Join us for a 3 mile walk around Chesterblade with pauses for poetry and readings from It Leaves Me The Same, a book about a farmer's son's WW1 experience. FREE. Sun 18 Nov 2pm
Monsieur Le Maire and the Somme Battlefield Pipe Band in Locquignol today at the memorial meal for our relatives who lost their lives 100 yrs ago today liberating their village
Near where my great uncle fought, this is the cellar where Wilfred Owen wrote his last letter home before dying the next day in the same battle as my great uncle died on 4th Nov 1918 https://t.co/G58LwC0ofF
My mum laying a wreath for Wilfred Carver who died aged 21 on Armistice Day 1918. A young farm lad who worked in Chesterblade in 1918 https://t.co/25zw4E3Xrb
Visiting France this week with a group of 60 relatives from UK to commemorate our ancestors who fell in the Battle of the Sambre 4th Nov 1918 https://t.co/f6lDQXJksK
After several weeks travelling thru France Allen billets in Neuvilly just behind the frontline. This church had been half destroyed & was used as a makeshift hospital
Allen passed thru numerous small villages in the region whilst moving to the front. Most had been reduced to rubble. He stayed in barns and any old buildings that still stood