Robuk88 Posted 13 July , 2022 Share Posted 13 July , 2022 Hi Troops, I am visiting the Somme in August and planning on heading to Saint Quentin. I did visit in 2018 but i couldn't find much was a battlefield newbie. However i've visited Albert and the surrounding battlefields several times since and branching further out decided to visit Saint Quention. Researching i am struggling to find the following places and unsure if anyone can send me a link to locate them pinpoint a location on a map? It would be much appreciated. If anyone has suggestions to visit around there that would also be much appreciated. West of the town, Manchester Hill and memorials and traces of the Hindenburg Line at Fayet South of St-Quentin, Hindenburg Line bunkers at Moy Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie2 Posted 13 July , 2022 Share Posted 13 July , 2022 Manchester Hill, marked with the blue square. Charlie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robuk88 Posted 13 July , 2022 Author Share Posted 13 July , 2022 1 minute ago, charlie2 said: Manchester Hill, marked with the blue square. Charlie Thank you Charlie perfect i appreciate that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Michelle Young Posted 13 July , 2022 Admin Share Posted 13 July , 2022 There’s certainly some concrete near Joncourt communal cemetery, you can see it from the back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robuk88 Posted 13 July , 2022 Author Share Posted 13 July , 2022 20 minutes ago, Michelle Young said: There’s certainly some concrete near Joncourt communal cemetery, you can see it from the back. Thank you Michelle. I will visit and take a look. Would that be part of the Hindenburg line? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan24 Posted 13 July , 2022 Share Posted 13 July , 2022 Robuk88 It would be worth checking out this thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Michelle Young Posted 13 July , 2022 Admin Share Posted 13 July , 2022 Yes I think so. My interest in Moy is more 1914, with the cavalry charge at Moy -Cerisy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robuk88 Posted 13 July , 2022 Author Share Posted 13 July , 2022 19 minutes ago, Alan24 said: Robuk88 It would be worth checking out this thread. Thank you very much Alan. That's a great find and certainly will help when visiting. Rob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mebu Posted 13 July , 2022 Share Posted 13 July , 2022 In the thread mentioned above by Alan24 you will find a good map of Manchester Hill. On the western fringes of Joncourt you can find several of the forward pill boxes/bunkers of the Siegfriedstellung/Hindenburg line, some hidden by bushes.. If you look up the hill to the east of the village, the higher ground was part of the Beaurevoir Line, the row of bunkers still here were the ones attacked by 2nd Manchesters with Wilfrid Owen, if I remember right here won his MC here. Fayet was on the British front line until March 1918. Little remains, although in Fig Wood, south of the village, can still be found the remains of Isigny Alley and Ivry Alley trenches, although recent expansion of the commercial centre has reduced this wood. Peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mebu Posted 13 July , 2022 Share Posted 13 July , 2022 PS a good guide to the Hindenburg Line is - The Hindenburg Line, in the Pen and Sword series. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Michelle Young Posted 14 July , 2022 Admin Share Posted 14 July , 2022 I also found the Helen McPhail and Philip Guest Wilfred Owen Battleground Europe useful when visiting the area, and this book https://www.amazon.co.uk/Retreat-Rearguard-Somme-1918-Fifth/dp/1781592675 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horrocks Posted 14 July , 2022 Share Posted 14 July , 2022 Plenty of Wilfred Owen related locations in the GE image above. In the top right hand corner the track leading south from Fayet (partly lined with houses now) is the location of the poem 'Spring Offensive' (Some say God caught them even before they fell..). The top right hand corner of the red box 'A29' just touches the old railway embankment where I believe Owen survived a near miss from a shell, his CO subsequently recognising that he was confused and suffering from shell shock, and sending him back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Open Bolt Posted 14 July , 2022 Share Posted 14 July , 2022 61st Division Map ~March 1918 with Fayet on the line of resistance and Manchester Hill in the hands of 30th Division. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EAST YORKSHIRE Posted 14 July , 2022 Share Posted 14 July , 2022 Riqueval Bridge is a good place to visit, Ian. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robuk88 Posted 15 July , 2022 Author Share Posted 15 July , 2022 Thank you everyone some awesome suggestions and material which will help. I appreciate it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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