Somme, France July 2007

A First World War History trip

Notes and thoughts

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	Fricourt British Cemetery
	Memorial Cross at Lochnagar Crater, the site of a mine detonated by the British minutes before the attack on 1 July 1916
	Lochnagar Crater, the site of a mine detonated by the British minutes before the attack on 1 July 1916
	Lochnagar Crater, the site of a mine detonated by the British minutes before the attack on 1 July 1916
	Memorial seat at Lochnagar Crater to the Grimsby Chums
	Memorial seat at Lochnagar Crater to the Grimsby Chums
	Memorial seat at Lochnagar Crater to the Grimsby Chums
	Memorial Cross at Lochnagar Crater to George Nugent who died in action on 1 July 1916, but his body was only found on 31 October 1988
	Memorial Cross at Lochnagar Crater to George Nugent
	Lochnagar Crater, the site of a mine detonated by the British minutes before the attack on 1 July 1916
	Lochnagar Crater, the site of a mine detonated by the British minutes before the attack on 1 July 1916
	Wreath to the Grimsby Chums at Lochnagar Crater
	Memorial Cross at Lochnagar Crater, the site of a mine detonated by the British minutes before the attack on 1 July 1916
	The Lonsdale Cemetery
	The Lonsdale Cemetery
	The Lonsdale Cemetery
	The Lonsdale Cemetery
	The Lonsdale Cemetery
	The Lonsdale Cemetery
	The Lonsdale Cemetery
	Thiepval Memorial, which carries the names of 73,000British and south African soldiers who have no known grave and who died on the Somme between July 1916 and March 1918
	Wreaths at Thiepval Memorial
	Graves to unknown French soldiers at Thiepval
	Graves to unknown French soldiers at Thiepval
	British graves at Thiepval Memorial
	Thiepval Memorial
	Thiepval Memorial
	German machine gun post on the Schwaben redoubt
	The Ulster Tower Memorial to the 36th Ulster Division that attcked with heavy losses on 1 July 1916
	Memorial to the Victoria cross holders of the 36th Ulster Division
	The Connaught Rangers Cemetery
	Mill Road Cemetery
	Mill Road Cemetery
	Mill Road Cemetery
	Mill Road Cemetery with Thiepval Memorial in the distance
	Mill Road Cemetery

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