I am back!

Hot and exhausted from an amazing week in Italy. Yes, I will post some photos, but thought I ought to catch up with the long overdue WWI pictures. I shall actually post them in the reverse order of the trip, as that's the way by pictures are loaded and I am too lazy (or too busy) to reverse them!)

This is the end of the trip - Thiepville memorialle, Beaumont Hamel, the Lochnagar Crater and the Ulster Tower (where North & South Ireland fought together)

Warning - it is picture heavy! ....
This is int he museum there - the pictures are regularily changed ... just to personalise the graves

These are rifle bullets that were melted and fused together when an ammunition train blew up 8/9/1916

Part of am amazing image depicting all aspects of the war ... it took up both sides of the room


The memorial at Thiepville to the Somme ... and a tourist

300 unknown French graves, and 300 Commenwealth graves (only 10 named)








Beaumont Hamel ... the Newfoundland emblem always faces towards where his men fought.

Some of the trenches






The Ulster Tower - the whole of Ireland fought here (after the Easter Uprising)


The Lochnagar Crater - where some of the mines worked by Commenwealth Tunnellers blew up


An original Calvary, still surviving where it has for over 100 years


Caterpiller Valley Cemetery - this is where the grave of the Unknown Soldier for New Zealand was chosen from





More to come