trenchtrotter Posted 21 January , 2014 Share Posted 21 January , 2014 I will post a few of my favourites I have taken over the years (well since 2007) when I got my first (still using) digi camera, a Fuji S5600. Still going good but want a new one now. So No 1, can you guess where / know where and can you identify the features shown? TT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fattyowls Posted 22 January , 2014 Share Posted 22 January , 2014 TT Is it Lochnagar from an unusual angle? I'm not confident because of the prominent stand of trees; nice moody sky though. I fear that you may have to drop in the odd cryptic clue because it would be good to see some of your other shots. I'm rubbish with battlefield photos since I stopped using a camera with a viewfinder as opposed to a screen. Pete. P.S. Liked the post about your trip over in March; v envious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trenchtrotter Posted 22 January , 2014 Author Share Posted 22 January , 2014 Pete, Not Lochnagar I'm afraid. The fighting here was in September onwards. TT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fattyowls Posted 22 January , 2014 Share Posted 22 January , 2014 TT When I said "the odd cryptic clue" I meant it in it's broadest sense as in "really big obvious clue that even the photographically challenged can't fail to get". I've just been looking at the map and September onwards covers at least St Pierre Divion on the Ancre all the way round to Combles. That said I've seen those trees somewhere......... Pete. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trenchtrotter Posted 23 January , 2014 Author Share Posted 23 January , 2014 OK at my back is Flers, the trees are on the track known as Turks Road which connects with the Le Sars - Guedecourt Road. Goose Alley bisects it just past the trees. In the distance the trees around Eaucourt L'Abbaye can be seen. If one continued along Turks Avenue crossed the road and into the fields one would be on a maze of trenches known as the Circus and the Maze. The Aussies were here in the winter of 1916. In the middle foreground (shallow valley) is a track known a North Road, follow it to the right and one would arrive at Factory Corner. In the field in the foreground after the war a huge amounts of explosives were collected and detonated. Regards TT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trenchtrotter Posted 23 January , 2014 Author Share Posted 23 January , 2014 A few more of my better pictures... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cullbaggie Posted 23 January , 2014 Share Posted 23 January , 2014 picture no 1 i think is gommecourt - looking across to Rossignol wood in the middle picture 2 i think is guillemont cemetery from the trones wood side, i could be very wrong on both! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trenchtrotter Posted 26 January , 2014 Author Share Posted 26 January , 2014 cullbaggie spot on well done. TT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fattyowls Posted 26 January , 2014 Share Posted 26 January , 2014 TT Is number three Pozieres? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trenchtrotter Posted 26 January , 2014 Author Share Posted 26 January , 2014 Yes yes! Pozieres it is. TT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
centurion Posted 26 January , 2014 Share Posted 26 January , 2014 And Somme of mine which will require no guess work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
centurion Posted 26 January , 2014 Share Posted 26 January , 2014 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fattyowls Posted 26 January , 2014 Share Posted 26 January , 2014 Centurion I love number one and look forward to finding out where it was taken from because I haven't got a clue, same for number two. Number three is now out of date and the subject of arboreal argument and copse controversy elsewhere on the forum and I've never been able to find number four. Thanks for posting. Pete. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
8055Bell Posted 27 January , 2014 Share Posted 27 January , 2014 Is no1 looking over the top of Curlu to Trafford Park in the Somme Marshes and Suzanne beyond? Tim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
centurion Posted 27 January , 2014 Share Posted 27 January , 2014 Centurion I love number one and look forward to finding out where it was taken from because I haven't got a clue, same for number two. Number three is now out of date and the subject of arboreal argument and copse controversy elsewhere on the forum and I've never been able to find number four. Thanks for posting. Pete. No 3 was taken about a week before the trees came down. No 2 Inside Doulens Town Hall in the hall where the agreement of Foch taking command was signed And here is one of the signers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
centurion Posted 27 January , 2014 Share Posted 27 January , 2014 Is no1 looking over the top of Curlu to Trafford Park in the Somme Marshes and Suzanne beyond? Tim Quite right Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
centurion Posted 27 January , 2014 Share Posted 27 January , 2014 d I've never been able to find number four. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stripeyman Posted 8 February , 2014 Share Posted 8 February , 2014 It is south of the Bois de Aquenne on the right if you were traveling from Villers Bretonneux to Cachy. The sign was instigated (I think) by the late Trevor Pidgeon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mebu Posted 9 February , 2014 Share Posted 9 February , 2014 Like Bob, I have a feeling that Trevor had something to do with it. I doubt he did the wording, however, unless the American armor came in at the end to rescue the British armour. Peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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