The Battlefields of France

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The Journey
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Ovilliers
Lochnagar Crater
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Thiepval
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Ypres
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Tom Morgans Hellfire Corner

Ovilliers

18/10/02 10a.m. This was the first Horbury Soldiers Grave that we found. At each grave, we took it in turns to say a few words before placing the cross that we had prepared for that soldier.

We also took rubbings of the graves.

18/10/02 10:30a.m. Blighty Valley, another Horbury Soldier finds a resting place.

18/10/02 10:30a.m. The group hold a brief ceremony, discuss how the soldiers died, and take some brass rubbings.

 

 

18/10/02 10:55a.m. One Horbury soldier lies in a bleak and desolate spot at Authielle.

 

 

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