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Originally posted by Ian
All very interesting and good post here. Ains, you mention a trip that I plan to do myself, a trip that I have for a long time felt that I have to make on my own, be interested to know if you guys that have been have also done it that way.
A few years on and I was reluctantly sitting there in my English Lit class when the subject switched to war poetry of WW1, - I was hit by a bolt as things fell into place.
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Ian,
I've done from Dunkirk down to Verdun and most of the places in between. Including Mons, Hill 60, Mesnes Ridge, Vimy Ridge, Loos, Lens, Sedan, etc. Also D-day beaches and Pegasus Bridge.
If you need some info' let me know.
Next year is the 80th anniverssary of the Battle of the Somme. If I can possibly make it I will be doing a trip there.
It's a 2 hour pad down to the battlefield from Calais.
What about a show of hands; who would do that trip to Lochnegar Crater for 07:30hrs, 1st July 2006?
At that time on that date in 1916 was when the first wave went over. Lochnegar crater is what resulted from one of the mines that the Brits blew at 07:20hrs under the German lines.
I went in 1989, and was standing next to a bloke who I knew I should have recognised, his face was familiar but I couldn't place it. It should have struck me as he was also wearing the VC. It was Grp Capt' Leonard Cheshire!!!
Ains.
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