It has taken a while before we could finally keep our promise and visit Great Uncle Private Horace Moulds (my wife's great grandfather's brother) where he rests at the Thiepval Memorial Cemetery.
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| Horace's grave |
We then went on to view a number of other sites, here is a selection of them.
The Courcelette Commonwealth Cemetery about 1/2 mile from where we stayed.
The Regina Trench Cemetery a two mile walk up a farmers track from where we stayed.
The Fricourt German Cemetery and the original grave of Manfred Richthofen, the Red Baron. His brother later returned his body to Germany and it is now the resting place for Sebastian Paustian.
The Lochnagar Crater, where the British blew a mine on the first day of Somme battle. Photographs cannot do justice to its depth.
Various views from inside and outside The Somme Museum at Albert.
It was a truly humbling few days.
