During the Battle of Merkem (near Houthulst)
on 17 April 1918, the Belgians had to withstand a severe attack
by the Germans. ’De Kippe,’ a locality in Merkem, and a number of
bunkers were initially lost but, following fierce hand-to-hand
fighting with bayonets and knives, the Germans were forced back to
their original positions by nightfall. Losses on both sides were high:
the Belgians suffered 155 dead and 354 wounded, against a German
total of 254 dead and 1,211 wounded. 780 Germans were also taken prisoner. It was the first major Belgian victory since Halen in 1914.
During the Battle of Mount Kemmel the French in particular were
very hard-pressed, losing this strategically important hill to the Germans on April 25, almost allowing </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: 300;">Ypres</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: 300;"> to be captured.
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The Ypres Cloth Hall was, as a guidebook at the time described it, "one of the mediaeval gems of Europe" prior to 1914. Located in the centre of the city of Ypres, it echoed back to the period when Ypres was the centre of the European cloth trade and merchants from all over the continent came here to buy and sell their goods. and home to numerous stalls selling cloth from across the globe. This
trade had made Ypres rich, wealthy enough to fund its own
Vauban-designed defences during the long periods of conflict that
followed. By 1914 Ypres was a city in decline, located in a quiet backwater. During the Great War the Cloth Hall came under fire during the First Battle of Ypres in October 1914 and then caught fire the same November. Some, but not all, of its many treasures were saved and gradually by 1918 it was reduced to rubble as every shell from 77m up to 420mm naval shells fell on it at some point. Only the central tower stood proud, but that in ruins and two years after the end of the war we see it in this photograph pretty much in the same state it was at the end of the conflict. The howitzer was one of several war trophies on display in the main square at this time and appears to be a German 150mm howitzer. Ypres was gradually rebuilt, using the original medieval plans, but it took time – the Cloth Hall was not finished, for example, until the early 1960s. Today it houses the council offices and the In Flanders Fields Museum.</div>
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Saint Martin's Cathedral (although no longer technically a cathedral, it is still often referred to as one) is, at 335 ft in height, one of the tallest buildings in Belgium. Construction started on in 1230, and was finished in 1370. It was heavily damaged during the Great War and was rebuilt afterwards, following the original plans.<br />
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<span style="font-size: normal;">To the north of the Hall was the Church of St. Martin, built in the thirteenth century. The unfinished tower, 190 feet high, the rose window of the south transept with its magnificent stained glass, the triumphal arch between the pillars of the west porch, which had been constructed in 1600 by Urban Taillebert, the choir-stalls carved by the same Urban Taillebert, the pulpit with its lavish carving, the late- Gothic monument erected to the memory of Louise de Laye, widow of Hugonet, Chancellor of Burgundy, the tomb of Antoine de Henin, the brazen screen in the south aisle with its alabaster statuettes of saints attracted visitors to this noble church. To students of religious history St. Martin's was especially noteworthy. Under a plain flat stone was buried in it Cornelius Jansenius, Bishop of Ypres. During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the followers of Jansenius, of whom the most illustrious was Pascal, had disputed with the Jesuits for the souls of the French and their Bourbon rulers. </span><br />
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Inside is a plaque honouring the Imperial soldiers reading: "To the glory of God and to the memory of one million dead of the British Empire who fell in the Great War 1914-1918, many of whom rest in Belgium".</div>
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Y<span style="font-size: 100%;">pres was damaged by the Germans in the Second World War as well. Here is the <i>Hotel t’Zweerd</i> as photographed by a German soldier in May 1940, and the same site today.</span><br />
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At No. 54 Rue de Dixmude is the façade of the Maison Biebuygk. Built in 1544, this house was one of the most remarkable in Ypres. Immediately below the gable were two carved medallions representing the sun and the moon. The great pointed arch which framed the gable windows gave exceptional grace to the façade; it has since been reconstructed.</div>
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"Who will remember, passing through this Gate,<br />
The unheroic Dead who fed the guns?"<br />
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The site of the Menin Gate after the war. <br />
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The building of the Menin Gate Memorial and in front today, which commemorates the missing of the Salient, and was designed by Reginald Blomfield with construction completed in 1927. It lists the names of 54,332 men of Britain and the Dominions (apart from New Zealandwho fell in the Salient and who have no known grave. The names represent the fallen of Britain, Ireland, and what were then the Dominions (apart from New Zealand and Newfoundland which chose to have their own separate memorials) up until 16th August 1917 after which the other names are recorded at Tyne Cot CWGC. The inscription inside the archway is similar to the one at Tyne Cot, with the addition of a prefatory Latin phrase: "Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam - Here are recorded names of officers and men who fell in Ypres Salient, but to whom the fortune of war denied the known and honoured burial given to their comrades in death". The Latin phrase means 'To the greater glory of God'. Both this inscription, and the main overhead inscription on both the east- and west-facing façades of the arch, were composed by Rudyard Kipling. On the opposite side of the archway to that inscription is the shorter dedication: "They shall receive a crown of glory that fadeth not away". There are also Latin inscriptions set in circular panels either side of the archway, on both the east and west sides: "Pro Patria" and "Pro Rege". A French inscription mentions the citizens of Ypres: "Erigé par les nations de l'Empire Britannique en l'honneur de leurs morts ce monument est offert aux citoyens d'Ypres pour l'ornement de leur cité et en commémoration des jours où l'Armée Britannique l'a défendue contre l'envahisseur", which translated into English means: "Erected by the nations of the British Empire in honour of their dead this monument is offered to the citizens of Ypres for the ornament of their city and in commemoration of the days where the British Army defended it against the invader. </div>
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Every evening at 20.00 the Last Post is played at the Menin Gate, with a local policeman on call to stop traffic. Buglers from the local fire brigade play ”The Last Post”. The ceremony was begun in 1928 and the buglers have performed it faithfully ever since, although they were banned from playing during the German Occupation of 1940-44. Brookwood Barracks in England took over the ceremony during the war, but the tradition was immediately re-established on the first day after the liberation in September 1944. Sometimes the ceremony is attended by just a few spectators; on more formal occasions, hundreds can be present. Irrespective of numbers, the Last Post remains a unique and moving experience. Info: T 057/48 66 10 - <a href="http://www.lastpost.be/">www.lastpost.be</a><br />
During the ceremony a verse from the poem ’For the Fallen’ by Laurence Binyon is usually read out loud:<br />
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Belgian firemen preparing to perform the Last Post. Following the Menin Gate Memorial opening in 1927, the citizens of Ypres wanted to express their gratitude towards those who had given their lives for Belgium's freedom. As such, every evening at 20:00, buglers from the local fire brigade close the road which passes under the Memorial and sound the Last Post. Except for the occupation by the Germans in World War II when the daily ceremony was conducted at Brookwood Military Cemetery, in Surrey, England, this ceremony has been carried on uninterrupted since 2 July 1928. On the evening that Polish forces liberated Ypres in the Second World War, the ceremony was resumed at the Menin Gate despite the fact that heavy fighting was still taking place in other parts of the town.</div>
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The names are inscribed on panels arranged by Regiment, and within that by rank.<br />
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The Gate in 1940 under German occupation<br />
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From Siegfried Debaeke's book <i>Hitler in Vlaanderen</i> <br />
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The same year Hitler visited twice...<br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: normal;">Hitler's
first experience of fighting was in one of the fiercest and most
critical engagements of the war, the First Battle of Ypres, when the
British succeeded in stemming an all-out effort by the Germans to burst
through to the Channel coast. For four days and nights the List Regiment
was in the thick of the fighting with the British round Becelaere and
Gheluvelt. In a letter to his old Munich landlord, the tailor Herr Popp,
Hitler reported that when they were pulled out of the line and sent
into rest billets at Werwick, the regiment had been reduced in four days
from three thousand five hundred to six hundred men; only thirty
officers were left and four companies had to be broken up.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Bullock (51) <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Hitler-Study-Tyranny-Alan-Bullock/dp/0060920203/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top" style="font-weight: bold;">Hitler: A Study in Tyranny</a></span></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">Continuing from the Menin Gate is the </span><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">Menin Road South CWGC</span><br />
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This cemetery is on the infamous Menin Road (N345) running from Ypres to the front line and remained an Allied possession throughout the war. It was founded in January 1916 and used until the summer of 1918. After the Armistice, the neighbouring Menin Road North cemetery was concentrated into this cemetery, with additional concentration from single battlefield graves from the front itself. 1658 lie here with 119 unidentified.<br />
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Apparently the graves of those shown in this period photograph are of: Privates Wearing, Murphy, Hart, Davis, Mills, Rowland, Treadgold and Bussy. That in the foreground is of Private Dicken, all of whom served in the South Staffordshire Regiment. <br />
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A particularly interesting inscription is for that of 22 year old Lt. Charles Douglas Lucas Hill of the 9th Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment, killed February 14, 1916:<br />
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Captain Thomas Riversdale Colyer-Fergusson, VC, was killed in action on July 31, 1917 after having encountered the enemy with a sergeant and five men only. Nevertheless he carried out the planned attack and managed to capture the enemy trench. <br />
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For most conspicuous bravery, skilful leading and determination in attack. The tactical situation having developed contrary to expectation, it was not possible for his company to adhere to the original plan of deployments, and owing to the difficulties of the ground and to enemy wire, Captain Colyer Fergusson found himself with a Sergeant and five men only. He carried out the attack nevertheless, and succeeded in capturing the enemy trench and disposing of the garrison. His party was then threatened by a heavy counter-attack from the left front, but this attack he successfully resisted. During this operation, assisted by his Orderly only, he attacked and captured an enemy machine gun and turned it on the assailants, many of whom were killed and a large number driven into the hands of an adjoining British unit. Later, assisted only by his Serjeant, he again attacked and captured a second enemy machine gun, by which time he had been joined by other portions of his company, and was enabled to consolidate his position. The conduct of this officer throughout forms an amazing record of dash, gallantry and skill, for which no reward can be too great, having regard to the importance of the position won. This gallant officer was shortly afterwards killed by a sniper.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 180%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: small;">His Majesty King George V paying his respects in 1922 and today.</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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This cemetery is about an half-mile north-east of the Menin Gate where some six hundred lie here, some two to a grave. The main cemetery and its extension were in use until 1915 and then used again in 1918. The extension was expanded by the concentration of graves from nearby small cemeteries and battlefield burials. The cemetery and extension were brought into use again in 1940, to receive the dead of Commonwealth forces retreating from the area as it fell to the forces of Nazi Germany. Between the two cemeteries and the two wars, 788 men are buried here. The sites are also used by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission for its own permanent staff and their families, with alternative designs of headstones slightly set apart.<br />
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Among them once was Prince Maurice of Battenberg, a grandson of Queen Victoria. Although the body now lies elsewhere, his grave remains where H.M. George V paid tribute. The Battenbergs were hereditary enemies of the Hohenzollerns and had been treated by Bismarck and William II with peculiar insolence. Prince Maurice was the grandson of Queen Victoria and the brother of the Queen of Spain. To his mother, Princess Henry of Battenberg, President Poincare, on the 29th, sent the following telegram: " I had quite recently the great pleasure of seeing Prince Maurice in the midst of the splendid British troops, and to-day I learn that he has fallen on the field of honour. I beg that your Highness in this great trial will accept my sincere and respectful sympathy." He is honoured in a letter dated October 29, 1914 to H.S.H. Admiral Prince Louis of Battenberg from the First Lord of the Admiralty after the former wrote to resign his commission:<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">MY DEAR PRINCE Louis, This is no ordinary war, but a struggle between nations for life or death. It raises passions between races of the most terrible kind. It effaces the old landmarks and frontiers of our civilisation. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">I cannot further oppose the wish you have during the last few weeks expressed to me to be released from the burden of responsibility which you have borne thus far with so much honour and success. The anxieties and toils which rest upon the naval administration of our country are in themselves enough to try a man's spirit ; and when to them are added the ineradicable difficulties of which you speak, I could not at this juncture in fairness ask you to support them. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">The Navy of to-day, and still more the Navy of to-morrow, bears the imprint of your work. The enormous impending influx of capital ships, the score of 3O-knot cruisers, the destroyers and submarines unequalled in modern construction which are coming now to hand, are the results of labours which we have had in common, and in which the Board of Admiralty owe so much to your aid. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">The first step which secured the timely concentration of the Fleet was taken by you. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">I must express publicly my deep indebtedness to you, and the pain I feel at the severance of our three years' official association. In all the circumstances you are right in your decision. The spirit in which you have acted is the same in which Prince Maurice of Battenberg has given his life to our cause, and in which your gallant son is now serving in the Fleet. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">I beg you to accept my profound respect and that of our colleagues on the Board. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">I remain, </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">WINSTON S. CHURCHILL</span></div>
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Today and as it looked after the Armistice. It was originally one of three cemeteries in the immediate area. At the
end of the war, the Ypres Reservoir South Cemetery (formerly known as
"Broadley's Cemetery" and "Prison Cemetery No 1") and the Ypres
Reservoir Middle Cemetery (formerly "Middle Prison Cemetery" and "Prison
Cemetery No 2") were concentrated into the North cemetery. The cemetery
at the Infantry Barracks was also concentrated into the North cemetery,
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St. Martin's can be seen on the right. An intriguing inscription on one of the stones of that of Joseph McCarthy who served for six years in the Garrison Artillery at the Fremantle Forts, Western Australia. His stone records an even older family-military link:<br />
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The graves of Canadians Butler and Dickens then and now<br />
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The graves of brothers Major John Leadbitter Knott and Captain Henry Basil Knott, sons of Sir James Knott who owned the Prince line, among the largest shipping lines in the world at the time. The former was killed at the opening day of the Somme and, when unable to repatriate the bodies, the father managed to have both brothers buried side-by-side. After their death, he sold the Prince line and created a trust for charity work whilst also commemorated his sons through his provision of the bell tower at the Church of St George in Ypres.</div>
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The grave of Brigadier General Francis Aylmer Maxwell, who earned the Victoria Cross in South Africa when he was a 28 year old Lieutenant in the Indian Staff Corps attached to Roberts's Light Horse during the Second Boer War.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">On 31 March 1900 at Sanna's Post (aka Korn Spruit), South Africa, Lieutenant Maxwell carried out the self-imposed duty of saving the guns from capture by the enemy. He went out on five different occasions and helped to bring in two guns and three limbers, one of which he, another officer and some gunners dragged in by hand. He also went out with two other officers and tried to get the last gun in and remained there until the attempt had to be abandoned. During a previous campaign in British India, (the Chitral Expedition, 1895) he had removed the body of a lieutenant colonel of the Corps of Guides, under fire.</span></blockquote>
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He was eventually shot by a German sniper here in Ypres on September 21, 1917 whilst commanding the 27th Brigade, 9th (Scottish) Division.</div>
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This small cemetery is the only CWGC burial ground within the ancient walls of Ypres. The cemetery was begun in November 1914 by French troops defending the city and was used by Commonwealth troops from February 1915 until April 1918, by which time the Western Front had moved away from Ypres. At the end of the war, the French graves were removed and concentrated in the nearby Ypres Necropole National French cemetery. Of the British and Commonwealth troops buried here, all but ten are named; in the case of five of the unidentified, the nationality could not be ascertained. </div>
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The cemetery contains the graves of 198 soldiers. Amongst these are the graves of six Australian troops killed simultaneously by the same shell. These graves are symbolically grouped together. Rose Coombs, who did much to popularise Ypres and the Salient for tourists and pilgrims through her book "Before Endeavours Fade" which was used extensively for this website, had her ashes scattered in this cemetery in 1991.<br />
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Among the poignant inscriptions are those found on the graves of Lance-Corporal Arthur Ockelford (Gone but not forgotten from his loving wife and baby Peggy) and Private Albert Pacey (Some may think that we forget him when at times we are apt to smile.) <br />
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Australian troops in the dugouts at the site, probably between August and November 1917 during the ‘Third Battle of Ypres.’ </div>
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but strong enough to be used as HQ during the Great War. There are some original Imperial
War Graves Commission direction signs on plaques in the road tunnel. Whilst
the Menin Gate was by far the best known exit from the centre of Ypres
during the war, arguably the most used was in fact the Lille Gate,
pictured here in a British stereo image in 1919. During the Great War
the Ramparts close by were used as headquarters – at one stage for
Tunnelling units – and there was also medical facilities and a cemetery
grew up on the Ramparts itself – one of several on the city walls. After
the Second Battle of Ypres in May 1915 the Menin Gate was in direct
observation from the high ground around Ypres and so the Lille Gate
became the main route to get to the front line for troops passing
through Ypres. Today the Lille Gate has been restored and nearby is the
Ramparts Cemetery and Ramparts Museum. </span></span></span><br />
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Less than two miles south of the Ypres Lille Gate, this is one of the largest cemeteries in the Salient.</div>
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The cemetery shortly after the war, giving some indication of its deceptive enormity.<br />
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Chateau
Rosendal, aka Woodcote House, aka Bedford House, before the war, as
depicted in a 1917 sketch, and remains from its ruins within the
cemetery itself.<br />
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Brigade H.Q. in in Bedford House, Grounds</div>
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Enclosure
no. 2 then and now from the same site. It had started as a burial
ground in December 1915 and used throughout the war until October 1918.
After the Armistice a further 400 graves were moved into this Enclosure
from two British military cemeteries close to the Ypres town centre, the
École de Bienfaissance Cemetery and the Asylum Cemetery.</div>
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A
generation later a new inscription had to be added to mark those dead
from another world war, all of them soldiers of the British
Expeditionary Force, who died in the defence of the Ypres-Comines canal
and railway at the end of May 1940.</div>
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Zillebeke
village and most of the commune were in the hands of Commonwealth
forces for the greater part of the First World War, but the number of
cemeteries in the neighbourhood bears witness to the fierce fighting in
the vicinity from 1914 to 1918. Bedford House, sometimes known as
Woodcote House, were the names given by the Army to the Chateau
Rosendal, a country house in a small wooded park with moats which still
remain in place as is the drive leading to the chateau, now leading
instead to the cemetery. The ruins of the chateau can distinctly be
viewed within the cemetery. During the First World War the chateau was
used by local British Field Ambulances and Dressing Stations. At an
early stage burials were effected in the grounds. In January 1917 the
chateau was adopted by 55 Brigade as its headquarters until it was
severely damaged by German 8-inch shells (with 500 gas shells falling in
one day during the Third Battle of Ypres). It was used by field
ambulances and as the headquarters of brigades and other fighting units,
and charcoal pits were dug there from October 1917. In time, the
property became largely covered by small cemeteries</div>
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Inscribed on the grave of M.H. Ride, died at age 19, September 30, 1915 of the King's Royal Rifle Corps: 'DAD'S BEST PAL'<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VtWIlclprYM/SK8g1PYtbMI/AAAAAAAAFTw/4gk9E405qTk/s1600-h/IMG_0422.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><br /></a>The
entrance with its gates and driveway lined with conifers was in fact
for the original 'Bedford House' - the name given by the British to the
existing Chateau Rosendal that stood here. Throughout one sees the
remains of the building scattered around the site.</div>
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The
grave of Rupert Price Hallowes VC MC of the 4th Bn Middlesex Regiment.
During the fighting at Hooge in the Ypres Salient, Belgium, between the
dates of September 25 to 30, 1915, </div>
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2nd
Lieutenant Hallowes set a magnificent example to his men under heavy
and prolonged bombardments. On more than one occasion he climbed up on
the parapet, utterly regardless of danger, in order to put fresh heart
into his men. He made daring reconnaissance's of the German positions in
our lines. When the supply of bombs was running short he went back
under very heavy shell fire and brought up a fresh supply. Even after he
was mortally wounded he continued to cheer those around him and to
inspire them with fresh courage. </div>
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He later died of his wounds and for most conspicuous bravery was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross on November 16, 1915.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div>
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5,139 soldiers either lie buried or commemorated here, over 3,000 of which remain unidentified.</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Distant
view of St. Eloi Ridge and Craters, and a photograph of the Crater on
the Bluff looking towards St. Eloi from July, 1916. </span><b><br /></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">At a crossroads </span><span style="font-size: small;">on the N365 </span><span style="font-size: small;">is a Belgian Krupp 95 mm gun and Union flag commemorating the </span><span style="font-size: small;">underground mine warfare that took place here at St. Eloi.</span><span style="font-size: small;">
The site of many bloody encounters, this marks the spot where the
Germans fired their first mine in March 1915 to counter-attack British
attacks on this position. At the start of the June 7, 1917 attack on
Messines Ridge, the 1st Canadian Tunnelling Company detonated the
largest single charge containing 95, 600 pounds of ammonal. </span><span style="font-size: small;">This led to the capture of St Eloi by the British 41st Division.</span><br />
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<i>Over the flat slope of St. Eloi<br />A wide wall of sand bags. <br />Night,<br />In the silence desultory men<br />Pottering over small fires, cleaning their mess-tins:<br />To and fro, from the lines,<br />Men walk as on Piccadilly,<br />Making paths in the dark,<br />Through scattered dead horses,<br />Over a dead Belgian's belly.</i><br />
<i>The German have rockets. The English have no rockets.<br />Behind the line, cannon, hidden, lying back miles.<br />Before the line, chaos:</i><br />
<i>My mind is a corridor. The minds about me are corridors. <br />Nothing suggests itself. There is nothing to do but keep on.</i><br />
T. E. Hulme </blockquote>
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The
Tunnellers Memorial at the site shown right honours the British,
Canadian and
Belgian sappers who dug the explosive mines detonated under enemy lines
on March 27, 1916. Tunnellers were not infantrymen but their work was
dangerous, harrowing and definitely not for claustrophobes. Sebastian
Faulk's war novel <i>Birdsong</i> includes extended sections conveying all too well how appalling the
work of tunnellers could be.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">Turning off of the main road nearby is </span><span style="font-size: 100%; font-weight: bold;">Bus House CWGC</span><br />
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A mile outside Voormezele is this cemetery standing
behind a farmhouse known as "Bus House" during the war because it was
close to a wrecked London Omnibus which had broken down in no man's
land whilst transporting soldiers to the Front. Clapham mentions it in his memoirs <a href="http://www.naval-military-press.com/mud-and-khaki-the-memories-of-an-incomplete-soldier-pr-20544.html"><span style="font-style: italic;">Mud and Khaki</span>:<span style="font-style: italic;">The Memories of an Incomplete Soldier</span></a>
when in early April 1915 'suddenly out of the darkness in front of us
there loomed up the spectre of a London bus, broken and derelict, but
still standing at the side of the road'.
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<span style="font-size: 78%;">http://www.ww1battlefields.co.uk/flanders/south.html</span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Blauwepoort Farm CWGC</span></div>
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Immediately after the war and today.</div>
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Sited
in Zillebeke in West Flanders, some 3 kilometres south-east of Ypres,
Blauwepoort Farm Cemetery is situated in the grounds of the farm bearing
the same name. The cemetery was started by a French battalion of
Chasseurs Alpins in November 1914 for use during the First Battle of
Ypres. It was subsequently used by British forces from February the
following year until February 1916. The cemetery closed in November
1916, with the French graves being removed after the armistice. It
contains 83 British and 7 dominion burials.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Railway Dugouts CWGC</span><br />
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The cemetery just after the war and a near-approximation of the same area.<br />
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The name derives from the dugouts located in the railway embankment
that was located here during the war. Siting dugouts on the side away
from the Germans protected them from artillery fire. The railway still
passes today, and trains can be seen rushing past the cemetery from
time to time. </div>
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One poignant inscription for Pte. Merchant of 58th Bn., Canadian Inf. who died aged only 16 years on June 6, 1916 reads:</div>
<span style="font-style: italic;">"THE ONLY CHILD OF AGED PARENTS"</span></div>
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There
are just under 2,500 buried here, with 400 brought in after the
Armistice who had survived long enough to be sent or brought back from
the front line, but eventually succumbed to their wounds at the Advanced
Dressing Station.<br />
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Among
the graves is that of Frederick Youens VC who was twenty three years
old, and a temporary second lieutenant in the 13th Battalion, The Durham
Light Infantry, British Army during the First World War when the
following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC: <br />
<blockquote class="tr_bq">
On
7 July 1917 near Hill 60, Belgium, it was reported that the enemy were
preparing to raid the British trenches and Second Lieutenant Youens, who
had already been wounded, immediately set out to rally a Lewis gun team
which had become disorganised. While doing this an enemy bomb fell on
the Lewis gun position without exploding. The second lieutenant picked
it up and hurled it over the parapet, but soon after another bomb fell
near the same place and again he picked it up, but it exploded in his
hand, severely wounding him and some of his men. The officer later
succumbed to his wounds.</blockquote>
<span class="AspNet-TreeView-NonLink">Youens
had been training to become a teacher before the outbreak of the war
and had been granted a scholarship to Oxford University.</span> </div>
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War debris I came across nearby.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 180%; font-weight: bold;">Southeast of Ypres</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Larch Wood Railway Cutting CWGC</span></div>
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The
cemetery was founded by Commonwealth troops in April 1915 and
remained in use until April 1918, when the Western Front had moved away
from the area. Most of the dead are from the defence of the nearby
Hill 60. After the Armistice, the cemetery was enlarged with the
concentration of graves from the battlefield, smaller cemeteries in the
area and Commonwealth troops buried in from German war cemeteries.</div>
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The
graves of 86 people are defined as "special memorials" in that they
are either recorded as being buried here but the CWGC was unable to
find proof (headstones marked "Believed to be buried in this
cemetery") or they are known to be buried here but their exact
location was lost or destroyed by later fighting (headstones marked
"Known to be buried in this cemetery"). These graves all carry
(unless replaced by a personalised family message) the inscription at
the foot of the stone "Their Glory Shall Not Be Blotted Out" - a
line from Sirach 44:13 suggested by Rudyard Kipling as seen in the
last photograph here.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Oak Dump CWGC</span></div>
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A typical pastoral scene across from and outside the cemetery.</div>
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Oak
Dump Cemetery is a few miles south of Ypres on the
Bernikkewallestraat a road leading from the Rijselsesweg (N365)
through the Lille Gate to Armentieres.</div>
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It
was made by fighting units in July, August and September 1917 and
one grave of 1914 was brought in after the Armistice. In March 1918 a
sap opposite the cemetery was blown in, and seven men of the 180th
Siege Battery were killed. Their bodies were found in 1927 and buried
in the cemetery. The cemetery now contains 111 Commonwealth burials
of the First World War, five of them unidentified. Two of the graves
destroyed by shell fire are represented by special memorials. The
cemetery was designed by W H Cowlishaw.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 180%; font-weight: bold;">Southwest of Ypres</span></div>
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Reninghelst during the war.<br />
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The church, St. Vedastuskerk, taken from 3rd Cdn. Div. H.Q. and today <br />
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As
Alec Paton was passing through Reninghelst he noticed a sign, erected
by HQ for the troops, which read 'DO NOT SPEAK TO THE CHINESE.'
Underneath, also in large letters, a wit had written, 'WHO THE HELL
CAN?'.<br />
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THE CHINESE LABOUR CORPS IN FRANCE 1917-1921, BRIAN C FAWCETT</div>
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<b>Reninghelst New Military Cemetery</b><br />
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The
village of Reninghelst was occupied by Imperial forces from the late
autumn of 1914 to the end of the war and was sufficiently far from the
front line to provide a suitable station for field ambulances. The
earliest burials took place in the Churchyard but, in November 1915, the
New Military Cemetery was opened. It remained in use until September
1918. 798 lie buried here. <br />
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An example of a grave immediately after the war and today, standardised. This is of Canadian Lieutenant Arnold Thurston.<br />
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Three
examples of soldiers 'shot at dawn'- Rifleman Barker, shot for for
cowardice November 4, 1916, Private Loader, executed for desertion
August 19 1917, and Private Smith, executed for desertion November 11,
1917<br />
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<b>La Clytte Military Cemetery</b> </div>
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<b>La Clytte Military Cemetery </b>is
located about five miles southwest of Ypres turning off on the N375
connecting Ypres to Dikkebus, Klijte and on to Loker onto the N304
Klijtseweg.</div>
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John Lynn, VC, DCM</div>
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On
2 May 1915 near Ypres, Belgium, when the Germans were advancing
behind their wave of asphyxiating gas, Private Lynn, although almost
overcome by the deadly fumes, handled his machine-gun with great
effect against the enemy, and when he could not see them, he moved his
gun higher up the parapet so that he could fire more effectively.
This eventually checked any further advance and the outstanding
courage displayed by this soldier had a great effect upon his comrades
in the very trying circumstances. Private Lynn died later from the
effects of gas poisoning.</blockquote>
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Lynn was recipient of the Cross of the Order of St. George, 4th Class, from Russia.</div>
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The Church of Our Lady in what is now De Klijte then and now</div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Railway Chateau CWGC</span><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwwpkZW2F4mhb_L7rCCmMpFTUjPHDtl5b2DcIeH6lSBAJ5LWzgWW8NVs5DLOXR-0p8m006nnDBzNYPOc_tgsMXRH9sx4ywM4EbZYH6P3EgnfBS4ARMQK_7dE9nlIDT6kjWHdeLXmxA1ts/s1600-h/IMG_0345.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237294086938813186" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwwpkZW2F4mhb_L7rCCmMpFTUjPHDtl5b2DcIeH6lSBAJ5LWzgWW8NVs5DLOXR-0p8m006nnDBzNYPOc_tgsMXRH9sx4ywM4EbZYH6P3EgnfBS4ARMQK_7dE9nlIDT6kjWHdeLXmxA1ts/s400/IMG_0345.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a>This small cemetery of roughly an hundred graves less than a mile west of Ypres was originally known as <i>Augustine Street Cabaret Cemetery</i> when it was begun in November 1914 as well as <i>L.4 Post Cemetery. </i>105 lie buried here. <i><br /></i><br />
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A
couple of miles south of Ypres at a road junction where three
batteries of Belgian artillery were positioned in 1915 lies 573
casualties. The cemetery was begun by the 8th Division in June 1917
after the Battle of Messines (although one grave in Plot III, Row A,
predates this) and it was used until October 1918, largely for burials
from a dressing station in a cottage near by. Almost half of the
graves are of casualties who belonged, or were attached, to artillery
units. Seven of the burials are unidentified and special memorials
commemorate three casualties known to have been buried in the
cemetery, but whose graves could not be located.<br />
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inscriptions is this for Private Frederick Charles Nutkins, 6th
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<span style="font-style: italic;">A brave boy </span><br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">and a good son. </span><br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">Sadly missed, </span><br />
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Less than two miles south of the Ypres Lille Gate, this is one of the largest cemeteries in the Salient.</div>
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The cemetery shortly after the war, giving some indication of its deceptive enormity.<br />
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Chateau
Rosendal, aka Woodcote House, aka Bedford House, before the war, as
depicted in a 1917 sketch, and remains from its ruins within the
cemetery itself.<br />
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Brigade H.Q. in in Bedford House, Grounds</div>
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Enclosure no. 2 then and now from the same site. It had started as a burial ground in December 1915 and used throughout the war until October 1918. After the Armistice a further 400 graves were moved into this Enclosure from two British military cemeteries close to the Ypres town centre, the École de Bienfaissance Cemetery and the Asylum Cemetery.</div>
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A generation later a new inscription had to be added to mark those dead from another world war, all of them soldiers of the British Expeditionary Force, who died in the defence of the Ypres-Comines canal and railway at the end of May 1940.</div>
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Zillebeke
village and most of the commune were in the hands of Commonwealth
forces for the greater part of the First World War, but the number of
cemeteries in the neighbourhood bears witness to the fierce fighting in
the vicinity from 1914 to 1918. Bedford House, sometimes known as
Woodcote House, were the names given by the Army to the Chateau
Rosendal, a country house in a small wooded park with moats which still
remain in place as is the drive leading to the chateau, now leading
instead to the cemetery. The ruins of the chateau can distinctly be
viewed within the cemetery. During the First World War the chateau was
used by local British Field Ambulances and Dressing Stations. At an
early stage burials were effected in the grounds. In January 1917 the
chateau was adopted by 55 Brigade as its headquarters until it was
severely damaged by German 8-inch shells (with 500 gas shells falling in
one day during the Third Battle of Ypres). It was used by field
ambulances and as the headquarters of brigades and other fighting units,
and charcoal pits were dug there from October 1917. In time, the
property became largely covered by small cemeteries</div>
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Inscribed on the grave of M.H. Ride, died at age 19, September 30, 1915 of the King's Royal Rifle Corps: 'DAD'S BEST PAL'<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VtWIlclprYM/SK8g1PYtbMI/AAAAAAAAFTw/4gk9E405qTk/s1600-h/IMG_0422.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><br /></a>The
entrance with its gates and driveway lined with conifers was in fact
for the original 'Bedford House' - the name given by the British to the
existing Chateau Rosendal that stood here. Throughout one sees the
remains of the building scattered around the site.</div>
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The grave of Rupert Price Hallowes VC MC of the 4th Bn Middlesex Regiment. During the fighting at Hooge in the Ypres Salient, Belgium, between the dates of September 25 to 30, 1915, </div>
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2nd Lieutenant Hallowes set a magnificent example to his men under heavy and prolonged bombardments. On more than one occasion he climbed up on the parapet, utterly regardless of danger, in order to put fresh heart into his men. He made daring reconnaissance's of the German positions in our lines. When the supply of bombs was running short he went back under very heavy shell fire and brought up a fresh supply. Even after he was mortally wounded he continued to cheer those around him and to inspire them with fresh courage. </div>
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He later died of his wounds and for most conspicuous bravery was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross on November 16, 1915.</div>
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5,139 soldiers either lie buried or commemorated here, over 3,000 of which remain unidentified.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>St. Eloi</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: small;">Distant view of St. Eloi Ridge and Craters, and a photograph of the Crater on the Bluff looking towards St. Eloi from July, 1916. </span><b><br /></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">At a crossroads </span><span style="font-size: small;">on the N365 </span><span style="font-size: small;">is a Belgian Krupp 95 mm gun and Union flag commemorating the </span><span style="font-size: small;">underground mine warfare that took place here at St. Eloi.</span><span style="font-size: small;">
The site of many bloody encounters, this marks the spot where the
Germans fired their first mine in March 1915 to counter-attack British
attacks on this position. At the start of the June 7, 1917 attack on
Messines Ridge, the 1st Canadian Tunnelling Company detonated the
largest single charge containing 95, 600 pounds of ammonal. </span><span style="font-size: small;">This led to the capture of St Eloi by the British 41st Division.</span><br />
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<i><u>Trenches: St Eloi</u></i><br />
<i>Over the flat slope of St. Eloi<br />A wide wall of sand bags. <br />Night,<br />In the silence desultory men<br />Pottering over small fires, cleaning their mess-tins:<br />To and fro, from the lines,<br />Men walk as on Piccadilly,<br />Making paths in the dark,<br />Through scattered dead horses,<br />Over a dead Belgian's belly.</i><br />
<i>The German have rockets. The English have no rockets.<br />Behind the line, cannon, hidden, lying back miles.<br />Before the line, chaos:</i><br />
<i>My mind is a corridor. The minds about me are corridors. <br />Nothing suggests itself. There is nothing to do but keep on.</i><br />
T. E. Hulme </blockquote>
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The Tunnellers Memorial at the site shown right honours the British, Canadian and
Belgian sappers who dug the explosive mines detonated under enemy lines on March 27, 1916. Tunnellers were not infantrymen but their work was
dangerous, harrowing and definitely not for claustrophobes. Sebastian
Faulk's war novel <i>Birdsong</i> includes extended sections conveying all too well how appalling the
work of tunnellers could be.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">Turning off of the main road nearby is </span><span style="font-size: 100%; font-weight: bold;">Bus House CWGC</span><br />
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A mile outside Voormezele is this cemetery standing
behind a farmhouse known as "Bus House" during the war because it was
close to a wrecked London Omnibus which had broken down in no man's
land whilst transporting soldiers to the Front. Clapham mentions it in his memoirs <a href="http://www.naval-military-press.com/mud-and-khaki-the-memories-of-an-incomplete-soldier-pr-20544.html"><span style="font-style: italic;">Mud and Khaki</span>:<span style="font-style: italic;">The Memories of an Incomplete Soldier</span></a>
when in early April 1915 'suddenly out of the darkness in front of us
there loomed up the spectre of a London bus, broken and derelict, but
still standing at the side of the road'.
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Blauwepoort Farm CWGC</span></div>
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Immediately after the war and today.</div>
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Sited
in Zillebeke in West Flanders, some 3 kilometres south-east of Ypres,
Blauwepoort Farm Cemetery is situated in the grounds of the farm bearing
the same name. The cemetery was started by a French battalion of
Chasseurs Alpins in November 1914 for use during the First Battle of
Ypres. It was subsequently used by British forces from February the
following year until February 1916. The cemetery closed in November
1916, with the French graves being removed after the armistice. It
contains 83 British and 7 dominion burials.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Railway Dugouts CWGC</span><br />
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The cemetery just after the war and a near-approximation of the same area.<br />
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The name derives from the dugouts located in the railway embankment
that was located here during the war. Siting dugouts on the side away
from the Germans protected them from artillery fire. The railway still
passes today, and trains can be seen rushing past the cemetery from
time to time. </div>
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One poignant inscription for Pte. Merchant of 58th Bn., Canadian Inf. who died aged only 16 years on June 6, 1916 reads:</div>
<span style="font-style: italic;">"THE ONLY CHILD OF AGED PARENTS"</span></div>
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There
are just under 2,500 buried here, with 400 brought in after the
Armistice who had survived long enough to be sent or brought back from
the front line, but eventually succumbed to their wounds at the Advanced
Dressing Station.<br />
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Among the graves is that of Frederick Youens VC who was twenty three years old, and a temporary second lieutenant in the 13th Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry, British Army during the First World War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC: <br />
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On 7 July 1917 near Hill 60, Belgium, it was reported that the enemy were preparing to raid the British trenches and Second Lieutenant Youens, who had already been wounded, immediately set out to rally a Lewis gun team which had become disorganised. While doing this an enemy bomb fell on the Lewis gun position without exploding. The second lieutenant picked it up and hurled it over the parapet, but soon after another bomb fell near the same place and again he picked it up, but it exploded in his hand, severely wounding him and some of his men. The officer later succumbed to his wounds.</blockquote>
<span class="AspNet-TreeView-NonLink">Youens had been training to become a teacher before the outbreak of the war and had been granted a scholarship to Oxford University.</span> </div>
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War debris I came across nearby.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 180%; font-weight: bold;">Southeast of Ypres</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Larch Wood Railway Cutting CWGC</span></div>
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The
cemetery was founded by Commonwealth troops in April 1915 and
remained in use until April 1918, when the Western Front had moved away
from the area. Most of the dead are from the defence of the nearby
Hill 60. After the Armistice, the cemetery was enlarged with the
concentration of graves from the battlefield, smaller cemeteries in the
area and Commonwealth troops buried in from German war cemeteries.</div>
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The
graves of 86 people are defined as "special memorials" in that they
are either recorded as being buried here but the CWGC was unable to
find proof (headstones marked "Believed to be buried in this
cemetery") or they are known to be buried here but their exact
location was lost or destroyed by later fighting (headstones marked
"Known to be buried in this cemetery"). These graves all carry
(unless replaced by a personalised family message) the inscription at
the foot of the stone "Their Glory Shall Not Be Blotted Out" - a
line from Sirach 44:13 suggested by Rudyard Kipling as seen in the
last photograph here.</div>
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Poppies across from the entrance</div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Oak Dump CWGC</span></div>
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A typical pastoral scene across from and outside the cemetery.</div>
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Oak
Dump Cemetery is a few miles south of Ypres on the
Bernikkewallestraat a road leading from the Rijselsesweg (N365)
through the Lille Gate to Armentieres.</div>
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It
was made by fighting units in July, August and September 1917 and
one grave of 1914 was brought in after the Armistice. In March 1918 a
sap opposite the cemetery was blown in, and seven men of the 180th
Siege Battery were killed. Their bodies were found in 1927 and buried
in the cemetery. The cemetery now contains 111 Commonwealth burials
of the First World War, five of them unidentified. Two of the graves
destroyed by shell fire are represented by special memorials. The
cemetery was designed by W H Cowlishaw.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 180%; font-weight: bold;">Southwest of Ypres</span></div>
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Reninghelst during the war.<br />
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The church, St. Vedastuskerk, taken from 3rd Cdn. Div. H.Q. and today <br />
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As Alec Paton was passing through Reninghelst he noticed a sign, erected by HQ for the troops, which read 'DO NOT SPEAK TO THE CHINESE.' Underneath, also in large letters, a wit had written, 'WHO THE HELL CAN?'.<br />
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THE CHINESE LABOUR CORPS IN FRANCE 1917-1921, BRIAN C FAWCETT</div>
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<b>Reninghelst New Military Cemetery</b><br />
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The village of Reninghelst was occupied by Imperial forces from the late autumn of 1914 to the end of the war and was sufficiently far from the front line to provide a suitable station for field ambulances. The earliest burials took place in the Churchyard but, in November 1915, the New Military Cemetery was opened. It remained in use until September 1918. 798 lie buried here. <br />
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An example of a grave immediately after the war and today, standardised. This is of Canadian Lieutenant Arnold Thurston.<br />
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Three examples of soldiers 'shot at dawn'- Rifleman Barker, shot for for cowardice November 4, 1916, Private Loader, executed for desertion August 19 1917, and Private Smith, executed for desertion November 11, 1917<br />
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<b>La Clytte Military Cemetery</b> </div>
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<b>La Clytte Military Cemetery </b>is located about five miles southwest of Ypres turning off on the N375 connecting Ypres to Dikkebus, Klijte and on to Loker onto the N304 Klijtseweg.</div>
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John Lynn, VC, DCM</div>
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On 2 May 1915 near Ypres, Belgium, when the Germans were advancing behind their wave of asphyxiating gas, Private Lynn, although almost overcome by the deadly fumes, handled his machine-gun with great effect against the enemy, and when he could not see them, he moved his gun higher up the parapet so that he could fire more effectively. This eventually checked any further advance and the outstanding courage displayed by this soldier had a great effect upon his comrades in the very trying circumstances. Private Lynn died later from the effects of gas poisoning.</blockquote>
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Lynn was recipient of the Cross of the Order of St. George, 4th Class, from Russia.<br />
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The Church of Our Lady in what is now De Klijte then and now</div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Railway Chateau CWGC</span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Belgian Battery Corner CWGC</span></div>
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A couple of miles south of Ypres at a road junction where three batteries of Belgian artillery were positioned in 1915 lies 573 casualties. The cemetery was begun by the 8th Division in June 1917 after the Battle of Messines (although one grave in Plot III, Row A, predates this) and it was used until October 1918, largely for burials from a dressing station in a cottage near by. Almost half of the graves are of casualties who belonged, or were attached, to artillery units. Seven of the burials are unidentified and special memorials commemorate three casualties known to have been buried in the cemetery, but whose graves could not be located.<br />
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The graves of two soldiers of undivided India. Among the poignant inscriptions is this for Private Frederick Charles Nutkins, 6th Battn. Machine Gun Corps, Infantry:</div>
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<span style="font-style: italic;">A brave boy </span><br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">and a good son. </span><br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">Sadly missed, </span><br />
<span style="font-style: italic;">remembered by all.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">Ploegsteert in April 1919 and the village today</span></b></div>
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Eight miles south of Ypres, Ploegsteert Wood was a sector of the Western Front in Flanders in World War I, part of the Ypres Salient. After fighting in late 1914 and early 1915, it became a quiet sector where no major action took place. Units were sent here to recuperate and retrain after tougher fighting elsewhere and before returning to take part in more active operations. British Tommies referred to it as "Plugstreet Wood". There are numerous cemeteries around the wood.</div>
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View of 'Hunters Avenue,' a well known duckboard path which ran through Ploegsteert Wood, on February 16, 1918. The photo on the right shows the same spot 90 years later.</div>
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Inside Ploegsteert Wood itself are three evocative cemeteries; entering from the North are:</div>
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The cemetery was founded by enclosing a number of small cemeteries made by individual regiments. The grounds were established in December 1914 as the "Somerset Light Infantry Cemetery", expanding in April 1915 when the "Bucks Cemetery" was started by the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. A further cemetery was established by the Gloucesters and the Loyal North Lancashire regiments in October 1915, named "Canadian Cemetery, Strand" after its 28 Canadian graves and the nearby Strand trench. The cemetery was used by New Zealanders in 1917. It fell into German hands on 10 April 1918 and remained occupied until 29 September, when the Hundred Days Offensive swept fighting out of the Salient.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">Despite the name, derived from </span><span style="font-size: 100%;">one of the paths running through Plug Street Wood, it has no connection with Canada but is in fact the only all-Australian cemetery in Belgium. 78 officers and men from the Australian 9th Brigade (3rd Division) who were killed during the Battle of Messines between June 7th and 10th 1917 lie here.</span></div>
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The cemetery in 1921 and today </div>
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This beautiful cemetery in the middle of Ploegsteert Wood and containing 229 graves takes its name from a strong point that stood in Ploegsteert Wood and was first established the first year of the war.</div>
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This is the first cemetery upon entering through the official access way to Ploegsteert Wood via a muddy track just north of Ploegsteert Wood reached by a small road leading off the main road to Ypres.</div>
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It is one of the smaller of the 23 000 cemeteries maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, with just 85 graves (two unidentified) dating from the outbreak of the Battle of Messines in 1917. It's too small to have an altar of sacrifice. All but one British grave are Australians and New Zealanders.</div>
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This is the only CWGC named after a person -Brigadier-General C B Prowse, DSO, Somerset Light Infantry, who died in July 1916, whilst commanding the 11th Infantry Brigade. In fact, Prowse is actually buried in Louvencourt Military Cemetery on the Somme, in France.</div>
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Prowse Point is where the remains of men whose bodies have been discovered in recent times in or near the wood have been reburied. One such recovered body was Private Harry Wilkinson of the 2nd Lancashire Fusiliers, found in 87 years after, identified by his name tag and buried here in 2001 with full honours.</div>
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Cycling north from Ploegsteert on the N365 north is Strand Military Cemetery with over 1000 burials. 'Charing Cross' was the name given by the troops to a point at the end of a trench called the Strand, which led into Ploegsteert Wood. In October 1914, two burials were made at this place, close to an Advanced Dressing Station.The cemetery was in German hands for a few months in 1918, but was very little used by them. There are now 1,143 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in this cemetery. 354 of the burials are unidentified but there are special memorials to six casualties known or believed to be buried among them, and to 13 whose graves in four of the concentrated cemeteries were destroyed by shell fire.</div>
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There are also eight Second World War burials (three of which are unidentified) all dating from May 1940 and the withdrawal of the British Expeditionary force to Dunkirk ahead of the German advance.<br />
Nearby one can see three British bunkers behind a house on the same side of the road.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Ploegsteert Memorial to the Missing and Berks Corner CWGC </span></div>
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Further down the road is this impressive memorial where 11,369 men with no known grave are commemorated. The inscription on the interior of the circular top of the memorial shows that the memorial commemorates "those who fell fighting between the River Douve and the towns of Estaires and Furnes". The area covered runs from approximately near Warneton in the north (about three miles north-east of Ploegsteert) to Estaires in the south and includes Armentieres and Bois Grenier. It was unveiled on 7 June 1931 by the Duke of Brabant and was the work of the architect Harold Chalton Bradshaw, with sculpture by Gilbert Ledward and comprises a circular temple with pillars guarded by two lions, one of which embodies stern defiance and the other serenity. Ledward’s lions are quite magnificent and measure 198 x 482.5 x 157.5 cm. They are mounted on bases 90 cm high. Ledward also designed two coats of arms, carved in relief and placed on the exterior wall of the memorial. The names of the missing are inscribed on panels on the interior surfaces of Bradshaw's circular double colonnade and the names of the various battles which took place in the area are inscribed on the exterior walls. On either side of the Memorial is the Berkshire Extension Cemetery, and opposite is Hyde Park Corner Cemetery. Incidentally Ploegsteert Wood is where Lieutenant Bruce Bairnsfather drew his first war cartoons and where the legendary 'Old Bill' cartoon character was born.</div>
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The arms of the Country and of the Regiment on either side.<br />
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One lion growling in defiance in war and in repose in peace.<br />
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The cemetery extenstion with 876 graves is across the road from the memorial.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Lancashire Cottage CWGC</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4LEsWqcy9EiQeUCjthxfosqqEM3JBDC6X7_nP6d81R-kv551wu82DvTJ3jNYozpCRqVyMTLg4tGbtPfhwSWDivS8kcy5_n_v32r2gaQknNUy6lF4Uig-M8PtO3YQCg7tSShjPJ37SudQ/s1600-h/IMG_0523.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"> </a>Less than a mile along the rue de Ploegsteert is this CWGC started by the 1st East Lancashire (who have 84 graves in it) and the 1st Hampshire (who have 56) in November 1914. It was used as a front line cemetery until March 1916 and occasionally later. The cemetery was in German hands from 10 April to 29 September 1918 and they made a few burials in it during that spring and summer and now it has 256 Commonwealth burials and 13 Germans.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Underhill Farm CWGC</span></div>
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190 bodies lie here <span style="font-style: italic;">in toto</span> from the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Towards Messines along the N365 </span></div>
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Whilst it may strike the uncharitable as a bit rich of the Irish setting up parks expounding on peace beyond its own shores whilst studiously ignoring the heroism of its own soldiers in the two world wars, this replica of an Irish ‘Round Tower’ at the Island of Ireland Peace Park near Messines was unveiled on 11 November 1998 by the President of Ireland Mary McAleese in the presence of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and King Albert II of Belgium to all Irishmen who served and died in World War I, especially in the three divisions raised in Ireland of the BEF: the 36th (Ulster) Division, the 10th Division and the 16th Division.<br />
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There is also an upright tablet listing the counties of Ireland, the names flowing together to suggest the unity of death and a bronze tablet depicting a plan of the battle area.<br />
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There are also nine stone tablets with prose, poems and letters from Irish servicemen: </div>
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Spent all night trying to console, aid and remove the wounded. It was ghastly to see them lying there in the cold, cheerless outhouses, on bare stretchers with no blankets to cover their freezing limbs. —Chaplain Francis Gleeson, Royal Munster Fusiliers </blockquote>
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As it was, the Ypres battleground just represented one gigantic slough of despond into which floundered battalions, brigades and divisions of infantry without end to be shot to pieces or drowned, until at last and with immeasurable slaughter we had gained a few miles of liquid mud. —Charles Miller, 2nd Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers </blockquote>
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So here, while the mad guns curse overhead, and tired men sigh, with mud for couch and floor, know that we fools, now with the foolish dead, died not for Flag, nor King, nor Emperor, but for a dream born in a herdsman’s shed, and for the sacred scripture of the poor. —Tom Kettle, 9th Royal Dublin Fusiliers </blockquote>
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In a matter of seconds, a hissing and shrieking pandemonium broke loose. The sky was splashed with light. Rockets, green, yellow and red, darted in all directions; and simultaneously, a cyclone of bursting shells enveloped us. ” —JFB O’Sullivan, 6th Connaught Rangers </blockquote>
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It is too late now to retrieve a fallen dream, too late to grieve a name unmade, but not too late to thank the Gods for what is great. A keen edged sword, a soldier’s heart is greater than a poet’s art. And greater than a poet’s fame a little grave that has no name. —Francis Ledwidge, 5th Inniskilling Fusiliers </blockquote>
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I wish the sea were not so wide that parts me from my love, I wish that things men do below were known to God above. I wish that I were back again in the Glens of Donegal; they’ll call me coward if I return, but a hero if I fall. —Patrick MacGill, London Irish Rifles</blockquote>
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Hostilities will cease at 11.00am on the 11th day of the 11th month. After that time all firing will cease. This was joyous news. Approaching eleven o'clock in our sector you could have heard a pin drop. When eleven o'clock came there were loud cheers. The war was over as far as we were concerned. —Terence Poulter, 7th Royal Dublin Fusiliers</blockquote>
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So the curtain fell, over that tortured country of unmarked graves and unburied fragments of men: Murder and massacre: The innocent slaughtered for the guilty: The poor man for the sake of the rich: The man of no authority made the victim of the man who had gathered importance and wished to keep it. —David Starret, 9th Royal Irish Rifles</blockquote>
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Footage of the official opening of the park by <span class="description">McAleese, November 1998</span><br />
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The Douve River south of Messines, showing on the left the bridge
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<span style="font-size: 180%; font-weight: bold;">Messines</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><br /></span><br />
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The Battle of Messines began on 7 June 1917 when the British Second Army under the command of General Herbert Plumer launched an offensive near the village of Mesen (Messines) in West Flanders, Belgium. The target of the offensive was a ridge running north from Messines village past Wytschaete village which created a natural stronghold southeast of Ypres. One of the key features of the battle was the detonation of 19 mines immediately prior to the infantry assault, a tactic which disrupted German defences and allowed the advancing troops to secure their objectives in rapid fashion. The attack was also a prelude to the much larger Third Battle of Ypres, known as Passchendaele, which began on 11 July 1917. <br />
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The New Zealand Battle Memorial for 1917 on the Messines Ridge taken September 29, 1918 by the 30th, 31st and 34th Divisions.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl5f-Tt05WMX6gBpxuMcBUSc4BQjnLj5DlbKyhQwcMvJPWIWf033W588IvlywcL4B9FsxG6ZYbyQy38Sal-t0gpdD8tGGIzDNFJjvf47vrz9Svn3udfOYla4odOaWntsQRlJxAacwu5hA/s1600-h/IMG_0549.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"></a>Returning with my students in 2013. The Messines Ridge (New Zealand) Memorial to the Missing is situated within Messines Ridge British Cemetery about five miles south of Ypres. Messines was considered a strong strategic position, not only from its height above the plain below, but from the extensive system of cellars under the convent known as the 'Institution Royale'. The village was taken from the 1st Cavalry Division by the German 26th Division on 31 October-1 November 1914. An attack by French troops on 6 -7 November was unsuccessful and it was not until the Battle of Messines on 7 June 1917 that it was retaken by the New Zealand Division. On 10-11 April 1918, the village fell into German hands once more after a stubborn defence by the South African Brigade, but was retaken for the last time on 28-29 September 1918. This monument stands within Messines Ridge British Cemetery and commemorates over 800 soldiers of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force who died in or near Messines in 1917 and 1918 and who have no known grave. It is one of seven memorials in France and Belgium to those New Zealand soldiers who died on the Western Front and whose graves are not known all of which are found in cemeteries chosen as appropriate to the fighting in which the men died.<br />
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Returning with my students in 2013 </div>
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Kerkstraat 1914 and 2008<br />
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What was left during and by the end of the war <br />
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Memorial plaque commemorating Samuel Frickleton, VC who, following
the outbreak of the First World War, joined the New Zealand Military
Forces in February 1915 and embarked for the Middle East with the 5th
Reinforcements with the rank of corporal in the Canterbury Battalion.
After arriving in Egypt in June, he became ill and was repatriated back
to New Zealand and subsequently discharged as medically unfit for active
service. After a period of convalescence, he re-enlisted for the NZEF
in 1916. By March 1917, he had been promoted to corporal. On 7 June
1917, Frickleton participated in the Battle of Messines. His battalion
was attacking the edge of Messines village when it was slowed by two
machine gun posts. He was awarded a Victoria Cross (VC) for his actions
in dealing with these posts. The citation for his VC read as
follows:<br />
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For most conspicuous
bravery and determination when with attacking troops, which came under
heavy fire and were checked. Although slightly wounded, Lance Corporal
Frickleton dashed forward at the head of his section, rushed through a
barrage and personally destroyed with bombs an enemy machine gun and
crew, which were causing heavy casualties. He then attacked the second
gun, killing the whole of the crew of twelve. By the destruction of
these two guns he undoubtedly saved his own and other units from very
severe casualties and his magnificent courage and gallantry ensured the
capture of the objective. During the consolidation of the position he
suffered a second severe wound. He set, throughout, a great example of
heroism. —London Gazette, No. 30215, 2 August 1917. </blockquote>
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Frickleton was
wounded in the arm and hip and was badly gassed, which would affect his
health for the remainder of his life. Evacuated to England for medical
treatment, he was presented with his VC by King George V on 17 September
1917, in a ceremony at Glasgow. By then he was an acting sergeant,
which was confirmed later that year. After a period of further
hospitalisation, he was selected for and underwent officer training. He
was commissioned as a second lieutenant in March 1918 and returned to
the Rifle Brigade. However, his health problems persisted and he was
repatriated to New Zealand in June 1918. He was accorded a hero's
welcome and a reception was held at the Auckland Town Hall in his
honour. He would spend the remainder of the year under medical care. He
was discharged from the NZEF in December 1918.</div>
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Hitler's painting of the church during the war</div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Messines Ridge British Cemetery</span><br />
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This cemetery stands at the former site of the 'Institution Royale,' shown then and after. <span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div>
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The Cross of Sacrifice is on the site of the Institution's windmill and established after the Armistice when graves were brought in from the battlefield around Messines and from a number of smaller burial grounds. There are now 1,534 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in the cemetery. 957 of the burials are unidentified, but special memorials commemorate a number of casualties known or believed to be buried among them, or who were buried in other cemeteries where their graves were destroyed by shell fire. </div>
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At the entrance surmounted by the Cross of Sacrifice is this memorial dedicated to the officers and men of the New Zealand Division and their part in the battles on the Messines Ridge in June 1917. The memorial, designed by Charles Holden, is located on the south-western edge of Messines village, on the Rue des Neo-Zeelandais. It lists 827 officers and men of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force with no known grave who died in or near Messines in 1917 and 1918. The land on which the cemetery and memorial were constructed had been the site of a mill (the Moulin d'Hospice) belonging to the Institute Royal de Messines (a Belgian orphanage and school, itself formerly a Benedictine abbey). The mill dated from 1445, but was destroyed during the war, with the memorial erected where the mill once stood. Messines was taken from the 1st Cavalry Division by the German 26th Division on 31 October-1 November 1914 and it was not until the Battle of Messines on 7 June 1917 that it was retaken by the New Zealand Division. On 10–11 April 1918, the village fell into German hands once more after a stubborn defence by the South African Brigade, but was retaken for the last time on 28–29 September 1918. The inscription at the centre of the memorial reads<br />
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Here are recorded the names of officers and men of NEW ZEALAND who fell in or near Messines in 1917 and 1918 and whose graves are known only to God </blockquote>
The names are shown on the walls to the right and left of the central inscription.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The body of a soldier thought to have been killed on June 7, 1917, during the New Zealand Division's capture of Messines and discovered during excavations of a pipeline in Messines in April 2012 is reburied February 25, 2013. His coffin was draped with the New Zealand flag and a
soldier's hat as a guard of honour from Ypres Barracks fired
three volleys as the Last Post and Reveille played followed by the New Zealand national anthem, sung by Kiwi soprano
Carleen Ebbs. A metal shoulder badge NZR (New
Zealand Rifles), a belt buckle and gas iodine capsules were found close
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">16th Irish Division and 36th (Ulster) Division Memorials</span><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTWDGuolIHpAFQzg9LpunJYbt4DE-QUBUTvdEEidcF8r_QqFWy9b-r13oGIq6PrYYdXC84nI90qFab6b0qXS5OcKmM4Oc10XHKZF0-nulvVgmto8x_VyK19KTk1Rden3fDvp-wYX2kBm4/s1600-h/IMG_0577.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237601713661471394" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTWDGuolIHpAFQzg9LpunJYbt4DE-QUBUTvdEEidcF8r_QqFWy9b-r13oGIq6PrYYdXC84nI90qFab6b0qXS5OcKmM4Oc10XHKZF0-nulvVgmto8x_VyK19KTk1Rden3fDvp-wYX2kBm4/s400/IMG_0577.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a><span style="font-size: 85%;">In 1917, the 16th Irish Division took a major part in the Battle of Messines alongside the 36th (Ulster) Division, due to both their recognition and reputation. Their major actions ended in the summer of 1917 at the Battle of Passchendaele after moving under General Hubert Gough's Fifth Army command. By mid August the 16th (Irish) had suffered over 4,200 casualties and the 36th (Ulster) had suffered almost 3,600 casualties, or more than 50% of their numbers.</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCG2SvZ8NXMuiejobm5eoOqI9CQjab6QhNFMYIAD1_Whd5RPqP_SIye_c27Zru3ba1igDgxVVwRfmeZj814yyqAm1LlyNZ6ZcU4ICK9ITPSLbERWyXUdoWufqPaGlEVQ2kHQ5i0jnst8M/s1600-h/IMG_0578.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237601720095151234" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCG2SvZ8NXMuiejobm5eoOqI9CQjab6QhNFMYIAD1_Whd5RPqP_SIye_c27Zru3ba1igDgxVVwRfmeZj814yyqAm1LlyNZ6ZcU4ICK9ITPSLbERWyXUdoWufqPaGlEVQ2kHQ5i0jnst8M/s400/IMG_0578.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a><span style="font-size: 85%;">The 36th were one of the few divisions to make significant gains on the first day on the Somme. They attacked between the Ancre and Thiepval against a position known as the Schwaben Redoubt. According to military historian Martin Middlebrook:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 85%;">The leading battalions (of the 36th (Ulster) Division) had been ordered out from the wood just before 7.30am and laid down near the German trenches ... At zero hour the British barrage lifted. Bugles blew the "Advance". Up sprang the Ulstermen and, without forming up in the waves adopted by other divisions, they rushed the German front line ..... By a combination of sensible tactics and Ulster dash, the prize that eluded so many, the capture of a long section of the German front line, had been accomplished. </span></blockquote>
<span style="font-size: 85%;">During the Battle of the Somme the Ulster Division was the only division of X Corps to have achieved its objectives on the opening day of the battle. This came at a heavy price, with the division suffering in two days of fighting, 5,500 officers and men, killed, wounded or missing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 85%;">Their attack was one of the finest displays of human courage in the world</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 85%;">—<span style="font-size: 85%;">War correspondent </span>Philip Gibbs, 1st July, 1916</span><span style="font-size: 85%;"></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-size: 85%;">Of nine Victoria Crosses given to British forces in the battle, four were awarded to Ulstermen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 180%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Wytschaete</span></span><br />
The village of Wytschaete was fought over throughout the war, originally taken by the Germans in November 1914, it was retaken by Commonwealth forces during the Battle of Messines on June 7th 1917, it then fell into enemy hands once again in April 1918, before it was finally retaken on 28th September 1918.<br />
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La Grand Place before the war and today <br />
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Wytschaete (or 'White Sheet' as Tommies referred to it) cemetery contains 486 British, 31 Australian, 19 Canadian, 11 South African, 7 New Zealand, 1 German and 673 unknown burials. The cemetery also contains some 25 special memorials.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">16th Irish Division Memorial</span></div>
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Just outside the cemetery is a memorial that had been unveiled on August 22 1926 to commemorate the 16th (Irish) Division at Wytschaete and commemorates its capture of Wytschaete on 7 June 1917, the opening day of the Battle of Messines.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Somer Farm CWGC</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"> Somer Farm during the war and today; with 87 graves from Britain and Australia and one unknown grave it </span><span style="font-size: small;">is a cemetery so small it doesn't have a registry box</span><span style="font-size: small;">.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Comparison of some of the graves as they appeared after the war and today, standardised: </span><br />
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Pte Patrick Joseph Curran</div>
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L/Cpl W. A. Jones</div>
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L/Cpl William Edward Alchin</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> The grave of Pte George Lilley, visited by his parents after the war and today</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Oosttaverne CWGC</span><br />
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Originally there were two cemeteries (No. 1 and No. 2) here and had been started after the village was captured during the Battle of Messines.</div>
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The cemetery was is situated in what had been No Man's Land before the Battle of Messines, 1917. During the Second World War, the British Expeditionary Force was involved in the later stages of the defence of Belgium following the German invasion in May 1940, and suffered many casualties in covering the withdrawal to Dunkirk. The cemetery contains 1,119 First World War burials, 783 of which are unidentified. Scattered among these graves are 117 from the Second World War, five of them unidentified.</div>
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Topped with the Butterfly device of the 19th Division, it honours their role on the first day of the Battle of Messines when they took Oosttaverne. </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Spanbroekmolen</b></span> was the name of a windmill 1 mile south-west of Wytschaete on the Messines Ridge.<br />
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The scene today </div>
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The Spanbroekmolen Mine Crater, also known as Lone Tree Crater and now 'The Pool of Peace, is a result of the largest of nineteen mines blown by the British Army on the morning of June 7, 1917 which signalled the start of the Battle of Messines.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Spanbroekmolen CWGC</span> <br />
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About five miles south of Ypres, this lonely cemetery is named after a windmill which stood nearby and contains the graves of men killed in action on the first (or, in three cases the second) day of the Battle of Messines in 1917. The cemetery was destroyed in subsequent operations but found again after the Armistice. There are 58 casualties of the First World War buried or commemorated in the cemetery or whom six remain unidentified who have special memorials commemorating their graves which had been later destroyed.</div>
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This lovely graveyard initiated in 1917 by the Irish Division contains 77 and over half remain unidentified. After Operation Michael the Germans took it from April to August 1918. The wall around this plot sited midway between Heuvelland and Wytschaete is reminiscent of those dry stone walls one sees throughout Ireland.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />Derry House #2 CWGC</span><br />
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The cemetery was begun in June 1917 by the 11th Division (32nd Brigade) and used as a front line cemetery until December 1917. It was used again in October 1918 by the 2nd London Scottish. Although this cemetery is named "No.2", there is no other cemetery of this name. Altogether there are 126 British and 37 Australians buried here. </div>
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A pillbox beside the dead, created by remains of a concrete command post built by engineers of the 37th Division in July 1917; you can see it in the darkened box-shape in the centre of the CWGC plan on the right.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Packhorse Farm Shrine CWGC</span><br />
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This was the scene of a German gas attack in April 1916, fought off by the 3rd and 24th Divisions. Packhorse Farm was the name given to a farm on the eastern side of the most direct road from Lindenhoek to Wulverghem, and this cemetery was one of two made by the 46th (North Midland) Division during their occupation of the sector in<span style="font-size: 100%;"> 1915. Of interest is the sad fact that two brothers are buried here- Privates Ernest Arthur and James Emerson Proctor of 1st/5th Bn. Lincolnshire Regiment, from Scunthorpe aged 22 & 21 respectively. Both were killed on the same day, May 20, 1915, either through an enemy mine under their trench in the Dranoutre sector, or through the subsequent rescue attempt.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Kandahar Farm CWGC</span></span><br />
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An especially evocative name today, Kandahar Farm is roughly eleven miles south of Ypres on the Niewkerkestraat (N314) which leads from the N365 connecting Ypres to Wijtschate, Messines and on to Armentieres. The cemetery is near Wulverghem and the front line ran a little east of the village.</div>
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A candidate for oldest serviceman buried in Belgium in the Great War is E. Taylor of the Royal Engineers killed July 21, 1917 and whose stone has his age as 61. The inscription reads:</div>
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HE IS NOT DEAD<br />
BUT OVER WAR'S LOUD SWELL<br />
HE HEARD HIS CAPTAIN'S CALL<br />
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A 3rd Australian Divisional Field Dressing Station at Kandahar Farm, on
the afternoon of 7 June 1917, during the Battle of Messines. <br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Nieuwkerke Cemetery</span></div>
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This small communal cemetery holds the dead of two world wars. The churchyard was used by field ambulances and fighting units at intervals during the war and later saw service in the Second World War when the British Expeditionary Force was involved in the later stages of the defence of Belgium following the German invasion in May 1940, and the subsequent withdrawal to Dunkirk.<br />
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Southwest of Nieuwkerke is this striking Commonwealth Cemetery:<br />
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">Westhof Farm is set on an incline and was used by the New Zealand Division as its headquarters in May and June 1917.</span></div>
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Five German graves in total stand next to those of the Commonwealth.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 180%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Courtrai (Kortrijk)</span></span><br />
Courtrai used to serve as a major base for the German army which would fall to the 9th Division on October 17, 1918.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Kortrijk (St. Jan) Communal Cemetery</span><br />
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The Union Flag carelessly flown upside down over the graves of 221 Great War and 34 Second World War Commonwealth soldiers.<br />
Courtrai had been heavily bombed in the summer of 1917, but even more damaged by the allied bombing in 1944.<br />
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Bissegem is 2 km west of Courtrai town centre.</div>
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Last resting place for 31 soldiers who all died within weeks of the Armistice, including that of Rifleman Collier killed three weeks before the end...</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>The Battle of Hill 60, August 21st-29th 1915 </b></span></div>
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Hill 60 was a strategically important knoll at the end of the Sari Bair hill range, overlooking Suvla Bay. Its capture would in effect secure the Anzac and Suvla landings which had occurred in the days and weeks before. The bulk of the attacking British force was based on General John Monash's 4th Australian brigade but also included Indians, New Zealanders, Irish and British troops. However these forces though experienced and willing had been struck by dysentery which weakened many men. Early in the afternoon of August 21st the 13th and 14th Australian battalions along with the 5th Connaught Rangers went over the top. In a hellish encounter the attacking waves were swept by unsuppressed machine guns and forced to ground. In the heat of autumn a grenade set off a bush fire which rapidly spread among the dense undercover burning many wounded to death. The 22nd brought reinforcements and a renewed attack which once more resulted only in heavier losses despite remarkable Allied bravery. Pushing forward with the bayonet the Australians suffered severely. By the 27th the Ottoman forces had been pushed back yet critically still held the summit of Hill 60. That night the 8th, 9th and 10th Australian Light Horse regiments, men from Victoria and Western Australia, made one last effort to reach the summit but suffered a similar fate to their predecessors. Caught in crossfires the attack withered away, and by the 29th it was over. The battle for Hill 60 though small was the final Allied assault in Gallipoli, as they now took up a defensive posture.<br />
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Directions for Hill 60 in the 1920s and today</div>
Hill 60 was a low rise on the southern flank of the Ypres Salient, named for the 60 metre contour which marked its bounds. It wasn't a natural hill but was created by the ground removed whilst constructing the railway line nearby. The hill had been captured by the Germans on December 10, 1914 from the French forces. During the race for the sea, it was obvious the Hill had to be retaken. A great deal of the fighting around Hill 60 was underground as can be seen by the memorials today. The British immediately began tunnelling a number of mines beneath the hill. By April 1915 twenty one mines had been completed. At 19:00 on April 17, 1915 the mines were detonated, demolishing a large part of the hill and killing many German soldiers occupying the trenches. The British battalions suffered only 7 casualties in capturing the hill.<br />
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A German counter-attack succeeded in recapturing the hill but the British regained possession on April 18. Fighting continued until April 22.<br />
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Hill 60 was eventually taken by the Germans following a gas attack on 5th May, 1915. The results were devastating. The front trenches were overrun when the forward companies were almost wiped out. Only 2 officers and 70 men from one battalion remained. It was only due to the heroic defence by a platoon of the Devon and Dorsets and the Battalion Headquarter Staff of the Duke of Wellington's Regiment that a major breakthrough was prevented.<br />
The Memorial Site has
the remains of several concrete bunkers and craters from the 1915/16 and
1917 battles. One large bunker in the centre of the site is preserved
almost as it was found at the end of the war. There are three memorials
on Hill 60, that to the Australian Tunnelling Companies, that to Queen
Victoria’s Rifles and that to the 14th (Light) Division. Also on Hill 60
is a stone plaque which gives the following summary
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HILL 60 THE SCENE OF BITTER FIGHTING WAS HELD BY GERMAN TROOPS FROM
THE 16TH DECEMBER 1914 TO THE 17TH APRIL 1915 WHEN IT WAS CAPTURED AFTER
THE EXPLOSION OF FIVE MINES BY THE BRITISH 5TH DIVISION. ON THE
FOLLOWING 5TH MAY IT WAS RECAPTURED BY THE GERMAN XV CORPS. IT REMAINED
IN GERMAN HANDS UNTIL THE BATTLE OF MESSINES 7TH JUNE 1917 WHEN AFTER
MANY MONTHS OF UNDERGROUND FIGHTING TWO MINES WERE EXPLODED HERE AND AT
THE END OF APRIL 1918 AFTER THE BATTLES OF THE LYS IT PASSED INTO GERMAN
HANDS AGAIN. IT WAS FINALLY RETAKEN BY BRITISH TROOPS UNDER THE COMMAND
OF H.M.KING OF THE BELGIANS ON THE 28TH SEPTEMBER 1918. IN THE BROKEN
TUNNELS BENEATH THIS ENCLOSURE MANY BRITISH AND GERMAN DEAD WERE BURIED
AND THE HILL IS THEREFORE PRESERVED SO FAR AS NATURE WILL PERMIT IN THE
STATE IN WHICH IT WAS LEFT AFTER THE GREAT WAR<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj469ipIBIhdxSLqEYKlrxR48qaZU5Sy6SMCJCoEZe0UiaaoTkoVZpgbSUsfg2iigPsYFDaMKFIEVeaZ23hQYpe-nwOYFL9WKo7Z3rwuiVLXhyR7Rhn9mFPgNvpL77K8HVuHK5Qyqx2B3E/s1600-h/1.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" height="640" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5246162040554397282" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj469ipIBIhdxSLqEYKlrxR48qaZU5Sy6SMCJCoEZe0UiaaoTkoVZpgbSUsfg2iigPsYFDaMKFIEVeaZ23hQYpe-nwOYFL9WKo7Z3rwuiVLXhyR7Rhn9mFPgNvpL77K8HVuHK5Qyqx2B3E/s640/1.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="488" /></a>Sketch of German position at Hill 60 in early April 1915</blockquote>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">1st Australian Tunnelling Company Memorial</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin0iNI8wN0xKJl0Q2dbk43ZbV8YnekLoubP_1ROwywfmymdNxPIjacfiQAOuMfSKZyACfKoSKV0v9dKU8ZFLFkoJh8lnC4dEG3WSzZZGSkGU4VnLZfB5hrBS6duBWDRLHgRCjA5ikldfk/s1600-h/IMG_0910.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"></a>Just outside the entrance to Hill 60 is this monument to the Australian 1st Tunnelling Company who took over maintenance of the British mines underneath whilst the Germans were holding it in November 1916. The memorial is located next to the entrance gate of the Hill 60
Battlefield Memorial Site in Zillebeke. The inscription reads as follows:
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<blockquote class="toccolours" style="display: table; float: none; padding: 10px 15px 10px 15px;">
In Memoriam of Officers and Men of the 1st Australian Tunnelling Coy
who gave their lives in the mining and defensive operations of Hill 60
1915-1918. This monument replaces that originally erected in April 1919
by their comrades in arms. 1923<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin0iNI8wN0xKJl0Q2dbk43ZbV8YnekLoubP_1ROwywfmymdNxPIjacfiQAOuMfSKZyACfKoSKV0v9dKU8ZFLFkoJh8lnC4dEG3WSzZZGSkGU4VnLZfB5hrBS6duBWDRLHgRCjA5ikldfk/s1600-h/IMG_0910.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"></a><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></blockquote>
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can clearly see the bullet holes on the memorial plate from the
Germans' return engagement in the Second World War, apparently out of a
fit of pique. <br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">14th Light Division Memorial</span><br />
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This monument to the 14th Light Division, next to that of the 1st Australian Tunnelling Company, records that the Division landed in France in May 1915, comprising KRRC, Rifle Brigade, Ox & Bucks Cyclist Co., Royal Engineers, Signals, Pioneers and a Mobile Veterinary Section. The battle honours of the Division listed include Ypres, the Somme and Arras.<br />
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Looking across from both memorials one can see Ypres next to nearly the same view soon after the war.</div>
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There are a number of remaining pillboxes on Hill 60. This one was originally German, but modified by the Australians in 1918.</div>
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Throughout the area are the remains of craters blown by mines. This particular depression was blown at the start of the Battle of Messines.<br />
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The original memorial before it was destroyed by the Germans during the Second World War and today. This is w<span style="font-size: 100%;">here the regiment fought their first open engagement beginning at dawn on April 21, during which they lost 12 officers and 180 men in casualties. </span>On the night of 20–21 April, Second Lieutenant Geoffrey H Woolley and a handful of men were the only defenders on the hill and continually repelled attacks on their position. He encouraged the men to hold the line against heavy enemy machine gun fire and shellfire. For a time he was the only officer on the hill. When he and his men were relieved on the morning of 21 April only 14 out of a company of 150 had survived. For his gallantry he was awarded the Victoria Cross - the first time this medal was awarded to a Territorial Officer. The Queen Victoria Rifles (QVR) had arrived in Le Havre on 5 November 1914, one of the first Territorial battalions to serve in France; they were attached to the 5th Division. On 17 April 1915, an attack was mounted on Hill 60 by the 13th Infantry Brigade which included the 2nd King’s Own Scottish Borderers, the 2nd Duke of Wellington’s West Riding Regiment, the 1st Queen’s Own Royal West Kent Regiment, the 2nd King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry and the Queen Victoria’s Rifles (9th London Regiment). The Hill was a small promontory on the edge of the Ypres Salient that afforded good views for the Germans across the British lines and into Ypres itself. It was therefore of great tactical significance to both sides. Prior to the attack, the hill had been undermined for days with five galleries being driven under the German positions. The plan was to detonate large mines under the hill to destroy the enemy and their positions after which the 13th Infantry Brigade would occupy the area. The Hill was captured on 17 April and on 20 April, two and a half companies of the QVRs were ordered up to the front line as the enemy made a counter-attack. At dawn on 21 April, the Germans began bombarding the QVRs with hand grenades. Casualties were heavy, including two officers, Major Lees and Lieutenant Summerhays who were killed. It was then that Lieutenant Geoffrey Harold Woolley left a position of safety to take command of the soldiers on the Hill. The QVRs remained in France for the rest of the war. Their losses are remembered at Hill 60 by the QVR memorial and at the nearby QVR café and museum.<br />
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Poperinghe was the primary military centre for British forces located in Flanders, just under 10km west of Ypres (itself formerly a bitter trade rival). Its population in 1904 was placed at 11,680.</div>
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British troops at the marketplace and Hitler being driven through during his June 1, 1940 visit</div>
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Poperinghe in 1917, with Scottish troops in the Grande Place and the re-named Grote Markt today with the Stadhuis, or town hall, in the background.<br />
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The cells inside where soldiers waited for their execution "to be shot at dawn"<br />
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The last words of the condemned etched onto the walls before the sunrise.<br />
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execution post on display in the inner courtyard of the Poperinghe Town
Hall is said to be that used on 8th May 1919 for Wang Ch'un Ch'ih of
the 107th Chinese Labour Corps. He is buried at Poperinghe Old Military
Cemetery. Sixteen others executed in Poperinge were buried at Poperinghe
New Military Cemetery.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Talbot House and Concert Hall</span><br />
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During the war and after</div>
Talbot House in Poperinge is one of the most evocative sites from the Great War era. It was here that two army chaplains, Philip ‘Tubby’ Clayton and Neville Talbot, opened a club for soldiers. Named in honour of Gilbert Talbot, who was killed at Hooge in 1915, it became known as Toc H after the army signal code used in the war. More than half a million soldiers visited the club, which was housed in the mansion of a local hop trader, who had fled the country. It was a place where everyone was welcome; where military rank did not count; and where the troops could play the piano or borrow books (simply by leaving their cap as a deposit!). In short, it was a place where soldiers could become human again. The authentic interior has been largely preserved and the unique spirit of the place can perhaps best be experienced in the chapel - simply called the ‘upper room’ - which has remained untouched since 1918.<br />
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For soldiers who had to live for days at a time in a world of mud and shot-up trees, the garden was an oasis of rest and peace. The lay-out of the garden has been restored as it was during the Great War. It has been recently listed as a monument by the Belgian Monument and Landscapes service.<br />
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The adjoining hop store (better known during the war as the Concert Hall) and the former bathhouse (referred to as the ‘Slessorium’, after its creator, Major Peter Slessor) were both restored in 2004. After the peaceful and quiet atmosphere of Talbot House, visitors can go to the first floor of the former hop store, the actual Concert Hall. It was this room that became the stage for many recreational activities in 1917. Visitors are shown a film of a concert given by the performers 'The Happy Hoppers'. Sentimental and happy songs, jokes and dances are brought together in a non-stop show and this gives a good idea of how things were in 1917. A life-sized ‘album’ about ‘Life Behind the Front’ and a filmed re-enactment of a ‘Concert Party’ are now on permanent display allowing visitors to experience the true atmosphere of Talbot House during the war years and shows how soldiers spent their time away from the trenches.<br />
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According to Keegan in The First World War, "the infamous Skindles for officers who wanted a good meal and the company of loose women...is scarcely identifiable" (199-200) but it looked hardly changed when I saw it in 2008.</div>
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According to Coombs MBE (11) it was said that<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Poperinghe New Military Cemetery</span><br />
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The
grave of Lieutenant-Colonel George Baker, 38, OC 5th Canadian Mounted
Rifles (Quebec Regiment), who was a member of the Canadian House of
Commons. He is the only Parliamentarian to have ever lost his life while
fighting for Canada. He had been the son of the Honourable George
Barnard Baker KC (member of Canadian Senate).</div>
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In the Official War Diary of the 5th Battalion, Canadian Mounted Rifles it was written on 4vi1916: </div>
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Particularly regretted is the death of our O.C. Lt. Colonel G.H. Baker
who has been O.C. since the Regiment was recruited in January 1915. He
had endeared himself to Officers and men alike by his tact and
cheerfulness under all conditions. Our comfort is that he died as he
wished, at the head of his men, and his cross in the new MILITARY
CEMETERY at POPERINGHE (LOT 2, G1) is inscribed “Killed in action”, the
epitaph of a man. He was buried with full military honours today, the
Chaplain of the 3rd Canadian Division Hon. Major A.W. Woods officiating.
The following acted as pall bearers, Major Draper, D.C., Captain
Rhoades, W., Captain French, J. (1st CMR), Captain Patterson, J. (4th
CMR), Captain Robinson, E., Captain Tribeh, A., Captain Hewson, C., and
Lieutenant Todd, J.S. Representatives of each platoon in the Battalion
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This Chinese grave is sited alone away from the rest.<br />
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Poperinge was the scene of numerous courts martial and executions given its situation directly behind the lines, resulting in large numbers of those shot at dawn buried here: </div>
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Both men had served in the Central Ontario Regiment when they deserted before the counter-attack on German forces on Mont Sorrel.<br />
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Private Crampton on the right apparently held out in Armentières for three months before being caught and subsequently executed in 1917.<br />
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Private Michael had deserted at the start of the 3rd Battle of Ypres in July 1917.</div>
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Private Tite was involved on June 30 1916 in the so-called 'Battle of the Boar’s Head' as a diversionary assault from the opening Somme campaign the next morning that was so disastrous (Over a period of less than five hours the three Southdowns Battalions of The Royal Sussex lost 17 officers and 349 men killed, including 12 sets of brothers, three from one family; a further 1000 men were wounded or taken prisoner in what the regimental history describes as The Day Sussex Died) that it doesn’t feature in the Official History. <br />
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Private Bernard McGeehan on the right served with the 1/8 King's Liverpool Regiment, and was executed at 6.16 a.m. on the 2nd of November 1916 for desertion. He had been ordered along with the other men in his battalion to return to their trenches on the Somme on the 20th of September 1916, but went missing until the 25th of September when he turned up at Montreuil, claiming he had got lost. By the 28th of September the 1/8 King's Liverpools were at Brandhoek between Poperinghe and Ypres, and McGeehan was escorted to rejoin them there. He was court-martialled and sentenced to death, overlooking the fact that Bernard had walked an hundred miles attempting to find his regiment and voluntarily reported to a British army unit. He served as the focus of the play 'The Worthless Soldier' by the late playwright Sam Starrett.</div>
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A particularly interesting grave is that of Private Morris from the British West Indies. As his unit was coloured it was not supposed to be an active unit, yet he was still executed for desertion. Being under-age (he was 17 when executed) was still not a consideration.<br />
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Eric Poole, whose family moved back to the Mother Country, was born in Nova Scotia, serving two years with the 63rd Regiment (Halifax Rifles). Gore was the seventeenth and last soldier executed to be buried here.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Poperinghe Old Military Cemetery</span><br />
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Begun during the First Battle of Ypres, this cemetery closed for military burials by May 1915, when the New Military Cemetery was started. The cemetery here was full as a result of the nearly 500 civilians buried here at the end of 1914, most having died in a typhoid epidemic. As well as the civilian burials, some 800 French and Belgian soldiers were also buried here. The civilian and the French and Belgian military graves were later removed resulting in the large open space in front of the cross of sacrifice as seen below apart from the grave of Gunner R A Saunders of the Canadian Field Artillery buried beside it.</div>
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The grave of Coolie C. C. Wang, Chinese Labour Corps, executed for murder on May 8, 1919.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Dozinghem CWGC</span></div>
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Dozinghem is one of a trio of British Cemeteries which served the hospitals and casualty clearing stations in the locality of Proven. The other two are named Mendinghem (mending 'em) and Bandaghem (bandage 'em) - all three names coined by British troops to sound like local Flemish ones. <br />
The Cemetery is located to the north-west of Poperinghe near Krombeke. The Cemetery is at the end of a track into woods, off the Krombeekseweg.<br />
Westvleteren was outside the front held by Commonwealth forces in Belgium during the First World War, but in July 1917, in readiness for the forthcoming offensive, groups of casualty clearing stations were placed at the three positions called by the troops Mendinghem, Dozinghem and Bandaghem. The 4th, 47th and 61st Casualty Clearing Stations were posted at Dozinghem and the military cemetery was used by them until early in 1918. There are now 3,174 Commonwealth burials of the First World War in the Cemetery and 65 German war graves from this period. Of the inscriptions, no less than three stand out:<br />
Gunner Joseph Hatcher's of the 144th Siege Battery, November 6, 1917:<br />
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We do not know what pain he bore,<br />
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Tom Larder of the 9th Bn Sherwood Foresters, born in Moscow in 1894, joined the Newfoundland Regiment and died in Flanders Fields:<br />
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And this particularly poignant one for Lance Serjeant James McDowell of the Grenadier Guards, Killed July 22, 1917:<br />
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AT REST<br />
ALSO IN MEMORY OF HIS LITTLE SON<br />
GONE TO DADDY</div>
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<span style="font-size: 180%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Vlamertinge</span></span><br />
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At the end of the war with German prisoners on the right, and Chinese labourers crossing a brook in Vlamertinghe in 1919.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%; font-weight: bold;">Vlamertinge CWGC</span><br />
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HM King George V paying his respects</div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%; font-weight: bold;"> </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvTmNrRILOL_T_25-idER7wnde3Qc6C8MtTu_nzDoerHJ5-YZAKRCD75KRJEQumd1nJjvRbRJpslKEuDNfyrMwCNnBGuBt3Z4y98mXzEG4PJsAAJ0BQhjkACqzDNye1HEsLg4-tcwnHfE/s1600-h/IMG_0350.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" height="480" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237295545255232610" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvTmNrRILOL_T_25-idER7wnde3Qc6C8MtTu_nzDoerHJ5-YZAKRCD75KRJEQumd1nJjvRbRJpslKEuDNfyrMwCNnBGuBt3Z4y98mXzEG4PJsAAJ0BQhjkACqzDNye1HEsLg4-tcwnHfE/s640/IMG_0350.JPG" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="640" /></a>This cemetery is in <span style="color: black;">a village on the Poperinge to Ypres road beneath the rebuilt church. For much of the war it saw intensive activity - during night hours - of transport and troops going to and from the Salient. It was also the site of various medical units. Vlamertinge was often within range of German shellfire and consequently was badly damaged. 1,176 graves of soldiers who died of wounds received in the Salient lie here.</span><br />
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Rose Coombs in her book <i>Before Endeavours Fade</i> pays particular attention to the specially designed gates which were designed for Major, the Honourable C.B.O. Mitford he is buried here as shown in the photo below: </div>
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Four Second World War burials dating from the Allied retreat to Dunkirk in May 1940.</div>
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On 3 October 1917 Frank Hurley photographed his colleague Captain Hubert Wilkins in the cemetery in Vlamertinghe (near Ypres). The photograph is quite iconic- Hurley is inside the church and the photograph is framed by an arched window with Wilkins striking a moving pose in front of a row of crosses.</blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 78%; font-weight: bold;">http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=95530&hl=vlamertinge</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 78%; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">For a great portfolio of this celebrated photographer:</span></span><br />
<a href="http://greatwar.nl/"><span style="font-size: 78%; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"> </span></span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "helvetica"; font-size: 100%;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=2950256458945700210" target="rechts">Mad Photographer:Frank Hurley's Amazing Pictures</a></span></div>
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The grave of Captain Grenfell, VC who, according to his citation, won what must have been one of the earliest Victoria Crosses of the war for the following:</div>
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On 24 August 1914 at Audregnies, Belgium, Captain Grenfell rode with the regiment in a charge against a large body of unbroken German infantry. The casualties were very heavy and the captain was left as the senior officer. He was rallying part of the regiment behind a railway embankment when he was twice hit and severely wounded. In spite of his injuries, however, when asked to help in saving the guns, by the commander of 119th Battery, Royal Field Artillery, he and some volunteers, under a hail of bullets, helped to manhandle and push the guns out of range of enemy fire.</blockquote>
He would later recover from his wounds only to later be killed in action at Hooge on May 24, <span style="font-size: 100%;">1915.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 100%; font-weight: bold;">Hop Store CWGC</span><br />
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Just beyond Vlamertinge is Hop Store Military Cemetery, containing 248 graves.</div>
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250 British and one Canadian lie here in this cemetery opened in May 1915 and named after the Hop Store which still stands nearby. It was sited on the safe side of the village, was always destined to remain small; due to its position between a hedge and the Hop Store building. Also, as the site was very wet and marshy, by early 1917 it was necessary for the area to be drained by the Royal Engineers.<br />
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Among the graves is that of grave Major Harold Payne Philby, uncle of the infamous spy Kim Philby<br />
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The <span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size: 100%;">Hop Store itself still remains, my bike leaning against its façade. </span></span>During the war it was used by Field Ambulances as well as an HQ for the heavy artillery that was located here.<br />
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1813 lie buried here south of the village of Vlamertinge along the N308 (the Poperingseweg) with Ypres another five kilometres away. For most of the Great War this town was just beyond the normal range of German shell fire and the village was used both by artillery units and field ambulances. Burials were made in the original Military Cemetery until June 1917, when the New Military Cemetery was begun in anticipation of the Allied offensive launched on this part of the front in July. Although the cemetery continued in use until October 1918, most of the burials are from July to December 1917.<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4lXr8y9_YRyjixeLnSHx4nXhe753dOtwjgdjit3A64Fbc6LUnr2tDI-aa64EQ0OELnfMJUGr_tjbNp9R2KHwArdyxv1qLYdmLYv36mIUWEDSZppX_fh4O7wJXBi_P2g1Gmn-1gvysBVc/s1600-h/IMG_0324.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237287623249881730" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4lXr8y9_YRyjixeLnSHx4nXhe753dOtwjgdjit3A64Fbc6LUnr2tDI-aa64EQ0OELnfMJUGr_tjbNp9R2KHwArdyxv1qLYdmLYv36mIUWEDSZppX_fh4O7wJXBi_P2g1Gmn-1gvysBVc/s400/IMG_0324.JPG" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 85%;">The grave of Victoria Cross winner Acting Company Sergeant Major John Skinner of 1st Battalion King’s Own Scottish Borderers, VC DCM Croix de Guerre killed in action 17th March 1918. Headstone bears inscription “Father in thy gracious keeping Leave we now thy servant sleeping.” He had joined the Army in 1900 when sixteen years old, was wounded three times in the Boer War, and a further six times in the Great War, the last wound being fatal. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 85%; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 85%; font-weight: bold;">London Gazette dated 14 September 1917:</span><span style="font-size: 85%;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 85%;">For most conspicuous bravery and good leading. Whilst his company was attacking, machine gun fire opened on the left flank, delaying the advance.<br /><br />Although C.S.M. Skinner was wounded in the head, he collected six men, and with great courage and determination worked round the left flank of three blockhouses from which the machine gun fire was coming, and succeeded in bombing and taking the first blockhouse single-handed; then, leading his six men towards the other two blockhouses, he skilfully cleared them, taking sixty prisoners, three machine guns, and two trench mortars.<br /><br />The dash and gallantry displayed by this warrant officer enabled the objective to be reached and consolidated.</span></blockquote>
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At the other end of the spectrum is the grave of Private Edward Delargey, shot at dawn for desertion on September 6, 1917; the stone reads nevertheless that “He died that we might live." </div>
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The cemetery was used particularly in 1915 and in 1917 by regiments and
batteries engaged in the fighting around Ypres. The cemetery contains
115 Commonwealth burials of the First World War and one French war
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Hospital Farm Cemetery is 6.5 km west of Ypres on the aptly-named Hospitaalstraat, a road leading from the N308 connecting Ypres to Poperinge. The farm had been a dressing station from June to October 1917.<br />
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Leaving Vlamertinge towards Poperinge is Brandhoek, a small hamlet situated between Ypers, Vlamertinge and Poperinge. During the First World War, Brandhoek was within the area comparatively safe from shell fire, which extended beyond Vlamertinghe Church. Field ambulances were posted there continuously using it as a Field Ambulance and Casualty Clearing Station. It contains three Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemeteries:<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Brandhoek Military Cemetery</span><br />
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The cemetery was begun by the British in May 1915 in a field next to a dressing station. The cemetery was closed in July 1917 when Brandhoek New Military Cemetery was opened. 601 are buried here.</div>
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Entering the cemetery one immediately sees signs of wear</div>
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Until July 1917 burials had been made in the Military Cemetery, but the arrival of the 32nd, 3rd Australian and 44th Casualty Clearing Stations in preparation for the new Allied offensive launched that month made it necessary to open the New Military Cemetery, followed in August by the New Military Cemetery No 3.<br />
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Brandhoek New Military Cemetery contains 530 Commonwealth burials of the First World War and 28 German war graves. The burials are of July and August 1917 and among them is the grave of Captain Noel Chavasse, VC and Bar, MC, one of only three men who have won the Victoria Cross <span style="font-weight: bold;">twice</span>, the only man to win the Victoria Cross twice during the Great War. In 1916, Chavasse was hit by shell splinters while rescuing men in no-man's land. It is said he got as close as 25 yards from the German line, where he found three men and continued throughout the night under a constant rain of sniper bullets and bombing. He performed similar heroics in the offensive at Passchendaele to gain a second VC and become the most highly decorated serviceman in the war. Although operated upon, he was to die of his wounds two days later in 1917. The actions which led to Captain Chavasse's unique collection of decorations are too long to examine here and give them due respect. One article is shown below: <a dir="ltr" href="http://www.chavasse.u-net.com/chavasse.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="http://www.chavasse.u-net.com/chavasse.html">http://www.chavasse.u-net.com/chavass...</a><br />
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His Headstone is unique in having two small VCs instead of the usual large one.</div>
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Just beyond are the following two CWGCs:<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Red Farm CWGC</span><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VtWIlclprYM/SK6cjvDritI/AAAAAAAAFLc/5WdIwT3FD4U/s1600-h/IMG_0352.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></a> <br />
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">Just beyond Brandhoek is one </span>of the smallest cemeteries on the Salient with 63 burials, the cemetery was only used during April and May 1918.</div>
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On the little road just north is <span style="font-weight: bold;">Hagle Dump CWGC</span> <br />
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<a href="http://www.fylde.demon.co.uk/gardiner4.htm">Mark Gardiner</a> has found something interesting about this small cemetery regarding Second Lieutenant Alfred Ransdale of the 15th Bn. Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, who<br />
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travelled all the way from Argentina to die within four days of his arrival aged 23. British by birth (educated in Shoreham, Sussex), he had lived in the Argentine Republic since 1911 and was a clerk for River Plate Trust, Loan and Agency Co. Ltd. in Rosario de Santa Fe. Posted to Stone Buildings, Lincolns Inn as a Private before 9 November 1917 he was attached to No.19 OC Brigade at Pirbright. Officer commanding wrote that he was "intelligent but is weak in topography, should do all right." Discharged on 30 April 1918 upon appointment to a commission in 3rd (Reserve) Bn. The Loyal North Lancashire Regt., he arrived in Belgium on 27 August 1918 and in letters to relatives that day expressed a fear he would not survive. On 1 September 1918 his company were heavily shelled whilst acting as working parties in the front line. It is unclear whether he was killed outright or died of wounds. His will was in favour of Miss Mabel Choules of Hornchurch, Essex; unsure about the nature of the relationship but it appeared to be a secret he had kept from his family.</blockquote>
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Hitler's car passes the Grote Markt in Menen on its way to Geluveld where he first saw action during the Great War.<span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Menen German Military Cemetery</span><br />
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Menen German war cemetery is a military cemetery in the Belgian town of
Menen territory and partly in Wevelgem. 47, 864 German soldiers lie
within, making it the largest in Flanders. In between are several
crosses and oak and chestnut trees. In the centre is an octagonal
memorial chapel. The original cemetery was created in 1917. Between
1956-1958, there were 128 small German military cemeteries scattered
across Flanders consolidated to four. The remains of the cemeteries were
transferred to the cemeteries of Langemark, Vladslo, Hooglede and
Menen. Menen casualties came from 53 small cemeteries. The German
architect R. Tischler designed the octagonal mausoleum and a reception
building. Around the chapel are eight tombstones, bearing the names and
locations of the 53 cemeteries, from where the fallen were transferred.
The grave stones were restored in 1991. </div>
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The room inside allows you to see the books that have details of the soldiers lying here.<br />
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Nearly twenty to a grave.<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VtWIlclprYM/SLDKtUVsZqI/AAAAAAAAF7c/hjwIb7zOk3o/s1600-h/IMG_0806.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><br /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj73mp3AL6DGdrKWPEHBPACllSLdEI93tzl-2AAO0rUk24q0MVBvTR0vO38cEqD6ZScF3KtW5XXWDjxMSuL0s8mYpsB-GvEVU3qBXFs7QcSj974hWNcMh0-nbXYtOZIJiSVQZhTY7pnsMM/s1600-h/IMG_0807.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" height="480" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237909250197231954" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj73mp3AL6DGdrKWPEHBPACllSLdEI93tzl-2AAO0rUk24q0MVBvTR0vO38cEqD6ZScF3KtW5XXWDjxMSuL0s8mYpsB-GvEVU3qBXFs7QcSj974hWNcMh0-nbXYtOZIJiSVQZhTY7pnsMM/s640/IMG_0807.JPG" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="640" /></a>The oaks appear to threaten those resting below.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Birr Cross Roads CWGC</span><br />
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Three km east of Ypres with the graves of five hundred soldiers.</div>
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For
most conspicuous bravery. During recent operations Capt Ackroyd
displayed the greatest gallantry and devotion to duty. Utterly
regardless of danger, he worked continuously for many hours up and down
and in front of the line tending the wounded and saving the lives of
officers and men. In so doing he had to move across the open under heavy
machine gun, rifle and shell fire. On another occasion he went some
way in front of our advanced line and brought in a wounded man under
continuous sniping and machine gun fire. His heroism was the means of
saving many lives, and provided a magnificent example of courage,
cheerfulness and determination to the fighting men in whose midst he was
carrying out his splendid work. This gallant officer has since been
killed in action.</blockquote>
In fact, he had already
distinguished himself for bravey a year before before on the opening
day of the Battle of the Somme at Montauban and also later at Delville
Wood for which he was awarded the Military Cross.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlmWJaYwK23fBaGLKk_uv-QZyE1gxUs6PSlC9sZ_hy73HEc2MqjSn04nq13zA6upd3je8tCRrF5VbXYhzbBXsKgAPEbrU1WtIbwHDyZFrkXsf65K_HENgRf1Sybs_VgQiY7-8-hhWFhY4/s1600-h/IMG_0761.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237892528630273618" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlmWJaYwK23fBaGLKk_uv-QZyE1gxUs6PSlC9sZ_hy73HEc2MqjSn04nq13zA6upd3je8tCRrF5VbXYhzbBXsKgAPEbrU1WtIbwHDyZFrkXsf65K_HENgRf1Sybs_VgQiY7-8-hhWFhY4/s400/IMG_0761.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a>The son of Sir Oliver Lodge, who would write the book <span style="font-style: italic;">Raymond or Life and Death: With Examples of the Evidence for Survival of Memory and Affection after Death</span>.
Believing “that there is no real breach of continuity between the dead
and the living” the book was written to provide an account of the
supposedly successful attempts to contact Raymond through mediums in the
months following his death.</div>
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German
flamethrower used at Hooge, 30 July 1915, and the subsequent British
charge at Hooge, recapturing trenches lost to flamethrowers<br />
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Hooge Crater CWGC<br />
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The site in 1919 and ninety years later.<br />
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You can see as you enter the cemetery the altar within its symbolic crater.</div>
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The
cemetery is four km east of Ypres in a small village in Flanders that
had been the site of a château used as the Divisional Headquarters for
the area. The staff at the château, from the 1st and 2nd Divisions,
were all killed when the château was shelled on 31 October 1914.</div>
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The
crater in the cemetery's name refers to was made by a mine sprung by
the 3rd Division on July 30, 1915. The château and the crater (craters
being strategically important in relatively flat countryside) were
taken by the British 6th Division on 9 August. It was reclaimed by the
Germans on 16 June 1916 and retaken by the British on 31 July 1917 when
the 8th Division managed to push past it by about a mile. The Germans
retook the site in April 1918 as part of the Spring Offensive but were
expelled from the area by the British on 28 September as the Offensive
faltered. During this time, the château was completely destroyed along
with the entire village; several large craters from underground mines
were blown over the course of the 1917 fighting. German forces attacked
the château between 24 May and 3 June 1915, and, despite the
detonation of a British mine by the 3rd Division, leaving a massive
crater, took control of the château and the surrounding area on 30
July.</div>
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In 1920 and today. The cemetery was started in October 1917 by the 7th Division and today holds 2344 graves.</div>
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Among
the dead is Private Patrick Bugden, awarded posthumously the VC for
most conspicuous bravery and devotion to duty when on two occasions our
advance was temporarily held up by strongly defended "pill-boxes". <br />
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Pte.
Bugden, in the face of devastating fire from machine guns, gallantly
led small parties to attack these strong points and, successfully
silencing the machine guns with bombs, captured the garrison at the
point of the bayonet. On another occasion, when a Corporal, who had
become detached from his company, had been captured and was being taken
to the rear by the enemy, Pte. Bugden, single-handed, rushed to the
rescue of his comrade, shot one enemy and bayoneted the remaining two,
thus releasing the Corporal. On five occasions he rescued wounded men
under intense shell and machine gun fire, showing an utter contempt and
disregard for danger. Always foremost in volunteering for any dangerous
mission, it was during the execution of one of these missions that
this gallant soldier was killed.</blockquote>
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Further down the Meenseweg (Menin Road) is this memorial to the King's Royal Rifle Corps.<br />
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Further east towards Menim is the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Gloucestershire Memorial at Clapham Junction</span><br />
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Clapham
Junction was the name given to this site in the Ypres Salient due to
the numerous roads meeting here. This is one of two memorials located
here to the Gloucestershire 1st and 2nd Battalions which fought in the
First and Second Battles of Ypres.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">50th Northumbrian Division Memorial</span><br />
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This monument on "Oxford Road" near the <span class="submitted">Oxford Road cemetery </span>is
to the 50th Division which was established in the north-east of
England and sent to the Western Front in April 1915 where it quickly
saw action during the Second Battle of Ypres. It helped smash the
Hindenburg Line in October 1918. It is inscribed: "To the enduring
memory of all ranks of the 50th Northumbrian Division who fell in the
Great War 1914-1918 and in memory of their comrades of the same
Division who gave their lives in the War of 1939-1945 for the
Liberation of France, Belgium and Holland". This indicates that the
memorial was later altered as shown in the bottom photo to include a
note reflecting the division's heroics in the Second World War. Behind
the memorial are barely visible two lines of bunkers and emplacements
that made up the line of the Cambrai Redoubt.<span style="font-size: 85%;"><br /></span></div>
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Bellewarde</span><br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;"> RE Grave Railway Wood</span><br />
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Between the wars and today</div>
RE
Grave Railway Wood CWGC is unusual for being both a cemetery and a
memorial; additionally, it has no gravestones, choosing instead to
commemorate the men who died on the Cross of Sacrifice itself.The
original memorial was a wooden cross marking where eight Royal Engineers
of the 177th Tunnelling Company and four infantrymen working with them
were killed in action underground during the defence of Ypres between
November 1915 and August 1917 and whose bodies remain <span style="font-style: italic;">in situ</span>. The inscription reads:<br />
<blockquote>
<i>Beneath
this spot lie the bodies of an officer, three NCOs and eight men of or
attached to the / 177th Tunnelling Company Royal Engineers / who were
killed in action underground during the defence of Ypres between
November 1915 and August 1917.</i></blockquote>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Liverpool Scottish Memorial</span></div>
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A
little further along the track towards Bellewaarde Farm is the
Liverpool Scottish Memorial which had been erected in July 2000 and is
clearly visible just inside the woodland when viewing Bellewaarde Ridge
from R.E. Grave as can be seen in the photo below:<br />
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Commemorating the June 16, 1915 Battle of Hooge (known officially as the 'First Action at Bellewaarde')<br />
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'Of
23 officers and 519 other ranks who went into action, only two
officers .... and 140 men came through untouched'. Four officers and 75
other ranks were killed; 11 officers and 201 other ranks were wounded
and 6 officers and 103 other ranks were reported as missing (almost all
of whom were subsequently reported as killed).' (From The Liverpool
Scottish 1900 -1919 by Lt. Col A.M. McGilchrist published by Henry Young
and Sons 1930)<br />
<br />
The action involved the 9th Brigade
(of which the Liverpool Scottish was part) and the 7th Brigade, both of
the 3rd Division of the British Expeditionary Force. The objective was
the German trenches on top of Bellewaarde Ridge about 4km east of
Ieper/Ypres just north of the Menin Road<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqrUrkpWTeOCT6JN5YtOrANIrPe5tIH6T7NckhiZU5QJzFabroqppgv8EG7Qn6M0alON5s4q3_DCNCqli7ssGjDp-ZQ4GnT6aEFxnOYHq_tGQcdoMapjq3rCnCD6aL8ZXNPJ4-p2siXeE/s1600-h/IMG_0767.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><br /></a>The
stone was the keystone above the entrance at the Fraser St (Liverpool)
Barracks of the Liverpool Scottish and shows the badge of the 10th
(Scottish) Bn, The King's (Liverpool Regiment) with a piece of ropework
decoration above it. Most of the Fraser St. building was demolished and
in 1978 the stone was relocated outside the new HQ in Childwall in
Liverpool (Forbes House) where it was set in a brickwork plinth about
five feet high and seven feet across . The stone itself is about four
feet high and wedge-shaped. When Forbes House closed in 1999 it was
offered to Ypres.<br />
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<blockquote>
The
photograph above was taken by Private Fyfe of the Liverpool Scottish, a
press photographer by profession, lying wounded on the German front
line. An artillery observation party (an officer and his signaller) can
be seen going forward . The banner that can be seen on the right hand
side is to indicate the progress of the attacking troops to the friendly
artillery so that supporting fire may be lifted and moved on. Wounded
men are lying in the foreground and a shell is exploding in Railway
Wood. </blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 85%;">http://www.liverpoolscottish.org.uk/stoneunv.htm</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqrUrkpWTeOCT6JN5YtOrANIrPe5tIH6T7NckhiZU5QJzFabroqppgv8EG7Qn6M0alON5s4q3_DCNCqli7ssGjDp-ZQ4GnT6aEFxnOYHq_tGQcdoMapjq3rCnCD6aL8ZXNPJ4-p2siXeE/s1600-h/IMG_0767.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"> </a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ7U_BkCIfvT5u7BmemHmR5KgCYeV70hug1rfAYHYHuSYSW4g1Wkfwkfxjdgf6U72rhNAZOEJ_hI4077yrNThdwY1QeTzrmfk-SldeqRZ_kLcKFmXuvfkETMHFloz6EhnSk8GtthJwr08/s1600-h/IMG_0768.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" height="480" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237896575523449986" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ7U_BkCIfvT5u7BmemHmR5KgCYeV70hug1rfAYHYHuSYSW4g1Wkfwkfxjdgf6U72rhNAZOEJ_hI4077yrNThdwY1QeTzrmfk-SldeqRZ_kLcKFmXuvfkETMHFloz6EhnSk8GtthJwr08/s640/IMG_0768.JPG" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="640" /></a>Nearby I found four grenades and assorted war debris.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">18th Division Memorial at Clapham Junction</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTBXahvhVnI9gVljGdoDTRsVAGMisDMuJwYY211ZeNMWXhPTSsHrwhyphenhyphenAhEUkc1-D_ZamaAYg3RaGMVvB8Oswlus7iENcGMyn7WRwtY7NBKZ8isl7uKcMAZHupitY1KIgQkhqnVcxmMG2o/s1600-h/IMG_0791.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237902528984194018" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTBXahvhVnI9gVljGdoDTRsVAGMisDMuJwYY211ZeNMWXhPTSsHrwhyphenhyphenAhEUkc1-D_ZamaAYg3RaGMVvB8Oswlus7iENcGMyn7WRwtY7NBKZ8isl7uKcMAZHupitY1KIgQkhqnVcxmMG2o/s400/IMG_0791.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a>The second memorial at Clapham Junction to the 18th Division which saw action here in 1917 during the Third battle of Ypres.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry Memorial</span><br />
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This
monument, unveiled in 1985, commemorates the Princess Patricia's
Canadian Light Infantry which, in May 1915, suffered under heavy fire
here during the Second battle of Ypres. Only four officers and 150
soldiers escaped the battle unhurt. If you look at the centre of the
monument you can see flowers that look rather ill-suited; originally the
spaces was to be taken by a maple tree which wouldn't grow and had to
be relegated to the back of the monument.<br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: 180%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Polygon Wood</span></span><br />
Polygon
Wood is a forest located between Ypres and Zonnebeke and was a
significant Great War battlefield in the Third Battle of Ypres, also
known as the "Battle for Passchendaele". It was captured by the
Australian 5th Division on September 26, 1917 during the Battle of Menin
Road.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1057Bp6xlM_d1Hh7e-hChAtG0cLYsDLNDMW2zOJYJkIiqdoTlYOrVJJX5g4TUauYdauLVG3UzSCynPBTJ03VkKLlP0h-JQ5g_o35pnFGLg0RdwQls70PkDYYqgCbCfNTN0s6VFL9Qpebd/s1600/9" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5529016948330181938" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1057Bp6xlM_d1Hh7e-hChAtG0cLYsDLNDMW2zOJYJkIiqdoTlYOrVJJX5g4TUauYdauLVG3UzSCynPBTJ03VkKLlP0h-JQ5g_o35pnFGLg0RdwQls70PkDYYqgCbCfNTN0s6VFL9Qpebd/s400/9" style="cursor: pointer; height: 224px; width: 284px;" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn2IQfuTfVRrNFTAlgEwjHyFYXPXIFaXp0fZzb7a1kRI7rpdDLL8XGATfX3qIk1FWdtTClr7i7ZqzLY4_kdJEnlcddnZkLqCFyNEH021p1t4YkMqbLmRLzR7Qm0kb4NbQFq6GGmLIL67te/s1600/10" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5529016946064483282" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn2IQfuTfVRrNFTAlgEwjHyFYXPXIFaXp0fZzb7a1kRI7rpdDLL8XGATfX3qIk1FWdtTClr7i7ZqzLY4_kdJEnlcddnZkLqCFyNEH021p1t4YkMqbLmRLzR7Qm0kb4NbQFq6GGmLIL67te/s400/10" style="cursor: pointer; height: 222px; width: 274px;" /></a><br />
The area in September, 1917</div>
<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_VtWIlclprYM/SMJoq6tljRI/AAAAAAAAHPs/w0pjgP1wqEs/s1600-h/1.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><br /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Polygon Wood CWGC</span><br />
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Polygon
Wood CWGC is about five miles east of Ypres on the Lange Dreve, a
road connecting Ypres to Menen. The cemetery contains 103 Commonwealth
burials of the Great 17 of them unidentified. 60 of those buried here
served with the New Zealand forces. There is also one German grave. A
walled avenue leads here, past the Cross of Sacrifice, to the Buttes
New British Cemetery. Polygon Wood is a large wood south of Zonnebeke
which was completely devastated in the First World War. The wood was
cleared by Commonwealth troops at the end of October 1914, given up on 3
May 1915, taken again at the end of September 1917 by Australian
troops, evacuated in the Battles of the Lys, and finally retaken by the
9th (Scottish) Division on 28 September 1918. On the Butte itself is
the Battle Memorial of the 5th Australian Division, who captured it on
26 September 1917. A walled avenue leads from Polygon Wood Cemetery,
past the Cross of Sacrifice, to this cemetery made up of dead brought
in from the battlefields of Zonnebeke. There are now 2,108
Commonwealth servicemen of the Great War buried or commemorated, 1,677
of whom remain unidentified.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">5th Australian Division Memorial</span><br />
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The
entrance leading into the wood which had been completely destroyed
during the war. The steps lead to the top of the Butte upon which stands
the Australian Memorial.<br />
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The hill after the war dotted with the graves of soldiers</div>
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The monument looking over Buttes New British Cemetery<br />
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Between the wars and today</div>
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To its right is <span style="font-size: large;"><b>Buttes New British Cemetery</b></span> with its 2,103 graves (only 428 of which are identified) where one finds the New Zealand Memorial to the Missing: <br />
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Inscribed on one of the graves of an Australian lieutenant is<br />
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I am all right, mother. Cheerio.</blockquote>
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Apparently it came from the last letter home...<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">St. Julien</span></div>
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The road between Ypres and St. Julien<br />
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The
village of St. Julien was taken by the Germans on April 24, 1915 after
the first use of poison gas against Canadians at the 2nd Battle of
Ypres. By July 1917 the German lines of blockhouses had been completed
which provided the only stable areas of resistance when thunderstorms
and the allied bombardments rendered the area a putrid, yellowish
sinking morass. It was finally taken on August 3 by the 39th Division at
the cost of 145 officers and 3,716 other casualties.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">St. Julien Dressing Station CWGC</span><br />
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Just off a small road leading off to the right from the main road, within the village itself is this cemetery of 420 graves.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">St. Juliaan Monument (The Brooding Soldier) </span><br />
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Shortly
after being unveiled on July the 9th, 1923 by the Duke of Connaught,
with Marshal Foch, the Earl of Ypres (Sir John French) and the Canadian
High Commissioner in attendance. Foch, the former Commander-in-Chief of
the Allied Armies, said in tribute: "The Canadians paid heavily for
their sacrifice and the corner of earth on which this Memorial of
gratitude and piety rises has been bathed in their blood. They wrote
here the first page in that Book of Glory which is the history of their
participation in the war."<br />
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On
the main road from Ypres to Bruges, this most impressive Memorial at
St. Julien commemorates the "18,000 Canadians on the British left [who]
withstood the first German gas attacks on the 22-24 April 1915. 2,000
fell and lie buried nearby." This had been the first gas attack of the
Great War. "The Brooding Soldier" is almost 11 metres high and displays
the bowed head and shoulders of a Canadian soldier in the position of
"rest on your arms reversed."<br />
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The statue is set in the middle of a garden surrounded by tall cedars, which are kept trimmed to mimic shellfire.</div>
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1988 this plaque misleadingly read "2,000 fell and here lie buried"
when they in fact lie in the cemeteries scattered outside this park.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Henshaw Memorial</span><br />
Going
back on the road and turning left on what had been dubbed "Winnipeg
Avenue," a vital position in 1915 and 1917, is the following private
memorial:<br />
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<span style="font-size: 85%;">In memory of<br />STEPHEN HENSHAW<br />Buckinghamhire Battallion OX<br />Bucks Light Infantry<br />who was wounded in<br />Battle Langemark August 16th 1917.<br />He lay wounded on<br />these field for six days.<br />He was found on August 22nd, 1917.<br />He was moved to Casualty Clearing<br />Station 61, Dozinghem near Proven<br />He died of his wounds on 23rd 1917.<br />Aged 30 years.<br />He is buried at Dozinghem<br />Military Cemetery.<br />Lovingly remembered by all his family.</span></div>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Seaforth (Cheddar Villa) CWGC</span><br />
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On
the main road south-west of St. Julien is Seaforth Cemetery. It was
originally known as Cheddar Villa, the name given to a farm on the west
side of the road. The soldiers buried here for the most part died
during the fighting here on the 25th and 26th of April 1915. , during
the battle of St. Julien there was severe fighting here. In 1922 the
Commanding Officer of the 2nd Seaforth Highlanders asked that the
cemetery change its name to mark the fact that so many men from that
battalion lie here. Of those 150 who do so, 21 are unknown and 19 had
graves later destroyed during the fighting.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhlM2Lv4PLihyRTD5sICbF7xZl0NfBbDN_Z2bVLh_wi-ZY341NJElXnU8GykIeIlgk83EG3YbEPik5_EGMkE57Z1zpnoYKbdEkOybAjh4tzl4SLNhUKyuKYaPVYsLn-VtcxYoWqf3SRYI/s1600-h/IMG_0683.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" height="480" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237659048678349330" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhlM2Lv4PLihyRTD5sICbF7xZl0NfBbDN_Z2bVLh_wi-ZY341NJElXnU8GykIeIlgk83EG3YbEPik5_EGMkE57Z1zpnoYKbdEkOybAjh4tzl4SLNhUKyuKYaPVYsLn-VtcxYoWqf3SRYI/s640/IMG_0683.JPG" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="640" /></a>Going along the road a short ways is Cheddar Villa farm itself, still there.<br />
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_VtWIlclprYM/SXh2zaXdOBI/AAAAAAAALK0/Dl39ENYyMX4/s1600-h/11-32_M003.GIF" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><br /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Bridge House CWGC</span></div>
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south of St. Julien and named after a nearby farmhouse, this tiny
cemetery of 45 graves consists mainly of men from the 59th (North
Midland) Division who died in the Battle of Polygon Wood 1917.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />'s-Graventafel New Zealand Memorial</span><br />
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Heading towards the New Zealand Monument on the left is the remains of this German dugout.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTo-ZjSTKi2JR6Zb8LPeEWeyeziVys7kzhhuod8Jiy9egozUP3om71v0eHrzU7tUJ3kqwAacnwmuXBHSrE5LuN0V9uOJmbNOqYynimvRrGVPSwx9F_7NXuQe-tMtGueLY8xaGXYKNLYCw/s1600-h/IMG_0694.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><br /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDM19d0tYPWWUofViqy5b5v3R-_1RVEQ-ngFfby9_Vw5EMzrlrhpugplXavSHu0MBreArVOloXRg2flpNQ3iuVltwqwyb3ZJ9FQjvKztyXWvyjzoPNAHZ8qIPFqGvukUlN25V4r7e4M3o/s1600-h/IMG_0695.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" height="480" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237663564280608738" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDM19d0tYPWWUofViqy5b5v3R-_1RVEQ-ngFfby9_Vw5EMzrlrhpugplXavSHu0MBreArVOloXRg2flpNQ3iuVltwqwyb3ZJ9FQjvKztyXWvyjzoPNAHZ8qIPFqGvukUlN25V4r7e4M3o/s640/IMG_0695.JPG" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="640" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Signposts to hell- the left directing one to Langemark, the other to Passchendaele.</span></div>
This
memorial was unveiled by the New Zealand High Commissioner in London,
Sir James Allen, on August 2, 1924 and honours the New Zealand
contribution at Passchendaele in 1917 referring specifically to the
October 4, 1917 Battle of Broodseinde. On October 12, within two hours
over 2,800 New Zealand soldiers were killed, wounded or listed as
missing - the most disastrous day in New Zealand’s military history.
Given that New Zealand’s population at that time was only around one
million, this was a huge number and possibly goes some way to explain
why New Zealand alone chose its own memorial rather than have its
missing commemorated with those from the other Dominions on the Menin
Gate.<br />
The memorials here and at Messines and Longueval are
obelisks of Nebrasina stone from Italy with the inscription ‘From the
Uttermost Ends of the Earth’ on a plinth at their base as well as a
badge incorporating a fern leaf superimposed on crossed taiaha with a
frame of Maori carving.<br />
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VCDF Air Marshall David Bamfield and Captain Matthew Jahnke laying wreaths at the memorial on July 13, 2007.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 130%; font-weight: bold;">Zonnebeke</span></div>
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June 7, 1917 and September 14 that same year<br />
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William Orpen's <i>Zonnebeke</i> (1918) at the Tate in London.<br />
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Yprestraat then and now</div>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Dochy Farm New British CWGC</span><br />
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Formerly
the site of a German strong-point taken by 4th New Zealand Brigade on
October 4, 1917, there are 1,439 buried here of whom 958 remain
unidentified.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Scottish Monument</span><br />
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After
90 years the Scots who fought in the Salient have a very moving and
worthy monument. The words from the Declaration of Arbroath transcend
their original meaning and are a fitting tribute.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">Passchendaele</span></div>
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June 15, October 10, and October 30, 1917</div>
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The
Third Battle of Ypres, also known as the Battle of Passchendaele, was
one of the major battles of the Great War, in which British, Canadian,
South African, French and ANZAC units engaged the Imperial German Army.<br />
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The
attack served several strategic purposes. A successful attack offered
the British chance of inflicting significant casualties on the German
army whilst breakthrough into Flanders and thus hinder the German
submarine campaign against British shipping whilst also helping prevent
German bombers from attacking targets in Britain. It would prevent too
the German Army from exploiting the serious morale problems of the
French.<br />
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During the battle, British troops launched
several massive attacks, heavily supported by artillery. However, they
never managed to make a breakthrough in well-entrenched German lines.
The battle consisted of a series of 'Bite and Hold' attacks to capture
critical terrain and wear down the German army, lasting until the
Canadian Corps took Passchendaele on 6 November 1917, ending the battle.<br />
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Passchendaele
has become synonymous with the misery of fighting in thick mud. Most of
the battle took place on reclaimed marshland, swampy even without rain.
1917 had an unusually cold and wet summer, and heavy artillery
bombardment tore up the surface of the land. Though there were dry
periods, mud nevertheless feature of the landscape; newly-developed
tanks bogged down in mud, and soldiers drowned in it.<br />
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The
battle is a subject of fierce debate among historians, particularly in
Britain. The volume of the British Official History of the War which
covered Passchendaele was the last to be published, and there is
evidence it was biased to reflect well on Douglas Haig and badly on
General Gough, the commander of the Fifth Army. The heavy casualties
suffered by the British Army in return for slender territorial gains
have led many historians to follow the example of David Lloyd George,
the Prime Minister of the time, and use it as an example of senseless
waste and poor generalship. The revisionist school of thought (such as
Terraine, p.336-342 and Travers, p.xxi) emphasise the achievements of
the British Army in the battle by inflicting great damage on the German
Army, relieving pressure on the distressed French, and developing
offensive tactics capable of dealing with German defensive positions,
which were significant in winning the war in 1918.<br />
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Casualty
figures for the battle are still a matter of some controversy. Some
accounts suggest that the Allies suffered significantly heavier losses
than the Germans, while others offer an even score. However, no-one
disputes that hundreds of thousands of soldiers on both sides were
killed or crippled.<br />
<b>Passchendaele New British Cemetery</b><br />
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As I cycled towards Passchendaele, the village's CWGC was seen on the left. Of the 2101 buried here, 3/4 are unidentified.<br />
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Between the wars and today.</div>
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outside the cemetery is the last of the Albertina markers the Belgians
erected to mark the passing of King Albert I. This one states "Ein
defensiv Passendale 28th September 1918", and marks the end of the last
Passchendaele offensive towards the end of the War.<br />
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The road to Passchendaele... and Passchendaele during the Great War. The church had stood on the mound in the background.</div>
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The church during the war and its present incarnation</div>
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the church are three stained-glass windows in honour of the 66th
Division. There are three windows. The left states "1914" at the bottom,
with the names and shields of several northern towns above, including
Bury, Accrington, Bolton, Blackburn and Wigan. The larger central window
states "66th Division, British Expeditionary Force, In Memoriam" Above
St George is pictured, and further up a shield with three lions
representing the Duchy of Lancaster. The shields and names of Manchester
and Salford are towards the top. The right window states "1918" and has
more shields, of Padiham, Bacup, Todmorden and others.<br />
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The
memorial is situated south of the village at the end of a street called
Canadalaan on Crest Hill. It had been a fortified farm on high ground
on the line of the final offensive to take the village and the memorial
commemorates the attack here made by the 1st and 2nd Canadian Divisions
on November 6. Following the victory at Vimy, the Canadians had
continued
operations in the Arras area to divert attention from the French front
and to conceal from the Germans the planned offensive in Flanders. </p><p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTkIJE5UnLwgw_3hybYvs-UA85eAOLogIEwyp_d_6XotkLJr1BiqxAsrgG4Ex_Z5ydX6kF_fy-y33iwgi7Sgl1CVoKQOE18xSv-jDQaEjiRWXYcx354bj0T9DgEk2qCZDkBDi_7-Q0Ujo-/s1600/IMG_0701.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTkIJE5UnLwgw_3hybYvs-UA85eAOLogIEwyp_d_6XotkLJr1BiqxAsrgG4Ex_Z5ydX6kF_fy-y33iwgi7Sgl1CVoKQOE18xSv-jDQaEjiRWXYcx354bj0T9DgEk2qCZDkBDi_7-Q0Ujo-/w400-h300/IMG_0701.JPG" width="400" /></a>In
the Battle of Hill 70 which ran from 15 to 25 August 1917, Canadian
forces captured this strategic position on the northern approach to the
city of Lens and secured the western part of the city. The fighting here
cost the Canadian Corps 9,198 casualties. However, considerable ground
was gained and the battle hampered enemy plans to send fresh troops to
Flanders. To the south the French offensive in Lorraine under General
Nivelle was proving to be an unmitigated disaster and with losses in the
neighbourhood of 200,000 men, it precipitated a wave of mutinies that
paralyzed the French army for months. In July, the British commander Sir
Douglas Haig launched his drive in Flanders designed to break through
the front and capture the German submarine bases on the Belgian coast.
The offensive had had a successful prelude at Messines in June, but this
local success was followed by weeks of delay. The second and main stage
of the attack got under way with a tremendous artillery barrage that
not only forewarned the Germans, but also ground the battlefield into
potholes and dust. Summer rains poured down on the very night that the
offensive began and in no time the area became an impassable swamp. As
the British soldiers struggled in the morass, the Germans inflicted
frightful casualties from lines fortified with machine guns placed in
concrete pill boxes. In the next four months at Ypres only negligible
advances were made. Early in October, although the main objectives were
still in German hands and the British forces were reaching the point of
exhaustion, Haig determined on one more drive. The Canadian Corps was
ordered to relieve the decimated Anzac forces in the Ypres sector and
prepare for the capture of Passchendaele. General Currie inspected the
muddy battlefield and protested that the operation was impossible
without heavy cost. He was overruled and so began careful and
painstaking preparations for the assault. In a series of attacks
beginning on 26 October, 20,000 men under heavy fire inched their way
from shell-crater to shell-crater. Then on 30 October, with two British
divisions, the Canadians began the assault on Passchendale itself. They
gained the ruined outskirts of the village during a violent rainstorm
and for five days they held on grimly, often waist-deep in mud and
exposed to a hail of jagged iron from German shelling. On 6 November,
when reinforcements arrived, four-fifths of the attackers were dead.
Currie's estimate of 16,000 casualties proved frighteningly accurate.
Passchendaele had become a Canadian Calvary. The award of no fewer than
nine Victoria Crosses testified to the heroic determination and skill
with which Canadian soldiers played their part in the bitter struggle
for Passchendaele. This memorial stands where Canadian soldiers
encountered some of the fiercest resistance they were to meet during the
war. A large block of Canadian granite set in a grove of maple trees
and encircled with a low hedge of holly carries the inscription
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The Canadian Corps in Oct-Nov. 1917 advanced across this valley-then
a treacherous morass-captured and held the Passchendaele Ridge</blockquote>
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Looking along Canadalaan towards the church.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Tyne Cot CWGC</span><br />
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Tyne
Cot is the largest CWGC Cemetery in the world with 11,953 either buried
here or whose graves had been destroyed given that fighting continued
throughout and the Germans retook the ground and held it between 13
April to 28 September 1918. As a result, nearly 70% of the bodies lie in
unidentified graves. <br />
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The entrance in the 1930s and today</div>
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Between the wars and today; note some of the crosses still have yet to be standardised.<br />
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When I visited it hosted a group of Canadians and British schoolchildren.<br />
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Among
these graves is that of Second-Lieutenant Arthur Conway Young, of the
Royal Irish Fusiliers, killed on August 16, 1917, at the age of 26. He
was, says the inscription, "sacrificed to the fallacy that war can end
war". He had actually been born in Kobe, Japan and was the son of the
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Another inscription for Captain Clarence Smith Jeffries VC, 34th Battalion of the Australian Imperial Forces reads</div>
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ON FAME'S ETERNAL CAMPING GROUND<br />
THEIR SILENT TENTS ARE SPREAD</div>
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A
fourth forms the base of the Cross of Remembrance, at the suggestion of
King George V; you can see the wall at the base in the photo. The
inscription reads"<br />
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THIS WAS THE TYNE COT BLOCKHOUSE CAPTURED BY THE 3RD AUSTRALIAN DIVISION 4TH OCTOBER 1917</blockquote>
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Paying
my respects at the grave of James Peter Robertson, VC, a private in the
27th Battalion (of my hometown, Winnipeg), Canadian Expeditionary Force
who died on 6 November 1917 in the final phase of the Battle of
Passchendaele. As his platoon was being held up by a machine-gun,
Private Robertson rushed the gun, killed four of the crew and then
turned the gun on the remainder. After inflicting more casualties and
carrying the captured gun, he led his platoon to the final position and
got the gun into action, firing on the retreating enemy. During the
consolidation his use of the machine-gun kept down the enemy sniper
fire. Later when two of the snipers on his own side were wounded, he
went out and carried one of them in under heavy fire but he was killed
just as he returned with the second man. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK3VJ3upFv5gHL0GDn6vAuf2gHcwq8iNyBdFFTzNPRczfff1K_KmHDc4dL66Ie4D39JlH4JEgVTQIxE9-fBXUuuxv83nCbxXw8NoOg38TiJWUN_ZGpxdZHyEyuVf_bDdMtRwz7537AO_l7/s1600/Screen+Shot+2013-07-23+at+7.57.38+AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="284" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK3VJ3upFv5gHL0GDn6vAuf2gHcwq8iNyBdFFTzNPRczfff1K_KmHDc4dL66Ie4D39JlH4JEgVTQIxE9-fBXUuuxv83nCbxXw8NoOg38TiJWUN_ZGpxdZHyEyuVf_bDdMtRwz7537AO_l7/s640/Screen+Shot+2013-07-23+at+7.57.38+AM.png" width="640" /></a><br />
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The
grave of another VC from the other side of the world- Lewis McGee, a
sergeant in the Australian Imperial Force- awarded the Victoria Cross
for his actions in the Battle of Broodseinde as part of the
Passchendaele offensive on October 4, 1917. Other VCs from Australia,
Joseph Maxwell and John Patrick Hamilton, are shown visiting his grave
in 1956.</div>
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From the citation for his Victoria Cross in the November 26 1917 <i>London Gazette</i>:</div>
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His Majesty the KING has been graciously pleased to approve of the
award of the Victoria Cross to the undermentioned Officer,
Non-commissioned Officers and Men: —<br />
No. 456 Sjt. Lewis McGee, late Aus. Imp. Force.<br />
For most conspicuous bravery when in the advance to the final
objective, Sjt. McGee led his platoon with great dash and bravery,
though strongly opposed, and under heavy shell fire.<br />
His platoon was suffering severely and the advance of the Company was
stopped by machine gun fire from a "Pill-box" post. Single-handed Sjt.
McGee rushed the post armed only with a revolver. He shot some of the
crew and captured the rest, and thus enabled the advance to proceed. He
reorganised the remnants of his platoon and was foremost in the
remainder of the advance, and during consolidation of the position he
did splendid work.<br />
This Non-commissioned Officer's coolness and bravery were conspicuous
and contributed largely to the success of the Company's operations.<br />
Sjt. McGee was subsequently killed in action.</blockquote>
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Monument honouring the 85th Nova Scotia Highlanders south of Passchendaele "in memory of the gallant comrades
who gave their lives in the operation before Passchendaele at Decline
Copse and Vienna Cottage October 28th to 31st 1917" with the names of those killed. </div>
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<span style="font-family: "comic sans ms"; font-size: 100%;"><b> by Siegfried Sassoon (1920)</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 85%;"><i>HAVE you forgotten yet?... </i><br />For the world's events have rumbled on since those gagged days,<br />Like traffic checked while at the crossing of city-ways:<br />And the haunted gap in your mind has filled with thoughts that flow<br />Like clouds in the lit heaven of life; and you're a man reprieved to go,<br />Taking your peaceful share of Time, with joy to spare.<br />But the past is just the same--and War's a bloody game...<br /><i>Have you forgotten yet?... </i><br />Look down, and swear by the slain of the War that you'll never forget. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 85%;">Do you remember the dark months you held the sector at Mametz--<br />The nights you watched and wired and dug and piled sandbags on parapets?<br />Do you remember the rats; and the stench<br />Of corpses rotting in front of the front-line trench--<br />And dawn coming, dirty-white, and chill with a hopeless rain?<br />Do you ever stop and ask, 'Is it all going to happen again?' </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 85%;">Do you remember that hour of din before the attack--<br />And the anger, the blind compassion that seized and shook you then<br />As you peered at the doomed and haggard faces of your men?<br />Do you remember the stretcher-cases lurching back<br />With dying eyes and lolling heads--those ashen-grey<br />Masks of the lads who once were keen and kind and gay? </span><br />
<span style="font-size: 85%;"><i><span style="font-family: "arial";">Have you forgotten yet?...<br />Look up, and swear by the green of the spring that you'll never forg</span>et.</i></span><br />
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Situated on the D147 and D64 junction about 20 miles northeast of Amiens is this town which had been close to the front line for much of the Great War and saw particularly fierce fighting during the Battles of the Somme and the Battles of Albert. It is about a mile from Mametz.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Fricourt British CWGC </span><br />
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Among the graves is that of Major Robert George Raper who was killed July 2, 1916 whilst leading two forward companies in successfully taking the objective of Lozenge Alley under heavy fire.<br />
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In honour of him, the town named one of its roads after him</div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Fricourt New Military CWGC</span><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7UcDU5CXIOtPW8T6a7-BZgtfrrrWnaJsGzbt2xpQfI9T4FTRaYE8ICeQIyAPp5yq_gNL1DGrunTN_urkekSCZxhWCM8PEyafDybugAxVWtwVzAGrFeViYY9kRGx22Ccn8hAdKXT8OvsQ/s1600-h/IMG_1265.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5240508445922644242" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7UcDU5CXIOtPW8T6a7-BZgtfrrrWnaJsGzbt2xpQfI9T4FTRaYE8ICeQIyAPp5yq_gNL1DGrunTN_urkekSCZxhWCM8PEyafDybugAxVWtwVzAGrFeViYY9kRGx22Ccn8hAdKXT8OvsQ/s400/IMG_1265.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a>Along a small track to the west of the village is this cemetery where 210 lie buried, 26 of whom are still unidentified. This CWGC is in fact made up of four large graves made by the 10th West Yorkshire Regiment after it took Fricourt July 1916.<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi33Qil5eSNIkFcazaUKzWWDMaKtvSXIE7C9FJGwQnvnEUzPADuu8_vqqbXwEaN1UTThF6Vix6zE_x-JoaIilZmTum8R7wci_wXDdOgzRHMsdmkNwJDbE-HscfAhu2gzOUc_gK47ABi-r8/s1600-h/IMG_1264.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5240508445284226066" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi33Qil5eSNIkFcazaUKzWWDMaKtvSXIE7C9FJGwQnvnEUzPADuu8_vqqbXwEaN1UTThF6Vix6zE_x-JoaIilZmTum8R7wci_wXDdOgzRHMsdmkNwJDbE-HscfAhu2gzOUc_gK47ABi-r8/s400/IMG_1264.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a> An interesting additional memorial to a stone, in this case in the form of a scroll for the poet Lieutenant Alfred Ratcliffe, Cambridge University graduate, barrister and a friend of Rupert Brooke:<br />
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<span style="font-size: 85%; font-weight: bold;">Optimism</span><span style="font-size: 85%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 85%; font-style: italic;"> At last there'll dawn the last of the long year,</span><span style="font-size: 85%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 85%; font-style: italic;"> Of the long year that seemed to dream no end,</span><span style="font-size: 85%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 85%; font-style: italic;"> Whose every dawn but turned the world more drear,</span><span style="font-size: 85%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 85%; font-style: italic;"> And slew some hope, or led away some friend.</span><span style="font-size: 85%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 85%; font-style: italic;"> Or be you dark, or buffeting, or blind,</span><span style="font-size: 85%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 85%; font-style: italic;"> We care not, day, but leave not death behind.</span><span style="font-size: 85%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 85%; font-style: italic;"> The hours that feed on war go heavy-hearted,</span><span style="font-size: 85%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 85%; font-style: italic;"> Death is no fare wherewith to make hearts fain.</span><span style="font-size: 85%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 85%; font-style: italic;"> Oh, we are sick to find that they who started</span><span style="font-size: 85%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 85%; font-style: italic;"> With glamour in their eyes came not again.</span><span style="font-size: 85%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 85%; font-style: italic;"> O day, be long and heavy if you will,</span><span style="font-size: 85%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 85%; font-style: italic;"> But on our hopes set not a bitter heel.</span><span style="font-size: 85%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 85%; font-style: italic;"> For tiny hopes like tiny flowers of Spring</span><span style="font-size: 85%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 85%; font-style: italic;"> Will come, though death and ruin hold the land,</span><span style="font-size: 85%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 85%; font-style: italic;"> Though storms may roar they may not break the wing</span><span style="font-size: 85%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 85%; font-style: italic;"> Of the earthed lark whose song is ever bland.</span><span style="font-size: 85%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 85%; font-style: italic;"> Fell year unpitiful, slow days of scorn,</span><span style="font-size: 85%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 85%; font-style: italic;"> Your kind shall die, and sweeter days be born.</span></blockquote>
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A. Victor Ratcliffe</div>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Fricourt German Cemetery</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-c3pKyzT7im6M1wq8bTjYJwvWHkG3aVcheeTvWg_gr3mKeO_2s364_zLst5LKdhw2XFbujsyloV5B_pf0PAZNVkMBAOGydqswtQQnu5K44bEmYLePs2UGDhIjfhR7D6YrShhHRvYRtABl/s1600-h/sign-1.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5289931976507975426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-c3pKyzT7im6M1wq8bTjYJwvWHkG3aVcheeTvWg_gr3mKeO_2s364_zLst5LKdhw2XFbujsyloV5B_pf0PAZNVkMBAOGydqswtQQnu5K44bEmYLePs2UGDhIjfhR7D6YrShhHRvYRtABl/s400/sign-1.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 50px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 198px;" /></a><br />
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To the north of the village is this German cemetery.<br />
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Most of these crosses stand for members of the Imperial German 2nd Army. Of the 17,000 names on them, about 1,000 of died in the autumn of 1914 and the ensuing trench warfare; about 10,000 during the Battle of the Somme (July-November 1916); and the final 6,000 in the Spring Offensive and the Allied counter-attack, Hundred Days, that followed it, in 1918. Starting from 1977 the provisional wood grave markers were exchanged with those made of metal with raised names and dates, where possible. The German Federal Armed Forces took over the construction of the concrete foundations necessary for setting up the metal crosses, which were shifted mostly by participants in youth camps.<br />
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This cross is actually where the famous German fighter pilot Manfred von Richthofen, the Red Baron, killed on April 21 1918 in aerial combat, was buried with military honours by the British. Later his remains were transferred first to Fricourt, then to the Invalidenfriedhof Cemetery in Berlin, and finally to a family plot in Wiesbaden.<br />
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Jewish stones beside crosses show the sacrifice made in an earlier war denied later on. There are in fact 14 graves for Jewish soldiers, each marked with a headstone instead of a cross. The Hebrew characters mean "XXX rests buried" and "their soul may be enwoven into the circle of the living persons."<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Mametz</span> is a village about 8 kilometres east of the town of Albert.<br />
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Mametz Wood was the objective of the 38th (Welsh) Division during the First Battle of the Somme between July 7th and 12th, 1916. The attack of the 7 July failed to reach the wood before the men were halted by machine gun fire. Further attacks by the 17th Division on 8 July failed to improve the position.<br />
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Infuriated by what he saw as a distinct lack of 'push' Sir Douglas Haig and Henry Rawlinson visited the HQ of the Welsh Division to make their displeasure known. Major General Ivor Philipps, officer commanding the Welsh Division, was subsequently relieved of his command. Haig passed control of the Division to Major General Watts, commander of the 7th Division and told him to use it 'as he saw fit'. Watts planned a full scale attack for the 9 July but organising the attacking formations took some time and the attack was subsequently postponed until 10 July 1916. The operational order was blunt, stating that the Division would attack the wood with the aim of 'capturing the whole of it'.<br />
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The 10 July attack was on a larger scale than had been attempted earlier. Despite heavy casualties the fringe of the wood was soon reached and some bayonet fighting took place before the wood was entered and a number of German machine guns silenced.<br />
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The 14th Welsh (Swansea) Battalion went into the attack with 676 men and after a day of hard fighting had lost almost 400 men killed or wounded before being relieved. Other battalions suffered similar losses. However, by the 12th the wood was effectively cleared of the enemy. The Welsh Division had lost about 4,000 men killed or wounded in this searing engagement. It would not be used in a massed attack again until July 31st, 1917.<br />
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A vivid description of the fighting in Mametz Wood may be found in <span style="font-style: italic;">In Parenthesis</span>, a modernist novel written by British poet and visual artist David Jones, who took part in the battle.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">38th (Welsh) Division Dragon Memorial</span><br />
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Took me ages of cycling through woods and a rough single lane road to find this. The memorial takes the form of a red Welsh Dragon tearing at barbed wire on top of a 3 metre plinth. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxRk_kda55_0y-jkxF4Smb1XbKf0lRZTmugj2XNYQLDwCN9PdjyULILEA3RBHq4f82u0q6VuT43KwCUrN9i_q-aJ4OAovEUiYOepGjOy5pxkiOdcVVw-KzgioB-MA1CeX8XxjLDX66caI/s1600-h/IMG_1271.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5240527583037495970" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxRk_kda55_0y-jkxF4Smb1XbKf0lRZTmugj2XNYQLDwCN9PdjyULILEA3RBHq4f82u0q6VuT43KwCUrN9i_q-aJ4OAovEUiYOepGjOy5pxkiOdcVVw-KzgioB-MA1CeX8XxjLDX66caI/s400/IMG_1271.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a>It was at this battle that Siegfried Sassoon made a single handed attack on the enemy trenches on 4 July 1916, as recorded in his memoirs. One can still make out overgrown craters and trenches.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Dantzig Alley CWGC</span><br />
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This cemetery is located east of Mametz, on the north side of the D64, to Montauban. It is very near to the site of the German Dantzig Alley trench, which was captured by the 2nd Queens and 22nd Manchesters on the 1st of July 1916.<br />
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Apparently the family was proud their relative had made managed to get a good job at a bank.</div>
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At the back is this interesting memorial in the form of a seat to the 14th Battalion of the Welsh Fusiliers . It has a quotation by Hedd Wyn, who had been awarded the Bardic Chair at the 1917 National Eisteddfod, Birkenhead, for his poem "Yr Arwr" ("The Hero"):<br />
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Ni all pellterau eich gyrru yn ango<br />
Blant y bryniau glan<br />
Calon wrth galon sy’n aros eto<br />
Er a wahan<br />
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Distance cannot take away your memory<br />
Children of those dear hills<br />
Heart and heart remain together<br />
Even though you are far away</blockquote>
Wynn had been killed earlier whilst serving with 15th Battalion, Royal Welch Fusiliers, at Pilckem Ridge on July 31st (at the same time as another war poet, Francis Ledwidge).<br />
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The memorial also reads "Erected by the Officers, Non-commissioned Officers and Men of the 14th (S) battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers, 38th Welsh Division in memory of their comrades."<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtUZN8cNgv6AXbZg33sXW9x_y1bU7Z8G6abr2SrcCHWMskjs-a3979oag10gWxtExj2iBkjQqZV2NIdqyGYbL27VtzwPo_1CdQCjKFYSd6ceMqb-DNDwBniqXKwY45wSaunr_WARE_lQQ/s1600-h/IMG_1237.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5240494824998713058" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtUZN8cNgv6AXbZg33sXW9x_y1bU7Z8G6abr2SrcCHWMskjs-a3979oag10gWxtExj2iBkjQqZV2NIdqyGYbL27VtzwPo_1CdQCjKFYSd6ceMqb-DNDwBniqXKwY45wSaunr_WARE_lQQ/s400/IMG_1237.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a>This cemetery is located about seven miles east of Albert in France. There are now 1,572 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated here with 420 of the burials unidentified. It was started by the 3rd and 7th Divisions on July 14, 1916 whilst clearing Mametz Wood which you can see at the back of the cemetery. Among the 1500 graves, there are <span style="font-weight: bold;">three pairs of brothers</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">and a VC</span>:<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4mxLc_PLExN2_GIBO66aeHIrZ-JeapLL9qWtWKunTp9YaogcssRuAWh-IRiPRtTwzxfqspuJaSAcZm4Xw-wwm9c47qxMYTRSKqN2oKA-exJhF_Qf116-REgTsMWlsQbBcSF_-nzKl_mc/s1600-h/IMG_1239.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5240496674599354946" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4mxLc_PLExN2_GIBO66aeHIrZ-JeapLL9qWtWKunTp9YaogcssRuAWh-IRiPRtTwzxfqspuJaSAcZm4Xw-wwm9c47qxMYTRSKqN2oKA-exJhF_Qf116-REgTsMWlsQbBcSF_-nzKl_mc/s400/IMG_1239.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a>Lance Corporal Harry and Corporal Thomas Hardwidge, both killed July 11- both killed whilst trying to help the other.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiqgh6i0wDPz-cu8ygEZi5u11lThA7jWgZ_GNlbEbrqxeaDCA-ecYRUA7nFqCNIeZL8QDgOIWL400qFMj__9LdaDtoP7puSG99oSCWawwsFNKeH-04hKovF2Ovz16JRsNHGFALgS-OG9M/s1600-h/IMG_1241.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5240496681412465090" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiqgh6i0wDPz-cu8ygEZi5u11lThA7jWgZ_GNlbEbrqxeaDCA-ecYRUA7nFqCNIeZL8QDgOIWL400qFMj__9LdaDtoP7puSG99oSCWawwsFNKeH-04hKovF2Ovz16JRsNHGFALgS-OG9M/s400/IMG_1241.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a>Privates Ernest and Herbert Philby, both killed August 21, 1916.<br />
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The grave of Lance Corporal Edward Dwyer, VC of the 1st East Surreys; one of four men who won VCs at Hill 60 in 1915. . He took part in the retreat from Mons in 1914 and was promoted in 1915. He was killed in action at Guillemont September 4, 1916. Pte Dwyer received his Victoria Cross from HM King George V at Buckingham Palace on June 15, 1915.<br />
His Citation reads:<br />
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For most conspicuous bravery and devotion to duty on “Hill Sixty”on 20th April 1915. When his trench was heavily attacked by German grenade throwers, he climbed on to the parapet and although subjected to a hail of bombs at close quarters, succeeded in dispersing the enemy by the effective use of his hand grenades. Private Dwyer displayed great gallantry earlier in this day, in leaving his trench under heavy shell fire to bandage his wounded comrade.</blockquote>
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width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheOAvuF6AsvxhLYu_470ELKhN8-_jBGMUVYYyv57XeeD12m2wKHI4XCssUD0zIgKic_wbtc2Md6SQ1IHw2qWQoLKPiYtH7X22gYMQOqBcyxnmZN9rYgbUZ_tLMLAfj1yO2hi9coJ32N1we/s400/16" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5505521796346723762" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">A merchant navy 'deck boy' killed less than a fortnight into the Second World War<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VtWIlclprYM/SLoyvoPAYOI/AAAAAAAAG9c/94AkZL5rk4I/s1600-h/IMG_1335.JPG"><br /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqFSZDb9syeXKA4IVHnO7hoPJ1OjpGk5L9CxPPGDCZwF6IaY8QX-i8ttzsB4B9QA0aus5_on2qrbciScgTwnLen63pgyVi2RujdHFkg_y8pcfH5h430cY99k87LV3HOjYuWywzJOLMUPSZ/s1600/18"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqFSZDb9syeXKA4IVHnO7hoPJ1OjpGk5L9CxPPGDCZwF6IaY8QX-i8ttzsB4B9QA0aus5_on2qrbciScgTwnLen63pgyVi2RujdHFkg_y8pcfH5h430cY99k87LV3HOjYuWywzJOLMUPSZ/s400/18" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5505521803128866498" border="0" /></a><br />Private memorial to Flight Lieutenant Herbert Wanklyn<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju504-QnJna3ECb-S62DvCD_QUIapVhfvl-glsod4R0dVh0p9fjuylpwKEv6iH30tYM-13G6kibWseNx_yk-UCLfPEaB9xW0efX5Nyjd9yNTZeOAcXbPBbRp6ui3AtlYa3bUpTXi5UlFyb/s1600/19"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEju504-QnJna3ECb-S62DvCD_QUIapVhfvl-glsod4R0dVh0p9fjuylpwKEv6iH30tYM-13G6kibWseNx_yk-UCLfPEaB9xW0efX5Nyjd9yNTZeOAcXbPBbRp6ui3AtlYa3bUpTXi5UlFyb/s400/19" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5505521811078575122" border="0" /></a><br />The graves of Frenchmen who died during the Great War, their flag flying above.<br /></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" >Les Baraques CWGC</span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeIuGmP8S0nzSCbOwdG1CjR3kHWcChMT2kC5GE6rBGTIErZCD5SDNZTNVXF0W5JQsRL_RHlM6r0450Jo3iG8vd3pGDCihvL-dIuqv_J4DpTEFHK-0CMAmFx4zTUphZRmBldQKkOU2RJbA-/s1600/1"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 312px; height: 233px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeIuGmP8S0nzSCbOwdG1CjR3kHWcChMT2kC5GE6rBGTIErZCD5SDNZTNVXF0W5JQsRL_RHlM6r0450Jo3iG8vd3pGDCihvL-dIuqv_J4DpTEFHK-0CMAmFx4zTUphZRmBldQKkOU2RJbA-/s400/1" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5505524200252837522" border="0" /></a> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQhlMRjlpulX0UF2rvgYuHPAEuM-fp9MeIktI4wpa7pjtewdV-CxXxjwhTtVTuORv8VSjQPakbrhRAMyVin3EdBVsZNya1ZAViVAeHVdCjuJcNyE62A2-q-uK0awKHw6KlIPGpBsHqPf7u/s1600/2"><img style="cursor: pointer; 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width: 312px; height: 234px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnM1YIefbpC7q0xau1VEvTx_Nu1jWrzRUV45xe7gQDwPufGCUd0jm0mdx4oDuO_XIfxscLxYEZB2prGsmekhyRKDtfz-koDbWMyk2InSrJL8b4Uc_Cfz9LM00w5w8dKkQgL-Z4SWTgcRC0/s400/4" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5505524215277727858" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;">The graves of four men executed for murder are here- one British, Private J Chandler, 10th Bn. Lincolnshire Regiment, and three men of the Chinese Labour Corps.<br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqOhdyEr6KRWGUQKbrQKi4lY-BlCL8iVD79lGD0hqSoNseRvNqiylkss1gE4b2Kx8DzK7QYHjnfYGPOkbtnviGiYY9T64ZOdH6700XuClLYatTgV2jmpvUyi9LlUgR0gu6TfRtQqHP3g4V/s1600/5"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqOhdyEr6KRWGUQKbrQKi4lY-BlCL8iVD79lGD0hqSoNseRvNqiylkss1gE4b2Kx8DzK7QYHjnfYGPOkbtnviGiYY9T64ZOdH6700XuClLYatTgV2jmpvUyi9LlUgR0gu6TfRtQqHP3g4V/s400/5" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5505524217043292770" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The Friends' War Victims' Relief Committee had originally been set up in 1871 by Quakers, and by the time of the war undertook relief and reconstruction work overseas.<br /></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWrrs1geil8DBP-TCx08tQNCAXnf41_FTWBuU8fBo972K1MzG3M4cUwNTdDZD_3ul6thidFHF0RNhvN6J_vXeWs-Xsa1uV59ovQ6eWp_enB9dQNYkd8tXJsw8a54G898OtwLiLhj-zqyzi/s1600/7"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 382px; height: 286px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5kPf-p1XaSBBEvU68yt80GY81V8unhdH7sDdhIswdSFcYIyW6QR_l0EbFJJ7xm0kDWJpcp5xCqBhwdPTXhvOymXVJLQdtXeL_nT7KPWrdWRYwcH_2MWS2s5kjvYfKGSznaXYFJj1xSwTv/s400/6" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5505525258840898162" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWrrs1geil8DBP-TCx08tQNCAXnf41_FTWBuU8fBo972K1MzG3M4cUwNTdDZD_3ul6thidFHF0RNhvN6J_vXeWs-Xsa1uV59ovQ6eWp_enB9dQNYkd8tXJsw8a54G898OtwLiLhj-zqyzi/s1600/7"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 304px; height: 406px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWrrs1geil8DBP-TCx08tQNCAXnf41_FTWBuU8fBo972K1MzG3M4cUwNTdDZD_3ul6thidFHF0RNhvN6J_vXeWs-Xsa1uV59ovQ6eWp_enB9dQNYkd8tXJsw8a54G898OtwLiLhj-zqyzi/s400/7" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5505525261714298994" border="0" /></a><br /></div>Nearby the contribution of Brits and Canadians are remembered in the liberation of Calais.<br /></div><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">St. Omer</span></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBEpL3o1U8PvCToGS_OjNtWeUroL-ZJkvhU6Bwu2Iv-c6CohgztsbdGEMx_FhMNjE49ULPxFaqQqPcI191RJGRLLBEwRF_4HSJQwo8IzSJISU71PKnEW9RAhUSHsmKlxSKDzmUZsFnSwfd/s1600/8"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 384px; height: 287px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBEpL3o1U8PvCToGS_OjNtWeUroL-ZJkvhU6Bwu2Iv-c6CohgztsbdGEMx_FhMNjE49ULPxFaqQqPcI191RJGRLLBEwRF_4HSJQwo8IzSJISU71PKnEW9RAhUSHsmKlxSKDzmUZsFnSwfd/s400/8" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5505525272046545042" border="0" /> </a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlC8oWcrW1mtFkBBzj2SvOHVKrkm8XMMoRihTKxJ0oeT5N7g1Aza8MhlpFkc9_0Em1RXsYoJarUDDlg3PW_VxubOEncK1KtHwR0qQymQs24Duq5ThkPSQhj_GKmregM3gTF3ScPWRKjn1q/s1600/9"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 216px; height: 288px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlC8oWcrW1mtFkBBzj2SvOHVKrkm8XMMoRihTKxJ0oeT5N7g1Aza8MhlpFkc9_0Em1RXsYoJarUDDlg3PW_VxubOEncK1KtHwR0qQymQs24Duq5ThkPSQhj_GKmregM3gTF3ScPWRKjn1q/s400/9" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5505525273603326082" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8ZXyMDsgqROtSw23tfJoy3Y-xe5sWQ8Go9_WAfBZv0RTqRM9CJO3O90hnWBpdDvHEf7a1KLBzNsLzDWWuM28xqu5uG9X3Wem-8ALXnqe0ewEapot9OR255NycSGrPpV0lmxLf8kK08xXs/s1600/10"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 250px; height: 280px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8ZXyMDsgqROtSw23tfJoy3Y-xe5sWQ8Go9_WAfBZv0RTqRM9CJO3O90hnWBpdDvHEf7a1KLBzNsLzDWWuM28xqu5uG9X3Wem-8ALXnqe0ewEapot9OR255NycSGrPpV0lmxLf8kK08xXs/s400/10" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5505525279627027058" border="0" /></a><br /></div>By winning the Victoria Cross during the Indian Mutiny, Lord Roberts became the highest-ranking British soldier to ever hold a V.C. His citation:<br />On following up the retreating enemy at Khodagunge, Lieutenant Roberts saw in the distance two sepoys [going away with a standard. He immediately gave chase, overtaking them just as they were about to enter a village. Although one of the fired at him, the lieutenant was not hit and he took possession of the standard, cutting down the man who was carrying it. He had also on the same day saved the life of a sowar who was being attacked by a sepoy.”<br />In 1899, he took command of British troops in the South African (Boer) War, relieving Kimberley and advancing to Pretoria and the following year was made Earl Roberts and Viscount St Pierre, of Kandahar in Afghanistan, and Pretoria in the Transvaal Colony, and of the City of Waterford. At the age of 82 he took on the ceremonial post of Colonel-in-Chief Overseas Forces, taking particular interest in the welfare of the Indian troops. It was whilst reviewing them that he caught a cold which turned into pneumonia. He died here.<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv1Zm1-8LP9L8aXTD8ipWbhUooqdfN1XGIsEgvMzTQp07Jjt5rhpO272p8A_1XxpitAdDFlvukzW_ALyLiHCz1yorpoe-tHAjfazJfnDjXVsmjSWN6WoVU65k5sV9OA4eWPzplGhg_zbs/s1600-h/IMG_1324.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv1Zm1-8LP9L8aXTD8ipWbhUooqdfN1XGIsEgvMzTQp07Jjt5rhpO272p8A_1XxpitAdDFlvukzW_ALyLiHCz1yorpoe-tHAjfazJfnDjXVsmjSWN6WoVU65k5sV9OA4eWPzplGhg_zbs/s400/IMG_1324.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5240548666115493906" border="0" /></a>Former residence of Sir John French and Field Marchall Haig.<br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXnUcTZXAgiF2oekTX3U2qr_6GXO0xPruoMHRZzdF26NIS4zLhIH6A_MGzMY9SjYGYREDnVK4mBLyW_YZ74RR2VSioxjO2uDUwrCrl6q4zIOiLIHYQj6_LaIKRcMNe4Gf3TKgcxSZSqx4/s1600-h/IMG_1320.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXnUcTZXAgiF2oekTX3U2qr_6GXO0xPruoMHRZzdF26NIS4zLhIH6A_MGzMY9SjYGYREDnVK4mBLyW_YZ74RR2VSioxjO2uDUwrCrl6q4zIOiLIHYQj6_LaIKRcMNe4Gf3TKgcxSZSqx4/s400/IMG_1320.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5240547512364397186" border="0" /></a>Here at the square in St. Omer, Place du Marechal Foch, Lord Roberts' funeral took place, attended by the Prince of Wales.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ruminghem Chinese Cemetery</span><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTozOr_rve-uVM6rJ4LH22OA3siTP5BlCvCCqUGuZv8zqIJkcZeqslutR0KB-6KwHrE-SUZHFedhF2dbWDCTJ4XqTOYIh87fRQ24jyfq3-BN6yYcPBxSPOuIRAAfqnDs3VJ5BM4IiioUk0/s1600/2"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTozOr_rve-uVM6rJ4LH22OA3siTP5BlCvCCqUGuZv8zqIJkcZeqslutR0KB-6KwHrE-SUZHFedhF2dbWDCTJ4XqTOYIh87fRQ24jyfq3-BN6yYcPBxSPOuIRAAfqnDs3VJ5BM4IiioUk0/s400/2" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5505530152336412466" border="0" /></a> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuyTJzIlGcAhXv8nb1I0zl9RFwS04QZvOciVHN_sV_C5Ov4TO8tHjyCvh9WkR5UQ5G8RbqiW97v58wdAWqyfPkSrc3GmY4t-g4DclUZlCb0hLnW0rj6cnxeUV4LAFrS7H8bmi_AHs07WtL/s1600/1"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuyTJzIlGcAhXv8nb1I0zl9RFwS04QZvOciVHN_sV_C5Ov4TO8tHjyCvh9WkR5UQ5G8RbqiW97v58wdAWqyfPkSrc3GmY4t-g4DclUZlCb0hLnW0rj6cnxeUV4LAFrS7H8bmi_AHs07WtL/s400/1" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5505530149450459714" border="0" /></a><br /></div>This was the first CWGC I visited on the trip after being surprised to find on my map a 'cimetiere chinoise' apparently in the middle of nowhere. In fact, there are more Chinese dead than villagers.<br />The village itself lies between Calais and St. Omer and the cemetery is to the west of the village, and a little north of the road to Muncq-Nieurlet. This area had been the Headquarters of No. 11 Labour Group and a Chinese Hospital were stationed at Ruminghem. There are now over 70, 1914-18 war casualties commemorated in this site with 39 originally having been brought in from St. Pol-sur-Mer Chinese Cemetery. The cemetery covers an area of 340 square metres and is enclosed by a wall of rubble and flint.<br /><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-m05UAZ8oD-nVLen513X0L1eDkFSJ45ZWd6WGGvXA7hofe1LW_KESv5sJAZQVcXCIOywQUi9euFyjKfQ1Qh5jssTO1-kTgvitgcBxeae1ucpuygItoLWHBrMs1aP3y74_t-vy1K4-xmUj/s1600/3"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 470px; height: 352px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-m05UAZ8oD-nVLen513X0L1eDkFSJ45ZWd6WGGvXA7hofe1LW_KESv5sJAZQVcXCIOywQUi9euFyjKfQ1Qh5jssTO1-kTgvitgcBxeae1ucpuygItoLWHBrMs1aP3y74_t-vy1K4-xmUj/s400/3" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5505530154659810802" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjA0thACoXQgIypiZKi3SIVU90jfxVzhSzhyaX1qLrLb00UZ2KhIPRkXUFTGbFSfxGFXy2OUqqSqgPObjlob2MjD_VXi6NDqfb6hyphenhyphenBp1-i_8RF-suK_pmdbdeayBN04JO-fNwpDqCJaOc/s1600-h/IMG_0241.JPG"><br /></a><div style="text-align: left;">Hard to imagine in this isolated corner of Northern France a cemetery containing Chinese is being continually maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission while I doubt anyone knows about these dead back in China.<br /></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih0ex7k0ljkd-Ok2YvMxWh9DPbLakfSR9CEtVup9JsH-9TOM1w1m9u_n7i0bzQbm5p0hYDTb33WlEiz5CXXSnxHJTwo_LJ1mMGcTrr3D8HJWOTauh4OUo4FeHLdxUMvk1AGcuzyy0Be7mT/s1600/5"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 223px; height: 298px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih0ex7k0ljkd-Ok2YvMxWh9DPbLakfSR9CEtVup9JsH-9TOM1w1m9u_n7i0bzQbm5p0hYDTb33WlEiz5CXXSnxHJTwo_LJ1mMGcTrr3D8HJWOTauh4OUo4FeHLdxUMvk1AGcuzyy0Be7mT/s400/5" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5505530170048249410" border="0" /></a> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi97KFd_Yb_1vlGMBgfmSnEMIRY-SLKDJlGtoPBs-2fYoCkeEDf4mpWFazweTYOdcS1OBquakBsOO1mr45yFV1SCEnmrtIqQmKnXO8iG6U2frIsDHfhHj0XJRBxxCb060nzYjzzEv755yFJ/s1600/6"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi97KFd_Yb_1vlGMBgfmSnEMIRY-SLKDJlGtoPBs-2fYoCkeEDf4mpWFazweTYOdcS1OBquakBsOO1mr45yFV1SCEnmrtIqQmKnXO8iG6U2frIsDHfhHj0XJRBxxCb060nzYjzzEv755yFJ/s400/6" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5505531094438530802" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjCAGAU6sZN3qMscNaauyLQCDyAj4M1tPukF7uMGPrMgDySUw9hU1kQ8ro7zE6GDpMfXiQu1nJGFxgP9B-fxAy4GYCCTRnD9DYF8OJpVmwD1xN_XIdnPsPkq-SHVCGvIYMjonjbtKOw_I/s1600-h/IMG_0242.JPG"></a><div style="text-align: left;">The farmer who had offered to show me around when I arrived told me how, only a few months earlier, two bodies had been identified (after 90 years!) and the stones were replaced with these markers while awaiting new, inscribed headstones.<br /></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi47p8ZjqvNE-ZcBgPlfYkArIykM-bYwwunBkJvNF7DZIjiU9lXS4USxpoX0tAU8TwrZn34-KPURKV7qYshVYFLoljJm1VDu-ub063Skbs90k75zQbG7qR3S3SZ_fyw1ktTdomd5kfi_bSS/s1600/7"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi47p8ZjqvNE-ZcBgPlfYkArIykM-bYwwunBkJvNF7DZIjiU9lXS4USxpoX0tAU8TwrZn34-KPURKV7qYshVYFLoljJm1VDu-ub063Skbs90k75zQbG7qR3S3SZ_fyw1ktTdomd5kfi_bSS/s400/7" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5505531098019293554" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: left;">He had told me that the Chinese Government intends to erect some kind of memorial to the Chinese Labour Corps; can't fathom what propaganda purpose that would serve in the new, strident and assertive China of today...<br /></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWnEbIJNVla_iWTL9HZ3M8L5U7-coiqT7YXIq1Je5aqEhGlu-4zO4QfhbWGWKkiN9z2HLp-k3skhxEhgEZAS0mlaftxfmxc9OmjgPXE9g9VF1StNCDIkT_Lc7Rr3v4xP5pWqDPYeElNog_/s1600/9"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWnEbIJNVla_iWTL9HZ3M8L5U7-coiqT7YXIq1Je5aqEhGlu-4zO4QfhbWGWKkiN9z2HLp-k3skhxEhgEZAS0mlaftxfmxc9OmjgPXE9g9VF1StNCDIkT_Lc7Rr3v4xP5pWqDPYeElNog_/s400/9" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5505531110916286898" border="0" /></a> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvNPQVBeoJuw_LtSXM_wyWSLtQPme_xmKj7rej0o6s1pinHy-RUKBSLL7LZOzPFxVO2-mvdTIA0M75Q2DBqm-Ij7c7CXy1wpU3EoncepdnFkjwBvW4IpRO7YoQ7LMX6gR55NlLgNNyBpIz/s1600/8"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvNPQVBeoJuw_LtSXM_wyWSLtQPme_xmKj7rej0o6s1pinHy-RUKBSLL7LZOzPFxVO2-mvdTIA0M75Q2DBqm-Ij7c7CXy1wpU3EoncepdnFkjwBvW4IpRO7YoQ7LMX6gR55NlLgNNyBpIz/s400/8" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5505531105433173938" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Typical Chinese headstones found throughout France and Belgium.<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjJllBmlXmCm7WPsN4EmreDGorBRseqUxzQm2d6hVAGag_BTRTsMrRsWntwLzzyQNRGwwrAuVLiHyn_TFBCR6ty5nn_TX32XN8cmJMulW1Kh4hr1cFgsz0q3uz3agf8ktnuxMSUpsHVjcv/s1600/4"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 312px; height: 233px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjJllBmlXmCm7WPsN4EmreDGorBRseqUxzQm2d6hVAGag_BTRTsMrRsWntwLzzyQNRGwwrAuVLiHyn_TFBCR6ty5nn_TX32XN8cmJMulW1Kh4hr1cFgsz0q3uz3agf8ktnuxMSUpsHVjcv/s400/4" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5505530160311304434" border="0" /></a> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKnlOIIwQpM4dy6B26uryGpKNr2WDDTKEgw0K93R-s7rQUnQUYQqz3E60uAhVeHKiTZY8kwC7RRmrIC9v0LCWKuGWqyGT29nWKEFT_gDX9J7VtI_oWtKzd8DkGBX46VLc0-7ylkz3GQtvR/s1600/10"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 312px; height: 234px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKnlOIIwQpM4dy6B26uryGpKNr2WDDTKEgw0K93R-s7rQUnQUYQqz3E60uAhVeHKiTZY8kwC7RRmrIC9v0LCWKuGWqyGT29nWKEFT_gDX9J7VtI_oWtKzd8DkGBX46VLc0-7ylkz3GQtvR/s400/10" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5505531116791803106" border="0" /></a><br /></div>This field across from the cemetery is where most of these Chinese actually died, clearing out the German ordnance, hence the dates indicating death almost all come nearly a full year after the Armistice.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPQB7FQEW6sSccEs5QcxF0420-UJpDqzvNE7iZKH5hct9x6CY7jMLLIMRUadjg_V3QLAw5_7q87o6xuupagd3WhgPKJJv-GAHfXW2t5YAtKzftgVyvgo6atcOCGauon2dRFruB7MN4bkcI/s1600/12"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPQB7FQEW6sSccEs5QcxF0420-UJpDqzvNE7iZKH5hct9x6CY7jMLLIMRUadjg_V3QLAw5_7q87o6xuupagd3WhgPKJJv-GAHfXW2t5YAtKzftgVyvgo6atcOCGauon2dRFruB7MN4bkcI/s400/12" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5505531538225636242" border="0" /></a> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEielTM4QkKAUD5EBQXWAslwb2J4m2lGH3No6HH-VEG5RV0dV9libWOJoR6QVXK-yWfZSZWI8PDhcHmLXf12JjjENPL0UY2nVvSgcHrSmPMrrzm_Xscka-Os3bqeFBSC15yfVy2yESiq_u6v/s1600/11"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 224px; height: 299px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEielTM4QkKAUD5EBQXWAslwb2J4m2lGH3No6HH-VEG5RV0dV9libWOJoR6QVXK-yWfZSZWI8PDhcHmLXf12JjjENPL0UY2nVvSgcHrSmPMrrzm_Xscka-Os3bqeFBSC15yfVy2yESiq_u6v/s400/11" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5505531535551739378" border="0" /></a> As early as 1915 the Imperial War Graves Commission initiated a scheme to import and plant home grown maple seeds on Canadian graves; that same year the Australian wattle plant was planted on graves in Gallipoli. In the same spirit, cuttings of <span style="font-style: italic;">oleraia</span> and <span style="font-style: italic;">Veronica traversii</span> were imported from New Zealand. After the war the commission went to great lengths to ensure that only plants considered sacred and appropriate for commemoration were planted on Indian and Chinese graves. In this case you can see the two towering Gingko Bilbao trees which, this farmer informed me, had survived the atomic blast in 1945 (he didn't know which one) and brought here. In my schoolboy French I tried to explain that Chinese would not appreciate Japanese trees to be selected for the purpose, and perhaps willows would have been netter suited.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjppazKrx0RHl53FyHvcndyaZzV5gpBiQQu3k70QjWu2-qWjUjpHdW-QxoR3opTtrcSKmrw4zKsCh4ybQDODNEBkVDaQ-bQxQJ1hPAkAX0YPKilfXGLYN8RAYvlOPwyT-Lrd2N7gyBxYqk/s1600-h/IMG_0250.JPG"><br /></a>For a detailed examination of the Chinese serving in the Great War, you can read Brian C. Fawcett's THE CHINESE LABOUR CORPS IN FRANCE 1917-1921 at <span style="font-size:85%;"><cite>sunzi1.lib.hku.hk/hkjo/view/44/4400862.pdf<br /></cite></span> The CWGC also has a three page leaflet on the Chinese Labour Corps which is available to download in pdf form at <a href="http://www.cwgc.org/admin/files/cwgc_clc.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.cwgc.org/admin/files/cwgc_clc.pdf</a><br /><br />on the other side of the Foret d'Eperlecques is<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Bleue Maison CWGC</span><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvubiiZiMxkS-0sY0Jj19H_rk53oLgBD_tKBkzD4pNRdl1oNyTchBhlBeMhQifKFRt3mCbQNVSSHgXfQXMzRTaPAyoBaOBTzETJxpF3AJZYNmQvSlLqduvgzpSMdC-tqMGhaPy-Afgxtp1/s1600/1"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 310px; height: 231px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvubiiZiMxkS-0sY0Jj19H_rk53oLgBD_tKBkzD4pNRdl1oNyTchBhlBeMhQifKFRt3mCbQNVSSHgXfQXMzRTaPAyoBaOBTzETJxpF3AJZYNmQvSlLqduvgzpSMdC-tqMGhaPy-Afgxtp1/s400/1" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5505533315436496530" border="0" /></a> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitin9MCOQjn8d16PBbAf_zBPq1X7An2u0fNVl0xaaG936odm94W38Rory0RdMSxgJn_fo2JpLPjYeGBCgSh-wquIgvwy9qQfKiUkucDkIshr2XUdatsQ1DRgydM_lfWQNt5QMsgpJtNzXk/s1600/2"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 308px; height: 232px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitin9MCOQjn8d16PBbAf_zBPq1X7An2u0fNVl0xaaG936odm94W38Rory0RdMSxgJn_fo2JpLPjYeGBCgSh-wquIgvwy9qQfKiUkucDkIshr2XUdatsQ1DRgydM_lfWQNt5QMsgpJtNzXk/s400/2" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5505533320572315698" border="0" /></a><br /></div>Arrived here July 23 in the village of Eperlecques. This small cemetery was established in May, 1918-April, 1919, mainly by the four Casualty Clearing Stations posted at Watten in April-October, 1918. After the Armistice a number of graves were brought into it from Mardyck and Oye Churchyards; three American graves have been removed. There are now 60 buried here from the Great War. The cemetery covers an area of 280 square metres and is enclosed by a stone rubble wall.<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVvtkXrll3VWfVY9mahuniNlatTlsl17_002kGpCJC0m4vIXwqoZXor_-HGm1n9nJj1zvmvmbKs1gXOJOXg7nh7aCrqOU3wwylMbxyIs6wHeqD98dQ6dukQuFb_qB_xnruI3vlW9HgKpjK/s1600/3"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 309px; height: 232px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVvtkXrll3VWfVY9mahuniNlatTlsl17_002kGpCJC0m4vIXwqoZXor_-HGm1n9nJj1zvmvmbKs1gXOJOXg7nh7aCrqOU3wwylMbxyIs6wHeqD98dQ6dukQuFb_qB_xnruI3vlW9HgKpjK/s400/3" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5505533318389769282" border="0" /></a> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHO8g-0zQJjZuwC5tz9ddUVdKG_hJFWc3rEhF7QWs7eZHbhNpF_reDgJ7y8KW2wtlSoZKZN4tT-p5SwMwpvKD0i1gMdwCpF2AGweakb4CZspdLqe4vrlKkfnyisfD8N7GE7oVWoQjL3FMF/s1600/4"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 308px; height: 231px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHO8g-0zQJjZuwC5tz9ddUVdKG_hJFWc3rEhF7QWs7eZHbhNpF_reDgJ7y8KW2wtlSoZKZN4tT-p5SwMwpvKD0i1gMdwCpF2AGweakb4CZspdLqe4vrlKkfnyisfD8N7GE7oVWoQjL3FMF/s400/4" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5505533330201342194" border="0" /></a><br />Some of the stones stand out by the unusual dark colour.<br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI5FeTULqiWMgpxHO-8CrWS6eW7Rmw_8haK7ERmiaBOC-Km080j_EEMs7tLFs1VXSPq5HPqeb35Weyl9VcaoLurf31c65JLtq11mYLNMHfhKDvb7vbYJN2UY5x_dY2s4-Oq3J0UOGkmrfT/s1600/5"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI5FeTULqiWMgpxHO-8CrWS6eW7Rmw_8haK7ERmiaBOC-Km080j_EEMs7tLFs1VXSPq5HPqeb35Weyl9VcaoLurf31c65JLtq11mYLNMHfhKDvb7vbYJN2UY5x_dY2s4-Oq3J0UOGkmrfT/s400/5" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5505533331327553570" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU_5nTzWHE-6bjXN71gsvHn660zMTBvs3Wn_5oYCpYVh_NcDnAN5pJzFQjtoOQtGPh3Me_PjZcniH3lu8AQulJDjY0fes9OLyy0b10xbV6Ct488HkI7Lnm9tI1Cjv9M19gLgbb371mtXJr/s1600/6"> <img style="cursor: pointer; width: 203px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiU_5nTzWHE-6bjXN71gsvHn660zMTBvs3Wn_5oYCpYVh_NcDnAN5pJzFQjtoOQtGPh3Me_PjZcniH3lu8AQulJDjY0fes9OLyy0b10xbV6Ct488HkI7Lnm9tI1Cjv9M19gLgbb371mtXJr/s400/6" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5505534653851687970" border="0" /></a><br /></div>This isolated plot holds dead from two world wars with this single unidentified grave from the Second World War.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirBU2YX5ldEfmej3Rt2f48o0VLULMXSsSsTdPX-jIppmXDpiK9Wa-OhuiKYQjix0seYuoT54uUvJjSmJY7hBnFJUh7oDAP0ILj4GJAhl6u9iKJLMQlzmKhMjP0MGNKqYoPBJ4RLO_uxbJ0/s1600-h/15-97_M003.GIF"><br /></a><br /></div><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cassel CWGC</span><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;">Cassel is on the hill upon which the Grand Old Duke of York marched his 10,000 men up only to march them down again. It was here that Sir John French set up his HQ followed by Marchal Foch and General Plumer.<br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5Y09anZ2nio6zTKC8tqXBYfTFZUZ1hBIpoiPKK3KZSAAczBt0Vz7lgNCOKHkPCo3hvz9vFxlgdxGM2NdjukqcLci73VzsMbNeZyiPZZVVogA_tWwqntBgxOsPiBaNcrKv76Tqz51Y7x9n/s1600/1"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 310px; height: 234px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5Y09anZ2nio6zTKC8tqXBYfTFZUZ1hBIpoiPKK3KZSAAczBt0Vz7lgNCOKHkPCo3hvz9vFxlgdxGM2NdjukqcLci73VzsMbNeZyiPZZVVogA_tWwqntBgxOsPiBaNcrKv76Tqz51Y7x9n/s400/1" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5505577167991102242" border="0" /></a> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMeQbKNH8pIicCbaLC9GVtQYT0HvCcA0kxjWqEBVX6YbB865bnsoeipIf2MzRs6aESb4KfJkcw4iVVFT5uqqbbdFTDGPrfurJjYUjAZTUhpaOPvJTHADCqgu9fuR5ThWB3NS9CW8OsipSX/s1600/1"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 312px; height: 234px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMeQbKNH8pIicCbaLC9GVtQYT0HvCcA0kxjWqEBVX6YbB865bnsoeipIf2MzRs6aESb4KfJkcw4iVVFT5uqqbbdFTDGPrfurJjYUjAZTUhpaOPvJTHADCqgu9fuR5ThWB3NS9CW8OsipSX/s400/1" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5505577598317029730" border="0" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTVSm9IitC5QzYsZwbebVs_ftVIWjSkzCr-UxmWBwQt8a8MDA2MoRqwT4FJxPs6Ake90LLB03GDnhUwSbRF6waOVMs76bLc1yEz7FldWVA8lQxF_CdANkHir0JHGnmaqLEq-IufwhuwRM/s1600-h/IMG_0266.JPG"> </a>The dead of two world wars lie in this communal cemetery</div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VtWIlclprYM/SK579lM9_XI/AAAAAAAAFDA/mh1slAL4KKE/s1600-h/IMG_0263.JPG"> </a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9BKsg3QvhwmmJB5A1EuuNOFmpvcS-0z3BiXPzjNULEmZBxORZNwcDQhHe_6z0YMMscTPibF2VXQx0lc0c_5TtPmRry1yXXJK_N4fAVXvM88fjRMakcWBTtFEv_h0AtTEDMEjS5QJAmU4h/s1600/8"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 225px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9BKsg3QvhwmmJB5A1EuuNOFmpvcS-0z3BiXPzjNULEmZBxORZNwcDQhHe_6z0YMMscTPibF2VXQx0lc0c_5TtPmRry1yXXJK_N4fAVXvM88fjRMakcWBTtFEv_h0AtTEDMEjS5QJAmU4h/s400/8" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5505534658528771106" border="0" /></a> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGqdUnW-fAwK6kyj8seoOq69FMiUCtfLspCWF0p3BKXtZx0LtxDN9ErvsvArI4fiytKZTx84c4mrMY023EDBF53DqGXk4Zp7qeyB9yk5r8rq8XO13kPCXsFESniT3jk5RTfV9H5goYqNqN/s1600/9"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGqdUnW-fAwK6kyj8seoOq69FMiUCtfLspCWF0p3BKXtZx0LtxDN9ErvsvArI4fiytKZTx84c4mrMY023EDBF53DqGXk4Zp7qeyB9yk5r8rq8XO13kPCXsFESniT3jk5RTfV9H5goYqNqN/s400/9" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5505534668245807058" border="0" /></a><br />Belgian and French markers beside British allies<br /><span style="font-size:180%;"><a style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.tracesofevil.com/1999/03/was-stalins-death-result-of-berias.html"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 674px; height: 70px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVMIJHUQlGr7uXB8hO4IAwIXuMZAbvH_Z3h87xIX9Jj4FGiwiEmPs92iixOeoVunzMyN_LwjEQOnuPxhdBDPdrc6SJMK2gTZu8AOPLPLOj2ysfosHCid_qs-hpkf6iC6yyDvxN-pLohLRn/s400/myphoto%252811%2529.jpeg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5635989962624483810" border="0" /></a></span><br /><span style="font-size:180%;"><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.tracesofevil.com/1999/03/was-stalins-death-result-of-berias.html"> </a></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" ><a href="http://www.tracesofevil.com/1999/03/was-stalins-death-result-of-berias.html"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">Click for Great War Sites Associated with Hitler</span></a></span><br /></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2950256458945700210.post-70957346381593796262008-08-30T21:21:00.003-07:002017-04-20T12:31:33.404-07:00Bethune to Albert<span style="font-weight: bold;">Bois de Noulette CWGC</span><br />
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Eight kilometres south of Béthune is this little cemetery holding the remains of over 100 war casualties.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Tranchee de Mecknes CWGC</span><br />
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I came across this cemetery started by French troops in May, 1915 outside of Lens on the road from Arras to Béthune. The trench, and consequently the cemetery, were named from the Arab version of the town of Mequinez in Morocco, from which these troops had come. There are nearly 200 graves here.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 180%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Béthune</span></span><br />
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Le Grande Place before and after the war, and today. Béthune
was an important British headquarters and suffered extensive German
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L'hôtel de ville then and now. This spire contained a peal of bells, one of which, dated 1576, was called "La Joyeuse" which had given its name to the street behind the belfry, which leads to the Church of St. Waast (1533—1545), whose massive tower was more than an half-century later than the rest of the building.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXCvAMVE04ON2fNcvy-PGgJ2l7vlmkHg-QSA7JXANmvhZiIadx_gMXSn8OpKYAsswgTcuw4JswnVME3N7UXkWjQ08un6kNCgT7gDiNDzreNXZV1S-c_JL8MgYV07aqA-RXCG8vSBPSv80/s1600-h/IMG_1049.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5240225097137732690" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXCvAMVE04ON2fNcvy-PGgJ2l7vlmkHg-QSA7JXANmvhZiIadx_gMXSn8OpKYAsswgTcuw4JswnVME3N7UXkWjQ08un6kNCgT7gDiNDzreNXZV1S-c_JL8MgYV07aqA-RXCG8vSBPSv80/s400/IMG_1049.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a>When I arrived in mid-July it flew
the Tibetan flag in solidarity with another small peaceful land
suffering occupation and military subjugation. </div>
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Rue d'arras before and after the war, and today</div>
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Marked <span style="font-style: italic;">Bethune</span></div>
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Fouquieres-les-Bethune is a village less than a mile south-west of Béthune. This village cemetery has graves from both world wars with 387 Commonwealth burials from the First World War (of whom 249 are from the 46th (North Midland) Division, which spent three years in the neighbourhood and based its transport here) and 29 from the Second with five German war graves.<br />
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This cemetery is located in an old mining village 20 kilometres north of Arras in the direction of Bethune called Sains-en-Gohelle. Seven Chinamen among the 471 war casualties commemorated here, having been moved from the Petit-Cuincy German Cemetery whilst the British soldiers were reburied after the Armistice in Douai British Cemetery: Chang Wen Chih, Chang Yen Tien, Chao Pang Hsieu, Chaw Chang Mai, Che Tso Cheng, Chia Bun Li and Chou Ching Yuan, all from the Chinese Labour Corps. The extension is on the south side of the communal cemetery and was begun in April 1916 to be used continuously until October 1918.who were The cemetery extension covers an area of 2,134 square metres and is enclosed by a brick wall.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Arras</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The cathedral then and now- <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">f</span>rom the </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The New York Times Mid-Week Pictorial, April 19, 1917: </span>“The
Present Condition of the Cathedral at Arras: The Cathedral of Notre
Dame, while not so ancient as that at Rheims, being begun in 1755, was
one of the most beautiful in France. Its destruction is beyond hope of
its ever being repaired.” </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 85%; font-weight: bold;">The General</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 85%;">‘Good-morning; good-morning!’ the General said<br />When we met him last week on our way to the line.<br />Now the soldiers he smiled at are most of ’em dead,<br />And we’re cursing his staff for incompetent swine.<br />‘He’s a cheery old card,’ grunted Harry to Jack<br />As they slogged up to <span style="font-weight: bold;">Arras </span>with rifle and pack.<br />But he did for them both by his plan of attack.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 85%;">Siegfried Sassoon</span></div>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Arras Road CWGC, Roclincourt</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxAl-RkM_MR6xSdafCYh9nWOI3lti-nhzE5KLLq8oSetGvRCD5DCJv8IFA3A5JusAncDoa7F0j7TeW2BapeeZrOUcNPQ2GoD5rcwZZOF5B2qmWvhA9qx7hEwpeORBd4C4jn4uQjYdCDAE/s1600-h/IMG_1075.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5240239901623225570" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxAl-RkM_MR6xSdafCYh9nWOI3lti-nhzE5KLLq8oSetGvRCD5DCJv8IFA3A5JusAncDoa7F0j7TeW2BapeeZrOUcNPQ2GoD5rcwZZOF5B2qmWvhA9qx7hEwpeORBd4C4jn4uQjYdCDAE/s400/IMG_1075.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a>Roclincourt was just within the British lines before the Battles of Arras, 1917; the 51st (Highland) and 34th Divisions advanced from the village on the 9th April, 1917, and the 1st Canadian Division attacked on their left, across the Lens road. Arras Road Cemetery was begun by the 2nd Canadian Infantry Brigade soon after the 9th April, 1917, and until the Armistice it contained only the graves (now at the back of the cemetery) of 71 officers and men of the 7th Canadian Infantry Battalion (British Columbia Regiment) who fell in April, May and June, 1917; but in 1926-29, it was enlarged by the concentration of 993 graves from a wide area mainly North and East of Arras.</div>
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The CWGC.pdf:<a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.cwgc.org/admin/files/Arras%20Leaflet%20PDF.pdf"> </a><cite><span style="font-size: 85%;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.cwgc.org/admin/files/Arras%20Leaflet%20PDF.pdf">www.<b>cwgc</b>.org/admin/files/<b>Arras</b>%20Leaflet%20PDF.pdf</a></span></cite></div>
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Ste. Catherine is a village adjacent to Arras on the north-western side.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Ste. Catherine CWGC</span><br />
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This cemetery of 339 Great War buriels (4 unidentified) is on the left of the road to Therouanne (the D341), not far beyond the Church, then along a side street.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpKNuCQdhy9BA08UgVmt1IM_TJJG0vSov7rG22zg0zgrYBuHwDttb3Wvt226JGEmsrk8g0FaPmuR0KQCFxN0cFkZrh1m6tmT_qNrmdLvbfVTOd8nKdEVD_emInS4UiiPR035Ad5rThtWc/s1600-h/IMG_1315.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5240545926736910418" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpKNuCQdhy9BA08UgVmt1IM_TJJG0vSov7rG22zg0zgrYBuHwDttb3Wvt226JGEmsrk8g0FaPmuR0KQCFxN0cFkZrh1m6tmT_qNrmdLvbfVTOd8nKdEVD_emInS4UiiPR035Ad5rThtWc/s400/IMG_1315.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a>Two Yorkshiremen shot at dawn for desertion- Privates T. W. Watts and W. Neave, 10th Bn. West Yorkshire Regiment, executed August 30, 1917.<br />
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The cemetery is located on the Bethune Road (D63) from Arras to Lens and has ten airmen's graves dating from the Second World War.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Louez CWGC</span><br />
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Louez-les-Duisans is a hamlet on the north-west edge of Arras taking the N39 Arras to St. Pol road before turning right at the first junction after the Arras ring road intersection and then following the D60 north to the 'Hamen du Louez'. This CWGC is the resting place for 204 Commonwealth soldiers of the Great War joined by two German war graves.<br />
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The Neuville-St Vaast German War Cemetery<br />
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This is the largest German Military Cemetery in France with 44,833 burials. Like most other German cemeteries it is a concentration cemetery. In the early 1970's the old wooden crosses were replaced with new metal ones each engraved with up to four names. Jewish soldiers received a headstone and 129 of these are scattered about the field. A mass grave 140 metres long is situated along the front wall of the cemetery and holds the remains of 8,040 soldiers. The names of 842 identified bodies are marked on the metal plaques.<br />
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According to Coombs MBE (p.81), Ayette, 15 kilometres south of Arras, was "the scene of fierce fighting by the 31st and 32nd Divisions in March and April 1918." The village was behind the German lines and captured in March 1917. In 1918 during the German offensive it was defended by the 62nd Division.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Ayette CWGC</span><br />
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This small plot is the final resting place for 54 soldiers. Three of the graves are represented by special memorials After having been destroyed by shell fire.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Ayette Indian and Chinese CWGC</span><br />
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A Chinese pagoda takes the place of a cross, even though more Indians (52) lie buried here than Chinese (33). One German lies here as well.</div>
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Two Chinese buried under a French and British stone respectively.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj46JuPaRAvTMeNWSzz0wpNfmRF8O5QNI7mQD5Q_o9vcCy_o0i7r78tB_3dvcHs_XNwFNYWcO4aTVqjGOTH1W4AC2MPnqQwdXdR3226mWrJckxpoPDAmkXP3XAvFLD9PksdO3X-jYrM5FU/s1600-h/IMG_1087.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><br /></a></div>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Bucquoy</span><br />
This farming village is a further three miles south going down the D919 road at the junction with the D8. It lay behind German lines and served as both a base and billeting area until the British were in range with their artillery. It was finally taken in March 1917 and was defended by valiantly by the 62nd Division after the German advance on March 26, 1918.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Bucquoy Road CWGC</span><br />
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The 68 First World War burials (two of whom are unidentified), all date from 23-28 August 1918.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "times new roman" , "times";"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">Just south of Bucquoy is this cemetery holding the graves of over 700 soldiers, 527 identified</span><b><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";">.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Shrine CWGC</span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia";">89 are buried in this cemetery just outside the village on the</span><span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "times new roman" , "times";"> road to Hannescamps.</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><b>Becordel-Becourt</b><br />
Three kilometres north of Albert are the two hamlets of Becordel and Becourt which were in the British rear lines from which units moved into action.<br />
<span style="font-size: 130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Dartmoor CWGC</span></span><br />
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Private James Miller of the 7th Battalion, The King's Own (Royal Lancaster) Regiment, who was awarded the VC for the following action:</div>
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On 30/31 July 1916 at Bazentin-le-Petit, France, the battalion was consolidating its position and Private Miller was ordered to take an important message under heavy shell and rifle fire and to bring back a reply at all costs. He was compelled to cross the open and on leaving the trench was almost immediately mortally wounded. In spite of this he managed to deliver the message and to stagger back with the answer, falling dead at the feet of the officer to whom he delivered it.</blockquote>
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6SWrsvV-tREr9EjY3TDdtscjAnyZ80K64QlAw-b2cbYa4MOARn6ChUDec8wOczwmPTI9JD-lXrcpQ5HXUHS2Egte1YzafUGhokjihaBMIW823NTAeZZvsLp6jz41Px1NgLYzViAGkOzU/s1600-h/IMG_1284.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5240530414360638354" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6SWrsvV-tREr9EjY3TDdtscjAnyZ80K64QlAw-b2cbYa4MOARn6ChUDec8wOczwmPTI9JD-lXrcpQ5HXUHS2Egte1YzafUGhokjihaBMIW823NTAeZZvsLp6jz41Px1NgLYzViAGkOzU/s400/IMG_1284.JPG" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a>The grave of 2nd Lt. Henry Webber , 7th Battalion, South Lancashire Regiment, <span style="font-weight: bold;">the oldest recorded battle death of the Great War</span>. Apparently he received his commission on 26th July 1915 aged 67 after having lied about his age knocking off 10 years (other sources have him at 68).<br />
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On the outbreak of war he offered his services to the War Office as a
"rough rider" or in any other capacity. Rejected he tried very hard to
form a mounted company of hunting men, which was also rejected so he set
off to get a commission.<br />
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Shortly before his 68th birthday he was gazetted on the 1st of May 1916
as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 7th Battalion of the South Lancashire
Regiment and after a short period of training at Park Royal was
appointed Transport Officer and left for France.<br />
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With his battalion he took part in the opening phases of the Somme
including the capture of La Boiselle on the 3rd of July. Two weeks
later, on the 17th of July he wrote to a friend:<br />
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"Fifty one years ago I got my colours in the XI and last week 51 years
ago was bowling against the old boys and looking on some of them as
"sitters" and in the "sere and yellow leaf". Yet here I am a Lieutenant
in HM army having to salute three sons if I meet them out here, a
Colonel and two Majors. I am 1st Line Transport Officer to this
Battalion and we have been plumb in the centre of the picture during the
last ten days and gained no end of "kudos" and also a very severe
mauling. I am so far extraordinarily fit and well, though, when I tell
you that for four consecutive days I was either on my feet or in the
saddle for twenty one hours, out of twenty four, you will see that there
is a bit of work attached to the job."<br />
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Four days later, before the letter was received, he was dead. He had
taken rations up for his battalion and was talking to his CO at
Battalion HQ in Mametz Wood when he was struck by a shell fragment. He
was taken to the advanced dressing station, and still unconscious was
taken to the nearest Field Hospital where he died on the same evening,
the 21st of July.<br />
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His Commanding Officer wrote "He was so gallant and full of energy. We all had the greatest admiration and respect for him."<br />
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He was mentioned in Sir Douglas Haig's despatches of the 4th of January 1917.<br />
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His three serving sons were Lt Col N.W. Webber DSO RE, Maj H.H. Webber
RGA and Major LM Webber RFA. He left a widow and eight children. </blockquote>
According to Jan Morris in the second book of her imperial trilogy, Fred Selous reached nearly the same age when he "was killed in action in 1917 as a captain in east Africa"at the age of 66. This remarkable individual according to Morris was "a great hunter, who had... killed hundreds of elephants in his time, had won the Founder's Medal of the Royal Geographical Society, liked to travel through the bush wearing nothing but a shirt, a hat and a belt, and claimed to have seen an extraordinary animal called a Nandi bear, like a cross between a hyena, a bear and a leopard." He wrote Sunshine and Storm in Rhodesia before retiring to Worplesdon in Surrey before volunteering for the Great War. (90-91), <u>Pax Britannica</u>. <br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0IpzeSkSK25DgntnDoABbXrNp0wVeU9do-_FFTraZY1U0C1CchJSH6KnTdSfQFGKrbLWQg7uAuNjoGd_0kunYwc6yJbBYDvln5Uw0nQpOS04HpK0CEg_30ufTeTKvR6gN4pajFMetZc4/s1600-h/IMG_1282.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5240530406133664658" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0IpzeSkSK25DgntnDoABbXrNp0wVeU9do-_FFTraZY1U0C1CchJSH6KnTdSfQFGKrbLWQg7uAuNjoGd_0kunYwc6yJbBYDvln5Uw0nQpOS04HpK0CEg_30ufTeTKvR6gN4pajFMetZc4/s400/IMG_1282.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Father and son buried side-by-side</span>- 44 year old Sergeant George Lee and 19 year old Corporal Robert Lee. Both served with 'A' Battery of the 156th Brigade of the Royal Field Artillery, and were killed in action on September 5, 1916 with Frances Lee back in Peckham losing a husband and son on the same day.<br />
<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_VtWIlclprYM/SW33LyORmxI/AAAAAAAAK1o/Vfwr2P-_nvc/s1600-h/10-28_M001.GIF" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><br /></a>Going north on the same the small road to the right side after half a mile south of the village of Becourt is <span style="font-weight: bold;">Norfolk CWGC</span><br />
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323 lie buried here.</div>
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The grave of Major Stewart Walter Loudoun-Shand, VC. He was born in Ceylon but moved to South London and later volunteered to serve in the Boer War with the Pembroke Yeomanry as a Lance Corporal in South Africa. At 36 and serving as a Temporary Major in the 10th Battalion, Yorkshire Regiment (Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own), was awarded the VC for following deed:<br />
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On 1 July 1916 near Fricourt, France, when Major Loudoun-Shand's company attempted to climb over the parapet to attack the enemy's trenches, they were met by very fierce machine-gun fire which temporarily stopped their progress. The major immediately leapt on the parapet, helped the men over it and encouraged them in every way until he was mortally wounded. Even then, he insisted on being propped up in the trench and went on encouraging his men until he died.</blockquote>
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><b>Albert French National Cemetery</b><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzBpjZjbkWhyphenhyphen3VP_b1SRVOQPPZDLYTjyAQ8RoY_eb5U-Agq-xm6hMB1iTuWXHKxm3cmcxKPyvYNEfx1_0Fn-9uSdu6GfBBmUOh-CMTZZpKJhTM6wqFokCF45wmkSy1bCPx2BsxFmguRTU/s1600-h/IMG_1286.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5240531334366355138" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzBpjZjbkWhyphenhyphen3VP_b1SRVOQPPZDLYTjyAQ8RoY_eb5U-Agq-xm6hMB1iTuWXHKxm3cmcxKPyvYNEfx1_0Fn-9uSdu6GfBBmUOh-CMTZZpKJhTM6wqFokCF45wmkSy1bCPx2BsxFmguRTU/s400/IMG_1286.JPG" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a>The first military cemetery I encountered as I cycled into Albert from the east on the D938 was this French one which holds 3,175 French soldiers. I didn't know until after that there is also one burial looked after by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Wing Yuk Shan of the Chinese Labour Corps, who died in December 1918.<span style="font-size: 78%;"> (<span style="font-weight: bold;">http://www.ww1battlefields.co.uk/somme/albert.html</span>)</span><br />
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<b>Albert Communal Cemetery Extension</b><br />
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On the other side of the road is this cemetery which contains 862 Great War and 25 Second World War casualties of whom 12 Great War and 8 Second World War casualties are unidentified.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBY8-n8EDvXKbWbEt9dknwqrLCzlNhKV3hiFuWAJVZMesHZPP6ads_RijAnYLZjQSAwCmkxFhGed9Menq83gx2i0Lnqbskb3NkNg_VJtkoPpkY-Ll4gIi_AXrnkG0pyrYausy8lS-Wvzk/s1600-h/IMG_1288.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><br /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi30mebNPE2hI6C9JVqwycBjBG95TMxxq9uivBzhhpRE5R6p-1CsDNDbbmu1BhGaUyq2N186lBjuR3ZINIEYZJyih3DLwxFrBYAF3RWa-fe1o9ZdkF0aRRCyWCRXyxMHgI3dd9PvV_fa0A/s1600-h/IMG_1290.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5240533160510328946" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi30mebNPE2hI6C9JVqwycBjBG95TMxxq9uivBzhhpRE5R6p-1CsDNDbbmu1BhGaUyq2N186lBjuR3ZINIEYZJyih3DLwxFrBYAF3RWa-fe1o9ZdkF0aRRCyWCRXyxMHgI3dd9PvV_fa0A/s400/IMG_1290.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a>Brigadier-General Henry Clifford, DSO died whilst in command of the 149th (Northumberland) Brigade by a German sniper when inspecting trenches near Mametz Wood. He was the son of Major-General Sir Henry Clifford who had won the Victoria Cross when serving as a Lieutenant in the Rifle Brigade in the Crimean War in 1854. Brigadier-General Henry Clifford's nephew, Lieutenant Hugh Clifford was killed on the first day of the Somme, and is buried at Ovillers Military Cemetery.<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIu9G0jlP0OHy7JO1_tYZUjy5HI7Gkhl9dkiRABaOJZruONdnhJln9WibDBgR34Acerkz-tgg-iS_-0gPfx6jHAc6NvmYEnF-tDhRd0TefJJXanWlMr2CvEPnjnvL_xNtxMRQvd86yTok/s1600-h/IMG_1289.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5240531347685223362" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIu9G0jlP0OHy7JO1_tYZUjy5HI7Gkhl9dkiRABaOJZruONdnhJln9WibDBgR34Acerkz-tgg-iS_-0gPfx6jHAc6NvmYEnF-tDhRd0TefJJXanWlMr2CvEPnjnvL_xNtxMRQvd86yTok/s400/IMG_1289.JPG" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 100%;">(Temporary Lieutenant- Colonel) R. B. Barker </span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 100%;">was captain in the 23rd Royal Welsh Fusiliers when he married Gertrude Hobson and joined a battalion of the Royal Fusiliers in 1914 which he commanded in France. He had been mentioned in dispatches four times. It was after </span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 100%;">organising the defences of a wood after having first making a personal reconnaissance under shell and machine gun fire</span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 100%;"> that he had been awarded the DSO before being promoted to Brigadier General. He was killed in the debacle of 1918.</span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">The Golden Madonna</span><br />
On January 15, 1915 the statue of Mary and the infant Jesus - allegedly found by a shepherd in the Middle Ages and credited with miraculous properties so that by the end of the nineteenth century Albert was christened by Pope Leo XIII 'The Lourdes of the North' - on top of the Basilica of Notre Dame de Brebieres was hit by a shell and left suspended in an horizontal position about to fall.<br />
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When the German army recaptured the town in March 1918 during the Spring Offensive the British bombarded the basilica to prevent it from being used by the Germans as an observation post. The statue fell in April 1918 and was never recovered. In August 1918 the Germans were again forced to retreat, and the British reoccupied Albert until the end of the war. A replica basilica was completed to the original design.<br />
On the D929 northeast of Albert towards Contalmaison on the Bapaume road are the following sites:<br />
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Greater love hath no man than this that he lay down his life for his friend. In front of this monument on 1/7/16 the 'Tyneside Scottish' and the 'Tyneside Irish' brigades attacked the enemy. For many hours the fortunes of arms fluctuated but ere night had fallen the two Tyneside Brigades with the aid of other units of the 34th Division attained their objective. Think not that the struggle and the sacrifice were in vain.</blockquote>
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This cemetery is right outside Albert to the east along the D929 road. It began in July 1916 after the village of La Boiselle was taken. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggkQJBFrmrmPrGMzl_2B8326YFRfHJ8jKXj34HytFCg3NjwfsaCJM4_vKZFEFHuqQIZ12UdiOpXucnSEGeaNTHNH46YFmnmLztICnotr4-2vYyH0lF2Z6eCjsH6IObXD8gy_h6oLKQQ3U/s1600-h/IMG_1298.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"></a>There are 28 graves of men from the Northumberland Fusiliers here, all but one of which bear the date July 1, 1916.<br />
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Just over 150 men were buried here between then and the end of January 1917, when the cemetery was closed for wartime burials. The location of the cemetery is on the west side of Tara Hill, and another 250 or so graves were brought in after the Armistice, many being men of the 34th Tyneside Division who attacked further along the Bapaume road from here on the 1st of July 1916. It was the 101st and 102nd Brigade which attacked near here, and Lieutenant-Colonels Lyell and Sillery commanding battalions in the 102nd (Tyneside Scottish) Brigade died along with their men that day and like many of their men are buried here.<br />
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Rifleman Sid Whiting, D Co. related the following story about Captain Sir Foster Cunliffe :</div>
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'We could get Quaker Oats--so I suppose the custard was porridge, really speaking--and bags of apples, but the question of a utensil really bothered us. One day when we were out of the line, I was sitting in the barn at Bienvillers, when I saw Madame bring out a saucepan of food for the dog. As soon as she turned her back, quick as a flash before the dog could get at it, I nipped over, emptied the food on the ground and 'won' the saucepan...So I told [Sir Foster] the whole story--including the story of the saucepan...He said, "Well, I've attended banquets and eaten off gold plate, but I don't think I've ever before eaten food cooked in a dog's saucepan!"'</blockquote>
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXAbUv2GQxLoljxVz-KLEZYxRItBSy-qKoKtBnusrc5-KoVG8OFFhTnhpXC4pnlNAu3r8ZOgswLU00BKnpXoqRszZ1YLHKbyxySJnIL0ytRfznZQw8irnWeZCEkugesmRE4AUSogtE3mo/s1600-h/IMG_1297.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5240536228802333778" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXAbUv2GQxLoljxVz-KLEZYxRItBSy-qKoKtBnusrc5-KoVG8OFFhTnhpXC4pnlNAu3r8ZOgswLU00BKnpXoqRszZ1YLHKbyxySJnIL0ytRfznZQw8irnWeZCEkugesmRE4AUSogtE3mo/s400/IMG_1297.JPG" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a>In Plot 1, Row G, Grave 1 is Lieutenant Colonel William Lyle, age 40, commanding officer of the 23rd Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers, one of the four battalions of the regiment called the ‘Tyneside Scottish’. These battalions were raised in the Tyneside industrial region of the north–east of England and associated themselves with a Scottish background.<br />
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Striking inscription for 2nd Lieutenant C. Edwards, East Yorkshire Regiment, died aged 23 on 29i17:<br />
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"He responded to Lord Kitchener's appeal August 1914 and died for his country."<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_bbyT091uC1OOYqluybsRvEMEddmSJKDEPUX6i-xfP2zDEcYMJ8JKNLC1-G3oosWkhDHggBCd1IYtoiffrxC05ub_w77FwB9zaAmOWfIJB6frIO9wn-N28dl5djDC42DRZ6DvR8M2fRJM/s1600-h/rmrmemorialbapaumepost.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295831351690615618" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_bbyT091uC1OOYqluybsRvEMEddmSJKDEPUX6i-xfP2zDEcYMJ8JKNLC1-G3oosWkhDHggBCd1IYtoiffrxC05ub_w77FwB9zaAmOWfIJB6frIO9wn-N28dl5djDC42DRZ6DvR8M2fRJM/s400/rmrmemorialbapaumepost.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 340px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>This photo right after the war shows a memorial to the Royal Montreal Regiment in the cemetery; according to <span style="font-weight: bold;">http://www.ww1battlefields.co.uk/somme/albert.html</span> the brass plaque the soldier is looking atnow hangs over the bar in the Royal Montreal Regimental Mess in Westmount, Quebec.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Blighty Valley CWGC</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1DwYpyt9DCV0d4LcCfnd1duBEClUHjEVK619kIKQ3WucSOTuI0ws_koXHAHW4b7GOSp3L4iu6D5Db-mqz9cIBfac52YeS2eYTcYJJwF_P5M21zg6GRVKqAqheNtEIRXOowmEFsmynnzQ/s1600-h/IMG_1301.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"></a>South of Authuille towards Albert is Blighty Valley, a busy and often dangerous thoroughfare to the front lines facing the Leipzig Redoubt and Thiepval. 993 British soldiers lie here.<br />
To read a remarkable<span style="font-style: italic;"> letter found unsigned in woods near Blighty Valley British Cemetery, Départment de la Somme see</span><span style="font-style: italic;"> </span><a href="http://www.stevemelia.co.uk/mydeadname.htm"><span style="font-size: 85%;">http://www.stevemelia.co.uk/mydeadname.htm</span></a><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Rancourt German Cemetery</span></b><br />
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Today Rancourt has the dubious privilege of hosting three military cemeteries, one French, one British, and German. It is also the key site for the commemoration of French participation in the Battle of the Somme.<br />
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There are only a few graves here from the early months of the war. Two thirds of the dead lying here are from the Battle of the Somme between July and November 1916. Most of the remainder are from the summer of 1918. In 1929 repairs were carried out following negotiations with the French Government and the mass graves were given a proper wall and planted with roses. Trees were planted and the cemetery was inaugurated on 17 September 1933. The problem of how to mark the names of the fallen had to wait until the end of the Second World War for a solution and eventually in 1972 the wooden crosses were replaced with crosses made from Belgian granite. There are two mass graves containing the remains of 7,492 soldiers of whom only 2,316 could be identified. A small chapel made from red Vosges sandstone lies within the cemetery and inside is an entombment carved by Geiger the Munich sculptor.<br />
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Longueval church in 1915 with Delville Wood behind, and today, at the end of Rue de l'eglise</div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Delville Wood South African National Memorial and CWGC</span><br />
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Delville Wood is a small forest next to to the village of Longueval which was the scene of an intense battle between British Empire and German forces during the 1916 Battle of the Somme.<br />
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The best known unit associated with the fighting in Delville Wood is the South African Brigade, part of the 9th (Scottish) Division — of the 3,433 men from the brigade who entered the wood, only 768 emerged unscathed. No prisoners were taken. The ferocity of the fighting is demonstrated by the fact that <span style="font-weight: bold;">of the South African casualties, the dead outnumbered the wounded by 4 to 1 </span>(in typical trench warfare, the ratio of dead to wounded was 1 to 3). In the words of British military historian Peter Liddle:<br />
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The South African Brigade had fought steadfastly under such appalling and prolonged circumstances that in the grim litany of the Somme's savagery of sustained attack and counter-attack, Delville Wood stands unenviably pre-eminent. </blockquote>
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The two horsemen are supposed to be Castor and Pollux, representing the brotherhood of English and Afrikaans. There is a replica outside the Government buildings in Pretoria.</div>
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Further inside is the Delville Wood South African National Memorial. Unlike the other national memorials to the missing raised to commemorate the part played by Dominion forces on the Western Front in World War I, this memorial has no names inscribed on it. Instead, the names of the missing dead of South Africa were inscribed on the battlefield memorials to the missing, along with those of the dead of the United Kingdom. This memorial also serves as the national memorial to all those of the South African Overseas Expeditionary Force who died during World War I. A total of some 229,000 officers and men served in the forces of South Africa in the war. Of these, some 10,000 died in action or through injury and sickness, and their names are written in a memorial register that was kept at this memorial, and is now kept at the nearby museum. <br />
Inside the Museum:<br />
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<a href="http://imperialflags.blogspot.de/2009/01/imperial-british-east-africa-company.html" target="_blank">The legendary red ensign of the Union of South Africa</a></div>
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Another reads simply: "Here I wait"<br />
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Nearly the same view between the wars</div>
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The cemetery was constructed after the Armistice and mainly contains bodies recovered from the battlefields. A smaller number of graves were moved in from nearby French and German cemeteries, making this the third largest British cemetery on the Somme.<br />
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Almost all of the casualties date from July-September 1916 and are from the various Battles of Delville Wood. The high proportion of unknown graves probably reflects lengthy period which elapsed before many of the bodies were removed from the battlefield and buried. There are special memorials to the 27 casualties believed to be buried amongst the 3,593 unidentified burials. Three bodies found during the building of the Delville Wood South African Memorial opposite the cemetery were interred in it in 1984.<br />
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Sergeant Albert Gill, of the 1st Battalion King's Royal Rifle Corps, is buried in the cemetery. He was killed on 27 July 1916 during the fighting in Delville Wood whilst standing up under fire to direct his troops, an act for which he was awarded the Victoria Cross.<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_VtWIlclprYM/SWmhf40WBTI/AAAAAAAAKu4/rxSrh2JMBFs/s1600-h/gill.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><br /></a>From his citation:<br />
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<span style="font-size: 85%;">For most conspicuous bravery. The enemy made a very strong counter-attack on the right flank of the battalion, and rushed the bombing post after killing all the company bombers. Serjeant Gill at once rallied the remnants of his platoon, none of whom were skilled bombers, and reorganised his defences, a most difficult and dangerous task, the trench being very shallow and much damaged. Soon afterwards the enemy nearly surrounded his men by creeping up through the thick undergrowth, and commenced sniping at about twenty yards' range. Although it was almost certain death, Sergeant Gill stood boldly up in order to direct the fire of his men. He was killed almost at once, but not before he had shown his men where the enemy were, and thus enabled them to hold up their advance. By his supreme devotion to duty and self-sacrifice he saved a very dangerous situation.</span></blockquote>
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The NZ Memorial in Longueval France is dedicated to the New Zealand Division who took part in the first Battle of the Somme in 1916.<br />
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The NZ Memorial is located in isolation in the middle of fields to the north of the village of Longueval and west of Flers.</div>
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A long contemplative drive to the memorial on a beautiful sunny summer day.</div>
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On one side panel is engraved the following sentence: "The New Zealand Division, after gaining this position as their first objective, launched from it the successful attack on Flers, 15th September, 1916" and these words are reproduced in French on the other side panel.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Pipers' Memorial</span><br />
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The statue's location then and now </div>
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A moving song by Alan Brydons about the pipers in The Great War which was adopted as the anthem for the fund raising campaign for this memorial performed by Scocha from the album <span style="font-style: italic;">Gie'd Sum Wellie</span>.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">London CWGC and Extension</span><br />
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The entrance to the third largest of the Somme battlefield cemeteries, containing 3,872 First World War burials. It's directly across from High Wood fierce fighting took place in 1916. The first buried were 47 soldiers of the 47th (London) Division killed in the Battle of Flers-Courcelette on the September 15. They had been buried in a large shell hole in the days following the battle. By the time of the Armistice, further burials had taken place, bringing the number of graves to 101.<br />
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The extension followed in the years following the First World War when graves from the surrounding battlefields were transferred around the area.<br />
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One contributor to the <a href="http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t2521-150.html">Great War forum</a> wrote of seeing a wreath of poppies laid here on the grave of a soldier of the Second World War reading something along the lines of:<br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">" Tom, I always promised there would never be another, there never was, now we will soon be together again".</span></div>
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieovTaf1tnoj4lSG1X05-15_eM___QBeNsFhJ28Oeae-PT5pOjWPZe34LuYUUEgcHYgMBXxvWgmW3v1v00YB0AL6B5B9x7tKikSpaka12Q5bpAeThyphenhyphenispo_ITQFAYNoPCj_Uy1yZIb674/s1600-h/IMG_1205.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieovTaf1tnoj4lSG1X05-15_eM___QBeNsFhJ28Oeae-PT5pOjWPZe34LuYUUEgcHYgMBXxvWgmW3v1v00YB0AL6B5B9x7tKikSpaka12Q5bpAeThyphenhyphenispo_ITQFAYNoPCj_Uy1yZIb674/s400/IMG_1205.JPG" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5240485467347631874" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a>The son of the leader of the Labour Party, Arthur Henderson, shares a plot here. David Henderson was a Captain in the Middlesex Regiment and killed at High Wood on September 15, 1916 aged 27.<br />
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Following down the same stretch of road along the D107 to the left are the following memorials:<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Memorial to the Glasgow Highlanders</span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">47th (London) Division Memorial</span><br />
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This monument from the 1990s replaces the wooden cross erected on September 13, 1923 that served to commemorate the 47th Division's actions on September 15, 1916 as they finally captured High Wood itself. You can see two posts in the foreground- the one on the left is dated 1993 and the one my bike is resting on is from 1996- from the City of London.<br />
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Going north along the D107 towards the village of Martinpuich is<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Martinpuich CWGC</span></div>
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Immediately after the war and today</div>
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<span style="font-family: Book Antiqua,Times New Roman,Times;">Martinpuich is a village about six miles south-west of Bapaume off the D929. It had been captured by the 15th (Scottish) Division on 15 September 1916, lost in April 1918, and retaken in August 1918. There are 115 buried here- 80 British, 34 Australian and one Canadian.</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Longueval Road CWGC</span></div>
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This cemetery is on the D197 south towards Maricourt and had been started in September 1915. It was located near a dressing station which was known as 'Longueval Alley', or 'Longueval Water Point'. Either a trench, or even this very road, was known as Pall Mall in September 1916.</div>
Many of the graves are from October and November 1916. The graves are in regular rows, although within rows the spacing between graves is quite varied. The Cross of Sacrifice is at the triangular apex of the cemetery, and there are special memorials to two men known and one believed to be buried here. From the Cross of Sacrifice, one can look straight ahead over the cemetery to see Bernafay Wood ahead. Trones wood can be seen to the left, with Delville wood behind you. The road and track layout here is just the same today as it was during the Great War.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 78%;">http://www.ww1battlefields.co.uk/somme/longueval.html</span></div>
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One soldier here merits especial attention for me: Serjeant Walter Poulter of 'B' Battery, 190th Brigade Royal Field Artillery died September 26, 1916, aged 29. He had actually come from China (where he had been serving with the Maritime Customs) with the Shanghai Volunteer Contingent.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 180%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Montauban</span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_j_AZgdPuxzomyk7WKi2Z8CyPxeZoSL_DcM4WupVEYUcHqSnV0Xq3gy9WgyjeM6u1AB2VlwZ8IJ7hCYYFDGoFl7sYaJawTyw8mmzJZAEGlocCObkWU1Ls-Gy7UKAT1nsXCDZGFqsNoZpc/s1600-h/mb.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_j_AZgdPuxzomyk7WKi2Z8CyPxeZoSL_DcM4WupVEYUcHqSnV0Xq3gy9WgyjeM6u1AB2VlwZ8IJ7hCYYFDGoFl7sYaJawTyw8mmzJZAEGlocCObkWU1Ls-Gy7UKAT1nsXCDZGFqsNoZpc/s640/mb.jpg" height="542" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290986278729496514" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="640" /></a>Montauban is located on the D64 road, some 20 miles northeast of Amiens. It lay close behind the German front-line and was turned into a fortified strongpoint. On July 1, 1916, the village was seized by the British 30th Division in one of the few successful British advances of the day. In the village itself there is a monument to the Liverpool and Manchester 'Pals', who, as part of the 30th Division, were the first to reach the village:<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Liverpool and Manchester Pals Memorial</span><br />
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It was in the Montauban sector that Captain Nevill of the East Surrey Regiment brought a football for his men to dribble across No-Man’s Land.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Quarry CWGC</span><br />
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Then and now</div>
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The dead of sixteen different nations lie here. 740 of the dead are from the Commonwealth, of whom 157 remain unidentified.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Bernafay Wood CWGC</span><br />
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Bernafay Wood British Cemetery just a mile south of Longueval on the D197; I took this photo after leaving Longueval Road CWGC.<br />
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The village of Montauban was taken by the 30th and 18th Divisions on July 1 1916 and remained in British Imperial hands until the end of March 1918 before being retaken on August 25, 1918 by the 7th Buffs and the 11th Royal Fusiliers of the 18th Division. There are now 945 buried here with 417 unidentified as well as special memorials to 11 soldiers believed to be buried here. Other special memorials commemorate 12 soldiers buried in Bernafay Wood North Cemetery whose graves were destroyed by shell fire.<br />
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Typically pristine Commonwealth war cemetery.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Thiepval on September 26, 1916, Colonel Frank Maxwell VC ordered his men not to take any prisoners, on the ground that 'all Germans should be exterminated'. On October 21 Maxwell left his battalion a farewell message. In it he praised his men for having 'begun to learn that the only way to treat the German is to kill him'. In the words of Private Stephen Graham, 'The opinion cultivated in the army regarding the Germans was that they were a sort of vermin like plague-rats that had to be exterminated.' A Major Campbell allegedly told new recruits: 'If a fat, juicy Hun cries "Mercy" and speaks of his wife and nine children, give him the point - two inches is enough - and finish him. He is the kind of man to have another nine "Hate" children if you let him off. So run no risks.'</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The fact that these attitudes could take root on the Western Front, where the ethnic differences between the two sides were in fact quite minimal, was an indication of how easily hatred could flourish in the brutalizing conditions of total war. In other theatres of war, where the differences were deeper, the potential for unconstrained violence was greater still.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Building the memorial with its sixteen tiers of
red brick, faced with Portland stone. It is 150 feet (46 m) high, with
foundations 19 feet (6 m) thick; required due to extensive wartime tunnelling beneath the structure. It was built between 1928 and
1932 and is the biggest British battle memorial in the world. It was
inaugurated by the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VIII) in the
presence of Albert Lebrun, President of France, on 31 July 1932.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Thiepval Memorial serves as an Anglo-French battle memorial to commemorate the joint nature of the 1916 offensive. In further recognition of this, a cemetery containing 300 British Commonwealth and 300 French graves lies at the foot of the memorial. Many of the soldiers buried here are unknown. The British Commonwealth graves are rectangular and made of white stone, while the French graves have grey stone crosses. Each year on 1 July (the anniversary of the first day on the Somme) a major ceremony is held at the memorial. There is also a ceremony on the 11 November, beginning at 10.45.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">These two remarkable photographs of the Thiepval memorial were taken from the Second World War by a Royal Engineers officer in September 1944 after the D-Day landings. The photo on the right was taken from the Ulster Tower and shows Thiepval Wood and Connaught Cemetery on the right with the
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">18th Division Memorial</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0d-vyjh9CykDCpjtsnY1HjuyHV8ImAGUie5cz5X3Ii1Mbv1SMzRejkFfRMGdVr954NID2DCitGwFX2gVaPb_qB3w0qipz7tfzuEsxcby6ypcX7aGDEj35mJ3V6CKQelKQv1GaiTP0_GA/s1600-h/IMG_1174.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5240469675944147010" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0d-vyjh9CykDCpjtsnY1HjuyHV8ImAGUie5cz5X3Ii1Mbv1SMzRejkFfRMGdVr954NID2DCitGwFX2gVaPb_qB3w0qipz7tfzuEsxcby6ypcX7aGDEj35mJ3V6CKQelKQv1GaiTP0_GA/s400/IMG_1174.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">You can see the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing just behind this memorial to the 18th Division which fought here on the September 26, 1916. It is inscribed: To the Glory of God and in imperishable memory of the officers, NCOs and men of the 18th Division who fell in the Great War 1914-1918</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Memorial to the 36th Ulster Division (Ulster Memorial Tower)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">On Saturday 19 November, 1921, in dedication to the contributions of the 36th Ulster Division during the Great War, the Ulster Memorial Tower, was unveiled by Field-Marshall Sir Henry Wilson in Thiepval, France, marking the site of the Schwaben redoubt, against which the Ulster Division advanced on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The tower itself is a replica of Helen's Tower which is situated at Clandeboye, County Down. It was at Helen's Tower that the men of the then newly formed Ulster Division drilled and trained on the outbreak of World War I. For many of the men of the 36th (Ulster) Division the distinctive sight of Helen's Tower rising above the surrounding countryside was one of their last abiding memories of home before their departure for England, and subsequently, the Western Front.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The period aerial photograph is from an original taken before the 1st July and shows the German trench system from Thiepval Wood (on the left of the image) across to the village. The intricate nature of the German defences and their obvious strength and depth are quite apparent from this photo; at least from the benefit of more than ninety years. In 1916 as good as this aerial intelligence was, it was believed that artillery alone could destroy positions like this on the Somme front; something that 1st July 1916 would prove otherwise. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The present-day aerial view shows the site of the Ulster Tower, Connaught Cemetery is on the edge of Thiepval Wood and Mill Road cemetery on the crest of the hill. The infamous Schwaben Redoubt dominated the landscape and can be found between Mill Road cemetery and the copse of trees near the top left of the picture.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Just across from Ulster Tower is this cemetery that holds the graves of 1,268, half of whom remain unidentified. In March 1926, an explosion about 20 yards away managed to damage a number of headstones. Behind the cemetery is Thiepval Wood where soldiers from the 36th Division attacked on July 1, 1916.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb_lsWamI5_wFqXbbpjaHpKL5TZNuqkQD2phpiwBJMU1dPHVRZmJL74mxv2d8MKoVTfck-zc6rP_PKE_iLQEtpW9othUbLfDVKZ0zNbG0mkWgjSIwubsHjuIPBbxUJfBwoyQVrYAILkMI/s1600-h/IMG_1165.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5240467992802718562" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjb_lsWamI5_wFqXbbpjaHpKL5TZNuqkQD2phpiwBJMU1dPHVRZmJL74mxv2d8MKoVTfck-zc6rP_PKE_iLQEtpW9othUbLfDVKZ0zNbG0mkWgjSIwubsHjuIPBbxUJfBwoyQVrYAILkMI/s400/IMG_1165.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">This cemetery near the Ulster Tower marks one of the entrances to underground strongholds from which the Germans would emerge to create devastation on attacking forces.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Mill Road Cemetery (originally known as Mill Road Cemetery No. 2) was made during the spring of 1917, when the German withdrawal to the Hindenburg line allowed the battlefield to be cleared. At the Armistice, it contained 260 burials, but was then greatly enlarged when graves were brought in from the battlefields of Beaumont-Hamel and Thiepval.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Today there are 1,304 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated here, 815 of whom remain unidentified with special memorials to three casualties believed to be buried among them and three others buried in Divion Road Cemetery No.1, whose graves were destroyed by shell fire.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The village of Pozières is on the Albert-Bapaume road atop a ridge in the centre of what was the British sector of the Somme battlefield. Nearby is the highest point on the battlefield and, while the Somme terrain is only gently undulating, any slight elevation aided observation for artillery. Therefore, Pozières was critical to the German defences and it formed an outpost to the second defensive trench system which became known to the British as the "Old German Lines" or "O.G. Lines." The village was completely destroyed in World War I during what became the Battle of Pozières, which was part of the Battle of the Somme. The village was subsequently rebuilt, and is now the site of several war memorials. The Australian flag flies over Pozières in recognition of the sacrifice of the ANZACs in the Battle of Pozières. Amongst the British and other Commonwealth forces who fought at Pozières, the Australians suffered over 5,000 killed, wounded or taken prisoner.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Australian 1st Division Memorial</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Building the First Division Memorial at Pozières monument, between the wars and today</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Positioned at Pozieres at the site of "K Trench," the 1st Division chose this location to build a monument (a stone obelisk) due to the 1st Division experiencing more casualties at the Battle of Pozieres (7654 casulties in 6 weeks) than in any other battle. The memorial lists the battle honors of the 1st division as:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The photo on the left is taken from an observation platform erected on top of what had been an imposing German concrete shelter known as Gibraltar; you can just make out the Thiepval Monument from the top of the trees in the background.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The so-called ”Gibraltar" bunker at the western end of Pozières, August 28, 1916 and the entrance today</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNSs1ZIX9XQaNtmDXldDzZeo3XyRUhlFnv94ctkwQMnm0Vt-sFNqGEuEpWFreqroO_yVaow1Ph5KnhSpJJvnBjoAjoqwJ_39JgcTjpDurwUwHnR9YCsDJIFYmMzIPpeC52sg5UuvrgY1A/s1600-h/IMG_1178.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5240472232285545746" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNSs1ZIX9XQaNtmDXldDzZeo3XyRUhlFnv94ctkwQMnm0Vt-sFNqGEuEpWFreqroO_yVaow1Ph5KnhSpJJvnBjoAjoqwJ_39JgcTjpDurwUwHnR9YCsDJIFYmMzIPpeC52sg5UuvrgY1A/s400/IMG_1178.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Ross Bastiaan Plaque at the memorial</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBEFO8M3TvWeBxYdw7KWDfzrvC8TyUhI-4XLTKI7Gk_QYEtq-fmGFQSgXY8Q2vg14eJyp5xb-zxzZqcD7gx7Whf8L52dCJeLVH7zAWKR3F336nscISFIHIO3Ohr4Kue-iYTwfd6k0rZ3Q/s1600-h/IMG_1200.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5240479940410288322" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBEFO8M3TvWeBxYdw7KWDfzrvC8TyUhI-4XLTKI7Gk_QYEtq-fmGFQSgXY8Q2vg14eJyp5xb-zxzZqcD7gx7Whf8L52dCJeLVH7zAWKR3F336nscISFIHIO3Ohr4Kue-iYTwfd6k0rZ3Q/s400/IMG_1200.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Road sign on the D929 just before Pozières indicating the position of the front line on 1 September 1916 at the Battle of the Somme.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Mouquet Farm</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In the middle of Pozières village is a road sign with an AIF badge pointing in the direction of somewhere called 'Moo Cow Farm'. This is roughly where you'll find this Ross Bastiaan Plaque to the Battle of Mouquet Farm:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6sqCZj7A7nybSdUN39L8TNNJEOv_td5OpCTjdeX1k92-0NYfzGTPooYdrvoM9J4_cvY8b6xUpNRd1ZDZunxumuxMR9PQfL44znte0BBbfH4u2GNH8MOYdUIRqy-afPV3ip39m3KzThB4/s1600-h/IMG_1175.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5240469673527431010" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6sqCZj7A7nybSdUN39L8TNNJEOv_td5OpCTjdeX1k92-0NYfzGTPooYdrvoM9J4_cvY8b6xUpNRd1ZDZunxumuxMR9PQfL44znte0BBbfH4u2GNH8MOYdUIRqy-afPV3ip39m3KzThB4/s400/IMG_1175.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-7WKvtWEKLknQXyjGWm9mOhIUD44vUKABOe563jy5fpxoUzYJnUu_uDrQ5Q6XEeneecJJLN92ggbql8AomYf96wIaPw0NqUtG2ClHqMx2uv762Jt0jKdvnNTtibJ_M24_Q20lLMkSWVuK/s1600-h/738px-Mouquet_Farm_Pozieres.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" height="519" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5296270551369872034" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-7WKvtWEKLknQXyjGWm9mOhIUD44vUKABOe563jy5fpxoUzYJnUu_uDrQ5Q6XEeneecJJLN92ggbql8AomYf96wIaPw0NqUtG2ClHqMx2uv762Jt0jKdvnNTtibJ_M24_Q20lLMkSWVuK/s640/738px-Mouquet_Farm_Pozieres.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="640" /></a></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Battle of Mouquet Farm, which began on 8 August 1916, was part of the Battle of the Somme and followed the Battle of Pozières. During the battle, the Australian divisions of I Anzac Corps advanced northwest along the Pozières ridge towards the German strongpoint of Mouquet Farm, with British divisions supporting on the left. As that battle dragged on, the Canadian Corps took over from the Australians. By the time the battle concluded in mid-September, the German garrison still held out. The farm was eventually captured on 27 September following the general attack of the Battle of Thiepval Ridge.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinskc7uTkWAyR8Ti4XMrFHaVHGOPCvFnfxYCRXsNysi1HEeuF9DHNdbaEdG5FUJSTfCQEHIaY07ZipgHe3S8wHg3-unae-fJZ1u7W3HqCW5elq5AaRzobEan-z1Q_XbYRutBbsBExqWeFt/s1600-h/awm-j00181.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5296276113454823602" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinskc7uTkWAyR8Ti4XMrFHaVHGOPCvFnfxYCRXsNysi1HEeuF9DHNdbaEdG5FUJSTfCQEHIaY07ZipgHe3S8wHg3-unae-fJZ1u7W3HqCW5elq5AaRzobEan-z1Q_XbYRutBbsBExqWeFt/s400/awm-j00181.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 169px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The farm itself before being destroyed</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHmCs0MIUVgeJJBOQ_hY7xKMhTOnA-7ZcIOZtOkrZ17LMzvsQ_uCHR4z1PdMyKZ_HLv_OFeUUEwiBWW2a6KoGBWBnL9mH57EHIcBvlvPCepUKOasiljksgNFszSfcRytoCjLr-SqaBjEyg/s1600-h/3ecf_1.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5296270927926773618" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHmCs0MIUVgeJJBOQ_hY7xKMhTOnA-7ZcIOZtOkrZ17LMzvsQ_uCHR4z1PdMyKZ_HLv_OFeUUEwiBWW2a6KoGBWBnL9mH57EHIcBvlvPCepUKOasiljksgNFszSfcRytoCjLr-SqaBjEyg/s400/3ecf_1.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 319px;" /></a></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">The colour painting shown on this German postcard from the time was one of a series produced by the 26th Reserve Division that occupied this area for more than 2 years from September 1914 through late 1916. </span></span><span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">It shows what the farm must have looked like after the initial attack. Later in the war a large underground dugout that could contain up to 300 men as well as supplies, a headquarters, medical facilities, etc. was complete the week before the British attack on 1 July 1916 when elements of the 36th Ulster and 32nd Divisions attempted to Capture the position and the farm. The Salford Pals was almost destroyed in the fighting on 1 July for this location. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">King's Royal Rifle Corps Memorial</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Between the wars</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgao7s4FgqtZo-HC2uQh_8cTp2WVuSYIFsxVMt_IdW-pgEOQvBXV1ygJ2js-kdBnkGRk0pnf_HYgvEZJxXkFxc7l-C4kdHZM-O-Puer-5xKx9zD3XckU1vBGvAzKMdoFd11pq5izY5jXQY/s1600-h/IMG_1181.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5240473517167495554" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgao7s4FgqtZo-HC2uQh_8cTp2WVuSYIFsxVMt_IdW-pgEOQvBXV1ygJ2js-kdBnkGRk0pnf_HYgvEZJxXkFxc7l-C4kdHZM-O-Puer-5xKx9zD3XckU1vBGvAzKMdoFd11pq5izY5jXQY/s400/IMG_1181.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Near the Tank Memorial at Pozieres is this memorial to the King's Royal Rifle Corps Battalion. Behind it (and the ugly corrugated structure practically propped up against it) is a quiet lane </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">which during the war was known as "Dead Man’s Road".</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 130%; font-weight: bold;">Pozieres CWGC/Memorial</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Between the wars</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Memorial commemorates over British 14,000 dead and 300 of the South African Forces who have no known grave and who died on the Somme from March 21 to August 7, 1918. Among those regiments and corps represented are The Rifle Brigade with over 600 names, the Durham Light Infantry with approximately 600 names, the Machine Gun Corps with over 500, The Manchester Regiment with approximately 500 and The Royal Horse and Royal Field Artillery with over 400 names.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Enclosed within the memorial is the Pozieres military cemetery.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">There are 2,755 British Commonwealth dead of the Great War either buried or commemorated here, 1,375 of whom remain unidentified.There are also special memorials to 23 casualties believed to be buried among them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh36_lNJkWlva5i4jv9iGtkmaRO0FJyaVXD8zyKvqXiLEOCMl7aIlKfdBG02lCOPWyOWqN61SG2IKXxAkLrIxGNwcdTa19kQMIqecBeFJFMuTpRC-EzzdkqWXm4tRnvM-OQBIrheGlMt7I/s1600-h/IMG_1186.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5240473539648120066" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh36_lNJkWlva5i4jv9iGtkmaRO0FJyaVXD8zyKvqXiLEOCMl7aIlKfdBG02lCOPWyOWqN61SG2IKXxAkLrIxGNwcdTa19kQMIqecBeFJFMuTpRC-EzzdkqWXm4tRnvM-OQBIrheGlMt7I/s400/IMG_1186.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Although considered an Australian VC holder, Claud Castleton was born in Kirkey, Lowestoft and left in 1912 to see the world, stopping first in Melbourne. When the Great War started he enlisted in the Australian forces formed in New Guinea for the defence of the area in the face of German warship activities and later served at Gallipoli, where he earned promotion. He was 23 years old, and a Sergeant in the 5th Machine Gun Corps, Australian Imperial Forces during the Great War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">On the night of the July28-29 1916 near Pozières during a night attack, the infantry was temporarily driven back by the intense machine-gun fire from the enemy trenches. Many wounded were left in No Man's Land lying in shell holes. Sergeant Castleton went out twice in the face of this intense fire, and each time brought in a wounded man on his back. He went out a third time and was bringing in another wounded man when he was himself hit in the back and killed instantly.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VtWIlclprYM/SXPJihR6xkI/AAAAAAAALGc/9zMDr38Kolg/s1600-h/poziers.gif" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><br /></a></span> <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Australian Memorial at Pozieres Windmill</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 85%;">This mound is all that's left of an ancient windmill and marks the highest point of the entire Somme battlefield. Thousands of Australians were killed and wounded whilst attempting to capture the defensive positions the Germans had constructed here. After the war the windmill site was acquired by the Australian government and now stands as a memorial to the 23,000 Australians who were killed or wounded in the Pozieres battle. The stone bench in front of the mound bears the following inscription:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 85%;">THE RUIN OF POZIERES WINDMILL</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 85%;">WHICH LIES HERE WAS THE CENTRE</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 85%;">OF THE STRUGGLE IN THIS PART OF</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 85%;">THE SOMME BATTLEFIELD IN JULY</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 85%;">AND AUGUST 1916. IT WAS CAPTURED</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 85%;">ON AUGUST 4TH BY AUSTRALIAN</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 85%;">TROOPS WHO FELL MORE THICKLY ON</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 85%;">THIS RIDGE THAN ON ANY OTHER</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 85%;">BATTLEFIELD OF THE WAR.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWNF63WhoAlM57QKh-1Uwg3gS077h1ErTM4qqnpWA6hetrsAOIF4uyDz8roXJgEKIEzmQwfMp1VAP5O05nlKnYrys-_nG0FiWestsu2VnCz4eW-dzDqAJfMGp2DiSHZUth1h7ffWWluSs/s1600-h/IMG_1198.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5240478056543528578" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWNF63WhoAlM57QKh-1Uwg3gS077h1ErTM4qqnpWA6hetrsAOIF4uyDz8roXJgEKIEzmQwfMp1VAP5O05nlKnYrys-_nG0FiWestsu2VnCz4eW-dzDqAJfMGp2DiSHZUth1h7ffWWluSs/s400/IMG_1198.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnon8F8ap02_8MO7jdxb3UO2rPpVYG1Qh0L1TdRGKpCQdqSl2y0OrCgq_z-QpPBqI9hQtYtTg3kXJTdpE1b1cCq5PBoXxZOlr-ovi_ZpsaLZKXEj327n5ro51hSrPYQKVAsrnBcAJhJzyY/s1600-h/Pic+2a.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5291157915848833202" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnon8F8ap02_8MO7jdxb3UO2rPpVYG1Qh0L1TdRGKpCQdqSl2y0OrCgq_z-QpPBqI9hQtYtTg3kXJTdpE1b1cCq5PBoXxZOlr-ovi_ZpsaLZKXEj327n5ro51hSrPYQKVAsrnBcAJhJzyY/s400/Pic+2a.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 395px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 78%;">From the </span><i><span style="font-size: 78%;">Official History of Australia in the war of 1914-1918, Volume III</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Tank Corps Memorial</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Between the wars</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Directly across from the Australian memorial is this monument to three tanks which had set off from this point the first day they were ever used as a weapon of war- September 15, 1916. The memorial has an inscription on the front commemorating this:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Around the obelisk are four models of tanks used during this period, one showing the scars from the Second World War. This photo shows a replica Mark IV Heavy tank.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjgVih7bRgehxW9Ji6XStKJdWJD6JfDNiAoErkOAoS3EllFn6AEV2tZWgI0YtNb9X87veiVbKrJtJrieKnYdrBwwoRuQwjshTjQQdD71z6CCH5x8r9U9oM3aqqwJMq-0lI5INRs7-5f-4/s1600-h/IMG_1197.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"> </a>The fence surrounding the monument is made up of six pounder gun barrels from tanks linked by driving chains from the time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Memorial to Gustave Lemoine and to VCs</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Heading further down the road to the village of Courcelette is:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1fAYVdfq1OuV8cbskvmT9h7oE5SCQI0bXZs-gcaupMjGITxo4ZRwM0jvIlmUKZ9ypuDSIAiPQ-iwi01MJ-F_Gtg-eUdsMDsq3mFy2NsDMQnsZZ5lROODauUIJsTfMn94L9p3_T-AEub99/s1600-h/Map+6.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" height="406" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5293326540493080578" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1fAYVdfq1OuV8cbskvmT9h7oE5SCQI0bXZs-gcaupMjGITxo4ZRwM0jvIlmUKZ9ypuDSIAiPQ-iwi01MJ-F_Gtg-eUdsMDsq3mFy2NsDMQnsZZ5lROODauUIJsTfMn94L9p3_T-AEub99/s640/Map+6.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="640" /></a></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Courcelette Canadian Memorial</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0as7wttnWHz0MEjqZqDnfQXy5vptWN2DaGCSafSGLoaY2lU-Paj7C_dqvXoJrzyGls5gz6zNlJGQRJD5MtKqBHk2uyqjfLrutuOG2pLsl42CT7KjmS9ySPLJcjj703v5FJ4YuObUPswU/s1600-h/IMG_1201.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" height="480" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5240483558539801330" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0as7wttnWHz0MEjqZqDnfQXy5vptWN2DaGCSafSGLoaY2lU-Paj7C_dqvXoJrzyGls5gz6zNlJGQRJD5MtKqBHk2uyqjfLrutuOG2pLsl42CT7KjmS9ySPLJcjj703v5FJ4YuObUPswU/s640/IMG_1201.JPG" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="640" /></a><span style="font-size: 85%;">This </span><span style="font-size: 85%;">standard Canadian memorial for the Western Front </span><span style="font-size: 85%;">reads:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 85%;">THE CANADIAN CORPS BORE A VALIANT PART IN FORCING BACK THE GERMANS ON THESE SLOPES DURING THE BATTLES OF THE SOMME SEPT. 3RD - NOV. 18TH 1916</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 85%;">Here in a a two-army assault launched by Sir Douglas Haig on September 15 at dawn, the Canadian Corps assaulted on a two-kilometre front near the village of Courcelette. Advancing behind a creeping barrage, the infantry was aided by the new weapon, the armoured tank, throwing the enemy into complete confusion.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 85%;">By 8:00 a.m. the main objective, a defence bastion known as the Sugar Factory, was taken, and the Canadians pushed ahead to Courcelette. Numerous German counter-attacks were successfully repulsed and by the next day the position was consolidated. It is fitting, therefore, that the memorial to mark the 11 weeks of bloody fighting by Canadians on the battlefields of the Somme should be sited at the scene of their initial victory in that long and costly struggle.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 78%;">http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/remembers/sub.cfm?source=Memorials/ww1mem/Courcelette</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 180%; font-weight: bold;">Regina Trench CWGC</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Regina Trench (Staufen Riegel) was a German trench dug along a ridge running from north-west of the village of Le Sars, south-west to Stuff Redoubt (Feste Staufen), close to the German fortifications at Thiepval on the Somme battlefield. It was the longest such trench on the German front during World War I. Attacked several times during the Battle of the Ancre Heights, the 5th Canadian Brigade briefly controlled a section of the trench on 1 October but were repulsed by counter attacks. An attack on 8 October by the 1st and 3rd Canadian Divisions on Regina Trench also failed; on 21 October the 4th Canadian Division in an attack on the trench with the 18th, 25th and 39th divisions attacking the western part of the trench, (known as "Stuff Trench") briefly captured sections of the trench but were again pushed out by German counter-attacks. After two months of attacks and constant shelling the trench was taken by a night attack on 10/11 November by the 4th Canadian Division. The 46th (S. Saskatchewan) and 47th (Br. Columbia) battalions of the 10th Brigade, with a company of the 102nd Battalion, crept close to the line and attacked eight minutes after the barrage lifted, surprising the German garrison and taking 87 prisoners and four machine-guns, for a loss of 200 casualties; several German counter-attacks were defeated.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: small;">The cemetery itself is located astride the location of the infamous trench and contains 2,279 burials and commemorations of men killed at or near the trenchline during the First World War. 1,680 of the men are identified as British, 564 Canadian, 35 Australian, one American airman and 1,077 burials of unknown soldiers, with special memorials to 14 casualties believed to be buried among them. Most of the men buried at Regina Trench fell in battle between October 1916 and February 1917 and the original portion of the cemetery was established during the winter of 1916–1917. After the armistice in 1918 the Regina Trench location was selected as a "concentration cemetery" with mortal remains brought in from scattered graves and small battlefield cemeteries surrounding the nearby villages of Courcelette, Grandcourt and Miraumont. Unlike many CWGC cemeteries where men are laid one-to-a-grave, many of the graves contain more than one burial and where two names are shown on the one headstone, it is necessary to count the individual names in order to find the correct grave location. The CWGC website states that Regina Trench Cemetery is located in Grandcourt but this is somewhat misleading because whilst it is located between Grandcourt and Courcelette it is most easily reached by a rough road that runs approximately a mile northwest of Courcelette village. </span><span style="font-size: 180%; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 180%; font-weight: bold;">Contalmaison</span><br />Today the village of Contalmaison on the D147 and D20 crossroads, roughly 30 miles northeast of Amiens, has a population of about an hundred. It was first attacked on the opening day of the Somme campaign and some elements of the 16th Royal Scots, 34th Division, managing to reach it. On July 7th units from the 23rd Division reached the village and released British soldiers captured earlier. It finally fell on the 11th when several battalions of the Yorkshire Regiment (Green Howards) took the village. The Germans had previously used the Chateau (the ruins of which can be seen in the photo directly below) as their headquarters and Dressing Station; it was then taken over by the British and used for the same purpose. The fighting then continued towards Pozières and Mametz Wood.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">Between the wars with the ruins of the chateau behind.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlttvy58fUKveUiCFwVBK0teGPkHQRn1F-p4F0XXuvT0eGPPZS_ozWh2skdoKdRf-tmclhyHSp6OAVinySd9vtwGB0AIyFefGOCtkIbKIH_ErY96oXk_Z0AFRfAi_jN3zaBH2JLR9g8P0/s1600-h/IMG_1251.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><br /></a></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxHkyOw5TnW87rs_SbdIadckbVxToJSdp7nIX9-w_pDSpGYB7AvZTHxQ9SutUmCpOtIZh4n4a4Z2v7tMMDshXhxbFDba-gaYD8MxPyfVUTF0zj4_lV8snVn5x9AnvABGRLjAEmnWJqLnmw/s1600/Untitled-1.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5786600341018324370" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxHkyOw5TnW87rs_SbdIadckbVxToJSdp7nIX9-w_pDSpGYB7AvZTHxQ9SutUmCpOtIZh4n4a4Z2v7tMMDshXhxbFDba-gaYD8MxPyfVUTF0zj4_lV8snVn5x9AnvABGRLjAEmnWJqLnmw/s400/Untitled-1.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; height: 462px; width: 599px;" /></a><span style="font-size: 100%;"><br /></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">Short VC played football for the Grangetown Albion, Saltburn, and Lazenby United Football Clubs. Short was awarded his V.C. for action at Munster Alley (Martinpuich), near Contalmaison, France, August 6, 1916, during the Battle of Somme. From his citation: </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">For most conspicuous bravery. He was foremost in the attack, bombing the enemy with great gallantry, when he was severely wounded in the foot. He was urged to go back, but refused and continued to throw bombs. Later his leg was shattered by a shell, and he was unable to stand, so he lay in the trench adjusting detonators and straightening the pins of bombs for his comrades. He died before he could be carried out of the trench. For the last eleven months he had always volunteered for dangerous enterprises, and has always set a magnificent example of bravery and devotion to duty.</span></span></blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 100%; font-weight: bold;">Memorial to the 16th Royal Scots (McCrae's) Battalion</span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVO20_V68eHoAzIYFTZsJMqDwUTXgjf3v021DUUX8j_rOTMJSvnnKxTOBMB2jicbr5m-7dDHdAKNLZtHVTkHYvivmaHi1_gbwcCENS1RojEvUnModmHsrpmRyO-J0wrZfPVjwz8pYfoom-/s1600-h/2.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5243834801096018466" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVO20_V68eHoAzIYFTZsJMqDwUTXgjf3v021DUUX8j_rOTMJSvnnKxTOBMB2jicbr5m-7dDHdAKNLZtHVTkHYvivmaHi1_gbwcCENS1RojEvUnModmHsrpmRyO-J0wrZfPVjwz8pYfoom-/s400/2.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">Nearly three-quarters of the </span><span style="font-size: 100%;">16th Royal Scots (“McCrae’s Own”) </span><span style="font-size: 100%;">battalion became casualties on the first day of the Somme campaign, including several Heart of Midlothian footballers. Nevertheless, this battalion managed to gain the most advanced penetration of the enemy line anywhere on the front that morning with some entering Contalmaison deep inside the German lines.</span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><br /></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF_LXZdPoP3JkDXsSK_WyqHr7cUlNDniOWAWPDM7UoYDeUJ7eHtjFmTDT3B5eTr6UxHblVJZcP5GoyQTid_ZYN4eEVJwQ0Xhxxu5rBAqMFgp8deMDQcbsndRsmILAJJeQi2IdXkXnu8KR0/s1600/6" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527589273953992050" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF_LXZdPoP3JkDXsSK_WyqHr7cUlNDniOWAWPDM7UoYDeUJ7eHtjFmTDT3B5eTr6UxHblVJZcP5GoyQTid_ZYN4eEVJwQ0Xhxxu5rBAqMFgp8deMDQcbsndRsmILAJJeQi2IdXkXnu8KR0/s400/6" style="cursor: pointer; height: 359px; width: 269px;" /></a> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix5q2Vz8z4N-Akjl5793wmH3_3oNrMNgE6YGD0_EQEoHqotSgx7g4jElpEjuf9Q0Qu0CupnH_fO5WtfdH1jlTTzyVcRjfdyZv4L0k1lCPUw2c_8dwD2_2yWOQ2z4rjwRiVDy4KHgdcllLN/s1600/5" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5527586897126266546" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix5q2Vz8z4N-Akjl5793wmH3_3oNrMNgE6YGD0_EQEoHqotSgx7g4jElpEjuf9Q0Qu0CupnH_fO5WtfdH1jlTTzyVcRjfdyZv4L0k1lCPUw2c_8dwD2_2yWOQ2z4rjwRiVDy4KHgdcllLN/s400/5" style="cursor: pointer; height: 360px; width: 270px;" /></a><br />The Scottish saltire flies alongside the French flag.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2e5NulFS5kFBc3Hs7lNgWnG5zicvL3f0CIQXM8FGyR5cLpk_ysmQ0UMULtEEERmsvKj-qGz8hYkfxBtEFTA7OBwfNLq-74P0gwxz0SkpV0-KCmgVSCJEhEcqT4HOq5deWM_CkBpkgwvA/s1600-h/IMG_1245.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><br /></a><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5240496689944651058" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1x-9vqmEIIG_yAmr2s-65092FA1iPiHvfYaKppU5HmIclIGF8iPDTgdI8f6e-mBy0jWs6qb8_4f4fXstUNfFRm1RpuomHgjcIbhDIZ1rtZWna2OHGt7sq45lx7rn3hTYBIQwPJ0EcZgA/s400/IMG_1246.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">This memorial was erected in 2004 from stone brought from Scotland.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmNBcMpmrQ-m7AcX2X2cbKjO6zwRnY_MIDWacP1JjFuzcwXFlQgXmNAQ2QpUKhn75oicPOMYb3ZMh1Bv4fsk2ZLVcH36UenqWc3U_OKeDHD9RpD5FjlJxO-4GAZON3v6rxkwhaeGC1oddM/s1600-h/ov.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5290986634284726530" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmNBcMpmrQ-m7AcX2X2cbKjO6zwRnY_MIDWacP1JjFuzcwXFlQgXmNAQ2QpUKhn75oicPOMYb3ZMh1Bv4fsk2ZLVcH36UenqWc3U_OKeDHD9RpD5FjlJxO-4GAZON3v6rxkwhaeGC1oddM/s400/ov.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 256px;" /></a></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxAA-C7E0R4EdqKKsqX8Q7jCmG5ZBimfHjrYtBzD5FqmpLv-rKLD6gm1xn3106-Y7OEyIyJEHOYOCC1rjdf5bkN7UmcZ-1DTEJxvhougVxrVJZ-p0EJ6QRygi94XjbX297UmzSEAWZN78/s1600-h/IMG_1253.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5240500471809291330" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxAA-C7E0R4EdqKKsqX8Q7jCmG5ZBimfHjrYtBzD5FqmpLv-rKLD6gm1xn3106-Y7OEyIyJEHOYOCC1rjdf5bkN7UmcZ-1DTEJxvhougVxrVJZ-p0EJ6QRygi94XjbX297UmzSEAWZN78/s400/IMG_1253.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">Two kilometres north of Albert lies the remains of 1676 soldiers, including that of Second Lieutenant Donald Simpson Bell, VC, killed in action on July 10, 1916</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"> He was the first professional footballer to enlist in the war. By 1915 he had been commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant. Bell was awarded his V.C. for action at La Boiselle, France, July 5, 1916, during the opening stages of the Battle of the Somme. From his citation:</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">Bell was killed in Contalmaison and the spot he and his unit were defending was named Bell’s Redoubt in his honour. Today this memorial stands, placed there in 2000 by the Green Howards and the Professional Footballers’ Association in part to commemorate the fact that he was the only professional footballer to be awarded the Victoria Cross.<br /><br />Southwest of Contalmaison along the D147 towards Fricourt is </span><span style="font-size: 100%; font-weight: bold;">Peake Wood CWGC</span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7miUe7RzcV0gR0ALCzuQkLsRSWl-QJCYjwUVGkx4bPF2tfR57RvhG6yd2NRFkbgi9mhq95uXboxVqMCzl9iTjqkY44IUXkQVRiDP2KFV0X8A6m0b5bsAaQR-FXY7L9d2NCon9YU26LEM/s1600-h/IMG_1257.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5240504619300845778" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7miUe7RzcV0gR0ALCzuQkLsRSWl-QJCYjwUVGkx4bPF2tfR57RvhG6yd2NRFkbgi9mhq95uXboxVqMCzl9iTjqkY44IUXkQVRiDP2KFV0X8A6m0b5bsAaQR-FXY7L9d2NCon9YU26LEM/s400/IMG_1257.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">Peake Wood was the name given by the army to a copse on this road which fell to the British on 5 July 1916. It was used as a front line cemetery until February 1917 and was in German hands from the end of March 1918, until nearly the end of the following August. The cemetery contains 103 burials.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">By Auslan Cramb, Scottish Correspondent, 25 Oct 2007, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">The graves of British soldiers killed in the Great War have been covered with Nazi symbols in an act condemned as "appalling desecration".</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">Vandals painted swastikas and SS insignias on the headstones of 32 Scottish soldiers who died during the Battle of the Somme. The attack caused thousands of pounds worth of damage at the Peake Wood Cemetery near Contalmaison, France, just days before Remembrance Sunday. The cemetery marks the spot from which the final assault was made on Contalmaison on July 1, 1916, the first day of the battle on which nearly 20,000 men lost their lives. The 16th Royal Scots, known as McCrae's Battalion, lost almost 75 per cent of their troops. Many of them were laid to rest at the small cemetery, which records 103 fallen Allied soldiers.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">Jack Alexander, who wrote the history of the battalion, said he was disgusted by the incident, which is being investigated by French police.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">He added: "It's impossible to gauge the mindset of the kind of idiot who does something like this, but I hope they can be caught, otherwise more memorials could be at risk."</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">Peter Francis, a spokesman for the Commonwealth War Graves Commission said it took a whole day to remove the graffiti: "We were shocked and very, very angry. It beggars belief that anyone would want to do this."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">IT has stood undisturbed for decades - a simple, white headstone in
memory of a brave Lothian soldier who died fighting for his country more
than 90 years ago. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">But the final resting place of Private J
Shepherd, from Haddington, is among dozens of memorials in a French
cemetery to have been desecrated with Nazi graffiti. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The grave
of the Royal Scots soldier, who died at the Somme on October 26, 1916,
was targeted over the weekend by vandals who scrawled swastikas and SS
insignias on more than 30 headstones in the Peake Wood Cemetery, near
Contalmaison. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The vandalism has been condemned by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and the McCrae's Battalion Trust. The trust's commemorative cairn to honour Edinburgh Royal Scots soldiers who died in The Somme stands just 500 yards away. Now they fear their monument could be attacked next, unless the vandals responsible are caught. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Edinburgh historian Jack Alexander, a member of the McCrae's Battalion Trust, said: "We are worried that our cairn could be targeted. There
are no security measures in place, so it could easily be targeted by
the idiots who are responsible for this vandalism. It is rare to see any kind of Nazi graffiti daubed at war graveyards
and it is the first time I have heard of it happening here. It's
impossible to gauge the mindset of the kind of idiot who does something
like this, but I hope they can be caught, otherwise more memorials
could be at risk. People cannot turn a blind eye to this kind
of vandalism. With Remembrance Day less than a month away, this is not
the sort of thing we want to see happening to the graves of the soldiers
who gave their lives during the war." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Nazi slogans were cleaned off by staff from the War Graves Commission after they were alerted to the damage. Peter
Francis, a spokesman for the organisation, said the vandalism was a
"shocking act of desecration" on the memory of the soldiers. He
said: "It beggars belief that anyone would want to do this. Our
colleagues in France were extremely upset when they discovered the
vandalism and they are determined to find the perpetrators. Everyone is very shocked, angry and upset at this happening to a cemetery where many brave soldiers lost their lives. Nazi
insignias had been daubed on 32 headstones in the graveyard. They have
now been cleaned up to a standard befitting the brave men who gave their
lives for their country. There is no indication as to who
may have carried out this attack and there has never been any problem
like this at the Peake Wood cemetery before. It is extremely rare to see any Nazi graffiti at our cemeteries at all, so we are taking this very seriously." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Royal Scots Regimental Association said it had not been made aware of the graffiti, but added it deplored the vandals. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Private
J Shepherd fought for the 13th Battalion of the Royal Scots. His
service number was 13799, though little more is known about him. If you
know more or are one of his relatives, please telephone 0131-620 8741.
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 100%; font-weight: bold;">Western Front Association Memorial to the Manchester Regiment</span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOHIpnjlTcwk7bjiD8mde5y_ykPVfouXRSacRu7-06trXCnyuZ11XTD2Enn3bN1iQl6OWzOVHJ3UvJIhHy-l7lx2dNIl-LdvjHtv2_tk-EuE4GfiTlT7ysqpFF1Yjslcdw1_Atx111uwY/s1600-h/IMG_1276.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5240528399996808626" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOHIpnjlTcwk7bjiD8mde5y_ykPVfouXRSacRu7-06trXCnyuZ11XTD2Enn3bN1iQl6OWzOVHJ3UvJIhHy-l7lx2dNIl-LdvjHtv2_tk-EuE4GfiTlT7ysqpFF1Yjslcdw1_Atx111uwY/s400/IMG_1276.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a></span></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">Cycling past the Donald Bell, VC Memorial near Contalmaison village cemetery is this erected by the Western Front Association in honour of the Manchester Regiment.<br /><i>This plaque commemorates the everlasting memory of </i><i>the 20th, 21st, 22nd & 24th Battalions of the Manchester Regiment </i><i>who, as part of the British 7th Division s</i><i>uccessfully freed this village on the morning of 1st July 1916.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Mailly Wood CWGC</span><br />
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This cemetery in the Somme is a mile southwest of the village of Mailly-Maillet and 5 miles north of Albert on the D919. It had been started by the 2nd Seaforths in June 1916 and used by the 51st (Highland) Division November 1916, and 12th and 21st Divisions in May and August 1918. There are 624 British, 27 New Zealand, 3 South African and 41 unidentified burials and 8 special memorials.<br />
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Colley was awarded his V.C. for action at Martinpuich, France, between Albert and Bapaume, on August 25, 1918. From his citation:<br />
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For most conspicuous bravery and initiative when in command of a platoon in support of forward platoons which had been ordered to hold on at all costs. When the enemy counter-attacked in force, he rushed forward on his own initiative to help the forward line, rallying and controlling the men holding it. The enemy by this time were advancing quickly, and had already obtained a footing in the trench. Serjt. Colley then formed a defensive flank and held it. Out of the two platoons only three men remained unwounded, and he himself was dangerously wounded. It was entirely due to Serjt. Colley's action that the enemy were prevented from breaking through, and were eventually driven off. His courage and tenacity saved a very critical situation.</blockquote>
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitJEolZFbzPOZskkELwPPNs4jXDwMrUFBiOBi_JjIntaNNdR5gPdEK8LOca-spMZtVOCx_U1OvV8reNKUxNviwDP3QpVvMNXBQabiCrJM9h3676zPmG4EofjeknOsGVW4WK-KVu7JYDvE/s1600-h/IMG_1306.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5240540658090030402" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitJEolZFbzPOZskkELwPPNs4jXDwMrUFBiOBi_JjIntaNNdR5gPdEK8LOca-spMZtVOCx_U1OvV8reNKUxNviwDP3QpVvMNXBQabiCrJM9h3676zPmG4EofjeknOsGVW4WK-KVu7JYDvE/s400/IMG_1306.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a>The grave of Major Herbert Geoffrey Lush-Wilson of the Royal Horse Artillery. Whilst serving in Y Battery he fought at Gallipoli with the 29th Division and he and his battery came to France with that division in April 1916. He was awarded the Chevalier of the Legion of Honour and was killed near Mailly by counter-battery fire on July 21, 1916.<br />
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<span class="norm"><span class="norm"><b>The church of Saint Pierre</b> in Mailly Maillet dates from the 15th century and managed to survive the Great War. after the pastor protected the mediaeval west doorway with sandbags. </span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHVpGfWhx78MdqaZ-e2kt_xnfmN3REQ6JEA8Gk4QZlfliJuEs7_8ldlWBvxjhC-dzd31rZryE5F2p22zwYxTZ_QSMjHg5gMZwDVFeNTWwJT95r-c7pzeoHXFSqirskr_WYl4hXvX5ah-cL/s1600-h/9679_1.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5295109669893004770" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHVpGfWhx78MdqaZ-e2kt_xnfmN3REQ6JEA8Gk4QZlfliJuEs7_8ldlWBvxjhC-dzd31rZryE5F2p22zwYxTZ_QSMjHg5gMZwDVFeNTWwJT95r-c7pzeoHXFSqirskr_WYl4hXvX5ah-cL/s400/9679_1.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 262px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>A rare WW1 German feldpostkarte I ran upon showing the shell damaged-church and village, with trench lines to the rear - most probably the Waggon Road sector. There is also a cross in the foreground - possibly the grave of a German soldier. The picture shows the village before it was destroyed in the bombardment later in the year, the trees still have leaves, and many structures still standing. Also the hillside to the rear is free from shellholes. The postcard has been postally used - in February 1916 by a German soldier, who gives his unit details which indicates that he was part of the 119 Reserve Infanterie Regiment. There is also a unit stamp, which indicates further that he was part of the 11th Company. The 119 Reserve Infanterie Regiment held the sector around Beaumont Hamel in 1916. There is also a feldpost stamp from the 26th Reserve Division dated 20 Feb 16. This division held part of the Somme front from 1914 to 1916.<br />
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Just north in Colincamps are:<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Sucrerie Military Cemetery</span><br />
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Colincamps is a village about 16 kilometres north of Albert. Sucrerie Military Cemetery is about 3 kilometres south-east of the village on the north side of the road from Mailly-Maillet to Puisieux. It was initially established by the French in the early summer of 1915, and extended to the West by British units from July in that year until, with intervals, December, 1918. It was called at first the 10th Brigade Cemetery. Until the German retreat in March, 1917, it was rather more than a 1.6 kilometres from the front line; and from the end of March, 1918, (when the New Zealand Division was engaged in fighting at the Sucrerie) to the following August it was under fire.<br />
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After the 285 French and twelve German graves were removed after the Armistice leaving gaps in the lettering of the Rows, there are now 1104, Great War dead commemorated here of whom 219 casualties are still unidentified.<br />
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The grave of Lieutenant Colonel the Honourable Lawrence Charles Palk, DSO. He was born on 28 September 1870. He fought in the Boer War between 1901 and 1902. He gained the rank of Major and Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel in the service of the Hampshire Regiment. He fought in the First World War, where he was mentioned in despatches and was decorated with the award of Legion of Honour. He was decorated with the award of Companion, Distinguished Service Order (D.S.O.). He died on 1 July 1916 at age 45, killed in action serving as commanding officer of the 1st Hampshires which lost all 26 of their officers and 559 of their men on that day. According to Major Holt (p.91), he exhorted his men that it was the greatest day the British army ever had, dressed himself in his finest uniform and donned white gloves before leading his battalion across No Man's Land. "Lying mortally wounded in a shell hole, he turned to another man lying near him and said "If you know of a better 'ole, go to it."<br />
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1,293 are buried here, of whom 1123 are identified.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1ThXEMXw_YJT5a9ieRypAXZ31ni6nznEmjW2dbSYZN26nwadz6PVWIrkBKLYOqD3MsgaC2uQC2OobG_JmFH2so1rXCjDeXpAhj42W8MC1Fyb0Xg3gt2eK8HMGp2Gdqu-_yBvWYv8dG74/s1600-h/IMG_1125.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5240267583057182018" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1ThXEMXw_YJT5a9ieRypAXZ31ni6nznEmjW2dbSYZN26nwadz6PVWIrkBKLYOqD3MsgaC2uQC2OobG_JmFH2so1rXCjDeXpAhj42W8MC1Fyb0Xg3gt2eK8HMGp2Gdqu-_yBvWYv8dG74/s400/IMG_1125.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a>Someone attached this photo to put a face to this stone for a soldier far from home.<br />
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The grave of the poet Sgt. John William Streets, York & Lancs. Killed opening day of the Somme.</div>
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"He fell: but yielded not his English Soul:<br />
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That lives out there beneath the Battle's Roll"</div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Auchonvillers</span><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDIHzXAiPhEFJOtbkdFGwI6wArcppvWoBbSVa6q3DGiAyAduQR-6UEm6bg4cJHJLD8frExw_xV7T8HRzMPoEbVxTc76icKtq9xq_FWFDl40IAKk-4ZlIGGEyFtcTizslgmcjTJZWsUPb54/s1600-h/Auchonvillers1914.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5299528812134530978" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDIHzXAiPhEFJOtbkdFGwI6wArcppvWoBbSVa6q3DGiAyAduQR-6UEm6bg4cJHJLD8frExw_xV7T8HRzMPoEbVxTc76icKtq9xq_FWFDl40IAKk-4ZlIGGEyFtcTizslgmcjTJZWsUPb54/s400/Auchonvillers1914.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 272px;" /></a><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 100%;">Auchonvillers is about six miles north of Albert and ten miles west of Bapaume. It was christened 'Ocean Villas' by Tommies.<span style="font-weight: bold;"> Auchonvillers Communal Cemetery </span>is to the south-east of the village, on the road to Hamel.</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-ANCStXZvlIhilRuVuHNCm2uPVgVnQARmww_qOeSX6PEGP_JY7DYqggVfKqLZoLQV-3oqRSh2WTETdtYy9VFwUONfcnCAuHhDFYJb7SyvKsMsiFxw5ccKEGXiYFeK5MnncRfSH3H_EgM/s1600-h/IMG_1127.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5240267590630796114" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-ANCStXZvlIhilRuVuHNCm2uPVgVnQARmww_qOeSX6PEGP_JY7DYqggVfKqLZoLQV-3oqRSh2WTETdtYy9VFwUONfcnCAuHhDFYJb7SyvKsMsiFxw5ccKEGXiYFeK5MnncRfSH3H_EgM/s400/IMG_1127.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica"; font-size: 85%;">In the cemetery is this single row of fifteen graves, all with the same kind of sandstone which is rather unique. Thirteen of these </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica"; font-size: 85%;">Non-Commissioned men of the 1sr Border Regiment </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica"; font-size: 85%;">were killed at the same time by shellfire, when the Germans bombarded the communication trench they were in in April, 1916. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 85%;">One of the inscriptions is of a tribute from a wife: "I knew his worth, I loved him"</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8k2qRAmRa0ddq3-qz-l3R8oT01XdzK4k56Di8IGdqBWPVJn8ZcVd6zWyic628DhkHNqLrlkwoN6tHVg4zZnSoFa6Nl7du_syAs255vHtrahZUi7kRtV__amWecR4OBvZJaIIQOgtdFHjk/s1600-h/479px-Ancre_sector_1_July_1916.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5294708633985339874" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8k2qRAmRa0ddq3-qz-l3R8oT01XdzK4k56Di8IGdqBWPVJn8ZcVd6zWyic628DhkHNqLrlkwoN6tHVg4zZnSoFa6Nl7du_syAs255vHtrahZUi7kRtV__amWecR4OBvZJaIIQOgtdFHjk/s400/479px-Ancre_sector_1_July_1916.png" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 319px;" /></a>From Auchonvillers to the Newfoundland Memorial Park one passes a trio of small cemeteries named after a group of British front-line trenches of 1916. The cemeteries were made by the V Corps in the spring of 1917, when these battlefields were cleared. They had been among the old German front line trenches.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 100%;">The fighting here in 1916 has long been overshadowed by events on each flank, namely Serre on the left and Beaumont Hamel on the right. On 1 July 1916 the sector was occupied by the 4th Division, made up of some of the veteran regular battalions, the 'Old Contemptibles', although few of the original members had survived thus far. It was mainly Territorials and' new army' men who fought here. A special feature includes little known accounts of events at the Quadrilateral on that fateful day. The November battles involve the 2nd Division and the 32nd Division and include the struggle across the mud to Beaumont trench, Frankfurt and Munich trenches. Biographical details of some of the famous men who took part, such as H H Munroe, the author 'Saki' and A A Milne, creator and author of Winnie the Pooh, are also included.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 100%;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-weight: bold;">Redan Ridge CWGC #1</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia";">The clump of trees beside Redan Ridge CWGC #1 mark the site of the Hawthorn Ridge crater.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia";">The site of the mine explosion at Hawthorn Ridge then and now</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: "georgia";">There are over 250 graves in Redan Ridge #2, and almost all the headstones have two or more names with different badges engraved to represent the different regiments. One stone in row B has just a cross on alone, probably because the number of names on the surrounding stones did not allow for a religious symbol on each headstone. Just over 150 of those buried here are identified, and the cemetery is one of those which was made by V Corps in the spring of 1917. Like others, it is located in what was No Mans Land during the summer of 1916.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Redan Ridge #3</span><br />
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Too small to have a registry, Redan Ridge #3 lies just behind the 1916 German front line trenches here. To the left and right of the entrance are thirteen special memorials to men known to be buried here. Their graves were destroyed later by shellfire. With one exception, the known burials here date from mid-November 1916, with many from the 13th November when there were successful attacks near here.<br />
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Assault on Beaumont Hamel on the first day of the Battle of the Somme, July 1, 1916</div>
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White City Beaumont Hamel in July of 1916. During the war, Beaumont-Hamel was near the front line and subject to many attacks. This was especially the case during the Battle of the Somme, one of the largest allied offensives of the war. By 1918 the village had been almost totally destroyed. The banks of white chalk at Beaumont Hamel led to a sector of British trenches being nicknamed "White City". To the west of the village was Hawthorn Ridge Redoubt, one of the sites of the mines exploded on the first day of the Battle of the Somme. On 1 July 1916, nearly 700 men of the Newfoundland Regiment (later to become the Royal Newfoundland Regiment) were killed or injured by German fire as they moved over open ground to make an attack, the communication trenches being already full of wounded men. Newfoundland commemorates this event as Memorial Day on 1 July each year. </div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%; font-weight: bold;">Beaumont-Hamel CWGC</span></div>
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The Newfoundland Regiment attacked here on the 1st of July 1916, and suffered 90% casualties. The Dominion of Newfoundland purchased this land in 1921, and after 1949 the Canadian government continued to maintain it as a memorial. It was officially opened in 1925, by Earl Haig.<br />
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The trenches dug for the 13th November 1916 attack</div>
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1RLlAIfj0QzaIQ3GQoqmPbUQgeC0sRa6DHqh69-7fcYhXb9bM7ypWxvQuftbjZ_33lZWwj8GUtJn-RtY8ACpY7rJUrjUgKEAP5Fb3ZeovwrPIG6UZtd6PQ9SLtWe6P_bSx8veO1GOd0c/s1600-h/IMG_1138.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5240270537812334562" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1RLlAIfj0QzaIQ3GQoqmPbUQgeC0sRa6DHqh69-7fcYhXb9bM7ypWxvQuftbjZ_33lZWwj8GUtJn-RtY8ACpY7rJUrjUgKEAP5Fb3ZeovwrPIG6UZtd6PQ9SLtWe6P_bSx8veO1GOd0c/s400/IMG_1138.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a>A strange Canadian flag joins those of Newfoundland (both countries of which would have fought under the Union Flag not flying despite the considerable British lying dead inside the park) and France. The Newfoundland and Labrador branch of the Royal Canadian Legion to this day does not recognise the current Newfoundland flag as the flag of Newfoundland arguing correctly that during both world wars, Newfoundland soldiers fought under the Union Flag of the Dominion. The legion displays the Union Flag at all of its official functions.<br />
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In 1919 the Dominion of Newfoundland produced a series of stamps honouring the various campaigns the Regiment took part in. This one honours Beaumont Hamel. The full set was later released when Newfoundland joined Canadian Confederation, hence the Canadian red ensign, badge and Parliament depicted.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">51st Highland Division Memorial</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheLE046abARjoeoNRnLt-wI54LXdYJpuTiuqsYdCd7JcXnZ0TGhmmdtZD0qJWw2tagAmRKHJro4mTQBoch-4FiY09goYtPZ-wWzadQJdLRHFERy22JvmlLgZYPLWn4MFJbrHJlMs-Zql8/s1600-h/IMG_1145.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5240272400179265154" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheLE046abARjoeoNRnLt-wI54LXdYJpuTiuqsYdCd7JcXnZ0TGhmmdtZD0qJWw2tagAmRKHJro4mTQBoch-4FiY09goYtPZ-wWzadQJdLRHFERy22JvmlLgZYPLWn4MFJbrHJlMs-Zql8/s400/IMG_1145.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a>This impressive memorial bears the statue of a kilted Highland soldier, looking east towards the village of Beaumont Hamel which men of the 51st Division took on 13th November 1916. The base upon which he stands is made of rough blocks of Rubislaw granite from Aberdeen, and it has inscriptions in Gaelic, English and French. Marshal Foch officially unveiled it in September 1924 and concluded his speech with the words "Sons of Scotland, sleep in peace".<span style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span>In World War Two the Germans had intended to remove the statue for the bronze, but never did.</div>
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNi2Nz0MNRi842vjV-X192DT-hxmfEK6RE1zqDaWO3xI34T5UCoC1dAS3aO4loj7YziBy2XxOdZmEAWnDOwkBJXhs-U4FSPBrsZaOTxgS0FWVouKM7xHqkrOQOd4FS4c-_7oOfxfq250A/s1600-h/IMG_1146.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5240272402812278002" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNi2Nz0MNRi842vjV-X192DT-hxmfEK6RE1zqDaWO3xI34T5UCoC1dAS3aO4loj7YziBy2XxOdZmEAWnDOwkBJXhs-U4FSPBrsZaOTxgS0FWVouKM7xHqkrOQOd4FS4c-_7oOfxfq250A/s400/IMG_1146.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a>Directly across from the memorial is this one which reads "This Cross is erected in memory of the Officers, NCOs and men of the 51st Highland Division who fell at High Wood July 1916".<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Y Ravine CWGC</span><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIi7xLqHqUv9AuvkRmbWLrt9kcMoAy52W9TIky_hP7YtmfuZAfpkiCPLJ_rzUQM47d0MJv_81mosHG36rYPrnrNcyKME-x2Q8R0uHnPclWkHjKzWkxTcUmO8Lp7jUsOQ-jaU1Huy_A4TY/s1600-h/IMG_1141.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5240271420652295570" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIi7xLqHqUv9AuvkRmbWLrt9kcMoAy52W9TIky_hP7YtmfuZAfpkiCPLJ_rzUQM47d0MJv_81mosHG36rYPrnrNcyKME-x2Q8R0uHnPclWkHjKzWkxTcUmO8Lp7jUsOQ-jaU1Huy_A4TY/s400/IMG_1141.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a>Y Ravine cemetery is inside the Newfoundland Beaumont-Hamel Memorial Park and has 366 graves of those killed during the Somme Offensive between July and November 1916.<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3EezOdvNIaxbBkrqTbpuet8SdaUTeDnD84n2V1AyqLXwhwguAq1aqK4ZLISkCXsEQQhhardrLlIDZm616_eALVx-b_ijZl80MMNEd4y9biiQb9DZ2KB4IYwAKCTCAOYgIzpDzuccczgU/s1600-h/IMG_1142.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5240271423983032578" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3EezOdvNIaxbBkrqTbpuet8SdaUTeDnD84n2V1AyqLXwhwguAq1aqK4ZLISkCXsEQQhhardrLlIDZm616_eALVx-b_ijZl80MMNEd4y9biiQb9DZ2KB4IYwAKCTCAOYgIzpDzuccczgU/s400/IMG_1142.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a>The graves of the 38 Newfoundlanders here are engraved with the badge of their regiment showing the woodland caribou.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Hunters CWGC</span><br />
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This beautiful cemetery nearby the 51st Highland Division Memorial is unique in that the headstones do not stand as grave markers, but are set into a central wall. The 46 dead here of the 51st Division who fell during capture of Beaumont Hamel and buried here in a great shell-hole. The name may refer to Reverend Hunter, attached to the Black Watch.</div>
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There are over 200 dead here, fifty of whom remain unidentified. Most fell on the 1st of July, 1916. Poignant is this inscription :<br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">"</span><span style="font-style: italic;">Sleep well dear Dad, you did your best"</span></div>
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Aerial view of the area with the names of various trenches that would subsequently give their names to many of the Commonwealth War Grave Cemeteries here.<br />
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The area in September, 1916 June 1918</div>
<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "times new roman" , "times"; font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: "book antiqua";"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />Memorial to the 12th (Sheffield City) York and Lancaster Battalion</span></span></span> <br />
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This <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">memorial in the village of Serre was erected by the city of Sheffield </span>on May 21, 1923 by Lieutenant-Colonel Wedgwood <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">to the men of the City Battalion who were killed on the 1st of July 1916.</span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Serre Road CWGC</span><br />
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On the D919 west of Serre is Serre Road No. 1 Cemetery. The road here had been originally crossed by German front line trenches in 1916. Serre was not the place to be in 1914-18 and lest we had any doubts
of this the approach to the village sees Serre Road Cemetery No.2 on the
left and Serre Road Cemetery No.1 on the right but not before we see
the mass of graves in the French Serre-Hébuterne Cemetery. No sooner
have we absorbed this do we come across a rather forlorn little memorial
to the York and Lancasters.<br />
In 1916 Serre was to be hell for the British and Allied Armies, but
the French had already seen many deaths there in the actions of 1915. <br />
In the village of Serre itself is the memorial to the 31st Division
which consisted of Pals’ battalions drawn from Leeds, Bradford,
Barnsley, Sheffield, Durham and Accrington. The 31st Division were
charged with taking the village and when they "went over the top" they
were soon to lose over 5,000 men. Nearby is Hawthorne Ridge where a
45,000 ammonal mine was blown on 1 July 1916, one of the many
detonations before the attack started which it was hoped would distract
the Germans.<br />
The Accrington Pals, officially the 11th Battalion East Lancashire
Regiment, were part of the 31st Division. They had served in Egypt in
1915/16, and then came to the Somme in the Spring of 1916 taking over
the trenches opposite Serre. At 7.30am on 1 July 1916 they were in the
first wave of the attack from Mark Copse, and although they suffered
heavily crossing No Man's Land, elements of the battalion under the
commanding officer, Lt-Col Rickman, did reach the German lines. By the
close of the day, however, they were forced back and had lost 584
officers and men out of 720 who had made the attack that morning. The
Memorial was erected in the 1980s in the Sheffield Memorial Park, just
behind one of the jumping off trenches from where the Accrington Pals
advanced on 1 July. It is made from Accrington brick, and the ruined
wall symbolises the ruined village of Serre.<br />
The British 31st Division was a New Army division formed in April
1915 as part of the K4 Army Group and taken over by the War Office on 10
August 1915. The division comprised mainly battalions from Yorkshire
and Lancashire.<br />
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There are now 2,426 buried or commemorated in this cemetery of which 1,728 remain unidentified.</div>
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One of the inscriptions here stand out:<br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">Thy will Lord but not mine. </span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Probable Site of Wilfrid Owen's 1917 Dugout</span></div>
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This marker commemorates the site where the bodies of three soldiers (two German and one unknown British) were found in October 2003. The two Germans were from the 121 RIR and had who died June 1915 while the British soldier is believed to have died on the 1st of July 1916; only his regiment, the King's Own (Royal Lancasters) could be identified. The regimental badges of the two units are on either side of the memorial, unveiled June 2006. The British soldier is now at rest at nearby Serre Road No. 2 Cemetery.</div>
Behind this memorial is the field where it is believed Wilfrid Owen's dugout was, the experience of which inspired him to write <i>The Sentry</i>:<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">The Sentry </span><br />
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We'd found an old Boche dug-out, and he knew,<br />
And gave us hell, for shell on frantic shell<br />
Hammered on top, but never quite burst through.<br />
Rain, guttering down in waterfalls of slime<br />
Kept slush waist high, that rising hour by hour,<br />
Choked up the steps too thick with clay to climb.<br />
What murk of air remained stank old, and sour<br />
With fumes of whizz-bangs, and the smell of men<br />
Who'd lived there years, and left their curse in the den,<br />
If not their corpses....<br />
There we herded from the blast<br />
Of whizz-bangs, but one found our door at last.<br />
Buffeting eyes and breath, snuffing the candles.<br />
And thud! flump! thud! down the steep steps came thumping<br />
And splashing in the flood, deluging muck -<br />
The sentry's body; then his rifle, handles<br />
Of old Boche bombs, and mud in ruck on ruck.<br />
We dredged him up, for killed, until he whined<br />
"O sir, my eyes - I'm blind - I'm blind, I'm blind!"<br />
Coaxing, I held a flame against his lids<br />
And said if he could see the least blurred light<br />
He was not blind; in time he'd get all right.<br />
"I can't," he sobbed. Eyeballs, huge-bulged like squids<br />
Watch my dreams still; but I forgot him there<br />
In posting next for duty, and sending a scout<br />
To beg a stretcher somewhere, and floundering about<br />
To other posts under the shrieking air.<br />
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Those other wretches, how they bled and spewed,<br />
And one who would have drowned himself for good, -<br />
I try not to remember these things now.<br />
Let dread hark back for one word only: how<br />
Half-listening to that sentry's moans and jumps,<br />
And the wild chattering of his broken teeth,<br />
Renewed most horribly whenever crumps<br />
Pummelled the roof and slogged the air beneath -<br />
Through the dense din, I say, we heard him shout<br />
"I see your lights!" But ours had long died out.<br />
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Wilfred Owen</div>
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Interestingly enough, it is thought that Owen was here using the code he used with his mother <br />
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whereby he would be able to give her his location (soldiers were not allowed to put such information in their letters). On the 10th of January he wrote a letter to his mother that included the word 'Mistletoe' - the agreed trigger for the code. The second letter on each of the next five lines spelt out 'Serre'. Six days later he wrote to his mother again, this time describing how '....I have not been at the front. I have been in front of it. I held an advanced post....in the middle of No Man's Land.' He goes on to describe the awful experience, and says that although he posted his sentries half-way down the steps of the dug-out they occupied, 'one lad was blown down and, I am afraid, blinded.' An excavation was undertaken here recently, and filmed, featuring in a BBC 'Ancestors' programme.<span style="font-size: 78%;"> http://www.ww1battlefields.co.uk/somme/serre.html</span><br />
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Matania's <i>Scene from the Battle of Neuve Chapelle</i>, 1915</div>
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On October 27, 1914, this village saw the first action taken by the Indian Corps which attempted to take it from the Germans. It was not until March 10, 1915 that the second attempt took place with the Indian Meerut Division assisting the 8th Division. This was to be the first time that aerial photography played a prominent role in a major battle with the entire German lines being mapped from the air. Losses sustained were immense, particularly to the Middlesex Regiment and the Cameronians, given the inadequate preliminary bombardment leaving the barbed wire in front of German positions uncut. After four days 2 kilometres were taken. 40,000 Allied troops had taken part in the battle and of these 11,200 (7,000 British, 4,200 Indian) were lost. What was left of the village was defended by the Portuguese Division of all groups during the 1918 Battles of Lys.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Neuve Chapelle CWGC</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Indian Memorial to the Missing</span><br />
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During its construction and today with my bicycle in front</div>
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This beautiful memorial is circular and has inscribed the names of many of the missing Indian soldiers on panels that are joined with regimental crests of Indian Army Units. Throughout there are Indian features and motifs, and in the foreground is a 15-metre high column surmounted by a Lotus capital, the Star of India and the Imperial Crown. On either side of the column two carved tigers guard the memorial.<br />
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Unveiling of the memorial by the Earl of Birkenhead on 7 October 1927. The Earl of Birkenhead (Frederick Edwin Smith), who was present in his role as Secretary of State for India, had served in France in World War I from 1914 to 1915 as a staff officer with the Indian Corps, and later co-wrote an official history titled The Indian Corps in France. Also present at the unveiling ceremony was Marshal Ferdinand Foch, who gave a speech in French. Attending the ceremony was a contingent of troops from India to represent the units that fought in France, including Sikhs, Dogras, and Garhwalis. Foch's speech included the following addressed to them:<br />
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Return to your homes in the distant, sun-bathed East and proclaim how your countrymen drenched with their blood the cold northern land of France and Flanders, how they delivered it by their ardent spirit from the firm grip of a determined enemy; tell all India that we shall watch over their graves with the devotion due to all our dead. We shall cherish above all the memory of their example. They showed us the way, they made the first steps towards the final victory. </blockquote>
Later additions to the memorials commemorated other Indian Army dead of both World Wars. There are two recipients of the Victoria Cross commemorated on the Neuve-Chapelle Memorial: William Arthur McCrae Bruce, and Gobar Sing Negi.</div>
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Just along the road from the Indian Memorial is a reminder of yet another nation which fought in the 1914-1918 war; the Portuguese and their cemetery at Richebourg. On April 9, 1918 the German Army launched Operation Georgette in the Lys Valley in the hope of a decisive victory before the arrival of further American reinforcements. In three successive waves, ten divisions overwhelmed the two Portuguese divisions which were incomplete, badly organised and taken by surprise as they were in the process of being relieved. Portuguese losses amounted to 7,500 men on that day, and yet the next day, shoulder to shoulder with the Scottish, the survivors defended La Couture near Béthune before eventually being forced to retreat. The Germans took Estaires, Armentières and Bailleul but failed to take Béthune and Hazebrouck. Operation Georgette was called off on 29 April. The Portuguese had suffered heavy casualties in this action and as was so often the case in the 1914-1918 war many of the men killed were beyond identification and 239 of the graves at Richebourg are marked with the Portuguese word "Desconhecido" or "unknown". The site of the cemetery/memorial takes up both sides of the road and on one side there is a chapel dedicated to Our Lady of Fatima and on the other side, behind an imposing entrance and a wrought-iron gate, is the Portuguese National Cemetery, the final resting place of 1,831 soldiers and the only place of remembrance to honour the Portuguese soldiers of the Great War. Abandoning neutrality in 1916, the young Portuguese Republic had entered the war on the side of the Allies. The Portuguese Expeditionary Force comprised up to 56,500 men and, under the command of the British Army, was assigned to the front in Flanders between the villages of Laventie and Festubert. The Portuguese Command took up quarters in Peylouse Manor in Saint-Venant. In honour of the soldiers who defended the village of La Couture, the French and Portuguese governments inaugurated a monument there in 1928. The monument's frieze shows the ruins of a Gothic church and an allegory of the Portuguese Republic coming to the aid of one of its soldiers. </div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Memorial to Lt. Crichton</span><br />
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This lone memorial stands just outside the Indian Memorial alongside the road in remembrance of Cyril Alfred William Crichton who had been in the the Garhwal Brigade supporting the Meerut Division's attack on the southern part of the village on the opening day of the Battle. He and his men went over the top and charged across 200 yards of open, cratered country in full view of the enemy, cheering as they went. Crichton called "Follow me" but fell after a few yards, shot in the leg, but struggling to his feet he shouted "Charge" and staggered on. He was wounded again, this time mortally.<br />
This monument was erected by his parents, distressed that his body had never been recovered and he had no final resting place. In fact, it was eventually found on February 27, 1925 on the other side of the road after being disturbed by the plough, his identity being discovered through his identity disc and silk handkerchief, and he was buried at Le Touret CWGC.<br />
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It was damaged when the Indian Memorial was shot up in 1940 and later by a vehicle, but later repaired. In 1965 to accommodate road widening, it was moved to the lawn outside the Indian Memorial where it remains.<br />
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A monument to the slaughter is found further south along the D166 to Bethune:<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Le Touret CWGC and Memorial to the Missing</span><br />
On 30 June 1916 this was the site of the Battle of the Boar's Head, a diversion for the Battle of the Somme fought by the 11th, 12th and 13th (Southdowns) Battalions of the Royal Sussex Regiment. After a bombardment of the German trenches the 12th and 13th Battalions went over the top (most for the first time) and, under heavy fire, attacked the enemy trenches, bombing and bayoneting their way in. The 11th Battalion supplied carrying parties. They succeeded in taking the German front line trench, holding it for some four hours, and even briefly took the second line trench for about half an hour, beating off repeated counter attacks, and only withdrew from the shortage of ammunition and mounting casualties. Over a period of less than five hours the three Southdowns Battalions of The Royal Sussex lost 17 officers (including CSM Nelson Victor Carter, who posthumously won the Victoria Cross for his actions in the battle) and 349 men killed, including 12 sets of brothers, including three from one family. A further 1000 men were wounded or taken prisoner. In the regimental history this is known as <span style="font-style: italic;">The Day Sussex Died</span>. The following day the Battle of the Somme began and 20,000 died on the first day.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhTvYWMhJO4d93PSnjbsSJizbq-dBMPLkcGIAeZp-5YQXHtqmGT_3KBEuFZcBdnWjzK8zykNXYbFPrUa_DiyV-F-kQVHHAPCzlRVHEMP4E2cPbZ9B84a4hlbiKrlGGDKhEm4jwWcqw6H0/s1600-h/IMG_1043.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><br /></a><br />
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Above arches within the walkways, and elsewhere are engraved regimental insignia of the units whose men are commemorated here.<br />
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This huge Memorial is in the form of a loggia lined with panels listing the names of the Missing on one side, and which are open with interspaced columns on the other side. It commemorates those with no known grave who died in the area.<br />
In the centre of the memorial, between the walkways, is a grassed area "courtyard" area containing a stone column, with the dates 1914 - 1918 etched on it in Latin numerals. Inscribed above the arches in this courtyard are the names of the battles and actions fought in the area:La Bassee, Festubert 1914, Givenchy 1914/1915, Cuinchy, Neuve Chapelle, Aubers Ridge and Festubert 1915.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Rue des Berceaux CWGC</span><br />
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I was cycling in the suburbs of the small village of Richebourg-l'Avoué with the light descending and having found no place for the night when I came across this rather non-descript cemetery with a fascinating story inside. There are over 450 buried here, over half of whom remain unidentified.<br />
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I noticed in the memorial book a number of New Zealanders had come here to tis rather non-descript cemetery and discovered it was to pay homage to this soldier- Anthony Wilding, the co-World No. 1 in 1911 and 1912 and the World No. 1 player in 1913. In fact, it wasn't until Pete Sampras that his record across multiple Wimbledon wins in doubles, singles and mixed doubles was broken. Between 1907 and 1909 he helped the Australasian team win the Davis Cup, and he won his second Australian Open in 1909, the same year he qualified as a Barrister and Solicitor at the Supreme Court of New Zealand. Focusing on his tennis game, he then won the Wimbledon singles title for four straight years between 1910 and 1913 and narrowly missed winning his fifth in a row, losing in the 1914 finals to Norman Brookes. In addition, he won four doubles titles at Wimbledon. In 1912 at the Summer Olympics in Stockholm he won a bronze medal in the men's indoor singles for Australasia. In 1914, he returned to Davis Cup play, leading the Australasian team to another championship.<br />
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At the outbreak of World War I on the advice of Winston Churchill, Tony Wilding joined the Royal Marines, serving as a Captain with the Armoured Car Division in the battlefields of France. <br />
In his last letter dated 8 May he wrote "For really the first time
in seven and a half months I have a job on hand which is likely to end
in gun, I, and the whole outfit being blown to hell. However if we
succeed we will help our infantry no end." The next day, 9 May, he was
killed in action at 16.45 in the afternoon during the Battle of Aubers
Ridge at Neuve-Chapelle when a shell exploded on the roof of the dug-out
he was sheltering in. He was buried the next day at the front but was
later reinterred at the Rue-des-Berceaux Military Cemetery in
Richebourg-L'Avoue, Pas-de-Calais, France. He had been dating and was
about to marry Broadway star Maxine Elliott. In 1978, he was inducted
into the International Tennis Hall of Fame. Wilding Park, the principal
venue for tennis in Christchurch, New Zealand, was named after his
father, Frederick, but in the public perception became associated with
him.The New Zealand Post issued a stamp of Anthony Wilding in 1992 as
part of the Health Stamps series to support children with emotional and
behavioural problems.<br />
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On the northern side of the village is this cemetery which is sited in an old orchard between two farm buildings, where a trench tramway had its terminus and a Dressing Station was established. Nearly 800 soldiers are buried here, including 91 Germans (34 unidentified). Originally, eleven Portuguese soldiers were buried here but were moved to the Portuguese Military Cemetery nearby.<br />
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6 kilometres south-east of Bailleul on the D77, this cemetery was chosen for the 2nd Australian Casualty Clearing Station in July 1916 before being taken over, on April 10 1918, by the Germans took until the beginning of October. 1,704 Commonwealth soldiers are here, of whom 435 are unidentified.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Steenwerck German Cemetery</span></div>
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The German military cemetery at Steenwerck was created in April 1918 by the German soldiers during their Spring Offensive. It was then expanded during the retreat of August 1918. Following the war the French Military Authorities brought in a number of German graves from the surrounding neighbourhood. During construction work in 1969 twelve German soldiers from the First World War were discovered and they were re-interred here.</div>
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The soldiers buried here are almost all casualties of the German offensive of April 1918 and their defensive battle in August 1918 as the Allies counter attacked. Only 31 of the casualties died in the previous years. The soldiers come from Saxony Silesia, Thuringia, Pomerania, Hesse, Bavaria, Westphalia, Prussia and the Rhineland, Alsace and Lorraine.</div>
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<span style="font-size: 180%; font-weight: bold;">Armentieres and south</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Armentieres- War Memorial at Eleven O'clock Square</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtgAvAFQANU2q5vk9X9Fuv-i5QmXUlNL5W9lHW2ME_elDOtERtTUi5lpe1OMBJrLVGRe1HDPdYCYm6d1N6uzLGQW69cd9US7jozXKkLnTsJnkrAlMBAN4SSWEP248SvKNSd_-GsUc360E/s1600-h/IMG_1007.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtgAvAFQANU2q5vk9X9Fuv-i5QmXUlNL5W9lHW2ME_elDOtERtTUi5lpe1OMBJrLVGRe1HDPdYCYm6d1N6uzLGQW69cd9US7jozXKkLnTsJnkrAlMBAN4SSWEP248SvKNSd_-GsUc360E/s400/IMG_1007.JPG" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5240194532720778914" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a>It was during the April, 1918 Battle of Lys that the German 4th Army attacked and took the town before General Plumer liberated it on October 2 by which time the Germans had completely destroyed the town.<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBv6z_U6YlngjrAd235hEVV9UwF58sbixWs1JgRcMHuGfuObcZCY3H8rkPo8pK71l8ijA9oFCw25oqbyqhtAKkPODVCdbmcR9hEqZjFQLmQKd1u2xeOUZ_qOgTFgpeqYoCs7nFSEtOT6U/s1600-h/IMG_1008.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBv6z_U6YlngjrAd235hEVV9UwF58sbixWs1JgRcMHuGfuObcZCY3H8rkPo8pK71l8ijA9oFCw25oqbyqhtAKkPODVCdbmcR9hEqZjFQLmQKd1u2xeOUZ_qOgTFgpeqYoCs7nFSEtOT6U/s400/IMG_1008.JPG" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5240194536929668690" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a>This square was one of the main routes through the town, and the troops referred to it as "Eleven o’clock square" after the clock tower had been struck by a shell in 1914 and thereafter the hands stuck on eleven o’clock.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Rue David CWGC</span><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKH55GBZNtP5LCC2nPc8jt1N9MRDQg-MmCSa2QJltv7OzNMS1sZMKbCZAn6HOznsZ_QoS_KQFDaccYbNyva-Oh4Bt_FdXhQPBlw2ZqsBtbO0t4IKGAOi7-xPk8MVTtP22vmW5KjX1vd5w/s1600-h/IMG_1011.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKH55GBZNtP5LCC2nPc8jt1N9MRDQg-MmCSa2QJltv7OzNMS1sZMKbCZAn6HOznsZ_QoS_KQFDaccYbNyva-Oh4Bt_FdXhQPBlw2ZqsBtbO0t4IKGAOi7-xPk8MVTtP22vmW5KjX1vd5w/s400/IMG_1011.JPG" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5240195501227506306" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a>Cycling five kilometres south-west of Armentieres near Fleurbaix, I came across this cemetery begun by the 2nd Royal Scots Fusiliers in December 1914 and closed to Commonwealth burials in December 1917.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Fromelles</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 85%;">Fromelles was in German hands from 1914 until October 1918 when it was liberated by troops from the 5th (Australian) and 61st (South Midland) Divisions. The 5th (Australian) Division was a new formation with no battle experience – it had only recently arrived from Egypt. A handful of its men had fought at Gallipoli, but none on the Western Front. The 61st (South Midland) was a second-line Territorial Force division which had likewise little experience in the trenches, having only been in France for a month.<br /><br />The front select for the attack was four kilometres long. The German trenches were well made and strongly constructed, as were their wire defences. Concrete bunkers were numerous. Behind Fromelles was a low ridge, the Aubers Ridge. From observation posts on this ridge, the German artillery virtually commanded the battlefield. Preparations for the operation were not disguised, and in the days before the battle Australian and British troops were seen bring up ammunition, supplies, creating a new light railway and carrying up 1,500 gas cylinders. In the end it was decided not to use gas, and the soldiers about to make the attack were ordered to carry them back again. By this time the men were physically exhausted. The Germans, meanwhile, knew an attack was coming and even placed notice-boards on their trenches asking ‘Why so long?’.<br /><br />But the attack went ahead. At Zero Hour, 6pm on 19th July, twelve battalions from both divisions went over the top. The attack failed, although here and there some troops had made it into the German lines. The British commander of 61st Division did not commit any more troops to the debacle, but the commander of 5th (Australian) Division allowed reserve troops to go forward, only to be unsupported and mowed down in No Man’s Land. By 5am on 20th July the battle was over – those left in the German lines fought on where they could but they were soon overwhelmed. Some 470 Australians were taken prisoner at Fromelles while the 5th (Australian) Division lost over 5,000 men in this battle: by the 20th July there were 2,000 dead in No Man’s Land. </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Mass grave re-discovered in 2008</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: 85%;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: 85%;">There was speculation for many years regarding the existence of an unmarked and forgotten mass grave near Fromelles, containing the remains of Allied soldiers killed during the battle and subsequently buried by the Germans. </span><span style="font-size: 85%;">Research by an Australian historian, Lambis Englezos, identified a site on the outskirts of Fromelles. In 2007, a non-invasive geophysical survey was conducted. The work by British archaeologists was commissioned by the Australian government. The survey gave readings consistent with pits containing the remains of hundreds of soldiers. Additionally, a metal detector survey revealed Australian Army artefacts on the site.<br /></span><span style="font-size: 85%;">On May 25, 2008, Australian defence personnel minister Warren Snowdon said there was no doubt that bodies of Australian soldiers were buried there. That same day, an archaeological team from the University of Glasgow, contracted by the Australian government, began an exploratory dig at the site. The first conclusive evidence of human remains was discovered on May 29. In total, six burial pits were excavated and human skeletal remains were found in five of them. Only 20% of the area of the pits was exposed, to minimise disturbance of the remains. Numerous artefacts were recovered (e.g. brass military badges and buttons) which confirmed that the bodies in the pits were Australian and British. It was estimated that several hundred allied soldiers "missing in action" had been buried at the site.<br /></span><span style="font-size: 85%;">Bodies were originally transported there via a German narrow gauge trench railway on July 22, 1916, then tipped into eight pits measuring approximately 10 metres long, 2.2 metres wide and five metres deep. The grave pits were not discovered by various official post-war burial campaigns during the 1920s, which resulted in British Empire war dead being interred in Imperial War Graves Commission cemeteries.<br /></span><span style="font-size: 78%;"><span style="font-size: 85%;">On 31 July 2008 it was announced that all human remains will be exhumed from the mass burial pits and re-buried with full military honours in individual plots at a new war cemetery, situated as close as possible to where the soldiers were found. Exhumation and re-interment will be carried out under the auspices of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. The original burial location at Pheasant Wood was deemed unsuitable for a permanent cemetery because of the likelihood of regular flooding, and difficult access to the site for visitors. The site for the new permanent CWGC cemetery was selected in autumn 2008 and is located approximately 120 metres from Pheasant wood, where the bodies where found.It will be very similar in appearance to other CWGC war cemeteries in France and will be built to the same standar</span><span style="font-size: 85%;">d</span></span><span style="font-size: 78%;"><span style="font-size: 85%;">.</span></span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><br /></span><br />
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<a href="http://vimeo.com/9202014" style="font-weight: bold;">Fromelles reburials begin</a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> from </span><a href="http://vimeo.com/user1997206" style="font-weight: bold;">War Graves Commission</a><span style="font-weight: bold;"> on </span><a href="http://vimeo.com/" style="font-weight: bold;">Vimeo</a><span style="font-weight: bold;">.</span></div>
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On Saturday 30 January 2010 at 11am, the first of 250 Australian and British soldiers was reinterred at Fromelles (Pheasant Wood) Military Cemetery. </div>
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This was the symbolic start of the reburial stage, which will see around 30 reinterments taking place each Monday, Wednesday and Friday in February, weather permitting.</div>
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The day was cold, but sunny, and the Australian and British soldiers who formed the bearer party performed their task admirably. Hundreds of local people came to watch the ceremony, along with many visitors from overseas. They were joined by governmental and military dignitaries from the UK, Australia and France.<br />
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July 1916: Australian prisoners captured during the Battle of Fromelles being escorted along Route de Béthune in Haubourdin, northern France using Google streetview</div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%; font-weight: bold;">The "Hitler bunker"</span></div>
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About a mile south of Fromelles towards Aubers on the the D141 is this concrete shelter where it is claimed that Hitler spent time whilst serving with the Bavarian Infanterie-Regiment List.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Fauquissart CWGC</span><br />
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Home to 105 graves, many of which are from the Battle of Neuve Chapelle. One burial is that of Captain Charles Edmund Wood, a Harrow and Sandhurst educated soldier who was Adjutant of the 1st Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers, killed on the 11th of March 1915. There are special memorials to three men known to be buried in the Cemetery (there are 19 unidentified graves), and one of these, Lance-Corporal F E Carter of the Northamptonshire Yeomanry also died during Neuve Chapelle whose stone reads "A noble son, his Country called, he answered".<br />
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Site of Hellfire Corner- "the most dangerous corner on earth."<br />
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One of twelve remaining demarcation stones around Ypres. This one records the furthest advance of the Germans in the Spring of 1918. In fact, it has since been moved a few yards to the left in order to accommodate the traffic circle that has transformed the historic crossroad.
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It was the French sculptor Paul Moreau-Vauthier who had the idea in 1920 of putting down a series of stone markers all along the front line as it was after the victory at the Second Battle of the Marne on 18 July 1918, this front line running from the North Sea to the Swiss border. The markers are carved from pink granite and are no more than one metre high. On the top of the demarcation stone is a laurel wreath surmounted by the helmet of whichever Army stopped the Germans at the point marked. Thus we see a British "tin-helmet" or a Belgian or French helmet. There are depictions of grenades and palms at each corner and a water bottle hanging from a strap on one side and on the other, again hanging from a strap, a gas mask case. The demarcation stones are inscribed "Ici fut arrete L'Envahisseur", "Here the invader was brought to a standstill" and "Hier werd de overweldiger tot staangebracht". Moreau-Vauthier's idea was endorsed by Henri Defert, president of the Touring Club of France who invited the Belgian Touring Club to join the project. A total of 240 markers were planned (28 in Belgium, 212 in France), of which 118 were erected (22 in Belgium, 96 in France) in the years between 1921–1927. In France these demarcation stones are known as "Borne du Front" and in Belgium as "Demarcatiepalen" . Some stones have been destroyed over the intervening years but many still exist. The planned number of demarcation stones was never achieved as funds seem to have run dry and enthusiasm for the project had waned.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">To the right of Hellfire Corner is Potijze, less than a mile away. </span><span style="font-size: small;">This was a major location within British lines, serving as the 27th Division's headquarters. Around it are three cemeteries that stand as a testament to the violence seen here.</span><span style="font-size: 180%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: small;">
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<span style="font-size: x-large; font-weight: bold;">Potijze</span>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Potijze Burial Ground CWGC</span></span>
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Immediately after the war and between the wars
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This cemetery is one of four in and around the site of the former Potijze Château which, before having been destroyed by German artillery fire, had been behind the Entente lines for most of the war and served as an Advanced Dressing Station.
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<span style="font-size: 100%; font-weight: bold;">Potijze Chateau Lawn and Wood CWGCs</span><br />
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These adjoining cemeteries are two of four in and around the site of the former Potijze Château. The château was behind Allied lines for most of the war and served as an Advanced Dressing Station. The château was destroyed by German artillery fire. The cemeteries were extended after the war by concentration of battlefield graves and small cemeteries from the north-east of Ypres. <span style="font-size: 100%; font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">
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<span style="font-size: 100%; font-weight: bold;">Potijze Burial Ground Cemetery</span></div>
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One stone marks the resting place of Mervin Merefield Parsons, killed at age 26 in 1915, and his brother, 2nd Lieutenant H.M. Parsons, "killed at Merville 13iv18 aged 24."</div>
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<span style="font-size: 180%;"><span style="font-size: 100%; font-weight: bold;">Potijze French National Cemetery</span><span style="font-weight: bold;">
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After the war and today. The sculpture is of a mourning mother and a crucifix erected in 1968.</div>
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Heading towards Zillebeke which is less than two miles south west of Ypres and was the scene of two Victoria Crosses being won by John Henry Stephen Dimmer and John Franks Vallentin in 1914.
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The name refers to that given by soldiers to a communication trench known as the 'Great Wall Of China.'
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From between the wars and today
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A Welshman who had emigrated to Australia in 1913, Second Lieutenant Frederick Birks was awarded the Military Medal during the Battle of the Somme for leading a squad of stretcher-bearers in the vicinity of Pozières and the V.C. for action at Glencorse Wood during the Third Battle of Ypres (Passchendaele), September 21, 1917. From his citation:
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For most conspicuous bravery in attack, when, accompanied by only a corporal, he rushed a strong point which was holding up the advance. The corporal was wounded by a bomb, but 2nd Lt. Birks went on by himself, killed the remainder of the enemy occupying the position, and captured a machine gun. Shortly afterwards he organised a small party and attacked another strong point which was occupied by about twenty-five of the enemy, of whom many were killed and an officer and fifteen men captured. During the consolidation this officer did magnificent work in reorganising parties of other units which had been disorganised during the operations. By his wonderful coolness and personal bravery 2nd Lt. Birks kept his men in splendid spirits throughout. He was killed at his post by a shell whilst endeavouring to extricate some of his men who had been buried by a shell.</blockquote>
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Major William Henry Johnston of the Royal Engineers, who later was killed June 8, 1915, was awarded the V.C. at Missy-sur-Aisne during the “Race to the Sea” after the Battle of the Marne which stopped the Germans in front of Paris. From the citation:<span style="font-style: italic;">
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The cemetery just after the conclusion of the war. <br />
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Three special memorial headstones commemorating 108 soldiers buried in other cemeteries, and whose graves were destroyed by later fighting.<br />
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Graves marking the collective resting places of eight, eleven, and thirteen men</div>
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Two of seven soldiers shot at dawn buried in this cemetery, the left being the grave of Private Thomas Docherty of the King's Own Scottish Borderers executed for desertion in July 1915 and the other being the grave of Private George Ernest Roe, of the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, from Sheffield, shot at dawn for desertion in June 1915, aged 19. On November 7, 2006, the British government announced a pardon for all soldiers executed in the Great War.
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Both men here were shot July 26, 1915 with two others on the Ypres Ramparts for desertion. Private Fellows, a father back in Birmingham, was shot by firing squad with four other deserters from the 3rd Battalion on July 26, 1915. Corporal Ives was shot despite members of the court martial recommending mercy on the grounds that he may have been telling the truth when claiming that e had suffered memory loss from shellfire. However, his sentence of death was confirmed by the Field Marshal.<br />
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Private Evan Fraser of the Royal Scots was executed for desertion in August 1915, aged 19. He is commemorated on a special memorial, his original grave having been lost. Fraser absconded from his regiment at 4pm on 24 May 1915. He was arrested the next day at a local railway station in possession of a forged pass and handed back to the British. Whilst in British custody he escaped, but again was caught after little more than 24 hours. Two weeks later, he escaped custody for a second time and again was arrested within a day. On 13 July he was charged with having deserted on three occasions and of conduct to the prejudice of good order (having a forged pass). He was undefended at his trial. He pleaded guilty to the forgery, but not guilty to the counts of desertion. His battalion adjutant gave evidence, saying that Fraser was "a continual source of annoyance", a shirker and a continual deserter. He was shot at 4am on 2 August 1915 <br />
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<span style="font-size: 130%;">Cycling further down the road is </span><span style="font-size: 130%; font-weight: bold;">Tuileries CWGC</span><span style="font-size: 130%;">
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Tuileries means "tile factory", and its chimneys provided a means for the opposing side to calibrate their shells which led to the cemetery itself being heavily shelled and the sites of most of the original graves were lost. After this cemetery had been started in 1915, it was later destroyed in subsequent fighting. The photo on the right shows one of three French graves joining 95 British allies. Most of the gravestones are positioned around the edges of the otherwise empty-looking cemetery, and are marked "known to be buried in this cemetery", with the default additional phrase "Their glory shall not be blotted out", a line suggested by Rudyard Kipling.
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<span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>The church has been rebuilt over the remains of the original, completely flattened during the war.
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A display case in the church and stained glass honouring the British, personified here by St. George.<br />
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On the left is the grave of Second Lieutenant Baron Alexis George de Gunzburg, Russian born but lived in Paris. He was killed on the 6th of November 1914, serving with the 11th Hussars. The tombstone bears the imprint of the stonemason of Ypres who made it.<br />
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The other unusual headstone here on the right is that of 2nd Lieutenant Lee Steere, of the Grenadier Guards. He had taken over command after the death of Captain Symes-Thompson. After trying to find the sniper responsible, he himself was shot through the head. He had been awarded the Victory and British War Medals and the 1914 Star.</div>
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Two graves of Grenadier Guardsmen: The Right Honourable Henry Bligh Fortesque Parnell, 5th Baron Congleton and eldest son of Major General Henry, 4th Baron Congleton, C.B., and Baroness Congleton and <span style="font-family: "verdana" , "tahoma" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia"; font-size: 100%;">Major Lord Bernard Charles Gordon-Lennox, son of Sir Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, 7th Duke of Richmond and married to the daughter of Henry Brougham Loch, 1st Baron Loch. He had two sons: Maj.-Gen. George Charles Gordon-Lennox and Rear-Admiral Sir Alexander Henry Charles Gordon-Lennox</span>.</span>
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Rising DSO, R.E. Maj. Gloucestershire Regiment served in the Boer War and was awarded his DSO in the defence of Langemarck on October 23 1914, one of the first of the first Great War.
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Lieutenant The Honourable William Reginald Wyndham, third son of the 2nd Baron Leconfield who joined the Life Guards in August 1914 was killed in action on the 6th of November 1914.
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"Life is a city of crooked streets,
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where all men meet"
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Despite the death being listed as 2000, the grave still merits a "Commonwealth War grave" plaque outside the church. According to a comment I found on youtube by <a class="watch-comment-auth" href="http://www.youtube.com/user/dglenl" rel="nofollow">dglenl</a></div>
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My mother's uncle Charles Stennett was killed at Paschendale. His remains were never recovered and his is one of the 35,000 names on the wall. One of my mothers brothers Michael Stennett lived and worked in Belgium for the British War Graves commission to oversee and maintain the British and commonwealth cemeteries including Tyne Cot. </div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Zillebeke Demarcation Stone</span>
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</a>These monuments were one metre high, designed by Paul Moreau Vauthier and placed along the 960 kilometres of the Western Front to mark the limit of the German Advance in 1918. They were placed beside main roads and crossroads and were paid for by Touring Clubs of France and Belgium. (Coombs, 1976)
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British Empire troops began using the site as a cemetery in March 1915 named after a nearby farm. The cemetery organisation is unusual in that the dead are mostly grouped by battalion, departing from the usual Commission practice of there being little or no order other than date to the burials.
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There are special markers for six soldiers (five British and one Canadian) who are known or believed to be buried in the cemetery but whose actual plot was lost or destroyed. These stones usually have the Rudyard Kipling-derived footnote "Their glory shall not be blotted out".
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Just outside this crater remains at the entrance of Palingbeek Park, now a golf club.<br />
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The village of Voormezeele was just behind the British line at St. Eloi and was taken in April 1918 before being recaptured by the American 30th Division on August 31.
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Originally founded as four enclosures, there are now three cemeteries in Voormezeele, formed by grouping (enclosing) separate regimental cemeteries. There is also one grave in Voormezeele's parish churchyard. Both the village and the cemeteries fell into German hands on 29 April 1918 during the Spring Offensive, falling back to the Allies in September 1918 during the Hundred Days Offensive that swept fighting away from the Salient.
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This particular enclosure was founded in February 1915 by Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, expanded by later use by other units. The enclosure was expanded by concentration after the Armistice from nearby smaller sites. Also interred in Enclosure 3 are the dead of the Hampshire Regiment and others who reclaimed the area from German hands in September 1918. </div>
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One of the special memorials recording five men who were known to be buried in another cemetery but who could not be found when that cemetery was concentrated to the Voormezeele Enclosures after the Armistice. There are others to fifteen men who are known or believed to be buried on the site.<br />
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A notable burial at this cemetery is Canadian Lieutenant Colonel Francis Douglas Farquhar of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment), who earned a Distinguished Service Order medal. He had been the Regiment's first Commanding Officer and was an officer with the Coldstream Guards and Military Secretary to Canada's Governor General, His Royal Highness, the Duke of Connaught.<br />
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The role was much more than ceremonial. As the senior regular British officer in Canada, he was a respected and important link between the Imperial General Staff and the Canadian Army. It was the partnership and social connection between Farquhar and Gault that was the key to the formation of the regiment. An officer of the elite Coldstream Guards with a superb record and Royal connections, there is little doubt that Farquahar could have commanded a battalion of his own regiment and would very likely have quickly risen to command a brigade. That he chose instead to help rally a regiment of former soldiers is testament to his commitment to duty above self.<br />
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He was the son of Sir Henry and the Hon Alice, and the husband of Lady Evelyn (née Hely-Hutchinson) and had served in China with the Chinese Regiment of Infantry in December1901. Upon his return from China he was posted for duty in the Somaliland campaign of 1903-1904. He served on the General Staff, War Office from 1908 to 1913 and attained the rank of Major in 1910 and to Lieutenant-Colonel in 1913.<br />
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Londoner Private William Dulgarians Crombie is also in Enclosure 3. He was only 16 years of age when he was killed on 9 November 1916.</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I visited this beautiful cemetery by cycling south from Ypres to the Hell Fire Corner roundabout following the signposts past the church in </span><span style="font-size: small;">the centre of Zillebeke.</span><span style="font-size: small;">The name was given just before Canadian forces arrived to relieve the British here in 1916.</span>
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<span style="font-size: small;">142 Canadians join 114 from the U.K. as well as 52 unknowns. Hill 62 is just beyond.</span></div>
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On the left is Mount Sorrel with Armagh House in the foreground, whilst the right shows Observatory Ridge and the corner of Armagh Wood, taken from Mount Sorrel.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">On the morning of June 2, the Germans launched the fiercest bombardment yet experienced by Canadian troops. As men were literally blown from their positions, the 3rd Division fought desperately until overwhelmed by enemy infantry. By evening, the enemy advance was checked, but the important vantage points of Mount Sorrel and Hills 61 and 62 were lost. A counter-attack by the Canadians the next morning failed; and on June 6, after exploding four mines on the Canadian front, the Germans assaulted again and captured Hooge on the Menin Road.</span>
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The newly appointed Commander of the Canadian Corps, Lt-Gen. Sir Julian Byng, determined to win back Mount Sorrel and Hill 62. He gave orders for a carefully planned attack, well supported by artillery, to be carried out by the 1st Canadian Division under the Command of Major-General Currie. Preceded by a vicious bombardment, the Canadian infantry attacked on June 13 at 1:30 a.m. in the darkness, wind and rain. Careful planning paid off and the heights lost on June 2 were retaken. "The first Canadian deliberately planned attack in any force," the British Official History was to record, "had resulted in an unqualified success." The positions regained by the Canadians would remain part of the Allied line in front of Ypres until the massive German offensives in the spring of 1918.
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The cost was high. At Mount Sorrel Canadian troops suffered 8,430 casualties. </blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: 78%;">http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/remembers/sub.cfm?source=Memorials/ww1mem/hill62</span>
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the Sanctuary Wood museum in the Ypres Salient. The name 'Hill 62'
referred to the area's height above sea level in metres. Although
referred to as Mount Sorrel the Canadian memorial is actually located
some 800 yards north of Mount Sorrel itself. The memorial comprises a
block of white Quebec granite weighing almost 15 tons and bears the
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Here at Mount Sorrel on the line from Hooge to St. Eloi, the Canadian Corps fought in the defence of Ypres April–August 1916</blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "times new roman";"> From it Ypres's Cloth Hall can clearly be seen.</span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";"> Trenches destroyed by artillery during the Battle of Mount Sorrel, showing German dead. June, 1916.</span>
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Near Sanctuary Wood, October 25, 1917 and the site today</div>
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Footage of the memorial
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-weight: bold;">Sanctuary Wood CWGC and Memorial to Lt. Rae</span>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Just a few hundred metres down the road from the Canadian memorial past the Hill 62 museum is this noteworthy cemetery.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">To give some indication of the savagery of the fighting, only 637 bodies are identified of the of the 1,989 who lie buried here.</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvFBrO7zsYmLZ938a-VrvBd7EpHoZyhfdWNJYuYQVF-v2XSHggrQOTsbwDY3ajW_IAFy1RupHiMr_SL1MkGUrSUp0ECtyQYCwDllC7USJ6-rozLyPvvyn8nNdcnnQVprKpO-bhb4My1cA/s1600-h/IMG_0772.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="font-family: times new roman;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237898747633423506" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvFBrO7zsYmLZ938a-VrvBd7EpHoZyhfdWNJYuYQVF-v2XSHggrQOTsbwDY3ajW_IAFy1RupHiMr_SL1MkGUrSUp0ECtyQYCwDllC7USJ6-rozLyPvvyn8nNdcnnQVprKpO-bhb4My1cA/s400/IMG_0772.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">One of the 637 identified graves belongs to
Lieutenant Gilbert Talbot of the Rifle Brigade, in whose memory Talbot
House where I stayed at Poperinghe was established in December 1915 by
two army chaplains, Talbot's brother Neville Talbot and Philip 'Tubby'
Clayton. </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1nLe1MRemvcbAIjoOnzvCItFW4xGbN_dnHtb4M18Opro3mKnctOgdupL9JhZ24dmPZInKPqqhYTQPVgqJ4-qkm7LwhPEdJHHbwmAT3saft3dun5fNG4nt5ZJwXCL7IPgfOwEcDHSRyU8/s1600-h/IMG_0773.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="font-family: times new roman;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237898752688516642" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1nLe1MRemvcbAIjoOnzvCItFW4xGbN_dnHtb4M18Opro3mKnctOgdupL9JhZ24dmPZInKPqqhYTQPVgqJ4-qkm7LwhPEdJHHbwmAT3saft3dun5fNG4nt5ZJwXCL7IPgfOwEcDHSRyU8/s400/IMG_0773.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">At the back against the wall lies the German pilot Hans Roser, who was shot down on July 12, 1915 by pilot Lanoe Hawker. The British retrieved his body from the wreckage and interred him among their own dead out of respect for his gallantry. Hawker would later win the VC before himself being shot down by the Red Baron.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Hans Roser is the only German buried at the Sanctuary Wood Cemetery. His is the only square gravestone, all other gravestones have a bow shape. In the register of Sanctuary Wood there is an inscription in English: "He couldn't fly without a plane". Furthermore, there are German sentences with more information on the place and date of death and how he was shot. A Special Memorial at Sanctuary Wood remembers him thus: "The young pilot, from West Germany, who did not even fight went to the front, unknowing. He has been one of too many, his grave still stands between thousands of others." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Outside the cemetery is this memorial to </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Second Lieutenant Thomas Keith Hedley Rae</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">, who commanded a platoon in 'C' Company at Hooge Crater. He was killed </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">on 20 July 1915 at Hooge </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">during the use of 'liquid fire', (a type of flame-thrower), "last seen burnt and bleeding, standing on his parapet firing at the attackers." </span><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">The memorial was built in Hooge in 1921, but transferred here in the 1960s.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Deutscher Soldatenfriedhof when </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">officially inaugurated on July 10, 1932 and during one of my visits. </span></div>
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The total number of soldiers buried or commemorated in this cemetery is
44,234, situated north of Langemark village, about 6 kilometres
north-east of Ypres. The cemetery started as a small group of graves in
1915 and was officially inaugurated on 10 July 1932. Roughly 3,000
graves are of the Student Volunteers who died in the battle of Langemark
in October and November 1914 leading the cemetery to be dubbed Der
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The so-called Kameraden Grab ( 'Comrades Grave') where the remains of 24,917 unidentified German soldiers are interred. </div>
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Bronze statue of four mourning soldiers, by the Munich sculptor Professor Emil Krieger. Apparently it "was inspired by a photograph taken of soldiers from the Reserve Infantry Regiment 238, mourning at the grave of a comrade in 1918" shown on the right. The second soldier from the right was killed two days after the photograph was taken.</div>
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The entrance between the wars<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Memorial to the Royal Artillery and Royal Engineers of the 34th Division</span><br />
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The bunker behind the German cemetery was captured in September 1918 and was used as an Advanced Dressing Station. The man put in charge was Lawrence of Arabia's brother. Apparently more men died of drowning than through artillery.</div>
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When farmers find artillery they place it on the side of the road (or in this case, within an electricity pole) and alert the military who then collect it and eventually gather them together to detonate.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">20th Light Division Memorial</span></div>
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Between the wars and today<span style="text-decoration: underline;">,</span> now surrounded by suburbia<br />
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Cycling just west of Langemark I visited the next two military cemeteries:<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Cement House CWGC</span><br />
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"Cement House" was the name given by the Army to a fortified farm building on the Langemark-Boezinge road. The original Cement House Cemetery (now Plot I, an irregular group of 231 graves) was begun here at the end of August 1917 and used by the 4th and 17th Division burial officers, by field ambulances and by units in the line until April 1918. In the years immediately following the Armistice, most of Plots II - XV were added when Commonwealth graves were brought in from the battlefields and small burial grounds around Langemark and Poelkapelle, mostly dating from the Autumn of 1917. Almost 500 French graves were removed in 1922, and the space vacated has been filled in the intervening years by graves brought in from communal cemeteries and churchyards in the area when their maintenance in these locations could no longer be assured. The cemetery is still used for the burial of remains that continue to be discovered in the vicinity, and a number of plots have been extended to accommodate these graves. There are now 3,566 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in the cemetery. 2,398 of the burials are unidentified. Of the 22 Second World War burials in the cemetery, five are unidentified.<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_VtWIlclprYM/SLEpgvAxXII/AAAAAAAAGBU/wJb5llJcm1Q/s1600-h/IMG_0864.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><br /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4lxFWTKd3eX8_iSlXq3Qeiksu9FfYXQ0biGn4ZrPI7Rc3xvpcThB49l8aN5PRthowbTQpRm9mfTp5i5atQj_99AsobK5_Tprm6fumG535ZsZNuk4e_QTTDV-oaRdlR652NijqbTcD71U/s1600-h/IMG_0866.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5238019229821339570" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4lxFWTKd3eX8_iSlXq3Qeiksu9FfYXQ0biGn4ZrPI7Rc3xvpcThB49l8aN5PRthowbTQpRm9mfTp5i5atQj_99AsobK5_Tprm6fumG535ZsZNuk4e_QTTDV-oaRdlR652NijqbTcD71U/s400/IMG_0866.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a>Very unusual stone which boasts a paragraph instead of the usual half-dozen lines. Especially unusual when one considers the cost at the time for each additional word inscribed; families were told that the maximum number of letters and letter spaces allowed was 66 and the charge was three and a half pence per letter. Most families paid the charge though there was much grumbling at the time that the soldiers had already paid it many times over with their blood. the charge appears not to have been enforced. (From John Laffin's <span style="font-style: italic;">AIF Epitaphs of World War 1)</span><br />
This is possibly the only example where a man's final action is described on his gravestone.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaTWxvN-QbwdOOx6R0oh8YI_8OyzGFrgQO1dSIH3z-l0ZqoN2rhi36KG7QE8KxUMNI9xSzTyOXp2f_2T_GPcJoE9Mi83jsk1H7GdJ4Gkj4N0Kb9H1UXjkdnYgvFHXGYCJvT5vHaY5XTM4/s1600-h/IMG_0738.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237883922138109458" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaTWxvN-QbwdOOx6R0oh8YI_8OyzGFrgQO1dSIH3z-l0ZqoN2rhi36KG7QE8KxUMNI9xSzTyOXp2f_2T_GPcJoE9Mi83jsk1H7GdJ4Gkj4N0Kb9H1UXjkdnYgvFHXGYCJvT5vHaY5XTM4/s400/IMG_0738.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a>Captain Knowles- with a date of August 23, 1914 given for his death, he is one of the first British officers to die in the Great War.<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqDGhNg6pIujaQ9NaF4HZ43E4BN3LFI-QrWoclAqZwTj99fugc3Pb92B41VXjRiSD4OHaI8BWlmZ_h4H12CTiktrcLCkv2VJaJq3AuJ1DIhK9f2N5XDWojTSgD_FLpqBRwW4d4NA4udWk/s1600-h/IMG_0865.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5238013487951238962" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqDGhNg6pIujaQ9NaF4HZ43E4BN3LFI-QrWoclAqZwTj99fugc3Pb92B41VXjRiSD4OHaI8BWlmZ_h4H12CTiktrcLCkv2VJaJq3AuJ1DIhK9f2N5XDWojTSgD_FLpqBRwW4d4NA4udWk/s400/IMG_0865.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a>The marker for A. Sutherland- I had the honour of being escorted around Lijssenthoek CWGC by his nephew George Sutherland, one of four generations of CWGC workers. When his uncle was killed George's father returned to the UK from Canada to fight and ended up marrying a Belgian.<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDD0lS_ls4uIVe8cRERnb_qIiEk6rkCp6-bKKwVY0_m2aYFDKHua19ZQjMxfDwfnrl-5gYtntl6WQN7-i9NAViMPHOqugJnpkL3Okg8qLPoAFSiYLJAEmJ8AIRuiVLb9_pMtoqE5ErPanC/s1600-h/1.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5242802120474063090" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDD0lS_ls4uIVe8cRERnb_qIiEk6rkCp6-bKKwVY0_m2aYFDKHua19ZQjMxfDwfnrl-5gYtntl6WQN7-i9NAViMPHOqugJnpkL3Okg8qLPoAFSiYLJAEmJ8AIRuiVLb9_pMtoqE5ErPanC/s320/1.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a>Buried side-by-side here are two best friends- Privates Frederick George Rogers and Albert Ernest Lovatt, both of the 8th Bn. South Staffordshire Regiment. According to a letter sent to Lovatt's widow by a member of their platoon, the two were last seen helping each other during an attack and had never made it to the dressing station.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">New Burials at Cement House CWGC (from http://www.greatwar.nl)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 85%;">http://www.ww1battlefields.co.uk/flanders/langemarck.html</span></div>
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82 men lie buried here, named after a farm taken by the Guards Division on 8th October 1917.</div>
<span style="font-size: 180%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_W-66Vd1wlIrebf2bYXQWlkQLYusfoj0X2h7HeuDlQIYh25WRzKqb2T_dI0Pqyo9L7PIrzeLqDhXx77ebaBB4PVidTcYfhPJUfvLp0-SP7U72jUxMmvKWqXzZ685NgPzNbWeE3pL2nA_V/s1600-h/10-78_M004.GIF" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Poelkapelle</span></span><br />
Poelkapelle is a small town 2.5 km from Langemark that was briefly found within the British Cavalry area in October 1914. From then on until 1917 it was within German lines and effectively became a fortress.<br />
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By autumn of that year after terrific shelling it became a ruin. It was finally liberated by the 53rd Brigade of the 18 Division on October 23; what happened in the meantime can be gauged by these photos.<br />
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The church during the war and after</div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Memorial to Georges Guynemer</span><br />
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Today and at its inauguration in 1923</div>
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The <u>Times History of the War</u> records the following tribute:<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"> Captain Guynemer was, like our Captain Ball, whom he resembled in many points, a paladin of the air. He was one of those beings whose bodies would at first glance seem hardly equal to the great soul they hold within them. Although twice rejected for want of physical strength, ho made up his mind he would be an aviator, in despite of all his disadvantages, and an aviator he did eventually become. Probably his was beyond the usual daring of the ordinary tyro, for he began by smashing up his machine, and came down six or seven times more before he was thoroughly at home in his new career. But then he became Guynemer. His accidents and practices taught him much. He made many little improvements in his machine, and above all he elaborated his methods which made him so redoubtable an adversary. He first became known to the public in 1916. In 1915, between July and December, he had already brought down four opponents. But beginning with the New Year he rapidly increased his score. He added thirteen up to September 23. On November 10 of that year he brought down a brace of German aeroplanes, and two more on the 22nd. His successes went on increasing during the next year. On both January 22 and 24 he destroyed two enemy machines, and on May 25, 1917, he conquered four. Such a score for one day was then quite unsurpassed. Of these the first two fell with only a minute's interval, one to the north of Corbeny, the other near Juvincourt. The third was crushed down at Courlanden, near Fismes, while the fourth was set on fire and fell in the gardens of Guignicourt. </span>(XVI, 40)</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">I came across this impressive memorial to him unveiled in July 1923 on the way to Langemark which the British soldiers of the 53rd brigade of the 18th Division liberated. Apparently the stork on the monument, symbol of L’escadrille des Cicognes, is shown flying in the direction Guynemer took when he made his last flight. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">From
German sources it was learned that Guynemer had been shot through the
head and had fallen close to Poelcappelle, 800 yards from the cemetery
where he was buried by his foes with military honours. </span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Poelkapelle CWGC</span><br />
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This cemetery is less than a mile west of the town and is the third-largest in the region. It was created after the Armistice with the concentration of graves from the surrounding battlefields. Most of those lying here date from the Third Battle of Ypres. To give an indication as to the ferocity of the battle, of the graves here 6,231 or 90% are unnamed.<br />
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Between the wars and today</div>
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Among the inscriptions is this for Lieutenant J. Lunan, Gordon Highlanders, killed September 20, 1917 at age 24:<br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">"I Leave Myself In God's Hands</span><br />
<span style="font-style: italic;"> - Extract from his diary </span><br />
<span style="font-style: italic;"> written 19.9.19"</span></div>
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For more information see<span style="font-weight: bold;"> http://www.cwgc.co.uk/Condonevidence.htm</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUCWeZOlC99robnv2EWHjef9AHA2RbJbB17Q8PDT8KHVgxZZEFhIvX5OXYDAz72kLZ1GYqC6zDnjfUChZ-UBu6fskgJjIZYsEuf-1Xcc981FJNp94J0gMyXWeyNQHynu4J1Ptd7uG2JAU/s1600-h/IMG_0721.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237674036802846306" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUCWeZOlC99robnv2EWHjef9AHA2RbJbB17Q8PDT8KHVgxZZEFhIvX5OXYDAz72kLZ1GYqC6zDnjfUChZ-UBu6fskgJjIZYsEuf-1Xcc981FJNp94J0gMyXWeyNQHynu4J1Ptd7uG2JAU/s400/IMG_0721.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a>The stone of 2nd Lieutenant H.G. Langton on the far left-side wall is unique:</div>
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<span style="font-size: 130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Yorkshire Trench</span></span><br />
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Recently excavated between the summer of 1998 and April 2000 and filmed by the BBC TV for its "Meet the Ancestors" series in a March 2002 programme called "The Forgotten Battlefield", this was a British dugout from 1917. The restored trench itself is only 57metres, whereas the original trench was a system of many hundreds. And the site itself, approx. 1650 square metres, is only 1/150th part of the industrial estate itself. This restoration is a compromise (like filling sandbags with a mixture of sand and cement, whereas we all know that sandbags were filled with ... earth) between authenticity (how did it really look like), durability and solidity (how long is it supposed to last), looks (Great War trenches were an absolute mess), safety (parties of schoolchildren arrived just as I was leaving), the financial aspect, etc.</div>
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A so-called loophole on the right.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Boezinge Demarcation Stone</span><br />
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Destroyed by the Germans in October 1914, this town marked the most northern part of the British sector. Beyond the point the French held the line meeting with the Belgian army near Diksmuide. It was fiercely fought over during the 2nd Battle of Ypres in 1915 as well the 3rd Battle two years later which saw the French make a successful attack.<br />
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This stone is in the centre of the village and behind the hedge is a German blockhouse on top of which is a German mortar.<br />
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Continuing down the N333 towards Poperinghe are the following Commonwealth War Graves:<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Bleuet Farm CWGC</span><br />
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Named after a Dressing Station situated at the farm, the cemetery which can be found in a corner of the re-built farm was started in June 1917 and in use until December that year. After the armistice, two graves in isolated positions nearby were moved into the cemetery.</div>
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There are three who lie buried here after having been Shot at Dawn: Private T. Hawkins, 7th Royal West Surrey Regiment (Queen’s), who was executed for desertion on November 11 1917,</div>
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Private A. H. Westwood, East Surrey Regiment, executed for desertion the November 23 1917, and Rifleman F. N. Slade, executed December 14 1917 for "disobedience."</div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Ferme Olivier CWGC</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 100%;">On the <span style="font-style: italic;">Steentjesmolenstraat</span> roughly four miles to the Northwest of Ypres just after reaching the village of Elverdinge </span><span style="font-size: 100%;">on the outskirts of Ypres is this cemetery containing a mass grave of thirty seven men of the Monmouthshire Regiment killed by a naval shell fired from the Houthulst Forest nearly fourteen miles away.</span><span style="font-size: 100%;"> The CWGC was used continuously between 9 June 1915 and 5 August 1917, with the 62nd, 16th, 9th, 11th, 129th and 130th Field Ambulances successively having dressing stations close by. Due to its proximity to German artillery, a collective grave is here containing the remains of 37 men of the 3rd Battalion Monmouthshire Regiment killed on parade on 29 December 1915 by a single shell fired from a naval gun in Houthulst Forest. Alongside the 408 Commonwealth graves <span style="font-style: italic;">in toto </span>(6 of which are unidentified) are three German war graves.</span></div>
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The cemetery takes its name from a farmhouse used as a dressing station during the 1917 Allied offensive in this area, and most of the burials are of men who died at the dressing station between June-October 1917.<br />
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Victoria Cross recipient Corporal James Llewellyn Davies of the 13th Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers is buried here among 906 others.<br />
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For most conspicuous bravery during an attack on
the enemy's line, this non-commissioned officer pushed through our own
barrage and single-handed attacked a machine gun emplacement, after
several men had been killed in attempting to take it. He bayoneted one
of the machine gun crew and brought in another man, together with the
captured gun. Cpl. Davies, although wounded, then led a bombing party to
the assault of a defended house, and killed a sniper who was harassing
his platoon. This gallant non-commissioned officer has since died of
wounds received during the attack.</div>
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No. 30272, 6 September 1917</div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">These three military cemeteries are all along the same small road which crosses what had been the battleline throughout the war.</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Colne Valley CWGC</span></div>
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Devoted Son<br />
Staunch lover True friend<br />
Au Revoir</div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Dragoon Camp CWGC</span><br />
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This small cemetery, just south of Boesinghe, has 66 graves. The site was captured by the 38th (Welsh) Division on 31 July 1917. and the cemetery, called at first the Villa Gretchen Cemetery, was begun by the 13th Royal Welch Fusiliers on 9 August.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Welsh CWGC (Caesar's Nose)</span><br />
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59 are buried in this cemetery, which had directly faced German lines on July 31, 1917 at a point known as Caesar's Nose. There is a nearby sign showing photographs iof how the point has changed over time. Of these, 23 are of the 38th (Welsh) Division...</div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />Demarcation Stone, Vijfwegen</span><br />
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Demarcation stone at Vijfwegen, situated between Welsh and No Man's Cot CWGCs.</div>
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Positions of Canadian Corps and German Group Vimy at Zero Hour, 9 April 1917</div>
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It is noteworthy that in 1914, at the beginning of WW1, when King George
V of England declared war on Germany, Canada, not yet a fully
independent country, was therefore automatically at war. We were still a
colony, in essence, of Great Britain despite the BNA act. However, the
Canadian Army proved itself so well during that war, and especially at
Vimy Ridge in 1917, when a citizen's army, composed of bunch of cowboys,
clerks, and farmers drove the, up to then, unbeatable Imperial German
Army's front line back nearly 30 miles. Canadians took not only their
trenches, but their ammunition dumps , kitchens, and field hospitals.
When the war ended, Canada had become a full-fledged respected member of
the world community of nations, and signed the Armistice, (called the
treaty of Versailles) in 1919, apart from Great Britain. Now a
completely independent entity on the world stage, "The Dominion of
Canada" as we were known then, became a founding member of the League of
Nations (the original UN). Canada was also a founding member country of
the evolving Empire, now called the British Commonwealth of Nations. </div>
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Just
off Vimy the main road from Lens to Arras (N25) before one turns right
to enter the Canadian National Park, all but four of the 94 buried
here are Canadian. The inscription on one grave, that of Gunner C D
Moore of the Canadian Artillery, reads:</div>
<span style="font-style: italic;">He would give his dinner to a hungry dog and go without himself.</span><br />
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Proudly standing in front of the real Canadian flag outside the main compound, finally flying at the site after nine decades. Flying the Red Ensign, Canada entered WW2 by
declaring war on the Nazis. (They still respected our fighting prowess
calling the 1st Canadian Division the "Red Patch Devils".) But this time the Dominion had declared war some days after King George VI declared war. Our only link with England then were our traditions, way
of life, our love for the motherland, our proud historic roots, and the
British North America Act (called the Canadian Constitution- It was
passed into law by the British Parliament in 1867, unifying the existing
colonies basically to protect North-western part of North America from
American invasion.) This Constitution, as it has been justly called,
was taken from the British Parliament, where it was protected and could
not be changed or altered, by Trudeau and the Liberal government of the
day, and "repatriated" to Canada in 1982. (This was typical lying
political wordage, not the correct word usage since it was never in
Canada, but was a British Government law). This political act would now
allow our constitution to be changed and altered at the whim of the
majority government; and of course was followed closely by the passing
of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, removing forever the old
historic sense of "Individual Freedom" as Canadians knew it then. Now
our "rights and freedoms" are generally decided by powerful lobby
groups, or by lawyers and judges in our courts of law, not by the
elected representatives of the people, nor even by a jury of
citizens.<br />
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"Oh Canada!" where have you gone, don't you care about your sons and daughters?"</div>
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My first pilgrimage to Vimy and exactly ten years later. The Vimy Ridge National Historic Site of Canada is a tribute to all Canadians who risked or gave their lives for King and Empire in the First World War. </div>
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To the valour of their countrymen in the Great War and in memory of their sixty thousand dead this monument is raised by the people of Canada. </div>
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-Inscription on monument </div>
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His Majesty King Edward VIII, descending from the Monument at the Unveiling ceremony. </div>
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Over 100,000 attended the unveiling- as many as had been there on April 9, 1917 including 8,000 Canadian veterans.</div>
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King Edward VIII performing the dedication by unveiling the statue of "Canada
Bereft," possibly his only official duty as monarch during his short reign that began
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The monument in 1926 and a decade after when the monument had been completed </div>
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Designed by Canadian sculptor and architect Walter Seymour Allward, the monument took eleven years to build. It rests on a bed of 11,000 tonnes of concrete, reinforced with hundreds of tonnes of steel. The towering pylons and sculptured figures contain almost 6,000 tonnes of limestone brought to the site from an abandoned Roman quarry on the Adriatic Sea (in present day Croatia). The figures were carved where they now stand from huge blocks of this stone. A cloaked figure stands at the front, or east side, of the monument overlooking the Douai Plain. It was carved from a single, 30-tonne block and is the largest piece in the monument.<br />
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The same view 90 years ago.</div>
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Below "Mother Canada" is a sarcophagus draped in laurel branches and bearing an helmet and sword.<br />
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On each side of the front walls at the base of the steps are the Defenders: two groupings of figures shown here whilst in the studio and today- Breaking of the Sword... <br />
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...and Sympathy for the Helpless. Above each grouping is a cannon, silent now and draped in laurel and olive branches.<br />
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Carved on the walls of the monument are the names of 11,285 Canadian soldiers who were killed in France and whose final resting place was then unknown. Standing on the monument’s wide stone terrace overlooking the broad fields and rolling hills of Northern France, one can see other places where Canadians fought and died. More than 7,000 are buried in 30 war cemeteries within a 20-kilometre radius of the Vimy Memorial. Altogether, more than 66,000 Canadian service personnel died in the First World War.<br />
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The twin white pylons, one bearing the maple leaves of the Dominion of Canada, the other the fleurs-de-lys of France, symbolise the sacrifices of both countries. At the top are figures representing Peace and Justice; below them on the back of the pylons are the figures representing Truth and Knowledge. Around these figures are shields of Canada, Britain and France. At the base of the pylons is a young dying soldier, the Spirit of Sacrifice, and the Torch Bearer.<br />
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On each side of the staircase are the male and female Mourner figures. Here is the female in 1932 and today.<br />
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Ghosts of Vimy Ridge<br />
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Canadians today are so far removed from their history that they cannot even recognise the monument <br />
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The trenches at the site have been rather artificially preserved by replacing the sand bags with concrete<br />
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"German Front Line 1917": a visit to the same trenches by German soldiers during the Second World War. </div>
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Memorial to the 1st Canadian Division</span><br />
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In February 1918 and today<span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Memorial to the 3rd Canadian Division</span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Canadian Cemetery #2</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmoJfYj3uSfuq9w0T0FYgXQ2W3RumAsBDPwkYkh26VVK7XO66zZEbnvE8ck-QiXRRlY01-bX2Tz4G9DYnalL22bnRf4RxLesTzEqzrQZSP0S3gOtL6p8ikzi2VGC_hyuYNBzihxsicVoI/s1600-h/IMG_1067.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" height="480" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5240237031438233090" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmoJfYj3uSfuq9w0T0FYgXQ2W3RumAsBDPwkYkh26VVK7XO66zZEbnvE8ck-QiXRRlY01-bX2Tz4G9DYnalL22bnRf4RxLesTzEqzrQZSP0S3gOtL6p8ikzi2VGC_hyuYNBzihxsicVoI/s640/IMG_1067.JPG" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" width="640" /></a>Shamefully the cross on the gate has been replaced by a national
symbol- the Canadian maple leaf; the Canadian Government seeing fit to
take exclusive claim on a cemetery that holds far more non-Canadians
than its own- compared to the official 695 Canadians resting there are
2, 241 British as well as 19 Australians, 7 New Zealanders, two South
Africans, and one Indian.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Givenchy Road Canadian Military Cemetery</span><br />
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This
small cemetery inside Vimy Memorial Park contains the graves of 109
Canadian soldiers, principally of the Canadian 4th Division, all of whom
fell between April 9, 1917 and April 13, 1917 during the Battle of
Vimy Ridge. It was originally established as a battlefield cemetery by
the Canadian Corps and named CD 1. The cemetery covers an area of 849
square metres and was enclosed by a rubble wall. Although only being
250 metres from the nearby Canadian Cemetery No. 2, it was not
incorporated into the cemetery like many other battlefield cemeteries
created at the time.<br />
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Givenchy during the war</div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Outside the Memorial Park heading south</span><br />
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At
the time in the heart of the battle of Vimy Ridge, Thelus today is a
farming village 5 miles north of Arras at the junction of the N17 and
D49 roads with the A26 autoroute less than a mile away; it was harrowing
having to cycle navigate my way by bicycle from here into Arras. The
village has two memorials to the Canadians who were killed during the
Great War before the Canadian Corps finally liberated the town on April
9, 1917.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Thelus CWGC</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "times new roman" , "times";">296 are buried here, of whom 244 are Canadian.</span><br />
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German Whiz-bang captured by Canadians at Thelus April, 1917.<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "times new roman" , "times";"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "times new roman" , "times";">General Horne, General Sir Julian Byng, General Sir Arthur Currie and Major-General Sir H.F. Mercer at the unveiling of the Memorial to Artillerymen who fell on Vimy Ridge at Thelus in February, 1918 and the site today. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "book antiqua" , "times new roman" , "times"; font-weight: bold;">Nine Elms CWGC</span><br />
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One
of two CWGCs named "Nine Elms", the other being near Poperinghe. Sure
enough, nine elm trees do surround this cemetery found on the main road
less than a mile south of the village.</div>
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Over 700 lie here with nearly 150 still unidentified.</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The entrance in 1922 and standing in front today</span><span style="font-size: 180%; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div>
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During
the First World War, the village of Lijssenthoek was situated on the
main communication line between the Allied military bases in the
rear and the Ypres battlefields. Close to the Front, but out of the
extreme range of most German field artillery, it became a natural place
to establish casualty clearing stations. The cemetery was first
used by the French 15th Hopital D'Evacuation and in June 1915, it
began to be used by casualty clearing stations of the Commonwealth
forces. From April to August 1918, the casualty clearing stations
fell back before the German advance and field ambulances (including a
French ambulance) took their places. The cemetery contains 9,901
Commonwealth burials of the First World War, 24 being unidentified.
There are 883 war graves of other nationalities, mostly French and
German, 11 of these are unidentified. There is 1 Non World War burial
here. The only concentration burials were 24 added to Plot XXXI in
1920 from isolated positions near Poperinghe and 17 added to Plot
XXXII from St. Denijs Churchyard in 1981. Eight of the headstones
are Special Memorials to men known to be buried in this cemetery,
these are located together alongside Plot 32 near the Stone of
Remembrance. The cemetery, designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield, is the
second largest Commonwealth cemetery in Belgium.<br />
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The cemetery soon after the war.</div>
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The
soberly beautiful Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery is the largest of the
hospital cemeteries which grew up around the casualty clearing sta-
tions to the east and west of Poperinge. Soldiers devised amusing names
for these CCSs, which sounded curiously Flemish, but still had a grim
meaning: Mendinghem, Dozinghem and Bandaghem. Lijssenthoek was also
popularly known as Remi Cemetery, from the name of the farmer who lived
behind the clearing station’s complex of tents. This farm can still be
seen today.</div>
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one visit I was most fortunate to have been given a tour of the
cemetery by Mr. George Sutherland, an ex gardener of the CWGC, born
adjacent to the cemetery in the interwar years to an ex RAMC veteran
who was also one of the first CWGC gardeners. Both George and his father
Walter Sutherland worked for over 70 years in Lissenthoek cemetery.
His son Alex now carries on the tradition, devoting his life to ensuring the upkeep of cemeteries throughout the world.</div>
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The grave of Frederick Harold Tubb, VC after the war and today</div>
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<i>For
most conspicuous bravery and devotion to duty at Lone Pine trenches,
in the Gallipoli Peninsula, on 9th August, 1915. In the early morning
the enemy made a determined counter attack on the centre of the newly
captured trench held by Lieutenant Tubb. They advanced up a sap and
blew in a sandbag barricade, leaving only one foot of it standing, but
Lieutenant Tubb led his men back, repulsed the enemy, and rebuilt the
barricade. Supported by strong bombing parties, the enemy succeeded in
twice again blowing in the barricade, but on each occasion Lieutenant
Tubb, although wounded in the head and arm, held his ground with the
greatest coolness and rebuilt it, and finally succeeded in maintaining
his position under very heavy bomb fire.</i><span style="font-style: italic;"> </span>—The London Gazette, No. 29328 15 October 1915</blockquote>
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He
later achieved the rank of major and died of wounds suffered in battle
at Polygon Wood on 20 September 1917 whilst serving with 7th
Battalion, 2nd Brigade, 1sr Australian Division when he was shot by a
German sniper. Whilst being carried to the rear he was struck by
British artillery shells and died here at the dressing station beside
the cemetery:<br />
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The dressing station can be seen in this period postcard and has little-changed up to the present day. </div>
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Belying
the stereotype of lions being led by donkeys, there are a number of
senior officers buried here, giving lie to the myth that the Generals
in the Great War kept safe and sound out of harm's way:</div>
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Hugh
Gregory Fitton, GOC 101st Brigade, 34th Division, has the unique
distinction of being the only general officer to become his division’s
first battle casualty. On 18 January 1916, three days after the
division completed its deployment to France, he was wounded by a
German sniper while on an instructional visit to 16th Brigade and died
two days later. He was the seventeenth British general to be killed
in action or to die of wounds on the Western Front. He had served in
the Sudan 1885, Egypt 1885-86 and several Nile Expeditions in the 1890s;
ironically, three weeks before Fitton's Brigade landed in France, it
was preparing to be sent to Egypt. He had also served in the Boer War
1899-1902. As one officer wrote of him, "Nothing was too much trouble to
him as long as his men were thoroughly trained and he had their love
and respect" whilst another spoke of "his habit, which endeared him to
all, of doing himself everything that the men were asked to do."</div>
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<span class="postbody">Major
The Hon. Sir Schomberg Kerr McDonnell QOCH was born in Glenarm,
County Antrim, and was educated at Eton and Oxford. He served as
private secretary to Prime Minister Lord Salisbury. He fought in the
Boer War and was knighted in 1902 and died at Ypres in 1915. The
caricature of him of from the October 18, 1894 issue of Vanity Fair
captioned "He was Lord Salisbury's Private Secretary."</span></div>
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Brigadier-General
Alister Gordon (sharing his name with the Brigadier from Dr. Who),
who commanded the 153rd Infantry Brigade, and was a veteran of the
Ashanti Campaign of 1901 and also the South African War. He died of
wounds on the 31st of July 1917 aged 45. On that day, the 153rd
Brigade, part of the 51st Highland Division, attacked at 3.50 a.m.
south-east of Langemarck on the first day of Third Ypres.</div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Brigadier General Robert Clement Gore, commander of the 101st Infantry Brigade Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders </span><span style="font-size: small;">who died on Saturday 13 April 1918 at the age of fifty.</span></div>
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Major-General
Malcolm Smith Mercer, CB (17 September 1859 – 3 June 1916) was a
Canadian general, barrister and art patron who practised law in Toronto
and led the 3rd Canadian Division during the first two years of the
First World War before he was killed in action at Mount Sorrel in
Belgium. Mercer was an experienced militia commander and had
demonstrated a great flair with training and organising the raw Canadian
recruits during the opening months of the war. He also demonstrated
courage under fire, visiting the front lines on numerous occasions at
the height of battle and personally directing his forces in the face
of poison gas attacks and heavy shellfire.<span class="messageBody"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>Mercer
remains the most senior Canadian officer ever to die in combat and
was unfortunate to be killed at the opening engagement of the largest
battle of his career, when he was trapped by shellfire during a front
line reconnaissance and overrun during the subsequent German attack.
The division Mercer created and trained remained one of the best
units of the Canadian army under his successor Louis Lipsett and
Mercer was remembered by the men under his command, many of whom
attended his funeral in the aftermath of the battle of Mount Sorrel.</span></div>
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Mr. Sutherland showing a German grave where the widow's ashes were deposited surreptitiously many years after the war.</div>
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A
photograph remembers Lieutenant Christian Creswell Carver, of "A"
Battery, 83rd Brigade, Royal Field Artillery, age 20, who died of
wounds 90 years ago on 23 July 1917 by the battery dug out on the
banks of Zillebeke Lake and died of his wounds several days later in
the Remy Sidings Casualty Clearing station. Buried nearby in this
cemetery is his Battery Commander Major George Eustace Summers MC,
aged 29, who died on 26 July. <br />
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The grave of Lieutenant Henry Richard Thomson after the war and today </div>
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The
grave of Lieutenant John Edward Raphael of the King's Royal Rifle
Corps who had captained England during the All Blacks' first UK tour
1905. He died of wounds in 1917 at the Battle of Messines whilst
fighting in the country of his birth, having been born in Brussels.</div>
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<span class="postbody">Leland Wingate Fernald- 'A volunteer from the USA to avenge the Lusitania Murder'</span><br />
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Lance Corporal George Alderson was the only soldier serving with the Durham Light Infantry to be awarded the Albert Medal First Class in Gold (only 45 were ever given) for having "seized a bomb which he knew would explode in four seconds." He died October 15, 1915 after having had his hand blown off in the explosion and his widow received the medal.</div>
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Among
the inscriptions found in this cemetery is this for Sapper John Rees
Davies 343rd Road Construction Coy. Royal Engineers who died August 8,
1917 at age 39</div>
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"Tread softly and doff thy cap for such as he stopped the gap."</div>
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Staff
Nurse Nellie Spindler of the Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military
Nursing Service was with the 44th Casualty Clearing Station then based
near Brandhoek when she died on the 21st of August 1917, aged 26 after
the Germans had shelled the area at around 10 a.m., critically
wounding her. She was buried here with full military honours with the
Last Post played over her grave and was officially described as
'killed in action' by the War Office after only having been on the
Western Front since May 1917. According to the CWGC records she is one
of only two female Great War casualties who are buried in Belgium.</div>
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Memorial stones placed on the graves of the many Jewish soldiers buried here. <br />
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The grave of Private William Baker of the 26th Bn. Royal Fusiliers, shot at dawn after having deserted previously after he had deserted April 22, 1918 by trying to take the mail boat to Boulogne where he was arrested May18 and brought back to his battalion. He then escaped and tried to reach the hospital in Etaples but was arrested again on June 21. Sentenced to death by F.G.C.M. (Field General Court Martial), he shot at dawn in the field August 14, 1918. </div>
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A section given to French dead.<br />
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Beside the French graves is a section to those of the Chinese Labour Corps.</div>
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Some of the 35 Chinese graves.<br />
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1920 photograph of the original gravemarker for 宋守元 Shoon Shou Yuen who had died in the Spanish influenza epidemic providing his home-address (or of his next of kin)- 山东省长山县南十八里黄家坡 (Huangjiapo village eighteen miles South of Changshan county in Shandong Province), the date of his death combining the Chinese Republican calendar and the lunar calendar (17th day of the 3rd lunar month of the 8th day of the Republic = 17 April 1919) and the number of the company to which he belonged (39th).</div>
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Major
(acting Lt Col) George Ernest Beaty-Pownall, awarded the DSO in the
June 4, 1917 Gazette 'for distinguished services in the field.' Died
of his wounds October 10, 1918.<br />
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The grave of Thomas McGrath, the only civilian buried in Lijssenthoek. During the war he had served as a Sergeant and worked as team leader for the Chinese Labour Corps. After the war he devoted himself to the Imperial War Graves Commission, later the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and lived at 'Café Remy' in Poperinge before dying of illness at the age of 31 on St. George's Day in 1920. <br />
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One
of the three graves in the cemetery marked as American (despite
non-American dating system on stone) as they had fought under the
American flag. Other Americans buried here joined the Canadian or the
British Army until April of 1917. To maintain the fiction that the US
was neutral, any American who joined a foreign army before then
automatically lost his US citizenship and were left effectively
stateless upon their deaths. This had changed in the twenties when the
US Congress adopted a law that retroactively restored their
citizenship.</div>
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James
Pigue left for Europe on May 4 1918, leaving behind forever his
newlywed wife and a son who he would never know. His regiment was
assigned to the British Second Army near Ypres for training. Given
that the British Second Army was experiencing a shortage of officers
at this time. Pigue spent some time commanding British and Australian
artillery units. On July 18 he was at an observation post when a sniper
shot him through the heart. He was the first man from the Old
Hickory Division to be killed in action during the First World War.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2950256458945700210.post-37785506426953935112008-07-22T15:56:00.000-07:002013-07-23T14:03:45.529-07:00Kemmel<div style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<span style="font-weight: bold;">Suffolk CWGC</span><br />
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The
cemetery was founded by Commonwealth troops in March and April 1915. It
was then disused, except for one 1917 burial, until October 1918. The
cemetery was founded under the name "Cheapside Cemetery" by the Suffolk
Regiment. The October 1918 burials were of soldiers from the York and
Lancaster Regiment who had been killed the previous April. There are now
48 buried here.</div>
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The cemetery was designed by J R Truelove who also worked on the Tyne Cot memorial to the missing.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Godezonne CWGC</span></div>
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The
cemetery was founded in February 1915 by the Royal Scots and Middlesex
Regiments in the garden of the original Godezonne Farm and was used
again in 1916 for three more burials and again after the Armistice to
concentrate battlefield burials from the north and the east.</div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjs6oWrhxGC7zmKaPqUN8_NVbwURxUI7KYlMIuh0kuT2smf2_bHdNRNZ-Ef0q-t63IRDOk0Da5Gm5sqEV7cp5dh84lPKJ7Rz31Lpt2qY7iIvbr4buCR78fKwAKaPmn3fJEOfYXdEK83PgOx/s1600-h/1.GIF" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5287096133193068674" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjs6oWrhxGC7zmKaPqUN8_NVbwURxUI7KYlMIuh0kuT2smf2_bHdNRNZ-Ef0q-t63IRDOk0Da5Gm5sqEV7cp5dh84lPKJ7Rz31Lpt2qY7iIvbr4buCR78fKwAKaPmn3fJEOfYXdEK83PgOx/s400/1.GIF" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 274px;" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Elzenwalle Brasserie CWGC</span></div>
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The
cemetery was started in February 1915, formed from eight regimental
burial grounds. The graves are of individual soldiers killed holding the
line of the trenches during the long stalemate of the front and the new
forward line after the Battle of Messines. The name itself comes from
the brewery opposite the road.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Ridge Wood Military CWGC</span></div>
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The name of the cemetery is actually misspelt on the stone.</div>
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The
cemetery is located in Voormezeele, West Flanders, Belgium, in the
Ypres Salient of the Western Front and was established in May 1915 for
front line troops defending the area. The cemetery was used by the Royal
Irish Rifles, the Durham Light Infantry and Canadian battalions.</div>
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The
cemetery is in a dip behind a ridge that was the site of a wood. In the
Spring Offensive of 1918, German forces pushed the front line on to the
ridge, being moved back in July, before being swept away completely
later in the year during the Hundred Days Offensive by the 6th and 33rd
Divisions.</div>
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Of
the 621 burials at the site, 292 are from Canada, 280 from the United
Kingdom, 44 from Australia and 3 from New Zealand, in addition to two
from Germany. The cemetery previously contained graves of a number of
French soldiers, but these were concentrated elsewhere later.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Lindenhoek Chalet CWGC</span></div>
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This military cemetery is about five miles west of Ypres from the Kemmelseweg (N331) connecting Ypres to Kemmel.</div>
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67 of the 315 here are unidentified.<br />
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After
getting directions from the Tourist office in Heuvelland, I turned
left at the roundabout on the Kemmelseweg (N331) and went north towards
Ypres.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">La Laiterie CWGC</span></div>
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About
seven kilometres south of Ypres is this cemetery, final resting place
for 751 Commonwealth servicemen, of whom 571 are identified. The
cemetery had been named after a dairy farm and was begun in November
1914 and used until October 1918 by units holding this sector of the
front.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Memorial to the American 27th and 30th Divisions near Vierstraat</span></div>
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This
large white Rocheret stone monument set up in 1929 commemorates the
27th and 30th American Divisions who fought in August and September
1918. Around 1,300 from the 27th Division and 800 from the 30th Division
died during this engagement, and the monument stands in the middle of
the area fought over.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Demarcation Stone</span></div>
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the approaching American memorial seen on the left side of the road is
this Demarcation stone surmounted by a French helmet.</div>
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One can still faintly read the legend Kemmel.<br />
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Kemmel Hill after the war and today <br />
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Not
far from the demarcation stone is the French ossuary at the foot of
Mont Kemmel, shown before and after the memorial stone was erected in
the early 1920s. The ossuary contains the remains of 5 294 soldiers, all
but 57 of them unknown. Most of these soldiers fell in the April 25,
1917 Battle of Mount Kemmel in which the French lost this strategically
important hill to the Germans and Ypres was almost captured.</div>
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Then and now<br />
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On top is this French memorial, the Mémorial aux Soldats Français 1914-1918, which commemorates those French units engaged in the Battles for Mont Kemmel between 15 and 30 April 1918. This 16 metre high French monument shows Nike, the goddess of victory, looking out towards the area where the French fought. It was unveiled in 1932 by Pétain. On 25 April 1918 a single French Division, which had only taken over the position a week beforehand, found itself opposed by three and a half German Divisions. An hour of furious bombardment was considered sufficient by the Germans and at 06:00 hours they launched their infantry into the attack. By 07:10 hours Mont Kemmel was theirs and by 10:30 hours it was all over. The hill which had remained in Allied hands for four years had been taken by a spectacular display of brute force. Even the German airforce had joined in with 96 aircraft dropping 700 bombs and machine gunning the French positions as the Leib Regiment of the élite Alpine Corps stormed forward. </div>
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Mont Kemmel in 1918. One can see the results of constant artillery bombardment<div style="text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-size: large; font-weight: bold;">Kemmel No.1 French Cemetery </span></div>
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This cemetery is unusual for having unknown origins,
having been discovered by the French after the Armistice and contained
the bodies of Commonwealth, French and German troops. Despite its name,
the French graves were removed to the ossuary and the large French
cemetery at Potijze, leaving the Commonwealth and German graves. The
cemetery was enlarged by concentrating nearby battlefield graves and
three British graves, two from a local churchyard and one from a nearby
German cemetery. Also included in the concentration were more German
graves found in the former battlefields by the Belgians.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Kemmel Chateau Military Cemetery</b></span></div>
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This
cemetery was established on the north side of the grounds of Kemmel
Chateau north-east of Kemmel village in December 1914 and continued to
be used by divisions fighting on the southern sectors of the Belgian
front until March 1918, when after fierce fighting involving both
Commonwealth and French forces, the village and cemetery fell into
German hands in late April. The cemetery was retaken later in the year,
but in the interval it was badly shelled and the old chateau destroyed.
The resting places of 1135 men of the Empire lie here- 1030 British, 80
Canadian, 24 Australians and one New Zealander. </div>
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The
graves of two men buried here 'shot at dawn' for desertion in 1917-
Private Stanley Stewart of the 2nd Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers,
executed 29viii and Private James Smith, 17th Battalion, The King’s
(Liverpool Regiment), executed 5ix. The latter had been the subject of a
play, "Early One Morning", written by Bolton playwright Les Smith and
first performed there on October 22, 1998 to mark the 80th anniversary
of the armistice. He had almost lost his life on the Somme when, on 11
October 1916, a massive German artillery shell buried him alive on the
Transloy ridge, with bits of his friends around him, and shrapnel
created a large deep wound on his right shoulder. According to his
sister, it was big enough to put a fist in. He was rescued and taken
home to Townleys hospital in Bolton, but in a very poor mental and
physical state from which he never recovered. The shocks and horrors of
the battles that he had seen had damaged him to such an extent that he
was clearly unfit for further service. Sixteen days after returning to
the Front, he left his post without orders. On 29 December 1916, he was
court-martialed for a breach of military discipline and ordered to do 90
days' field punishment. On 15 July 1917, just before the battle of
Passchendaele, he was court-martialed for a second time for going absent
without leave. He was only 26 years old when executed.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Pillbox and crater along the Dammstrasse to Bayershof (White Chateau)</span></div>
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A British pillbox; behind is the Bayershof German Headquarters:</div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Bayershof (White Chateau)</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSvInm76FKuDHIITK5ohFOmXZFVSf6GsVdjERtfwrBMQNPFaT6aoN7zeGzYAE20M-E24Dq0F4chsG5wA4e2Ax5G7EwD9w-1YiGD9verl1tgHl05etzw5KndArtHVDJHSqPQv4TmsjQzt4/s1600-h/IMG_0390.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237424887435224562" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSvInm76FKuDHIITK5ohFOmXZFVSf6GsVdjERtfwrBMQNPFaT6aoN7zeGzYAE20M-E24Dq0F4chsG5wA4e2Ax5G7EwD9w-1YiGD9verl1tgHl05etzw5KndArtHVDJHSqPQv4TmsjQzt4/s400/IMG_0390.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">This French memorial erected in 1935 at Bayernwald is dedicated to Lieutenant Lasnier the</span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><span class="postbody"> 11 non-commissioned officers, 174 corporals and men of </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">the </span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><span class="postbody">1st French Battalion on foot </span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"> who died here between the 3rd and the 15th of November 1914. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Nearby
is what to the Allies was known as Croonaert Wood and to the Germans
'Bayernwald' because of the Bavarian troops stationed there - Adolf
Hitler served here in 1914-1915, and was awarded an Iron Cross nearby.
Private Hitler, of the 16th Bavarian Reserve Infantry Regiment, was
lightly wounded here on November 15, 1914 whilst rescuing his
Lieutenant. He painted "Painting from Croonaert" He returned here on
June 1, 1940 as Leader of the German Reich.</span></div>
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German trenches behind.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">La Brique CWGC</span><br />
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This
cemetery, named after a now-lost brickworks near to the site, is
divided in two by the main road. Cemetery No 1 was founded in May 1915
and used until December 1915. It is the smaller of the two.
Cemetery No 2 was founded in February 1915 and was used until March
1918. Originally containing 383 graves, the cemetery was expanded by
concentration of graves from the battlefield after the Armistice.
It now contains 840 graves.</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">White House CWGC</span><br />
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Between the wars, before the wooden crosses were replaced and the stones standardised.</span></div><span style="font-size: medium;">
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The
cemetery was founded in March 1915 and remained in use until April
1918. It was on the site of forward dressing stations found within
cellars in 1915; the village it is within, Bellewaerdebeek, was
utterly destroyed in 1917. After the Armistice the cemetery was
enlarged by concentrating graves from eight outlying cemeteries.<br />
Among
the inscriptions here, a striking one is for Sergeant Kenneth W
Vear of the 37th bn Australian Infantry who died October 3, 1917:<br /></span>
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<span style="font-size: medium; font-style: italic;">Good Old Ken</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: medium; font-style: italic;"> A Man's Man.</span></blockquote>
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Robert
Morrow VC. At the age of 23 whilst serving as a private in the 1st
Battalion, The Royal Irish Fusiliers, on April 12 1915, he rescued
and carried to places of comparative safety several men who had been
buried in the debris of trenches wrecked by shell fire. He carried
out this work on his own initiative and under heavy fire from the
enemy. His citation reads:<br /></span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">For most
conspicuous bravery near Messines on 12th April, 1915, when he
rescued and carried successively to places of comparative safety,
several men who had been buried in the debris of trenches wrecked by
shell fire. Private Morrow carried out this gallant work on his own
initiative and under very heavy fire from the enemy.</span></blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;">
Within a fortnight he would be killed in action.</span></div><span style="font-size: medium;">
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soldiers of the Great War lie buried here including four men
executed by the Commonwealth military authorities. Private HH Chase
of the Lancashire Fusiliers was executed for supposed cowardice on
June 12, 1915. On November 7, 2006, the British government announced a
pardon for all soldiers executed in the Great War.<br />
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<span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Essex Farm CWGC</span></span><br />
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<span><span style="font-family: "warnockpro"; font-weight: 300;">One
of the best known sites in the Ypres Salient is Essex Farm Cemetery and
A.D.S. (Advanced Dressing Station), where John McCrae
wrote his world-famous poem In Flanders Fields at the beginning of
May 1915.<br />
In addition to the cemetery and the adjacent concrete shelters of the
old dressing station, the bank of the canal has also recently been
opened to the public over a distance of 450 metres. It was here that the
guns of the 1st Canadian Artillery Brigade stood in April 1915 and
it was on this spot shortly afterwards that the Royal Engineers built
a number of shelters and dugouts for the protection of the troops in
the high canal bank. This bank had originally been dug in the 17th
century by the French military architect Vauban as a ’retranchement,’
a large fortification alongside the canal, which for more than fifty
years constituted the northern border of Louis XIV’s French empire.
Shortly after the 1918 armistice, the numerous bunkers in the bank
also served as temporary accommodation for many of the refugees
returning home.</span></span><br />
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High on the canal bank stands a monument to the 49th West Riding
Division, which was first deployed here in the summer of 1915 and
suffered heavy losses. A series of information panels and photos guide
the visitor on an historical voyage of discovery.
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Essex Farm and the 49th<span style="font-family: "arial";"> (West Riding)</span> Division Memorial between the wars.</span></div><span style="font-size: medium;">
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Although
only nine of the 1199 buried here are from the country, Canada felt it had the authority to fly its current flag over the all the dead.<br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqJNhDnG-TZ-o9-07lFt2zTMz1wIf4ui0MkOR14QmiruTl_wSwEraq3_k4X05xAlOkTZoP2-6TbDuNpKZjLdhXxnNCBZS2YVri8AIAhiBeaaFk5VWDelEi7IfyxRiwdEnccLmJ3W7EKQDW/s1600/Untitled-2.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5786252207032542754" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqJNhDnG-TZ-o9-07lFt2zTMz1wIf4ui0MkOR14QmiruTl_wSwEraq3_k4X05xAlOkTZoP2-6TbDuNpKZjLdhXxnNCBZS2YVri8AIAhiBeaaFk5VWDelEi7IfyxRiwdEnccLmJ3W7EKQDW/s400/Untitled-2.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; height: 341px; width: 493px;" /></a><br />
Among the dead lies the body of Private Thomas Barratt, VC.</span></div><span style="font-size: medium;">
<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VtWIlclprYM/SNYwu3_WcBI/AAAAAAAAHrI/1z9KQ-QxGeg/s1600-h/1.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><br /></a>His citation from The London Gazette, dated 4th September 1917: <br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><i>On
27 July 1917 north of Ypres, Belgium: For most conspicuous bravery
when as Scout to a patrol he worked his way towards the enemy line
with the greatest gallantry and determination, in spite of
continuous fire from hostile snipers at close range. These snipers
he stalked and killed. Later his patrol was similarly held up, and
again he disposed of the snipers. When during the subsequent
withdrawal of the patrol it was observed that a party of the enemy
were endeavouring to outflank them, Private Barratt at once
volunteered to cover the retirement, and this he succeeded in
accomplishing. His accurate shooting caused many casualties to the
enemy, and prevented their advance. Throughout the enterprise he
was under heavy machine gun and rifle fire, and his splendid
example of coolness and daring was beyond all praise. After safely
regaining our lines this gallant soldier was killed by a shell.</i></span></blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;">
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeaEWhOPK9Zc6mqj8ymdjVJHL_fCYaBH0EtW8COvc7YdLPkRq6kwkt7ib_6lB7K6nKG8igjr1P5RaicmTQE_rK6HN5JrOGjZP5RvrbiveUjQ01bulPwBZlDyU-7oOXVVhk7utxMnPhLeM/s1600-h/IMG_0617.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237617827016488082" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeaEWhOPK9Zc6mqj8ymdjVJHL_fCYaBH0EtW8COvc7YdLPkRq6kwkt7ib_6lB7K6nKG8igjr1P5RaicmTQE_rK6HN5JrOGjZP5RvrbiveUjQ01bulPwBZlDyU-7oOXVVhk7utxMnPhLeM/s400/IMG_0617.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a>Private Valentine Joe Strudwick, only 15 at the time of his death.</span></div><span style="font-size: medium;">
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFf1DHdy4pREgsfnY4ErEeWMmS2bERzKJYIyGQaKivoplhTZA246mNc78URsDdiOhLNG0mlH4rrdeFzRot12LCHs3d7UC2p9PTJ_rJL78VragLSZYOmo2XOdzEYhtyoA0UMgDrVALilTY/s1600-h/IMG_0610.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237617063538659682" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFf1DHdy4pREgsfnY4ErEeWMmS2bERzKJYIyGQaKivoplhTZA246mNc78URsDdiOhLNG0mlH4rrdeFzRot12LCHs3d7UC2p9PTJ_rJL78VragLSZYOmo2XOdzEYhtyoA0UMgDrVALilTY/s400/IMG_0610.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 409px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 546px;" /></a>The view of the CWGC from its base.</span></div><span style="font-size: medium;">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdVX8uKRPnWhySlckbKIr8K-1kgYbscTLEN_Aw3A5vVgLMHYu0Y8YOjw6hMJ9OMv0dwz5ND1_Xj0nnUuk8Gw0-MLk7tk7e8MWt_ePicgzcOaiAqKCt5n8iq2vK2VxtjKJxhmKzcrCJHwk/s1600-h/IMG_0606.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237614392345345970" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdVX8uKRPnWhySlckbKIr8K-1kgYbscTLEN_Aw3A5vVgLMHYu0Y8YOjw6hMJ9OMv0dwz5ND1_Xj0nnUuk8Gw0-MLk7tk7e8MWt_ePicgzcOaiAqKCt5n8iq2vK2VxtjKJxhmKzcrCJHwk/s400/IMG_0606.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a>In
front of the cemetery is this Albertina marker commemorating the
date May 3, 1915 when the In Flanders Fields had been written,
apparently beside the cemetery:<br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsjJeIszLawwM57RE1sNZwCr51nFFSkqicdjzfIJap14UiEv63nvsWLnqsVNrU6Vm40LfptehrRMBNh7PtSRFJ7jrfej5vaPg47EzhtQAzGHjdCenirv1KkBkkS4G9Bfwfqs4i9CDhyphenhyphen7sF/s1600/5myphoto.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsjJeIszLawwM57RE1sNZwCr51nFFSkqicdjzfIJap14UiEv63nvsWLnqsVNrU6Vm40LfptehrRMBNh7PtSRFJ7jrfej5vaPg47EzhtQAzGHjdCenirv1KkBkkS4G9Bfwfqs4i9CDhyphenhyphen7sF/s640/5myphoto.jpeg" width="640" /></a></span></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;">
Just
to the left of Essex Farm Cemetery is what had been the No. 4 Aid
Station of Lt.-Col. Surgeon John McCrae where it is claimed that he
wrote in May 1915 possibly the most famous war poem of the 20th
century, <span style="font-style: italic;">In Flanders Fields</span>.</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBvajitFNi29bEJU1messVwk8GowxeJe8Rfpv4RDLv8Z3d0YJ6-VWNmsFYb-xnjzwK2nC-Jw3rjnAgGj4C58MqiUzbx9Wqk_P3Q3R-2eDi3aa_9uYM9bJE06eZJvV1ThnCF1Z_9LaA2bZX/s1600/4myphoto.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBvajitFNi29bEJU1messVwk8GowxeJe8Rfpv4RDLv8Z3d0YJ6-VWNmsFYb-xnjzwK2nC-Jw3rjnAgGj4C58MqiUzbx9Wqk_P3Q3R-2eDi3aa_9uYM9bJE06eZJvV1ThnCF1Z_9LaA2bZX/s640/4myphoto.jpeg" width="640" /></a></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;">
This
photo does not do justice to the claustrophobic atmosphere that
must have prevailed whilst medical personnel had to undergo non-stop
surgery during barrages and shelling.<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkMpHJ0cM9s6n8ESBxY7_oxIEuc5NsEw8e30BfRIyG_bFHBmgDg6anvHO2nN1gt7jBAR6NCYn4X7V2hZUEKTc9MPgIgSHvrH-0Qrx_bPM7C4jFWk-pRQoL748jPKn3msgTg2XTZF1hpfo/s1600-h/IMG_0611.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237619558451147074" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkMpHJ0cM9s6n8ESBxY7_oxIEuc5NsEw8e30BfRIyG_bFHBmgDg6anvHO2nN1gt7jBAR6NCYn4X7V2hZUEKTc9MPgIgSHvrH-0Qrx_bPM7C4jFWk-pRQoL748jPKn3msgTg2XTZF1hpfo/s400/IMG_0611.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 405px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 541px;" /></a>This
monument to John McCrae was unveiled in October 2005 next to the
first-aid station. The poem is inscribed on a bronze plaque with, I
noted, incorrect punctuation that did not match with what McCrae
himself used (his handwritten copy of which is also inscribed for
good measure).<br />
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<span class="quickfacttitle" style="font-size: medium; font-weight: bold;">In Flanders Fields</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span>
<span class="quickfact" style="font-size: medium;"> In Flanders Fields the poppies blow</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span>
<span class="quickfact" style="font-size: medium;">Between the crosses, row on row,</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span>
<span class="quickfact" style="font-size: medium;">That mark our place; and in the sky</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span>
<span class="quickfact" style="font-size: medium;">The larks, still bravely singing, fly</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span>
<span class="quickfact" style="font-size: medium;">Scarce heard amid the guns below.</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span>
<span class="quickfact" style="font-size: medium;">We are the Dead. Short days ago</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span>
<span class="quickfact" style="font-size: medium;">We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span>
<span class="quickfact" style="font-size: medium;">Loved, and were loved, and now we lie</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span>
<span class="quickfact" style="font-size: medium;">In Flanders fields.</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span>
<span class="quickfact" style="font-size: medium;">Take up our quarrel with the foe:</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span>
<span class="quickfact" style="font-size: medium;">To you from failing hands we throw</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span>
<span class="quickfact" style="font-size: medium;">The torch, be yours to hold it high.</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span>
<span class="quickfact" style="font-size: medium;">If ye break faith with us who die</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span>
<span class="quickfact" style="font-size: medium;">We shall not sleep, though poppies grow</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span>
<span class="quickfact" style="font-size: medium;">In Flanders fields.</span></div><span style="font-size: medium;">
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This
video starts in the Essex Farm Commonwealth War Graves Commission
cemetery on the northern edge of Ypres. Close by is the medical
bunker where McCrae was stationed and is now a site dedicated to his
memory. It shows the grave for Rifleman VJ Strudwick (The Rifle
Brigade) who died on 14th January 1916 aged just 15. The family
inscription on his grave says, 'Not Gone From Memory or From Love' <br />
The video continues through the medical bunker area and to the start of the 'Flanders Fields' behind.</span></div><span style="font-size: medium;">
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Continuing North along the the N369, are these two CWGCs:</span></div><span style="font-size: medium;">
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<span style="font-size: medium; font-weight: bold;">Bard Cottage CWGC</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5XImBA4UxAFZjXQHlk6i8jEIyIJ8mJuOWWJ6gZxYe1eUh1RxhDQZ4K5AZi5GkEQzJk3F-y_96PRoo6OwYfyBN9k-oc-8_uEN3zalogSKRSCywFZDiGbOxxMWgThcFIiviDlzxdW5zbGst/s1600/BardCottage2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="306" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5XImBA4UxAFZjXQHlk6i8jEIyIJ8mJuOWWJ6gZxYe1eUh1RxhDQZ4K5AZi5GkEQzJk3F-y_96PRoo6OwYfyBN9k-oc-8_uEN3zalogSKRSCywFZDiGbOxxMWgThcFIiviDlzxdW5zbGst/s640/BardCottage2.jpg" width="640" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSpknutPCyPbXvzvKlVaD9mBmcRSmzcF2grnT8xiK4u66cn_gHvhXboMFAkviWWD5iRFCdmsNw-eHUaokaBMH2mLzlFgHlSi2BTxdRWs-Bu2DpRame8pzkxItRc0p3uJ8qSjzKX_k_Ja46/s1600/cemeteries46.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="412" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSpknutPCyPbXvzvKlVaD9mBmcRSmzcF2grnT8xiK4u66cn_gHvhXboMFAkviWWD5iRFCdmsNw-eHUaokaBMH2mLzlFgHlSi2BTxdRWs-Bu2DpRame8pzkxItRc0p3uJ8qSjzKX_k_Ja46/s640/cemeteries46.jpg" width="640" /></a></span> </div>
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Continuing
from Essex Farm to Boezinge, is found Bard Cottage cemetery. The
original Bard Cottage was the name given to a house behind the line
and near a bridge dubbed Bard's Causeway; this cemetery was made
nearby in a sheltered position under a high bank. The graves date
between June 1915 and October 1918, reflecting the presence of the
49th (West Riding), the 38th (Welsh) and other infantry divisions in
the northern sectors of the Ypres Salient, as well as the advance
of artillery to the area in the autumn of 1917.</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Talana Farm CWGC</span><br />
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This site was roughly a mile from the edge of the Salient during the war and today has 529 Commonwealth burials.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Duhallow A.D.S. CWGC</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhvS5hxhAyXo1q6jTr_PCEXRnmWiuF469aeQMjfSKAeCetOha9eaD7s2CpbJB1eh3UIoNbT9j3TwfOpyvG2iroLa2mATBLcRaakPU4GvQKOfs9AHJXFdygpLItgg6QpoyKaLxM7CPwb49b/s1600/pic00101.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhvS5hxhAyXo1q6jTr_PCEXRnmWiuF469aeQMjfSKAeCetOha9eaD7s2CpbJB1eh3UIoNbT9j3TwfOpyvG2iroLa2mATBLcRaakPU4GvQKOfs9AHJXFdygpLItgg6QpoyKaLxM7CPwb49b/s640/pic00101.jpg" width="640" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXVRew2QGoSn4uxMnyVm_g70pUnHxIMp5Q40vDVkQH3kSj2ELrRiF-DA91X72yaKFwX-skg4f6W2-v76Zn6QTLGaun6InU9hIvWm8gPG1YJYU91QOqLwZ6ApUqeRZOk39B7FAPrxldtPox/s1600/1myphoto.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="354" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXVRew2QGoSn4uxMnyVm_g70pUnHxIMp5Q40vDVkQH3kSj2ELrRiF-DA91X72yaKFwX-skg4f6W2-v76Zn6QTLGaun6InU9hIvWm8gPG1YJYU91QOqLwZ6ApUqeRZOk39B7FAPrxldtPox/s640/1myphoto.jpeg" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;">
Duhallow
Advanced Dressing Station is thought to have received its name
from a southern Irish hunt. The cemetery contains many graves of
the artillery and engineers and 41 men of the 13th Company Labour
Corps, killed when a German aircraft dropped a bomb on an
ammunition truck in January 1918.<br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5kA1VJMRP3qaBuvaMtXS9ck7GNIqCUQmOe-dxWVuO74Akd_PcpN9MWcK6RfrUsrDvcWgZuNft2VeCZR-IysZkTWbLwZIHvv6Ff3tbezxnupts9GYrwlPob4Uwa9R0t1NkEtdnlVTzucpg/s1600/myphoto.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="232" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5kA1VJMRP3qaBuvaMtXS9ck7GNIqCUQmOe-dxWVuO74Akd_PcpN9MWcK6RfrUsrDvcWgZuNft2VeCZR-IysZkTWbLwZIHvv6Ff3tbezxnupts9GYrwlPob4Uwa9R0t1NkEtdnlVTzucpg/s640/myphoto.jpeg" width="640" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;">
The
special memorials shown in the two photos above commemorate a
number of casualties known to have been buried in two of these
cemeteries, Malakoff Farm Cemetery, Brielen, and Fusilier Wood
Cemetery, Hollebeke, whose graves were destroyed by shellfire. There
are now 1,544 Commonwealth casualties of the First World War buried
or commemorated in this cemetery, 231 of the burials unidentified.
There are also 57 war graves of other nationalities, mostly German,
and one Commonwealth burial of the Second World War, which dates
from the Allied withdrawal ahead of the German advance of May 1940.<br />
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<span><b>No Man's Cot CWGC</b></span><br />
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No Man's Cot Cemetery was named after a building on the south side of Admiral's Road, a little more than half way from Boesinghe to Wielje and was used from the end of July 1917 to March 1918. 79 lie buried here, more than half of whom are officers and men of the 51st (Highland) Division. <br />
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<span><b>Solferino Farm </b></span><br />
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Solferino Farm was given its name by French troops who held this part of the line early in 1915. The cemetery, which is opposite the site of the farm, was begun by Commonwealth forces in October 1917 and was used by the units fighting in this sector until August 1918. The cemetery now contains 296 Commonwealth burials of the First World War and a small plot of three German war graves from this period. There are also five burials from the Second World War, dating from the Allied retreat to Dunkirk in May 1940. </span></div><span style="font-size: medium;">
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A student visiting the gave of her great uncle. Having already served four years as a Territorial rifleman, Robert Noel (Robin) Mountfield rejoined his regiment immediately on the outbreak of war in August
1914.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That autumn found his unit
billeted briefly in Sevenoaks (in the house of a clergyman whose wife spoke
highly of him); he wrote to his little brother Stuart on a long
picture-postcard of Sevenoaks (much of it still recognisable today) which has
been preserved. The unit then moved to Canterbury. Here he was interviewed by a
Board and recommended for a commission. His letters to his father show that he
hoped for recommendations from others (including Lord Derby, then in charge of
the local Territorials, who Robert may have known slightly) and he wanted to
remain in a Territorial battalion (‘there is something about the Regulars I
don’t care for’) . He was also anxious to avoid being posted to the 8<sup>th</sup>
Battalion King’s Regiment, the Liverpool Irish ( ‘that is the one Liverpool
Battn I should object to be in’) but he finished in another of the Liverpool
Irish battalions. (It was, as it happens, also the battalion in which Peter’s
father-in-law Walter Smithies served as a Private, but not at the same time.)
Robin was commissioned as Second Lieutenant in the 6<sup>th</sup> Territorial Battalion
of the Kings Regiment on 24 February 1915, having been drafted to France a week
earlier.</span></div><span style="font-size: medium;">
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It is not clear how soon he went into the trenches. His
battalion was engaged in the battle of Festubert in May and June of 1915, and
he saw continuous service, apparently without any home leave, for about a year.
That October he wrote to his sister from his dugout ‘The general position here
does not seem to be very much changed and in this quarter they are evidently
settling down for the winter and making everything as comfortable as can be for
all concerned’. This was probably a reassuring idea designed to keep the family
happy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Later in this letter he discusses
the failure of the Dardanelles campaign, and goes on ‘Winston Churchill is said
to be longing to come out to the front. I am sure he is welcome to it’. He
describes some of the young soldiers serving with him: ‘How much they long to
be home again. Poor laddies, many of them are terribly young to be out here’.
Despite his comforting words in such letters, conditions in the
waterlogged<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>trenches were awful, and he
was badly affected, despite the new top-boots his loving family had sent out
from England.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>0n 15 January 1916 he was
invalided home for an operation on varicose veins (‘trench fever’, as it was
known).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Several photographs show him in
hospital at this time. After convalescence, but still not fit for thee
trenches, he was based in North Wales, and he left a notebook in which he
sketches an exercise he ran for some of the troops there. He then went on
leave, and rejoined his regiment in France at the end of March.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Later that year he was promoted Lieutenant,
then Acting Captain, and seconded from his own 8<sup>th</sup> Battalion to the
9<sup>th</sup> Battalion, soon amalgamated with the 2<sup>nd</sup> as one
unit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He seems to have been a popular
but effective officer. A field notebook has survived from July 1917, describing
in detail a night-time reconnaissance of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>the no-man’s-land in front of their sector of the front line; he
countersigned it but does not seem to have been across himself (no doubt he had
done similar patrols himself when a more junior officer).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One fellow officer later said: I cannot tell
you how much I shall miss Mounty - he and I were always together …’ and the
regimental magazine had a light-hearted list of ‘Things We Want to Know’,
including ‘Why Capts Holland and Mountfield used so often to be seen standing
in the doors of their respective Orderly Rooms, watches in hand?’ (Perhaps they
were trying to see which company got on parade fastest).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But there was a serious side too. One of the
last letters he received in the trenches (October 1917) came from a regimental
chaplain, Norman Lycett, telling him ‘How thankful I am & pleased that you
feel called to enter the Ministry of the Church’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is not clear whether he told his family
about his intention at the time, although they found this letter among his
papers after his death, and many years later CBM showed it to Lycett (by then a
vicar in Sussex).</span></div><span style="font-size: medium;">
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The end came on 4 November 1917 near Ypres, in the last days
of the battle of Paasschendaele. The regimental history tells the story: ‘Until
4 pm, there was comparative quietude, though Boche aeroplanes were very active.
From 4 pm onwards, however, the enemy put down a very heavy bombardment between
Langemarck Corner and Au Bon Gite. Unfortunately the 2/10<sup>th</sup> were due
to take over the line from the 2/9<sup>th</sup> at 5pm. The result was that
both battalions caught the blast of the bombardment and suffered casualties.
The 2/9th lost Captain R N Mountfield killed and Lieutenant-Colonel E V Manger
[the commanding officer] and Capt and Adjutant J Wright wounded.’ In fact,
Robin was ‘hit by a piece of shell low down’ and died next day in the Main
Dressing Station at Brielen.</span></div><span style="font-size: medium;">
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The<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>news reached the
family a day later, in one of the thousands of similar telegrams which came to
families that year (preserved, in its original orange envelope, among the
family papers). ‘I deeply regret to inform you War Office reports Captain R N
Mountfield 8<sup>th</sup> Kings Liverpool Regiment died of wounds Nov 5<sup>th</sup>.
The Secretary of State for War expresses his sympathy’. ASM later recalled
being met, on his return from school, by his sister, who told him ‘We have had
some bad news’.</span></div><span style="font-size: medium;">
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He was buried next day in the Solferino Farm cemetery,
nearby, and about three miles from Ypres, where his family visited his grave in
1922 (as did his nephew and namesake Robin, with his own family, fifty years
later).</span></div><span style="font-size: medium;">
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<span><b>La Belle Alliance</b></span><br />
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This small cemetery, named after a nearby farmhouse, was established by the 10th and 11th King's Royal Rifle Corps in February 1916. It was used until March, then opened again in July 1917 before closing in August later that year<br />
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Artillery Wood CWGC<br />
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Established in 1917 after fighting in the immediate area - the Battle of Pilckem Ridge - had moved away and used for burials until March 1918, when the Armistice took place there were some 141 graves in this cemetery. Concentration from the battlefields and three smaller cemeteries (Boesinghe Chateau Grounds, Brissein House and Captain's Farm) enlarged this to the present 1,307. <br />
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It is the location of the graves of two notable poets- Hedd Wyn, posthumous winner of the bardic chair at the 1917 National Eisteddfod, has his own memorial at the back of <a href="http://echoesofwar.blogspot.de/2008/09/fricourt-british-cwgc-and-memorial-to.html" target="_blank">Dantzig Alley cemetery</a>. His recognition came from his poem "Yr Arwr"
("The Hero"):<br />
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Ni all pellterau eich gyrru yn ango<br />
Blant y bryniau glan<br />
Calon wrth galon sy’n aros eto<br />
Er a wahan<br /></span>
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Distance cannot take away your memory<br />
Children of those dear hills<br />
Heart and heart remain together<br />
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The grave of Irish poet Francis Ledwidge, the so-called "poet of the blackbirds." A <a href="http://echoesofwar.blogspot.de/2009/01/mud-corner-cwgc.html" target="_blank">stone tablet commemorates him</a> in the Island of Ireland Peace Park, Messines with his lines<br />
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It is too late now to retrieve a fallen dream, too late to grieve a name unmade, but not too late to thank the Gods for what is great. A keen edged sword, a soldier’s heart is greater than a poet’s art. And greater than a poet’s fame a little grave that has no name. </span></blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;">
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Just east of Boezinge is this quiet sanctuary, away from the growing industrialisation around it. It is accessed via a track leading from a point near Dragoon House, past the Villa Gretchen. The site was taken by the 38th (Welsh) Division on 31 July 1917 and the cemetery, called at first the Villa Gretchen Cemetery, was begun by the 13th Royal Welch Fusiliers on 9 August. It continued in use until October 1917 and today contains 66 First World War burials, ten of them unidentified.<br />
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The cemetery, named after the nickname of a nearby road behind the trenches, was established as two cemeteries. The first was laid down in August 1917. The second, nearby, was begun in 1917. After the armistice, battlefield graves were consolidated between the two, creating one enlarged cemetery. There are now 851 Commonwealth casualties of the First World War buried or commemorated in this cemetery. 297 of the burials are unidentified and special memorials commemorate three casualties known to have been buried in the cemetery, but whose graves could not be located.</span></div><span style="font-size: medium;">
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South African-born Captain Clement Robertson VC is buried in this cemetery. He was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for valour: </span></div><span style="font-size: medium;">
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On 4 October 1917 at Zonnebeke, Belgium, Captain Robertson led his tanks in attack under heavy shell, machine-gun and rifle fire over ground which had been ploughed by shell-fire. He and his batman had spent the previous three days and nights going back and forth over the ground, reconnoitering and taping routes, and, knowing the risk of the tanks missing the way, he now led them on foot, guiding them carefully towards their objective, although he must have known that this action would almost certainly cost him his life. He was killed after the objective had been reached, but his skilful leading had already ensured success. </span></div>
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The grave of Sergeant Colin Blythe of the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, an exceptional spin bowler who had played for Kent and England and was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1904. Regarded as a sensitive and artistic person, and a talented violinist, Blythe suffered from epilepsy yet enlisted as a soldier in the British Army when the war broke out in 1914. He soon announced he would be playing no more first-class cricket. Blythe joined the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. Sergeant Blythe was serving with the 12th (S) Battalion when he was killed by random shell-fire on the railway between Pimmern and Forest Hall near Passchendaele on 8 November 1917. Blythe is buried in the Oxford Road CWGC Cemetery in Belgium.</span></div><span style="font-size: medium;">
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This
cemetery, named after a now-lost brickworks near to the site, is
divided in two by the main road. Cemetery No 1 was founded in May 1915
and used until December 1915. It is the smaller of the two.
Cemetery No 2 was founded in February 1915 and was used until March
1918. Originally containing 383 graves, the cemetery was expanded by
concentration of graves from the battlefield after the Armistice.
It now contains 840 graves.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">White House CWGC</span><br />
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Between the wars, before the wooden crosses were replaced and the stones standardised.</div>
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The
cemetery was founded in March 1915 and remained in use until April
1918. It was on the site of forward dressing stations found within
cellars in 1915; the village it is within, Bellewaerdebeek, was
utterly destroyed in 1917. After the Armistice the cemetery was
enlarged by concentrating graves from eight outlying cemeteries.<br />
Among
the inscriptions here, a striking one is for Sergeant Kenneth W
Vear of the 37th bn Australian Infantry who died October 3, 1917:<br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">Good Old Ken</span><br />
<span style="font-style: italic;"> A Man's Man.</span></blockquote>
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Robert
Morrow VC. At the age of 23 whilst serving as a private in the 1st
Battalion, The Royal Irish Fusiliers, on April 12 1915, he rescued
and carried to places of comparative safety several men who had been
buried in the debris of trenches wrecked by shell fire. He carried
out this work on his own initiative and under heavy fire from the
enemy. His citation reads:<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">For most
conspicuous bravery near Messines on 12th April, 1915, when he
rescued and carried successively to places of comparative safety,
several men who had been buried in the debris of trenches wrecked by
shell fire. Private Morrow carried out this gallant work on his own
initiative and under very heavy fire from the enemy.</span></blockquote>
Within a fortnight he would be killed in action.</div>
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soldiers of the Great War lie buried here including four men
executed by the Commonwealth military authorities. Private HH Chase
of the Lancashire Fusiliers was executed for supposed cowardice on
June 12, 1915. On November 7, 2006, the British government announced a
pardon for all soldiers executed in the Great War.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Essex Farm CWGC</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "warnockpro"; font-weight: 300;">One
of the best known sites in the Ypres Salient is Essex Farm Cemetery and
A.D.S. (Advanced Dressing Station), where John McCrae
wrote his world-famous poem In Flanders Fields at the beginning of
May 1915.<br />
In addition to the cemetery and the adjacent concrete shelters of the
old dressing station, the bank of the canal has also recently been
opened to the public over a distance of 450 metres. It was here that the
guns of the 1st Canadian Artillery Brigade stood in April 1915 and
it was on this spot shortly afterwards that the Royal Engineers built
a number of shelters and dugouts for the protection of the troops in
the high canal bank. This bank had originally been dug in the 17th
century by the French military architect Vauban as a ’retranchement,’
a large fortification alongside the canal, which for more than 50
years constituted the northern border of Louis XIV’s French empire.
Shortly after the 1918 armistice, the numerous bunkers in the bank
also served as temporary accommodation for many of the refugees
returning home.</span></span><br />
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High on the canal bank stands a monument to the 49th West Riding
Division, which was first deployed here in the summer of 1915 and
suffered heavy losses. A series of information panels and photos guide
the visitor on a historical voyage of discovery.
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Essex Farm and the 49th<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 100%;"> (West Riding)</span> Division Memorial between the wars.</div>
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Although
only nine of the 1199 buried here are from the country, Canada felt the
need to fly its current flag over the all the dead.<br />
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Among the dead lies the body of Private Thomas Barratt, VC.</div>
<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VtWIlclprYM/SNYwu3_WcBI/AAAAAAAAHrI/1z9KQ-QxGeg/s1600-h/1.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><br /></a>His citation from The London Gazette, dated 4th September 1917: <br />
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<i>On
27 July 1917 north of Ypres, Belgium: For most conspicuous bravery
when as Scout to a patrol he worked his way towards the enemy line
with the greatest gallantry and determination, in spite of
continuous fire from hostile snipers at close range. These snipers
he stalked and killed. Later his patrol was similarly held up, and
again he disposed of the snipers. When during the subsequent
withdrawal of the patrol it was observed that a party of the enemy
were endeavouring to outflank them, Private Barratt at once
volunteered to cover the retirement, and this he succeeded in
accomplishing. His accurate shooting caused many casualties to the
enemy, and prevented their advance. Throughout the enterprise he
was under heavy machine gun and rifle fire, and his splendid
example of coolness and daring was beyond all praise. After safely
regaining our lines this gallant soldier was killed by a shell.</i></blockquote>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFf1DHdy4pREgsfnY4ErEeWMmS2bERzKJYIyGQaKivoplhTZA246mNc78URsDdiOhLNG0mlH4rrdeFzRot12LCHs3d7UC2p9PTJ_rJL78VragLSZYOmo2XOdzEYhtyoA0UMgDrVALilTY/s1600-h/IMG_0610.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237617063538659682" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFf1DHdy4pREgsfnY4ErEeWMmS2bERzKJYIyGQaKivoplhTZA246mNc78URsDdiOhLNG0mlH4rrdeFzRot12LCHs3d7UC2p9PTJ_rJL78VragLSZYOmo2XOdzEYhtyoA0UMgDrVALilTY/s400/IMG_0610.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 409px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 546px;" /></a>The view of the CWGC from its base.</div>
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdVX8uKRPnWhySlckbKIr8K-1kgYbscTLEN_Aw3A5vVgLMHYu0Y8YOjw6hMJ9OMv0dwz5ND1_Xj0nnUuk8Gw0-MLk7tk7e8MWt_ePicgzcOaiAqKCt5n8iq2vK2VxtjKJxhmKzcrCJHwk/s1600-h/IMG_0606.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5237614392345345970" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdVX8uKRPnWhySlckbKIr8K-1kgYbscTLEN_Aw3A5vVgLMHYu0Y8YOjw6hMJ9OMv0dwz5ND1_Xj0nnUuk8Gw0-MLk7tk7e8MWt_ePicgzcOaiAqKCt5n8iq2vK2VxtjKJxhmKzcrCJHwk/s400/IMG_0606.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a>In
front of the cemetery is this Albertina marker commemorating the
date May 3, 1915 when the In Flanders Fields had been written,
apparently beside the cemetery:<br />
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Just
to the left of Essex Farm Cemetery is what had been the No. 4 Aid
Station of Lt.-Col. Surgeon John McCrae where it is claimed that he
wrote in May 1915 possibly the most famous war poem of the 20th
century, <span style="font-style: italic;">In Flanders Fields</span>.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy_Z0nI4cPr1cVNN1BokXEy-mhOdAuXDGdv6ShJ9rj86lC9T-Q_p8PCLcGSP100ucoUjxk5J8FVWDDhfDkBE2x6HhcOKcgZnIFzjRjJVcEsBGUEDyxm06oNF7DFQlY3NeGAzl7RQJRaBI/s1600-h/IMG_0855.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><br /></a><br />
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This
photo does not do justice to the claustrophobic atmosphere that
must have prevailed whilst medical personnel had to undergo non-stop
surgery during barrages and shelling.<br />
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monument to John McCrae was unveiled in October 2005 next to the
first-aid station. The poem is inscribed on a bronze plaque with, I
noted, incorrect punctuation that did not match with what McCrae
himself used (his handwritten copy of which is also inscribed for
good measure).<br />
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<span class="quickfacttitle" style="font-weight: bold;">In Flanders Fields</span><br />
<span class="quickfact"> In Flanders Fields the poppies blow</span><br />
<span class="quickfact">Between the crosses, row on row,</span><br />
<span class="quickfact">That mark our place; and in the sky</span><br />
<span class="quickfact">The larks, still bravely singing, fly</span><br />
<span class="quickfact">Scarce heard amid the guns below.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="quickfact">We are the Dead. Short days ago</span><br />
<span class="quickfact">We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,</span><br />
<span class="quickfact">Loved, and were loved, and now we lie</span><br />
<span class="quickfact">In Flanders fields.</span><br />
<br />
<span class="quickfact">Take up our quarrel with the foe:</span><br />
<span class="quickfact">To you from failing hands we throw</span><br />
<span class="quickfact">The torch, be yours to hold it high.</span><br />
<span class="quickfact">If ye break faith with us who die</span><br />
<span class="quickfact">We shall not sleep, though poppies grow</span><br />
<span class="quickfact">In Flanders fields.</span></div>
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This
video starts in the Essex Farm Commonwealth War Graves Commission
cemetery on the northern edge of Ypres. Close by is the medical
bunker where McCrae was stationed and is now a site dedicated to his
memory. It shows the grave for Rifleman VJ Strudwick (The Rifle
Brigade) who died on 14th January 1916 aged just 15. The family
inscription on his grave says, 'Not Gone From Memory or From Love' <br />
The video continues through the medical bunker area and to the start of the 'Flanders Fields' behind.</div>
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Continuing North along the the N369, are these two CWGCs:</div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Bard Cottage CWGC</span><br />
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Continuing
from Essex Farm to Boezinge, is found Bard Cottage cemetery. The
original Bard Cottage was the name given to a house behind the line
and near a bridge dubbed Bard's Causeway; this cemetery was made
nearby in a sheltered position under a high bank. The graves date
between June 1915 and October 1918, reflecting the presence of the
49th (West Riding), the 38th (Welsh) and other infantry divisions in
the northern sectors of the Ypres Salient, as well as the advance
of artillery to the area in the autumn of 1917.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Talana Farm CWGC</span><br />
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This site was roughly a mile from the edge of the Salient during the war and today has 529 Commonwealth burials.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">Duhallow A.D.S. CWGC</span><br />
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Duhallow
Advanced Dressing Station is thought to have received its name
from a southern Irish hunt. The cemetery contains many graves of
the artillery and engineers and 41 men of the 13th Company Labour
Corps, killed when a German aircraft dropped a bomb on an
ammunition truck in January 1918.<br />
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The
special memorials shown in the two photos above commemorate a
number of casualties known to have been buried in two of these
cemeteries, Malakoff Farm Cemetery, Brielen, and Fusilier Wood
Cemetery, Hollebeke, whose graves were destroyed by shellfire. There
are now 1,544 Commonwealth casualties of the First World War buried
or commemorated in this cemetery, 231 of the burials unidentified.
There are also 57 war graves of other nationalities, mostly German,
and one Commonwealth burial of the Second World War, which dates
from the Allied withdrawal ahead of the German advance of May 1940.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>No Man's Cot CWGC</b></span><br />
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No Man's Cot Cemetery was named after a building on the south side of Admiral's Road, a little more than half way from Boesinghe to Wielje and was used from the end of July 1917 to March 1918. 79 lie buried here, more than half of whom are officers and men of the 51st (Highland) Division. <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Solferino Farm </b></span><br />
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Solferino Farm was given its name by French troops who held this part of the line early in 1915. The cemetery, which is opposite the site of the farm, was begun by Commonwealth forces in October 1917 and was used by the units fighting in this sector until August 1918. The cemetery now contains 296 Commonwealth burials of the First World War and a small plot of three German war graves from this period. There are also five burials from the Second World War, dating from the Allied retreat to Dunkirk in May 1940. </div>
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A student visiting the gave of her great uncle. Having already served four years as a Territorial rifleman, Robert Noel (Robin) Mountfield rejoined his regiment immediately on the outbreak of war in August
1914.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That autumn found his unit
billeted briefly in Sevenoaks (in the house of a clergyman whose wife spoke
highly of him); he wrote to his little brother Stuart on a long
picture-postcard of Sevenoaks (much of it still recognisable today) which has
been preserved. The unit then moved to Canterbury. Here he was interviewed by a
Board and recommended for a commission. His letters to his father show that he
hoped for recommendations from others (including Lord Derby, then in charge of
the local Territorials, who Robert may have known slightly) and he wanted to
remain in a Territorial battalion (‘there is something about the Regulars I
don’t care for’) . He was also anxious to avoid being posted to the 8<sup>th</sup>
Battalion King’s Regiment, the Liverpool Irish ( ‘that is the one Liverpool
Battn I should object to be in’) but he finished in another of the Liverpool
Irish battalions. (It was, as it happens, also the battalion in which Peter’s
father-in-law Walter Smithies served as a Private, but not at the same time.)
Robin was commissioned as Second Lieutenant in the 6<sup>th</sup> Territorial Battalion
of the Kings Regiment on 24 February 1915, having been drafted to France a week
earlier.</div>
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It is not clear how soon he went into the trenches. His
battalion was engaged in the battle of Festubert in May and June of 1915, and
he saw continuous service, apparently without any home leave, for about a year.
That October he wrote to his sister from his dugout ‘The general position here
does not seem to be very much changed and in this quarter they are evidently
settling down for the winter and making everything as comfortable as can be for
all concerned’. This was probably a reassuring idea designed to keep the family
happy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Later in this letter he discusses
the failure of the Dardanelles campaign, and goes on ‘Winston Churchill is said
to be longing to come out to the front. I am sure he is welcome to it’. He
describes some of the young soldiers serving with him: ‘How much they long to
be home again. Poor laddies, many of them are terribly young to be out here’.
Despite his comforting words in such letters, conditions in the
waterlogged<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>trenches were awful, and he
was badly affected, despite the new top-boots his loving family had sent out
from England.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>0n 15 January 1916 he was
invalided home for an operation on varicose veins (‘trench fever’, as it was
known).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Several photographs show him in
hospital at this time. After convalescence, but still not fit for thee
trenches, he was based in North Wales, and he left a notebook in which he
sketches an exercise he ran for some of the troops there. He then went on
leave, and rejoined his regiment in France at the end of March.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Later that year he was promoted Lieutenant,
then Acting Captain, and seconded from his own 8<sup>th</sup> Battalion to the
9<sup>th</sup> Battalion, soon amalgamated with the 2<sup>nd</sup> as one
unit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He seems to have been a popular
but effective officer. A field notebook has survived from July 1917, describing
in detail a night-time reconnaissance of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>the no-man’s-land in front of their sector of the front line; he
countersigned it but does not seem to have been across himself (no doubt he had
done similar patrols himself when a more junior officer).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One fellow officer later said: I cannot tell
you how much I shall miss Mounty - he and I were always together …’ and the
regimental magazine had a light-hearted list of ‘Things We Want to Know’,
including ‘Why Capts Holland and Mountfield used so often to be seen standing
in the doors of their respective Orderly Rooms, watches in hand?’ (Perhaps they
were trying to see which company got on parade fastest).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But there was a serious side too. One of the
last letters he received in the trenches (October 1917) came from a regimental
chaplain, Norman Lycett, telling him ‘How thankful I am & pleased that you
feel called to enter the Ministry of the Church’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is not clear whether he told his family
about his intention at the time, although they found this letter among his
papers after his death, and many years later CBM showed it to Lycett (by then a
vicar in Sussex).</div>
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The end came on 4 November 1917 near Ypres, in the last days
of the battle of Paasschendaele. The regimental history tells the story: ‘Until
4 pm, there was comparative quietude, though Boche aeroplanes were very active.
From 4 pm onwards, however, the enemy put down a very heavy bombardment between
Langemarck Corner and Au Bon Gite. Unfortunately the 2/10<sup>th</sup> were due
to take over the line from the 2/9<sup>th</sup> at 5pm. The result was that
both battalions caught the blast of the bombardment and suffered casualties.
The 2/9th lost Captain R N Mountfield killed and Lieutenant-Colonel E V Manger
[the commanding officer] and Capt and Adjutant J Wright wounded.’ In fact,
Robin was ‘hit by a piece of shell low down’ and died next day in the Main
Dressing Station at Brielen.</div>
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The<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>news reached the
family a day later, in one of the thousands of similar telegrams which came to
families that year (preserved, in its original orange envelope, among the
family papers). ‘I deeply regret to inform you War Office reports Captain R N
Mountfield 8<sup>th</sup> Kings Liverpool Regiment died of wounds Nov 5<sup>th</sup>.
The Secretary of State for War expresses his sympathy’. ASM later recalled
being met, on his return from school, by his sister, who told him ‘We have had
some bad news’.</div>
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He was buried next day in the Solferino Farm cemetery,
nearby, and about three miles from Ypres, where his family visited his grave in
1922 (as did his nephew and namesake Robin, with his own family, fifty years
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>La Belle Alliance</b></span><br />
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This small cemetery, named after a nearby farmhouse, was established by the 10th and 11th King's Royal Rifle Corps in February 1916. It was used until March, then opened again in July 1917 before closing in August later that year<br />
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Artillery Wood CWGC<br />
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Established in 1917 after fighting in the immediate area - the Battle of Pilckem Ridge - had moved away and used for burials until March 1918, when the Armistice took place there were some 141 graves in this cemetery. Concentration from the battlefields and three smaller cemeteries (Boesinghe Chateau Grounds, Brissein House and Captain's Farm) enlarged this to the present 1,307. <br />
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It is the location of the graves of two notable poets- Hedd Wyn, posthumous winner of the bardic chair at the 1917 National Eisteddfod, has his own memorial at the back of <a href="http://echoesofwar.blogspot.de/2008/09/fricourt-british-cwgc-and-memorial-to.html" target="_blank">Dantzig Alley cemetery</a>. His recognition came from his poem "Yr Arwr"
("The Hero"):<br />
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Ni all pellterau eich gyrru yn ango<br />
Blant y bryniau glan<br />
Calon wrth galon sy’n aros eto<br />
Er a wahan<br />
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Distance cannot take away your memory<br />
Children of those dear hills<br />
Heart and heart remain together<br />
Even though you are far away</blockquote>
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The grave of Irish poet Francis Ledwidge, the so-called "poet of the blackbirds." A <a href="http://echoesofwar.blogspot.de/2009/01/mud-corner-cwgc.html" target="_blank">stone tablet commemorates him</a> in the Island of Ireland Peace Park, Messines with his lines<br />
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It is too late now to retrieve a fallen dream, too late to grieve a name unmade, but not too late to thank the Gods for what is great. A keen edged sword, a soldier’s heart is greater than a poet’s art. And greater than a poet’s fame a little grave that has no name. </blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Dragoon Camp CWGC</b></span><br />
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Just east of Boezinge is this quiet sanctuary, away from the growing industrialisation around it. It is accessed via a track leading from a point near Dragoon House, past the Villa Gretchen. The site was taken by the 38th (Welsh) Division on 31 July 1917 and the cemetery, called at first the Villa Gretchen Cemetery, was begun by the 13th Royal Welch Fusiliers on 9 August. It continued in use until October 1917 and today contains 66 First World War burials, ten of them unidentified.<br />
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The cemetery, named after the nickname of a nearby road behind the trenches, was established as two cemeteries. The first was laid down in August 1917. The second, nearby, was begun in 1917. After the armistice, battlefield graves were consolidated between the two, creating one enlarged cemetery. There are now 851 Commonwealth casualties of the First World War buried or commemorated in this cemetery. 297 of the burials are unidentified and special memorials commemorate three casualties known to have been buried in the cemetery, but whose graves could not be located.</div>
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South African-born Captain Clement Robertson VC is buried in this cemetery. He was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for valour: </div>
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On 4 October 1917 at Zonnebeke, Belgium, Captain Robertson led his tanks in attack under heavy shell, machine-gun and rifle fire over ground which had been ploughed by shell-fire. He and his batman had spent the previous three days and nights going back and forth over the ground, reconnoitering and taping routes, and, knowing the risk of the tanks missing the way, he now led them on foot, guiding them carefully towards their objective, although he must have known that this action would almost certainly cost him his life. He was killed after the objective had been reached, but his skilful leading had already ensured success. </div>
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The grave of Sergeant Colin Blythe of the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, an exceptional spin bowler who had played for Kent and England and was a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1904. Regarded as a sensitive and artistic person, and a talented violinist, Blythe suffered from epilepsy yet enlisted as a soldier in the British Army when the war broke out in 1914. He soon announced he would be playing no more first-class cricket. Blythe joined the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. Sergeant Blythe was serving with the 12th (S) Battalion when he was killed by random shell-fire on the railway between Pimmern and Forest Hall near Passchendaele on 8 November 1917. Blythe is buried in the Oxford Road CWGC Cemetery in Belgium.</div>
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