Showing posts with label World War I mines. Show all posts
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04 January 2019

Guide to WORLD WAR I in FRANCE posts






WORLD WAR I in FRANCE


The following links take you to the post about the sites along The Western Front of World War I.

On the occasion of the centenary of World War I in 2018, I traveled The Western Front from Belgium to the Swiss Border and remembered the Armistice of 11 November 1918 at the Cenotaph in London, England.


Pozières The Windmill honouring Australian troops in Northern France
Pozières Tank Corp memorial near the first use of tanks

Lochnagar Crater and the British offensive known as the Battle of the Somme. The mine blasted ground when the Battle of the Somme began 1 July 1916


Beaumont Hamel Newfoundland Memorial Park honouring British troops from

     Newfoundland

Thiepval Memorial, Visitor Centre, and Museum The memorial honours British

     and South African troops


Compiegne —the site of the 1918 Armistice


Meaux Museum —an extensive battlefield museum

La Ferté-sous-Jouarre British war memorial including monuments to the

     Royal Engineers

Belleau Wood and the American Monument – remembering U.S. Marines who fought here
      in 1918

Chateau-Thierry and the American memorial —impressive memorial 
     atop a hill by the Marne River

Les Fantômes Memorial Sculpture by Paul Landowski— creative sculpture 
     located at the Second Battle of the Marne 1918

Soisson The British Memorial honouring about 4,000 British Commonwealth troops,
     who died in the Battles of the Aisne and Marne.

Aisne —Cerny en Loannois — picturesque village with a chapel and cemetery
     in the area known as Chemin des Dames

Aisne and the Monument to the Crapouillots French artillerymen 
     honoured in a monument shaped like a mortar shell

Tank Corp Memorial   This memorial includes several large scale tanks.

Le Main de Massiges and the impressive reconstructed trenches


Hill of Vauquois and the devastation of mine warfare. A village is obliterated.

Romagne a small town with an interesting museum on the way to the

     American cemetery of the Meuse-Argonne battle

Meuse-Argonne —an impressive American Memorial near Verdun


Voie Sacrée Memorial on the way to Verdun the sacred supply route

The Battle of Verdun —Verdun and the nearby Museum

Trench of Bayonets memorial and the Battle of Verdun

Douamont Ossuary  and Cemetery and the Battle of Verdun

Romanian (aka Rumanian) Military Cemetery at Soultzmatt France

Le Ligne Museum and Trenches located in the beauty of the mountains.

Ilfurth—a German Cemetery

Vieil Armand Battlefield also known as Hartmannswillerkopf—National Monument

Pfetterhouse at the Swiss Border


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01 January 2019

Hill of Vauquois France



Before World War I, Vauquois was an actractive village on a hill near the Argonne forest. The craters reveal the effects of many explosions that erased a village and left craters as a remembrance of war one hundred years ago.




Shells are still visible on the battlefield.




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13 December 2018

Lochnagar Crater Battle of the Somme World War I



The Lochnagar Crater resulted when the British detonated a mine underneath German lines at 7.28 am on the first day of the Battle of the Somme, 1 July 1916.

Tunnellers had dug beneath the German positions to place the mine. After seven days of British artillery fire, the mine was detonated. Then, eight successive waves of the 34th Division climbed out of their trenches and headed for the German lines. This day was the bloodiest day in British military history. Read more and see 1916 photos at lochnagarcrater.org.


My photos and video are from 22 October 2018.


A cross marks the memorial site. Many poppies here and around the site remind us the soldiers are not forgotten.

 


















The grey skies helped create a somber moment whilst walking about the crater.

 Storyboards help tell the story of those connected with that fateful day.

































There are places to rest and reflect on war and peace.












Here is a video overview of the Lochnagar Crater site.



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28 November 2018

HOOGE CRATER CEMETERY AND MUSEUM BELGIUM



Hooge is a village about two miles east of Ypres, Belgium. The Hooge Crater was the result of a blown mine 19 July 1915. British Tunnerlers dug beneath the German concrete structures in about 5.5 weeks. The crater and pillboxes are still visible, though the crater has been filled with water. In the same area, on 30 June 1915, the Germans first used a flame thrower as a weapon.

























Close to the crater is a private museum containing a variety of war-related artefacts. The displays include uniforms, weapons, and personal items.

 






















Behind the museum are reconstructed British and German trenches.



A storage room contains weapons, including an Enfield rifle.



Across the street from the museum is the Hooge Crater Cemetery where 5,916 are buried. Some markers honor several unidentified soldiers.




















The museum makes for a good lunch stop with both inside and outside seating.
















Short Video Clip of the Hooge Crater dated 21 October 2018.



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