Around 'Ocean Villas'

Photographs by Phill Mills (Phil took the aerial pictures and those marked as November 2003) and Ian McEwan who took the rest

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Beaumont Hamel church (60kb) The Old Beaumont Road (104kb) Mametz Wood and Death Valley - November 2003 (61kb)
A crisp, frosty morning at Ocean Villas - November 2003 (85kb) The Visitor Center Newfoundland Memorial Park (96kb) Remains of a German machine gun post at the Pope's Nose, Thiepval. (154kb)
The tortured and blasted ground in the Newfoundland Memorial Park (86kb) From right; British support line, front line, and 13th November jumping-off trench. (83kb) German front line and 51st HD memorial (70kb)
North-end of Y-Ravine - scene of bitter fighting in November 1916 (87kb) The piper at Longueval (61kb) Old Beaumont Road Auchonvillers, described by Blunden in 'Undertones of War'. (85kb)
Ancre Valley British Cemetery (76kb) Beaumont Hamel from the Sunken Lane (72kb) The quarry in Beaumont Hamel (44kb)
Beaumont civilian cemetery (77kb) From the 'British' lip of Hawthorn Crater (78kb) Hawthron Ridge Number 1 (52kb)
An unusual view from Hawthorn Ridge (105kb) Serre Road Number 2 from Kilometre Lane (50kb) Thiepval Monument from the Granatloch (97kb)
Home, sweet home! (108kb) There's plenty to do at Ocean Villas (104kb) Barbed wire found during trench excavations (90kb)
Death Valley with Matetz Wood brooding on the left (89kb) Death Valley - June 2004 (97kb) Serre Road Number 2 (94kb)
Serre Road (97kb) Carly the Wonderdog at Ocean Villas (105kb) June 2003 (115kb)
The bed and breakfast at Ocean Villas (108kb) Monument to the 8th Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders, Sunken Lane. (101kb) Delville Wood (55kb)
Chippily (56kb) Auchonvillers (80kb) Delville Wood (87kb)
Auchonvillers (85kb) Redan Ridge (76kb) Between La Boiselle and Fricourt - November 2003 (43kb)
Stand, wonder and bear witness - Lochnagar in November 2003. (97kb) A wreath laying ceremony at a wind-sweot Thiepval - November 2003. (78kb) Thiepval from the air - November 2003 (38kb)
Y-Ravine (83kb) Y-Ravine (69kb) Y-Ravine (78kb)
Old Beaumont Road - there is an old dugout on the right (106kb) Site of the Wonderwork (Wundt Werk), Leipzig Salient. Authuille Wood is in the distance. (82kb) Auchonvillers War Memorial (86kb)
Ocean Villas - November 2003 (56kb) Our back garden (103kb) From the Old Beaumont Road, - June 2004 (94kb)
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