Sunday, 15th September 1918 - Canada's Hundred Days - 39

Entry posted by ejwalshe 15 September , 2018

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5th Canadian Divisional Artillery

14th Brigade Canadian Divisional Artillery

61st Field Battery Canadian Divisional Artillery

© IWM (Q 7075)
Log chopping contest at the Forestry Camp near Pont Remy in which Australia beat Great Britain, Canada and New Zealand, 15 September
1918.

© IWM (Q 7076)
Log chopping contest at the Forestry Camp near Pont Remy in which Australia beat Great Britain Canada and New Zealand, 15 September
1918.

© IWM (Q 9980)
Commander-in-Chief's (Haig) Guard of the Guernsey Light Infantry, at the Château de Beaurepaire, near Montreuil, 15 September 1918.

© IWM (Q 9981)
Commander-in-Chief's (Haig) Guard of the Guernsey Light infantry, at the Château de Beaurepaire near Montreuil, 15 September 1918.

Durant la première guerre mondiale, le château de Beaurepaire, situé dans le Hameau Saint-Nicolas de Beaumerie-Saint-Martin, servira
de résidence au Maréchal Douglas Haig, commandant en chef des armées britanniques, qui avait établi son quartier général à Montreuil-
sur-Mer. Pendant cette période, de nombreuses personnalités politiques, civiles et militaires se retrouvent à Beaurepaire puisque l’on
peut compter au nombre des visiteurs du maréchal Haig : le roi et la reine d’Angleterre, le président de la république Raymond
Poincarré, Pétain, Clémenceau, Joffre, Foch, Churchill, Lloyd George, le Rajah de Ratlam, Maginot…

Beaumerie-Saint-Martin château
Cette image est dans le domaine public car il s'agit d'un document iconographique dont les droits patrimoniaux ont expiré, ou de la
reproduction de ce document.

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This aerial reconnaisance photograph would have been issued to a junior British officer before an operation on the Western Front,
1918. It was produced by the Royal Air Force in Gonnelieu, France and is dated 15 September 1918. Prior to the First World War, armies
were limited to using observation balloons to achieve photographic vantage. By using aeroplanes, these aerial photographs could
provide a vertical and three dimensional, 360 degree view of enemy territory. The photographs were then compiled into photo-mosaics
and used to form base maps.
This photograph possibly belonged to Captain George Middleton Turner (15th Royal Warwickshire Regiment, United Kingdom), who fought in
France during the First World War. After travelling widely through the 1920s, he settled in New Zealand. He retired to Nelson and died
1973.