mods trip oct 2010

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Manchester hill  with the quarry on the left, more to follow

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looking down on the German lines by the new factories

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the Australian Memorial at Villers-Bretonneux

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looking down from the tower.

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Thiepval monument to the missing

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LOCHNAGER CRATER ,3 and 4  are not my photos and are freely available on the net.
1/ looking towards British lines
2./ looking from British side,
3/ PTE George Nugent was found close to the crater edge  on the British side.
4/ the crater.

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1/south African memorial
2/ entrance Caterpillar Valley CEMETERY
3/THISTLE DUMP CEMETERY, photo taken from caterpillar valley cemetery
4/ Longueval road cemetery

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new memorial as you turn towards  delville wood cemetery and south African memorial as you can see we were there before the opening,

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1/forum badge  on all the manchesters in mendinghem
2/ Mendinghem Military Cemetery
3/4.  Nine Elms Cemetery

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1/ The Basilica in Albert; the golden virgin on the top
    The troops in ww1 believed that if it fell the war would end
2/  Next Museum in Albert
3/  one of the displays

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we spent a couple of hours in PERONNE Museum
the second photo brought a smile or two

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and

1/ Delville Wood on a early October morning taken just past the new football battalions memorial
2/ 'FRANCILLY SELENCY' this photo is just a few yards away from the Manchester memorial
BEST TRANSLATION I COULD FIND ,
MEMOURE OF THE LEFEVRE LIONEL 1904-1974
ORDER OF THE LEGION OF HONOR
JOSEPH Loiseau RISISTANCE
HEAD OF NETWORK FOR LAISNÉ STRENGTH IRON AND RELEASE
OFFSET BY THE NAZIS IN 1943 TO CAMP DORA

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HIGH WOOD, taken from caterpillar valley cemetery