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22-05-2014, 11:24 AM
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WW1 pics
As per previous thread I headed to The Somme battlefields at the weekend.
Awesome trip...packed a lot in and would recommend doing it to anyone if not been before  stayed in a great self catering place in Hardecourt aux bois http://www.chavasseferme.com/    loads of stuff at the accommodation that other guests have found    lochnagar crater.....amazing    German cemetery where the Red Baron (not our one on ses) was buried before his family moved him. very differently maintained compared with commonwealth graves      delville woods......most moving place on the trip. Imagine this with all the trees as stumps and a wasteland in 1916 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Delville_Wood     Thiepval memorial...about as large as Arc de triumph and seen from miles all around this area http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiepval_Memorial    found a family member....need to find out more as this one I didnt know about and died here  Beaumont-hamel.....amazing place. So many died here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaumon...dland_Memorial   memorial at same place for the Canadians that died here     petrified tree from 1916 here     the memorial in the distance on this one was basically where the German line was in a deep ridge out of sight....shows how close they were to each other  I've got a couple more somewhere. The anniversary of the Somme outbreak in July 2016 will be a very busy time for visiting. The accommodation I stayed at has been booked for 7 years already!! 
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22-05-2014, 11:47 AM
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Looks like it was a fascinating trip Tim, want to do more of this myself after doing the area around Ypres several years ago.
There's a German Cemetery there as well, very dark and surrounded by huge oak trees and just 3 bronze German soldiers with their head bowed looking over it, as you say, very different to the Commonwealth Cemeteries. Also worth a trip is the old V2 launch site just outside of Saint Omer, you can do this in a day if you take the tunnel.
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22-05-2014, 12:00 PM
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22-05-2014, 12:07 PM
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I did it as part of a coach trip, one of the guys my Dad used to know ran them. He was former Royal Sussex Regiment and did a couple of trips a year. You can do most of Ypres in a day if you know where you're going. Flanders Fields Museum in Ypres, Tyne Cott Cemetry, Sanctuary Wood and the private Museum on the side of the Cafe there, and a few other bits dotted around and then back to Ypres and the Mennin Gate for the Last Post ceremony.
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22-05-2014, 05:19 PM
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Glad you enjoyed it Tim and nice pictures as well like the walk through of the old trench system .
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22-05-2014, 05:54 PM
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Great photos Tim
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22-05-2014, 06:23 PM
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Wow, just trying to imagine being there in the day. Today it looks stunning but when you think what went before.......................
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13-06-2014, 08:09 PM
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Thinking of shooting over to Belgium for the day in a couple of weeks.
Have you got any tips for a whistle stop tour of Ypres...if not we may well end up in Brugge.
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13-06-2014, 08:23 PM
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See my post above. Will be able to get a nice meal in Ypres before the last post ceremony.
If you decide to do Brugges park at the train station and your parking ticket gives return bus travel for a family of 4.
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13-06-2014, 08:35 PM
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