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Remembered Today:

Visit to the Lake Doiran Battlefield


bcerha

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A final view of the cemetary showing the stone of rememberance.

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I hope that you enjoyed these pictures. It is a fascinating and yet quite difficult battlefield to understand and indeed navigate, especially given the closeness of the thick undergrowth and the lack of any really clearly definded tracks and paths.

The conditions in which the troops fought, under threat of gas attack, with the sweltering heat and the well positioned enemy must have dreadful.

Regards

David

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Blimey at last, :lol:

great Photos. I was especially surprised to see the Graves with the Stones lying down ward, flat! Is that something to do with the weather etc?, as the only others i have seen like that were German ones in Flanders.

regards

Arm

Ps see ya in a year when you have your notes written up.

Though I should not shout. I kept a diary of my first trip to Ypres in April and have still to write that up. It must be the company I keep!

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I think the reason for the small box like gravestones is that the soil is pretty thin and perhaps they are more suited to the local conditions that the more traditional upright portland stone ones.

Glad you enjoyed them. I will get around to writing it up eventually......

Regards

David

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  • 2 years later...
It doesn't sound as though your itinerary will include Karasouli, but if by any chance it does, may I put a bid in for a photo please?

35594 Pte A C Masters dow 31/08/17 12th Bn Cheshires Grave B.351

KARASOULI B.351

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If you're anywhere near Karasouli....a picture would be fantastic...

Enjoy the trip!

Simon

Lance Corporal Edwin Albert TROW 11th Battalion Worcestershire Regiment 16639 kia Salonika 19/12/17

Aged 32

Son of William and Martha Trow of Kinlet Bank, Cleobury Mortimer, Salop

Husband of F Rogers (formerly Trow) of 4 Burton Yard, High Street, Bewdley

Karasouli Military Cemetery, Greece

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Karasouli Military Cemetery, Greece

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Thanks David, the photographs give a good idea of the terain that you dont get from reading a book.

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