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by **SRR** » Sat Apr 25, 2009 9:17 pm

The Vimy Memorial near Vimy, France.

by **SRR** » Sat Apr 25, 2009 9:19 pm

by **SRR** » Sat Apr 25, 2009 9:21 pm

by **nowonmai** » Sun Apr 26, 2009 10:39 am

Most excellent. Vimy is up there with the best memorials. Worth Google mapping the place as well - a great example of how terrain shapes history.

by **coldharvest** » Sun Apr 26, 2009 2:17 pm

.....and Dieppe yet to come.

by **projectalice** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 12:25 am

SRR wrote:

I enjoyed the pics. The above is my favorite.

by **Slam** » Tue Apr 28, 2009 11:23 pm

Nice phots SRR. I visited Vimy in 2007 along with a few other battlefields in France and Belgium. Check out Ypres if you can. Amazing history and a generally nice place to visit anyway. Even the young people of Ypres are extremely thankful of the British and other Allies assistance in defending the town.

by **marie-angelique** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 9:24 am

wow, gorgeous. is the first one a recreated trench?

are those sheep grazing over unexploded mines?

thanks for posting those.

by **nowonmai** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 7:24 pm

Slam wrote:Nice phots SRR. I visited Vimy in 2007 along with a few other battlefields in France and Belgium. Check out Ypres if you can. Amazing history and a generally nice place to visit anyway. Even the young people of Ypres are extremely thankful of the British and other Allies assistance in defending the town.

Saying that we defended Ypres is one way of putting it.

by **Chimborazo** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 7:58 pm

Those are superb. Thanks for sharing.

by **SRR** » Sun May 03, 2009 7:47 pm

One for the Americans.

Found in Avranches, Normandy:

by **Slam** » Fri May 08, 2009 11:11 pm

nowonmai wrote:
Slam wrote:Nice phots SRR. I visited Vimy in 2007 along with a few other battlefields in France and Belgium. Check out Ypres if you can. Amazing history and a generally nice place to visit anyway. Even the young people of Ypres are extremely thankful of the British and other Allies assistance in defending the town.

Saying that we defended Ypres is one way of putting it.

We defended the rubble at least.

by **cbychoice** » Sun May 17, 2009 5:04 pm

Thanks for posting ,great photo's.

by **SRR** » Sat Jun 06, 2009 4:44 pm

marie-angelique wrote:wow, gorgeous. is the first one a recreated trench?

Not "recreated", more like "refurbished".

are those sheep grazing over unexploded mines?

Yes. This is the cost-effective method that Canadians use to both cut the grass and search for unexploded ordinance at the same time.

by **SRR** » Sat Jun 06, 2009 4:49 pm

Another one. Beaumont-Hamel, about 50km south of Vimy:

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