Interested Posted 11 June , 2020 Share Posted 11 June , 2020 Thanks FO. During our visit to the Mametz area we went to the Devonshire Trench, deeply moving, I felt. I wonder if any of the lads here took a photograph? I regret we didn't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fattyowls Posted 11 June , 2020 Author Share Posted 11 June , 2020 Just now, Interested said: I wonder if any of the lads here took a photograph? I think you may need to invest in a new hard drive and/or cloud storage; your problem may well be choosing your favourite from the thousands that are likely to be available. If you go back to one of Michelle's earlier posts you even get the path up to the cemetery with added Taff Gillingham. This is my starter for ten..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fattyowls Posted 11 June , 2020 Author Share Posted 11 June , 2020 And just to complete the long distance looking back theme from the Spanbroekmolen one above this is Spanbroekmolen and the Messines ridge (to the right of the rightmost slag heap) from the Canadian Memorial at Vimy. Pete. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 11 June , 2020 Share Posted 11 June , 2020 Hi Pete. I have a few from the same vantage point. This is one of them. A couple of shots of Triangle Wood, taken from the 5th Ox/Bucks jump off point on the fateful 3/5/17. With the Chemical works, bristling with German machine guns on their left as they went. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fattyowls Posted 11 June , 2020 Author Share Posted 11 June , 2020 48 minutes ago, neverforget said: the Chemical works I particularly like the sky in those Mr P; there is a glowering quality in the one over the Roeux chemical works which works really well. I haven't got a lot of the Arras battlefields despite my many interests there. I must have a look through what I have got. Pete. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Regiano Posted 11 June , 2020 Share Posted 11 June , 2020 2 hours ago, Fattyowls said: I think you may need to invest in a new hard drive and/or cloud storage A couple to help to fill up that storage: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fattyowls Posted 11 June , 2020 Author Share Posted 11 June , 2020 And passing through the gate; now where's Gillingham when you need him? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knotty Posted 11 June , 2020 Share Posted 11 June , 2020 Similar perspective and playing with exposures Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marilyne Posted 12 June , 2020 Share Posted 12 June , 2020 Interesting that one of the graves is outside the cemetery… it was not on the plan, but I think I'll make a little detour on the Girls Tour to pass at Devonshire… I really need to find a way to convince Boyfriend to spend a week or so on the Somme one of these days… remind me to post my view on the Vimy statue when I get back home tonight. M. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Michelle Young Posted 12 June , 2020 Admin Share Posted 12 June , 2020 The stone outside is not a grave stone but the stone saying that the Devonshires held this trench. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaz Posted 12 June , 2020 Share Posted 12 June , 2020 cant remember which, but there is a cemetery near Albert that has the headstone of a reverend outside of the cemetery extension where the other soldiers are buried Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaz Posted 12 June , 2020 Share Posted 12 June , 2020 from the top of Bouzincourt Ridge Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaz Posted 12 June , 2020 Share Posted 12 June , 2020 Berles Position, usually some debris around here.both sides of the road. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marilyne Posted 12 June , 2020 Share Posted 12 June , 2020 3 hours ago, Michelle Young said: The stone outside is not a grave stone but the stone saying that the Devonshires held this trench. ah OK… got it ... I see some interesting angles to take on that, photographically speaking... M. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fattyowls Posted 12 June , 2020 Author Share Posted 12 June , 2020 (edited) 9 minutes ago, Marilyne said: ah OK… got it ... I see some interesting angles to take on that, photographically speaking... I've been there several times and I have never looked at the stone without getting at least a lump in my throat, and often much more. Perhaps because of that poignancy I've never really grasped the wider landscape over which the men in the cemetery attacked, which is unusual for me. It is the purest battlefield cemetery that I know of, made in the immediate aftermath of the deaths of the men in it. The front line kinked around a chalk quarry in the copse which meant it was at right angles to the German positions. The quarry is on the other side of the mesh fence, a wall would probably fall into it, so close is the edge if I remember correctly. I'll have to go back and look again; I will be interested in your reaction (and bear's) If you've never been there before. Pete. Edited 12 June , 2020 by Fattyowls Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 12 June , 2020 Share Posted 12 June , 2020 Another couple from the Vimy memorial: And one of Caterpillar Crater, Hill 60. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fattyowls Posted 12 June , 2020 Author Share Posted 12 June , 2020 (edited) Vimy photo two with added Plumb S. I see. Nice vivid colour, and it is good to see that one takes one's personal photographer along during one's battlefield perambulations. Or did you get your chauffeur to click the shutter while you stood by Canada mourning her lost sons for a sense of scale? Good to know you can still get the staff either way Pete. Edited 12 June , 2020 by Fattyowls Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 12 June , 2020 Share Posted 12 June , 2020 Yes, number one (and only) son. That's him trying to hide in Caterpillar crater 😊 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fattyowls Posted 12 June , 2020 Author Share Posted 12 June , 2020 11 minutes ago, neverforget said: That's him trying to hide in Caterpillar crater Unlike this long haired lout from Liverpool. Taken with Marilyne's previous rocket launcher during the sensitive/insensitive reconstruction* of the Caterpillar crater, and with some random members of the public for a sense of scale...... *delete as appropriate...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 12 June , 2020 Share Posted 12 June , 2020 I say, what a handsome fellow........................................................................................................................... .....is that chap in the background. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knotty Posted 12 June , 2020 Share Posted 12 June , 2020 Caterpillar crater, as it was before the reconstruction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fattyowls Posted 12 June , 2020 Author Share Posted 12 June , 2020 (edited) 23 minutes ago, neverforget said: I say, what a handsome fellow........................................................................................................................... .....is that chap in the background. The level of detail of the said random members of the public that Marilyne managed to pick up is (as Ron Manager would say) quite remarkable. Good angle that John, I'm liking that one. But while we are on the subject of reconstruction, nature has done most of that since this was taken.... I think this might be a German aerial photo from just a month and four days after the craters were created, but I could be very much mistaken, the annotation looks RFC. I think I found it in either the German archives or the Australian on-line war memorial (I can delete it if anyone gets cross). Edited 12 June , 2020 by Fattyowls Inability to read a date - doh! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 12 June , 2020 Share Posted 12 June , 2020 Nice picture, John. Good to have a before and after perspective. Here's one of Vis-en-Artois cemetery: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neverforget Posted 12 June , 2020 Share Posted 12 June , 2020 I can't see how anyone could get cross, Pete. It's a stunning shot, trench lines and all. Brilliant! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fattyowls Posted 12 June , 2020 Author Share Posted 12 June , 2020 9 minutes ago, neverforget said: Here's one of Vis-en-Artois cemetery: That's a nice complement to Michelle's one a few pages back (well several actually). And just to round off the whole Hill 60/Caterpillar cycle this is the other side of the tracks as they say. Hill 60 looking towards Ypres behind the trees; I think the 7th June crater is in the foreground with the earlier line behind, but I've always found the area a bit confusing.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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