Just to post that I'm not dead or gone AWOL.....me and the bride returned last night from a three week tour of the Normandy landing beaches and sites further inland....I was as excited as a Jap in a camera shop, climbing over and in bunkers with a torch, visiting museums and cemetries. On our last day in France we found some huge casemates/bunkers hidden in some woods nr. Cap Griz Nez (West of Calais) well over grown and off the 'tourist' tracks....All good stuff and an emotional roller coaster too!
On the way back to Calais, we did a slight detour and went through WW1 territory to try and find my great uncle's grave near Arras.....He was K.I.A. a few weeks before the end of WW1.....We managed to locate his grave stone and layed a single rose and a small wooden cross with a poppy attached at the base....All very moving, with cemeteries all over this small area of the Somme.
I'll post a few of the 600 or so snaps I took when I've looked at them myself!lol
Anyway, it's good to be back with my mates on here and now I'm going to get me some pleasure time catching up with all the new stuff on S.M. and seeing if we have any new members joining this merry throng!!!
Cheers all,
Ron
On the way back to Calais, we did a slight detour and went through WW1 territory to try and find my great uncle's grave near Arras.....He was K.I.A. a few weeks before the end of WW1.....We managed to locate his grave stone and layed a single rose and a small wooden cross with a poppy attached at the base....All very moving, with cemeteries all over this small area of the Somme.
I'll post a few of the 600 or so snaps I took when I've looked at them myself!lol
Anyway, it's good to be back with my mates on here and now I'm going to get me some pleasure time catching up with all the new stuff on S.M. and seeing if we have any new members joining this merry throng!!!
Cheers all,
Ron
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