For the previous chapter see We Venture East

Ranging south across the River Somme towards the Australian Memorial at Villers-Bretonneux.

Beacon Cemetery

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Australian 3rd Division Memorial

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Corbie Town

We briefly stopped at the town of Corbie. Blah Blah

Villers–Bretonneux Australian National Memorial

The Villers–Bretonneux Australian National Memorial is the main Australian Blah

“To the Glory of God and in memory of the Australian Imperial Force in France and Flanders 1916–1918 and of eleven thousand who fell in France and have no known grave”

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View from the tower

Not just the Diggers

Villers–Bretonneux Museum

The Villers–Bretonneux

The River Somme at Sailly-Laurette

The Somme department is so named for the River Somme that flows into English Channel near Abbeville.

Grove Town Cemetery

The Somme department is

Back to Pozières

The Somme department is

The Tank Memorial

Pozières being located on the main road from Albert to Bapaume. This was on the main axis of the British attack. The first use of tanks in warfare took place just north of Pozières on …..

The Somme department is

Pozières Windmill

The Somme department is

Courcelette

The Somme department is

Courcelette Canadian Memorial

London Extension And High Wood Cemetery

The Somme department is

Contains burials from WW1 and WW2

Located at High Wood, Longeval.

London Irish Rifles

Crisp detail on the headstone

Lest We Forget

Two from the Post Office Rifles, part of the London part of the Territorial Force

Three from 1944

Immaculately maintained

High Wood, Longeval.

New Zealand Division Memorial

The Somme dep

The information board showing the action on 15th September 1916

The information board

On a wet and overcast summer evening.

The same inscription in French

One of the four memorials to the Division in WW1

‘From the uttermost ends of the earth”

Longueval, Somme.

Nice detailing on the chain

New Zealand Memorial, Somme

La Boiselle

The Somme dep

This signat at the west end of Ovillers-la-Boisselle marks the position of the front line at the start of the 1st Battle of the Somme.

Thoughts

The Somme dep

It was with mixed emotions that we would leave the Somme the next day. We mixed emotions we would leave the next day. We had

Tim

9th June 2017

Links

Villers-Bretonneux Australian National Memorial links (Wikipedia), (CWGC), (Australian Government site)

Tank Memorial, Pozières (link from GreatWar.co.uk)

Courcelette Canadian Memorial links (Veteran Affairs Canada) (Wikipedia)