Day 1 Battlefield Tour - Lille to Amien

A day full of visiting various sites related to ANZAC and the Battle of the Somme July and August 1916.
Too many sites to mention and cemeteries with staggering numbers of names of ANZAC soldiers known and unknown.
It felt great stand at places I had read about and seen only in black and white photos.
One memorial listed the names of over 72000 British and Commonwealth soldiers with no known grave - Thiepval Memorial.
Went to the memorial of the New Zealand Division and the site where they took the unknown soldier from his grave back to Wellington.
Long and once checked into hotel it was a late dinner and beer before hitting the sack.
Nice people on the tour - only 14 of us made up of 4 Kiwis and the rest Australian. Also nice not to have big crowds and more relaxed.Weiterlesen