mercredi 14 juin 2017

Visit to the Somme graveyards, part 2


   After our visit to the cemetery of the Devonshire Regiment, we went to have lunch in Albert, a larger town nearby. Following that, we set the Satnav to return to Cecile and Patricks house in Wattignies. As it often does, the Satnav chose a new and picturesque route, taking us by minor roads, and passing the much larger cemetery at Pozieres. We stopped to visit this and were impressed and saddened to see long lines of graves, over 2000 collected into this large site from the surrounding countryside . It's one thing to read about the many deaths of First
 World War soldiers, quite another to gaze at long lines of gravestones in serried rows. The most poignant graves in both cemeteries were those on which no name was engraved, as no identification could be found on the remains . On these, it just read ' A soldier of the Great War- known unto God '  I was deeply moved.... In one such grave there were even two Unknown bodies presumably where the remains were mixed up together in death!
  I'll try to attach some photos but I'm writing this on the iPad and photos are stocked on the mainframe .

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