The following day we commenced our Battlefields Tour. Our guide and driver John collected us from our hotel along with another couple. So,only a very small group.
Day 1 We visited the village of Pozieres where 23,000 men were killed or wounded in 6 weeks. We went to see a 30 metre deep mine crater at Lochnagar, the Thiepval Memorial and trenches at the Newfoundland Memorial Park, Beaumont-Hamel. Finishing the day at Villers-Bretaneux. We went to the Victoria school which houses a wonderful Australian museum and then the Adelaide Cemetary where Australia's unknown soldier was before being reinterred in the War Memorial in Canberra. What I was most impressed with was the beauty of these sites, how well maintained they are, how many people visit them. Every site was filled with people. There is a printed record for every grave, so it is if you are there to find a particular grave, you just look it up in the book and it pinpoints the location for you.
Our day finished in the lovely little village of Corbie where we checked into a fabulous B&B Le Macassar.
Day 1 We visited the village of Pozieres where 23,000 men were killed or wounded in 6 weeks. We went to see a 30 metre deep mine crater at Lochnagar, the Thiepval Memorial and trenches at the Newfoundland Memorial Park, Beaumont-Hamel. Finishing the day at Villers-Bretaneux. We went to the Victoria school which houses a wonderful Australian museum and then the Adelaide Cemetary where Australia's unknown soldier was before being reinterred in the War Memorial in Canberra. What I was most impressed with was the beauty of these sites, how well maintained they are, how many people visit them. Every site was filled with people. There is a printed record for every grave, so it is if you are there to find a particular grave, you just look it up in the book and it pinpoints the location for you.
Our day finished in the lovely little village of Corbie where we checked into a fabulous B&B Le Macassar.
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All sounds very interesting and that bath is amazing!
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