Alison Arnold Posted 3 April , 2007 Share Posted 3 April , 2007 Very nice photos. Just a little plea from me....... More photos please Ali Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tafski Posted 3 April , 2007 Share Posted 3 April , 2007 seeing as ye pleaded a few more hope the rest of the party post some a little wire fence Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tafski Posted 3 April , 2007 Share Posted 3 April , 2007 more trench positions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Alison Arnold Posted 3 April , 2007 Share Posted 3 April , 2007 Very nice Bruce. Bet you had a really good time. Come on the rest of you guys more piccies please. Ali Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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59165 Posted 3 April , 2007 Share Posted 3 April , 2007 It has been said that you can see Messines ridge fromthe top of the tower. Last time up there,I did see Mont des Cats which is en route. These windows were payed for by us,as a gesture to all the French troops who died in this massive action before they moved to the Verdun battle/July Somme attack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruce Posted 3 April , 2007 Share Posted 3 April , 2007 I have two difficulties with the museum at NDDL. Firstly, just leaving all that equipment out to rot. In just a few years time, there will be nothing to see but rust. Secondly, were the trenches really that close together there? Bruce Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garron Posted 3 April , 2007 Share Posted 3 April , 2007 some one playing soldiers and the photo i was taking Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
truthergw Posted 3 April , 2007 Share Posted 3 April , 2007 I have two difficulties with the museum at NDDL. Firstly, just leaving all that equipment out to rot. In just a few years time, there will be nothing to see but rust. Secondly, were the trenches really that close together there? Bruce [/quote I have read some French accounts of the fighting there. One of them states that they could throw grenades into each other's trenches, so they were pretty close. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
59165 Posted 3 April , 2007 Share Posted 3 April , 2007 After a wee run down the hill,the troop arrived at a place they all had planned in their itinira-itinerar-diaries. The newly washed Vimy ridge memorial. Magic to see this place without the covers on at last.Timings just right for the Canada 90th tour next week. Still cant walk up to it for another week but,still one of the best ever to me... Here we come to the Scots connection. One of these thought he'd pull in five mins with all the French poule's there. No one went native on this trip though.../Concrete sandbags at Vimy by the visitors centre in the trench system(20 yds from the opposing trench system) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garron Posted 3 April , 2007 Share Posted 3 April , 2007 There was a fantastic mueseum at NDDL, (the building next to the trenches), which has some breath taking things on display, trouble is you werent allowed to take pictures. there were a few lewis guns, lots of dummies with kit, a MP 18, hotchkiss mg's, mg 08's 08/15s, smle's long lee's, relic weapons, helmets, you name it they had it. Garron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tafski Posted 3 April , 2007 Share Posted 3 April , 2007 and the gravel was sharp as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruce Posted 3 April , 2007 Share Posted 3 April , 2007 Thanks for correcting me on the proximity of the trenches. I still think it is a crying shame that all that ordnance will just rot.....a bit like the back of Tommy's...... Bruce Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garron Posted 3 April , 2007 Share Posted 3 April , 2007 Vimy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
59165 Posted 3 April , 2007 Share Posted 3 April , 2007 After a magnificent repas,some die hards hit the old fire water in the Shell hole/Bunker(I cant remember ever leaving it,never mind its name) George Coles original minder & friend in an uncannily devoid of alcohol bar scene You cannot fault Chavasse farm as a billet for the Somme.All you ever need & all you can make of it rolled into one.Got nice neighbours too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tafski Posted 3 April , 2007 Share Posted 3 April , 2007 After a magnificent repas,some die hards hit the old fire water in the Shell hole/Bunker(I cant remember ever leaving it,never mind its name) George Coles original minder & friend in an uncannily devoid of alcohol bar scene You cannot fault Chavasse farm as a billet for the Somme.All you ever need & all you can make of it rolled into one.Got nice neighbours too. christ diddnt realise grant mitchell was on the tour Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garron Posted 3 April , 2007 Share Posted 3 April , 2007 [insert Funny caption here] Garron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
59165 Posted 3 April , 2007 Share Posted 3 April , 2007 Bit dark this one.A cem not too far from the billet & photos a bit dark. Had finished drinking etc.at 2am so I had a walk & slept in a field.This is what I saw at 6.40 My favourite time of day anywhere but,just outside of the village(Hardecourt)I took this,bout 7.30ish So,met a nice bunch of pals in France,had a drink with them,then I slept on the line with some of our relatives,walked home & saw the sunrise.What a 1st day it was for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
59165 Posted 3 April , 2007 Share Posted 3 April , 2007 Thanks for correcting me on the proximity of the trenches. I still think it is a crying shame that all that ordnance will just rot.....a bit like the back of Tommy's...... Bruce No one at all is correcting you,Bruce its just that at the Labrynthe(as the French called it)the French troops were in the actual SAME trench complex(& it was complex)as the Germans.Your talkin about days & weeks of sleeping with the enemy who where feet away from you.Bayonets were a mans best friend there(& all the other close range nasties).Think of a maze & just add infantry D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
59165 Posted 4 April , 2007 Share Posted 4 April , 2007 From a thing of death and destruction there was beauty and life. Kev,yer a poet & you know it but,I reckon yer talkin bout yer POM-POM Feel free to slap Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owen D Posted 4 April , 2007 Share Posted 4 April , 2007 [insert Funny caption here] Garron "Hello big boy, wanna see what a fireman keeps up his kilt?" or "Hello big boy, wanna play with me hose?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barrieduncan Posted 4 April , 2007 Share Posted 4 April , 2007 I wont bother posting up any more pics of NDDL as they all look fairly similar to the ones already on (albeit of a slightly better standard, mwahahahah ). I think this was the first night in the Rum Ration, but I confess the nights do seem to have blurred into one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barrieduncan Posted 4 April , 2007 Share Posted 4 April , 2007 And who might this young chap be - drinking out a bottle too forsooth! Ah, the youth of today [sigh] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barrieduncan Posted 4 April , 2007 Share Posted 4 April , 2007 I like this pic - took about 8 attempts to get the light right, but think it was worth it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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