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Remembered Today:

Larch Wood (Railway Cutting) Cemetery


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nice photo, thanks

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To me:

this is not just a photo as a picture with high dynamical tention, expression and symbolism.

Thank you very much for posting it, Hans

Malte

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this is not just a photo as a picture with high dynamical tention, expression and symbolism.

Malte,

Can you see the high dynamic tension on my face? I'm the one in red with the astonished look on my face :huh:

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Stunning Photos

Thanks for sharing them

Glyn

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"Royal Army Medical Corps: Frank M."

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Great Pics! The train passing by is such a contrast with the cemetery itself.

Does anyone have a photograph of that man: Frank M. (RMAC). He would fit for the Passchendaele Archives... .

Kind regards,

Jan

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The Cemetery is close to the railway line isn't it ?

I think I might have looked a little more worried than you Derek :huh:

Certainly is (Railway Cuttings)...aptly named

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my wife's great grandfather was brought back here after being wounded with the 1st Dorsets at Hill 60 in may 1915. He was transferred to Bailleul where he later died.

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The Cemetery is close to the railway line isn't it ?

I think I might have looked a little more worried than you Derek :huh:

Certainly is (Railway Cuttings)...aptly named

Very close indeed, Spike - see my photo, taken at 7.30 a.m. one morning in July. Photo taken from the cemetery entrance, looking along the "grass lane" leading to the graves.

The railway cutting was used as a communication trench, so I suppose that the burials were made in the first available safe spot on the way down from Hill 60 (the trees on the skyline in the far distance.)

Tom

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Thanks Tom, for the picture showing how far the graves are from the entrance, I reckon, if you'd have leaned out you could have caught that train :o

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Larch Wood Cemetery

Burials stones of casualties at HILL 60

Lieutenant George SHANNON, MC

kia 5/5/1915 HILL 60

''2/Lieut. SHANNON displayed great bravery and initiative in the confused fighting wich raged on the hill-side all the afternoon''

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Larch Wood Cemetery

Captain Sidney John SANKEY,

kia 25/9/1915

shot in the head at Trench 37, Hill 60

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Private Reginald WARREN, 1 Bn Devonshire Rgt

kia 26/4/1915 Hill 60

'On the evening of 26/4/1915, the Germans suddenley started bombing again, while after dark they once tried to rush at the hill, only to find the Devons on the alert and to be trust back in disorder, with many casualties.'

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