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Loos Battlefield
Looking across the Bois Carre Military Cemetery to the distinctive shapes of the Loos Double Crassier.
Loos-en-Gohelle, Pas De Calais, France.
The Silent City - Tyne Cot Cemetery.
Warm evening summer light bathes Tyne Cot cemetery with Passchendaele village beyond.
Flanders, Belgium.
Tyne Cot - Silent but Never Forgotten.
The largest Commonwealth war cemetery in the world with 11,961 servicemen and 4 German burials from the First World War. In addition, the Tyne Cot Memorial commemorates almost 35,000 servicemen from the UK and New Zealand who died after August 1917 with no known graves.
Belgium.
Ypres - A City Re-Built
Aerial view of the centre of Ypres with Cloth Hall, Grote Market and St Martin's Cathedral centre stage.
Cloth Hall Ypres (Ieper) Autumn Morning
Cloth Hall from Grote Market on a cold, misty autumn morning in Flanders.
Vale Royal Abbey Golf Club - Winter
Looking down on Vale Royal Abbey and its snow covered golf course as it extends west. The Clwydian Range in North Wales are on the distant horizon.
Thiepval Memorial to the Missing
A perfectly calm, silent, misty autumn afternoon looking to the memorial on the Thiepval ridge. It commemorates over 72,000 servicemen with no known grave who perished during WW1.
The Somme, France.
To Thiepval
Looking across the River Ancre valley up to the Thiepval Memorial sitting high on the ridge with the Somme battlefields bathed in afternoon autumn light.
The Somme, France.
Thiepval - Autumn Harmony
Thiepval memorial and Anglo-French cemetery set among autumn colours with the village and Monquet Farm beyond.
The Somme, France.
Thiepval Revealed
Low clouds momentarily part to reveal Thiepval memorial and Anglo-French cemetery.
Autumn, The Somme, France.
Thiepval - The Last Witness.
Fog clears to reveal the scars of former trenches somehow mirroring the shape of the Thiepval memorial beyond. A shadow in the lower left offers a tantalising nod to those who came before.
Thiepval, The Somme, France.
Mametz Wood - The Somme
A foggy autumn morning above the woods at Mametz. Here in July 1916 my Great Grand Uncle Thomas fought with the 10th Battalion, Yorkshire Regiment during The Battle of the Somme.
Mametz, Somme, France.
Ulster Tower - Thiepval, The Somme
Dense morning fog adds to the ethereal atmosphere around the Ulster Tower. The Tower is a memorial to men of 36th Division who died on the Western Front during WW1 and Thiepval on 1 July 1916.
Ulster Tower - Autumn Fog
Ulster Tower, Somme, France.