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Summer sunrise over the preserved trenches and shell-hole landscape of the Newfoundland Park at Beaumont-Hamel on the Somme. #DailyBattlefields
Winter sunset at AIF Burial Ground, Flers, on the Somme battlefields. Tanks were used near here for the first time in September 1916 and the cemetery is named after the Australians who served in this sector during the winter of 1916/17. #DailyBattlefields
Winter sunset at La Targette French National Cemetery. There are more than 11,000 Poilus buried here who fell in the Battles of Artois in 1914/15. #DailyBattlefields
Sunrise over the ‘Cobbers’ Memorial at Fromelles in Northern France. It depicts Sergeant Simon Fraser bringing in a wounded comrade. Australia suffered over 5,500 casualties here in July 1916. #DailyBattlefields
Winter sunrise at Owl Trench Cemetery, opposite Rossignol Wood on the Somme. As I took the photo, I heard an Owl in the woods! #DailyBattlefields
The Lorraine American Cemetery, with more than 10,000 burials it is the largest US War Cemetery from #WW2 in Europe. Here the dead from Eastern France and the final battles in Germany are buried. #DailyBattlefields
“What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.” (T.S.Elliott) - Courcelette British Cemetery. #DailyBattlefields
Detail of the Pozières Memorial to the Missing, where more than 14,000 British and Commonwealth missing from March and April 1918 are remembered. #DailyBattlefields
The Red Dragon memorial to the men of Wales, overlooking Mametz Wood on the Somme, where they fought and died in July 1916. #DailyBattlefields
The huge Ziegler Bunker, part of the German defences near Boesinghe at Ypres, and in an area where the French advance took place in 1917. #DailyBattlefields
The Menin Gate Memorial at night: quiet and empty, but a place to contemplate those who never returned from the Great War in Flanders. #DailyBattlefields
Battlefields in winter - dappled snow on the Pozières Ridge where heavy fighting took place in 1916, echoing the moonscape of shell craters that once covered this landscape of the Somme. #DailyBattlefields
The battlefields in winter - snow falls at Ancre British Cemetery on the Somme. #DailyBattlefields
Summer sky over Tyne Cot Cemetery near Ypres in Flanders. With almost 12,000 burials it is the largest British and Commonwealth Cemetery in the world. #DailyBattlefields
Summer light at the Menin Gate Memorial in Ypres which commemorates nearly 55,000 British & Commonwealth missing from #WW1. Lord Plumer unveiled the memorial in 1927 & said of those named on the panels: ‘He is not missing; he is here’ #DailyBattlefields
The Thiepval Memorial to the Missing, dominating the Somme skyline. #DailyBattlefields
The Welsh Memorial on Pilkem Ridge near Ypres, under a winter sky. #DailyBattlefields
Evening light on the features of the Vis-en-Artois Memorial, located between Arras and Cambrai, and commemorating the British & Commonwealth missing of the final phase of the fighting on the Western Front in 1918. #DailyBattlefields
The Australian Corps Memorial Park Memorial at Le Hamel, on the ground where some of the most significant battles of 1918 took place on the Somme. #DailyBattlefields
The vast open landscape on the Loos Battlefield of 1915, in the old coal-mining region of Northern France. Skylarks were singing above the track as I took this. #DailyBattlefields
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