Author: athelstan

Vauquois with the Trench Club                  

Great two days with the Royal Mons RE. Highlight yesterday was visiting the OP the regiment built at Hussar Farm100 years before and meeting the duty cat…

Despite the morning rain it went on to be a beautiful day on the battlefields with my Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineer group. Visited three of their fallen comrades on the Salient and two more to see today – hopefully with

Thought I was bringing a dog back from Verdun tonight. This dog was wandering seemingly lost at Hill 304. I thought it had been perhaps abandoned but it had a collar with a mobile number which I called and it

Fort Souville – the closest the Germans got to Verdun on 12th July 1916               Today we crossed over to the left bank of the Meuse and here is the statue commemorating that the

The Battle of Verdun started 100 years ago. May they rest in peace all who died there             Voie Sacrée kilometre marker along the famous road that kept the battlefield viable for the French during

The centenary of the Battle of Verdun approaches. Here we have a couple of photos of the ossuary on the battlefield at Verdun, Vic:

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