John WW1 Battlefields Tour July 2024

 

Battle of Vimy Ridge

The Last Post at Ypres

Peronne

Lochnagar Crater

The Lochnagar Crater was created by a large mine detonated beneath the German front line by the British Army’s 179th Tunnelling Company Royal Engineers, at 7:28am on July 1st, 1916. The explosion marked the beginning of the Battle of the Somme and was the largest of 19 mines, placed beneath the German front line to assist the British infantry advance. It is the largest man-made mine crater from the First World War on the Western Front.

The Danger Tree

The Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme is a war memorial to 72,337 missing British and South African servicemen who died in the Battles of the Somme of the First World War between 1915 and 1918, with no known grave.

The German war cemetery of Langemark - More than 44,000 soldiers are buried here. The village was the scene of the first poison gas attacks by the Imperial German Army in the Western Front marking the beginning of the Second Battle of Ypres in April 1915.

The St. Julien Memorial, also known as The Brooding Soldier, is a Canadian war memorial in Saint-Julienk Belgium. It commemorates the Canadian First Division's participation in the Second Battle of Ypres of World War I which included fighting in the face of the first poison gas attacks along the Western Front. 

Nick visits relative.

Ypres

Tim explains a battle to John.

The above photo was taken from the place the cameraman stood to take the film below.