Somme Battlefields

[wilfmannionsleftboot]

Off there Monday.

If anybody wants respects paying to particular soldiers let me know, and will try to.

 

[Zoophonic]

My great uncle is listed at Thiepval monument. Found his name when I paid a visit in 2018.

Have you been to the Wellington tunnels in Arras? If you haven’t please go. Very moving experience deep below the ground

 

[wilfmannionsleftboot]

We are going to Thiepval.

Yes this is my second trip, and we went there. It is really moving. Mind, the whole trip was - even the field walking and how much material still coming up

 

[Konrad_the_Barbarian]

My Great Uncle Will (Pte William Lax) is listed on the Thiepval monument. Killed at the age of 19 with no known grave.

http://www.newmp.org.uk/article.php?categoryid=99&articleid=1143&displayorder=55

 

[atypical_boro]

We are going to Thiepval.

Yes this is my second trip, and we went there. It is really moving. Mind, the whole trip was - even the field walking and how much material still coming up

What sort of stuff?

I went to the trenches as a kid (school trip), didn’t really appreciate it at the time.

 

[wilfmannionsleftboot]

Konrad- will pay due respect

Atypical - plenty of old shells, grenades and my son found two button fasteners from the New Zealander’s and an intact pop bottle.

 

[davepoland]

I did Tyne Cot (the biggest) and a nearby Canadian one.

But the most moving was a small battlefield cemetery where the graves were positioned randomly and included both British and German graves. The chaos came across and the sacrifice of youth made by both sides.

 

[red_harrington]

All the unmarked graves where deserters - usually lads suffering from shell shock - were shot by our very own

 

[bear66]

My grandfather survived 1916 but was taken prisoner in the Kaiser's battle around the Somme in 1918. There were 500,000 casualties (both sides) in 15 days (compared with a million casualties in 141 days in the Battle of the Somme in 1916).

A link to the battle: Enghien Redoubt