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Swavesey Church |
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Church End, Swavesey |
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High Street, Swavesey |
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Renescure, France
Back area stopping off route en route to the 4th Army area. |
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Renescure,Chateau
Officers billet at Renescure. |
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Becourt (On The Somme)
Overnight billet for the 11th Suffolks and the start of the battalion's journey on 1-Jul-1916. |
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Becourt,Chateau
Officers billet at Becourt. |
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Shell tom landscape at Becourt (1997). |
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Becourt military cemetery
Several Suffolk graves -- men killed during the week preceding the 1-July. |
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The 1-July jumping off point near Becourt. |
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The Heligoland Redoubt
The disturbed chalk shows the position of this German strongpoint in the bottom of
Mash Valley. |
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The Lochnagar Mine Crater (1997)
80,000 lbs of explosive under the German trench line was blown at 7.28am on 1-Jul-1916 causing this crater.Many of the battalion survivors fought a final action on the lip of this crater.Phil's son Ben stands at the bottom. |
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The furthest point of advance for the Cambridgeshire men of the Suffolks - Gordon Dump Military Cemetery. |
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The 34th Division Memorial at La Boisselle. |
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The detrius of war. Uncovered shells, roadside, awaiting pickup. |
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Somme harvest. A collection of unexploded shells. |