Connaught Cemetery, Thiepval.
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Brief tour around the Thiepval Memorial in the Somme, France
Short video by Pol Bacquet showing the magnificent Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme. This is a war memorial to 72,337 missing British and South African servicemen who died in the Battles of the Somme of the First World War between 1915 and 1918, with no known grave. It is near the City of Albert, Picardy in France. Thiepval has been described as the greatest executed British work of monumental architecture of the twentieth century
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Somme compilation. Trones Wood, Guillemont, Thiepval.
In August this year I paid another visit to the Great War Somme battlefield. I took my trusty drone to capture some footage of the various points of interest.
Now the land is part of a peaceful rural landscape with few visible scars to tell the story.
There are exceptions the most noticeable is the proliferation of Commonwealth War Grave cemetery's that mark sites of the heaviest fighting.
The Somme fighting covered five months from 1st of July to 15th of November 1916 but on this visit I concentrated on and followed the fortunes of the 16th (Irish) Div around the village of Guillemont and the 36th (Ulster) Div at Thiepval.
The video starts at Guillemont cemetery and shows the small area from Trones wood To the village, the open ground rises toward the village and can be walked at a steady pace in about 15 minutes. Trones wood fell on the 14th of July and the village (by now ground into brick dust) finally fell and was secured by the 3rd Sept.
VC's Guillemont Trones wood area.
Sgt William Boulter 6th Bn Northants Regt 14th July
CSM George Evans 18th Bn Manchester Regt 30th July
2Lt Gabriel Coury 3rd Bn South Lancs 8th Aug
Capt Noel Chavasse RAMC 9th Aug
Lt John Holland 3rd Bn Leinster Regt 3rd Sept
Sgt David Jones 12th Bn Kings Regt 3rd Sept
Pte Thomas Hughes 6th Bn Connaught Rangers 3rd Sept
Next scene is the windmill area just east of Pozieres where the Australian Divisions fought for the first time on the western front.
VC's Pozieres
Pte John Leak 9th Bn AIF 23rd July
2Lt Arthur Blackburn 10th Bn AIF 23rd July
Pte Thomas Cooke 8th Bn AIF 24/25 July
Sgt Claude Castleton Australian MGC 28/29 July
Pte Martin O'Meara 16th Bn AIF 9/12 Aug
Cpl Leo Clarke 2nd Bn CEF 9th Sept
Then I move to the area north of the village of Thiepval were the Ulster men broke into the Schwaben Redoubt, the story of which I would urge you to read. Mill Rd and Connaught cemetery's are sat in the middle of that battlefield.
Next is some footage of the Thiepval Memorial to the missing of the Somme which has the names of 72,336 servicemen or as is carved
Here are recorded names of officers and men
of the British Armies who fell on the Somme battlefields
July 1915-Febuary 1918 but to whom the fortune of
war denied the known and honoured burial given to
their comrades in death
The video closes at the Ulster memorial tower, where incidentally you can grab a nice cup of char.
VC's Thiepval area.
Capt Eric Bell 9th Bn Inniskilling Fusiliers 1st July
Rfn William McFadzean 14th Bn Royal Irish Rifles 1st July
Sgt Robert Quigg 12th Bn Royal Irish Rifles 1st July
Lt Geoffrey Cather 9th Bn Royal Irish Rifles 1st/2nd July
Cpl George Sanders 1/7th Bn West Yorkshire Regt 1st July
Pte Fredrick Edwards 12th Bn Middlesex Regt 26th Sept
Pte Robert Ryder 12th Bn Middlesex Regt 26th Sept
Lt Col Tom Adlam 7th Bn Bedfordshire Regt 27th Sept
I am hoping to return to France again early next year and would love to know if anyone out there would like a visit lets get together and make a plan.
Please forgive any errors would welcome corrections and comments.
I should credit the music used
Only remembered by Coope Boyes and Simpson.
All the best
Cimetière militaire de Thiepval (de Connaught) (80)
. Au moment de la bataille de la Somme, Thiepval fut attaquée, le 1er juillet 1916, par les Irlandais de la 36ème division britannique, à qui la Tour Hélène, ou Ulster Tower, rend hommage. Mais ce n'est que le 26 septembre que le village sera capturé par la 18ème division.
En 1918, lors de l'offensive allemande en Picardie, le village sera perdu le 25 mars pour être repris le 24 août, par les 17ème et 38ème divisions.
Située près de l'Ulster Tower, cette nécropole contient les corps de 1.286 Britanniques dont 642 non-identifiés et 425 dont l'unité est inconnue. A l'origine, édifié au début de l'automne 1916, ce n'était qu'un petit cimetière qui contenait 228 tombes au moment de l'armistice. Après guerre, d'autres tombes, provenant du proche champ de bataille, seront rassemblées ici, principalement celles d'hommes tués au cours de l'été et de l'automne 1916.
Pour la plupart, elles provenaient de petits cimetières, édifiés pendant la guerre et qui ont aujourd'hui disparu.
Puchevillers British Cemetery, Somme.
Puchevillers British Cemetery, Somme.
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Visit to the Somme Battlefields 2011
In March 2011 four of us visited the Battlefields of the First World War. Here is a short video showing the Ulster Memorial Tower, Connaught Cemetery, Mill Road Cemetery, Serre Road Cemetery No 2 and the Thiepval memorial to the missing. A very humbling few days. The music is called the Battle of the Somme which is a bagpipe tune composed by Pipe Major Willie Lawrie (1881-1916) Thanks to Feast of Fiddles for this version.
Battle of Thiepval Ridge
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The Battle of Mouquet Farm, also known as the Fighting for Mouquet Farm was part of the Battle of the Somme and took place as part of the Battle of Pozières .It began on 10 August with attacks by the I Anzac Corps and it was captured by the 3rd Canadian Division of the Canadian Corps on 16 September.The farm was lost to a German counter-attack, before being re-captured on 26 September, during an attack by the 11th Division as part of the Battle of Thiepval Ridge , in which No.16 Section of the 6th East Yorkshire , smoked out the last German defenders.
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No mans land, Thiepval, The Somme.
WWI Soldier Reburied With Full Military Honours
A British soldier who was killed in one of the First World War's bloodiest battles has been laid to rest with full military honours almost 100 years after he died.
Sergeant David Harkness Blakey, of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, died on the first day of the Battle of the Somme in northern France on 1 July 1916.
The 26-year-old's remains were found during a road widening project near Connaught Cemetery in Thiepval in November 2013 - 97 years after he fell in battle.
He was found with a metal identity tag with 18634 Sgt David Harkness Blakey MM of the R Innis Fus etched on it and a R Innis Fus cap badge.
Regina Trench Cemetery, Grandcourt.
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Adanac Military Cemetery, Miraumont.
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WW1 Mouquet Farm - Pozieres - Somme - Stuart Curry
Mouquet Farm was the keystone in the area between Pozieres and Thiepval. During the Battle of Pozieres which started on the 23rd of July 1916 the Australians needed to push N/E and take the Farm. The OG1 and OG2 lines forced them towards this strongpoint which was on top of the hill. The Germans dug in and fortified it using the cellars as as a dugout which could hold over 200 men.
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Area of Thiepval and the Ulster Tower.
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Tribute to the Irish in World War One
The Irish made up a significant part of the British Army in World War One and were usually used as cannon meat...dedicated to everyone who lost a family member in this war, I'd like to hear stories from some of you.
Dedicated to my great-uncle too.
RIP Pvt.MacGill
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