The 100th. A special day!

[Robbo]

From what you say it is well worth the visit James, I shall have to look into this. Alway's wanted to visit the battlefield's of France too.

[Maysik]

From what you say it is well worth the visit James, I shall have to look into this. Alway's wanted to visit the battlefield's of France too.

I did this in 2000. The Somme Battlefield tour.
3 days of go go go. It was quite expensive and as it turned out the guide and I were the only people on this tour, you don't get tours like that (one on one) every day.
The other 8 people just did not front for the tour, paid up and all. Some just wanted to stay in the city they were in prior to the tour. Their bad luck.

He asked where I wanted to go, Villers? etc etc, I explained I would get there in due course but I wanted to go to farther outlying battlefields where visitors don't usually go, (due to distance and certainly not insignificance).

This bloke was so excited, he rarely got to go to the outlaying battlefields as distance usually prohibited visitors the luxury of time to travel there. Yes, I may have missed out on a lot of nearby battlefields to see, but I believe it was time pay respects to those farther afield that do not usually get that high vis. attention.

I was walking through the Tyne Cot commonwealth War Cemetery, for some reason while walking along (the many many rows of headstones), I glanced at this headstone. I stepped a few paces past this particular headstone. I stopped, walked backwards and had another look went to walk forward but had to take a photo before moving off. Don't know why!
Years later, after moving to the Hunter and having to travel through Abermain on every work day to go to work I drove past this park. Guess which fallen soldier it was named after. And I have a photo of his headstone.