Somme, France July 2007

A First World War History trip

Notes and thoughts

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Mill Road Cemetery in a thunderstorm
Mill Road Cemetery, the gravestones are laid falt due to First World War tunnelling activity.
Mill Road Cemetery
Mill Road Cemetery
Mill Road Cemetery
Mill Road Cemetery
Mill Road Cemetery with Thiepval Memorial in the distance
Mill Road Cemetery as the storm passes and the sun comes out
Mill Road Cemetery
Mill Road Cemetery
Mill Road Cemetery as the storm passes and the sun comes out
Mill Road Cemetery amidst the french countryside
The Dragon Memorial to the 38th Welsh Division. It faces the Mametz Wood scene of the Division's heavy losses in the fighting of July 1916
The Dragon Memorial to the 38th Welsh Division. It faces the Mametz Wood scene of the Division's heavy losses in the fighting of July 1916
The Dragon Memorial to the 38th Welsh Division. It faces the Mametz Wood scene of the Division's heavy losses in the fighting of July 1916
The Dragon Memorial to the 38th Welsh Division. It faces the Mametz Wood scene of the Division's heavy losses in the fighting of July 1916
Memorial to the 41st division in Flers commemorating the attack of 16th September 1916, which was the first use of tanks in war
Australian First World War Memorial at the site of the Pozieres ruined windmill
Australian First World War Memorial at the site of the Pozieres ruined windmill
Tank Corp Memorial to the British unit that first saw action in the battle of the Somme, Pozieres
Memorial to the Barnsley Pals who died in the 1916 Battle of the Somme in the Sheffield Memorial Park
Memorial to the Accrington Pals who died in the 1916 Battle of the Somme in the Sheffield Memorial Park
Railway Hollow Cemetery
Railway Hollow Cemetery
Memorial to the Sheffield Pals in the Sheffield Memorial Park
The Queen's Commonwealth War Graves Commission British Cemetery of the First World War, Serre
Serre Road Number 1 Commonwealth War Graves Commission British Cemetery
Serre Road Number 1 Commonwealth War Graves Commission British Cemetery
Serre Road Number 1 Commonwealth War Graves Commission British Cemetery
Cemetery at the Memorial to the British Missing of the First World War in Arras
Cemetery at the Memorial to the British Missing of the First World War in Arras
Memorial to the British Missing of the First World War and the Royal Fying Corps Memorial in Arras

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