JBee Posted 6 September , 2019 Share Posted 6 September , 2019 Just a few photos (of many) from my walk around the Serre village and cemeteries. The second photo, taken over the wall of Luke Copse cemetery drove home to me the short distance the poor fellas achieved before they fell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JBee Posted 6 September , 2019 Author Share Posted 6 September , 2019 (edited) Walking up the path to Luke Copse cemetery, looking back towards the copses. It began to rain heavily and the noise of the rain on the wide, maize leaves brought to mind how all they would have heard was noise, shells and bullets. So, so sad. Edited 6 September , 2019 by JBee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JBee Posted 6 September , 2019 Author Share Posted 6 September , 2019 Queens cemetery looking back towards the copse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Cubin Posted 6 September , 2019 Share Posted 6 September , 2019 This is good stuff, JBee. Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dah Posted 6 September , 2019 Share Posted 6 September , 2019 Good pics. An added poignancy to the last one ....looking back to the copse from Queens Cemetery.......with the ground in between filled with a maize crop, shortly to be cut down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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JBee Posted 6 September , 2019 Author Share Posted 6 September , 2019 59 minutes ago, dah said: Good pics. An added poignancy to the last one ....looking back to the copse from Queens Cemetery.......with the ground in between filled with a maize crop, shortly to be cut down. Agreed. I could put on pics of the memorial plaques, the gates etc but we can see those all the time. Sitting in both Luke Copse and Queens you get a sobering reminder of it all, not just from the headstones but from the locations to the copses. It poured with rain as I was in Luke cemetery. Nowhere to shelter. I got soaked. Didn't care. Nowhere near what those before me had suffered. Things like that are a stark reminder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyH Posted 6 September , 2019 Share Posted 6 September , 2019 Good stuff JBee. It's not very often in life that we don't mind getting soaked. BillyH. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simond9x Posted 6 September , 2019 Share Posted 6 September , 2019 Thanks for sharing. I had a similar experience a couple of years ago. As you say, poignant and sobering. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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