World War 1 Battlegrounds

The largest commenwealth in the world with 11,961 Commenwealth servicemen of the First World War, 4 German burials and almost 35,000 servicemen from UK and New Zealand who died after August 1917 with no known graves.

Cloth Hall from Grote Market on a cold, misty autumn morning in Ieper.

The fields leading up from Thiepval wood reveal the scars of former trenches mirroring the shape of the memorial beyond. A shadow in the lower left appears to resemble a crouched soldier..

Bois-Carre Military Cemetery with the triangular shapes of the Loos Double Crassier shrouded in mist.

Evening summer light bathes Tyne Cot cemetery with Passchendaele village beyond in the Flanders countryside.

Aerial view of the central area of Ypres around the Grote Markt.

Ypres, Belgium

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.

A brief gap in the low cloud reveals the Thiepval memorial among the autumn trees. The Somme, France.

Thiepval memorial and Anglo-French cemetery set among autumn colours with the village and Monquet Farm beyond.

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.

Ulster Tower shrouded in morning fog.

Somme, France.

The Ulster Tower - memorial to men of 36th Division who died on the Western Front and Thiepval, 1 July 1916. Located on the front line trench attacked by the 9th Royal Irish Rifles.

Foggy autumn morning above the woods at Mametz site of fierce fighting during The Battle of the Somme in July 1916.

Looking north above the city of Albert. The golden virgin sculpture atop of the Basilica Notre Dame de Brebiers is lit by the early morning light. Further beyond the Somme countryside merges into the distant fog.

Autumn colours of the Bazentin le Petit wood.

Somme, France.