Thursday, May 23, 2019

Battlefield Tour

Today we headed out to check out the local area. First we headed out to Lochnegar Crater which was a giant crater hole made from the explosion set off by the tunnelers on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.
We went to Villers Bretonneux and the John Monash Centre which is the interactive museum and it is just so well done, spent several hours there.
Chipply to see the horse monument
Villers Brettonuex
John Monash Centre
Corbie
Red Baron
Super U for dnner


Lochnegar Crater


Sculpture- "The Empty Chair" to represent all the empty chairs in homes around the world of those those who were killed in WW1.


Villers Bretonneux


Villers Bretonneux


Villers Bretonneux


Villers Bretonneux




The memorial to the horses at Chipply

Picnic lunch

Tombstone where the remains of the unknown soldier where exhumed and taken to the Australian War Memorial in Canberra



Lovely view of the Somme 

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