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WW1 Cemetery

14 images Created 31 Oct 2008

Nearing the 90th anniversary of the Armistice of 11th November 1918, we travelled to some of the Western Front's war cemeteries where my great uncle is mentioned, but has no known grave.

A blog story about this trip is at:
http://wp.me/p3fbj-2i

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  • Set in a field of corn, but once the scene of heav fighting in the first world war, a visitor leaves the tiny cemetery of Redan Ridge near the village of Serre-les-Puisieux where British war dead from the Battle of the Somme are buried.
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  • Pupils from Woolmer Hill School, Haslemere, Surrey, at the Sir Edward Lutyens designed Thiepval memorial, the largest British war memorial in the world ? there were more than 57,000 British casualties in a single day during the battle of the Somme. A teacher, said ?Children become aware that there is something out there beyond their own little lives.'.
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  • Visitors pay respects to the war dead from the first world war at the Sir Edward Lutyens designed Thiepval memorial, the largest British war memorial in the world ? there were more than 57,000 British casualties in a single day during the battle of the Somme. A total of 700,000 troops were killed on the Western Front, of whom 300,000 have no known grave..
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  • English visitors pay respects to commonwealth war dead at the Poziere cemetery near Albert, where those killed in the Battle of the Somme are buried or are rememberd..
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  • Farm land and head stones of British and Commonwealth soldiers killed in final stages of WW1 at Vis-en-Artois war grave cemetery
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  • Farm land and head stones of British and Commonwealth soldiers killed in final stages of WW1 at Vis-en-Artois war grave cemetery
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  • Farm land and head stones of British and Commonwealth soldiers killed in final stages of WW1 at Vis-en-Artois war grave cemetery
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  • Neat rows of head stones of British and Commonwealth soldiers killed in final stages of WW1 at Vis-en-Artois war grave cemetery
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  • Neat rows of head stones of British and Commonwealth soldiers killed in final stages of WW1 at Vis-en-Artois war grave cemetery
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  • Young children visit 2369 WW1 commonwealth burials and commemorations of war graves at Vis-en-Artois cemetery
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  • Young children visit 2369 WW1 commonwealth burials and commemorations of war graves at Vis-en-Artois cemetery
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  • Young children visit 2369 WW1 commonwealth burials and commemorations of war graves at Vis-en-Artois cemetery
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  • Young children read some of 2369 WW1 commonwealth burials and commemorations of war graves at Vis-en-Artois cemetery
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  • Young children read some of 2369 WW1 commonwealth burials and commemorations of war graves at Vis-en-Artois cemetery
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